The stable, barn, or ranch is a type of upgraded farm that provides housing for mounts.
Upgrading[]
A stable is upgraded from mill house for eight pieces of coins with the help of the Stable Hermit—riding with the Monarch.
There is no specific limit on the amount of stables a Kingdom can have on an island.
Housing[]
A stable allows convenient, less expensive and safe changing of mounts.
It gathers within it up to three unlocked steeds, including those unlocked only with gems and never used, as well as those left behind on previous islands. As the mounts gathering around a stable are random among those that have been unlocked,* if the Monarch has unlocked more than three alternative mounts, they may end up having to build more stables until the wanted mount can be accessed through the comfort of a farm. Therefore, if the Monarch has the intention to use stables on a given campaign, it may be economically wise not to unlock more than three alternative mounts.
A few seconds after being built, the mounts will gather towards the stable and rest around there, as if it was their natural habitat (pretty much as vagrants around a bakery, but without consuming any items). Mounts that are already on the current island will slowly walk towards the stable, while those left behind on other lands will simply appear out of thin air at the building.
The stable reduces the cost of switching mount to three coins if the desired mount is available there.
Farm plots[]
In general a stable supports as many farm plots as a mill house, either with or without the blessing from the Statue of Scythe.
In Norse Lands[]
A stable in Norse Lands requires ranchers to function. A rancher can be hired by purchasing a pitchfork at the barn for five coins. Once this is done, a villager will come to pick the tool up and become a rancher.
Each rancher can handle one mount, and each Norse stable can support up to three ranchers, granting to this structure the same housing capacity it has on other settings. The same number restrictions are applied on Norse Lands, with the difference that mounts appear not three by three as stables are built, but one by one as pitchforks are purchased.