Heirlooms

Heirlooms – consisting of Busts, Portraits, Deeds, and Crests – are used to upgrade buildings in the Hamlet. The Crimson Court DLC adds Blueprints, which are required by Districts.

In dungeons, Crests stack to 12, Busts and Deeds stack to 6, and Portraits stack to 3.

Preferred Locations

Heirlooms can drop in any location; however, each location tends to drop one type more than others. This means that if you are looking for a specific type of Heirloom, it pays to dive into quests in that location. Also, take note of the end-reward for quests, as a number of Heirlooms will be listed as a guaranteed reward for successful completion (though not necessarily matching the commonly-found Heirloom listed below).

Busts: Ruins

Portraits: Warrens

Deeds: Weald

Crests: Cove

Trading

In town, Heirlooms can be exchanged for each other. To the right of the row of Heirlooms (bottom left in the Hamlet screen), there is a pair of circular arrows - select it to bring up the "Trade Heirlooms" window (see image, right). Select the Heirloom you want to trade away, and the 3 other Heirlooms, with their return value, will appear on the right. These ratios are fixed and never change. Click the check button next to the desired Heirloom to make 1 trade; click as many times as needed.

Comet Shards from The Color of Madness DLC can be traded away for any Heirloom, but you cannot trade Heirlooms for Comet Shards.

Trades are always at an unfavorable rate (i.e. you cannot "trade back" at the same ratio).

Portraits are the most valuable in terms of trading, Deeds and Busts are tied for mid-value, and Crests are the least valuable.

The exchange rates are listed below.

The Heirloom being traded is on the left; the one being received is on the top.

	---	3:1	3:1	6:1
	2:3	---	3:2	3:1
	2:3	3:2	---	3:1
	1:3	2:3	2:3	---
	3:2	3:1	3:1	6:1

Note that some value is lost in each exchange; e.g. if you started with 9 Deeds, you could trade them (at 3:2) for 6 Busts. If you then traded those 6 Busts back for Deeds (at 3:2), you would end up with only 4 Deeds, less than half of what you started with. Because of this, not trading at all and avoiding the trading cost is preferred, if you can afford to delay a less critical upgrade.

Inventory Space

While in an Expedition, one may want to maximize the value of Heirloom stacks, for later trading. This table is similar to the above, but considers full stacks of each heirloom, the limit allowed while questing.

The Heirloom being traded is on the left; the one being received is on the top.

	---	66.6%	66.6%	66.6%
	75%	---	66.6%	66.6%
	75%	66.6%	---	66.6%
	75%	75%	75%	---

In short, when trading for Crests or Portraits, all the Heirlooms are equally space-efficient (66% or 75%, depending); when trading for Busts or Deeds, full stacks of Portraits are slightly more space-efficient than the other two (by ~12.5% more in return).

Upgrading Buildings

Different upgrade slots require different Heirlooms, although all use Crests.

	Abbey Sanitarium Stage Coach (Experienced Recruits)
	Guild Tavern
	Blacksmith Stage Coach (Network & Barracks)
	Nomad Wagon Survivalist

Total Requirements

The maximum amount of Heirlooms needed to upgrade every building is detailed below:

Abbey		240		---		---		282		---
Sanitarium		240		---		---		154		---
Stage Coach		54		---		144		222		---
Guild		---		118		---		302		---
Tavern		---		123		---		240		---
Blacksmith		---		---		277		301		---
Nomad Wagon		---		---		---		273		---
Survivalist		---		---		---		268		---
Total (no DLC)		534		241		421		2042		---
Districts		140		155		310		1925		12
Total (with DLC)		674		396		731		3967		12

Achievement

Image	Name	Description
	A collection of treasured antiques...	Collect at least 30 Heirlooms from a single quest