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Mountain Shadow glossary: every game word explained

This glossary explains the words you meet in Mountain Shadow, from Animals to Wood. Each entry says what the word means in the game and links to the page with more.

A red barn and a log cabin in deep winter snow

A to F

  • Animals: the job of looking after the goats. Any age can do it. It gives milk and closes the barn door in a storm. See jobs.
  • Åsele: a real market town far away. In the stories, the family takes furs there on a long sledge trip.
  • Bark bread: bread Mother bakes from pine bark when food runs short. The first step of the help chain. See the winter piles.
  • Barn: a warm home for the animals. Less hay in the cold, milk in winter and more room for hay.
  • Build: the job of building, and the axe button that opens the build menu. See buildings.
  • Call home: the button in a place's card that brings a worker back home.
  • Chapter: one part of the story. There are eight. See the Story Book.
  • Cold seasons: Late winter, First snow and The dark. The fire burns wood and the animals eat hay.
  • Drying rack: turns up to 20 fish and berries a season into winter food. You can build 2.
  • Fatmomakke: a real place where settlers and Sámi families meet in the summer stories.
  • Favourite job: each person "Loves:" one job and does it 25 % faster.
  • Fell: a high, bare mountain. Marsfjället is the fell above your farm, and Fell is one of the three views. See the fell.
  • Fell trees: the job that gives logs. Only for 13 and older.
  • First snow: the seventh season. The dark begins.
  • Full line ("full for winter"): the mark on each pile that shows enough for all three cold seasons.

G to R

  • Go!: the big button that starts the season's work.
  • Help chain: bark bread, extra help in a lemming year, the Sámi family and the neighbours' sledge. They fill a short pile, in that order.
  • In bed: a person who must rest a whole season. The worst that can happen to anyone.
  • Job ring: the circle of jobs that opens around a person. Up to five jobs plus Rest.
  • Lean-to: your first home, a roof of branches. You turn it into a cabin later.
  • Left here: how much a place has left, in percent. A tired place gives less.
  • Logs: what buildings cost. Only Fell trees gives them.
  • Marsfjället: the mountain above your farm. In The dark, it hides the sun.
  • Night visitor: a bear, wolves, a lynx or a wolverine that comes close on a cold night and always goes away. See warnings and night visitors.
  • Piles: Wood, Food and Hay, your stores for winter.
  • Report: the "Look what you did!" screen after each season.
  • Rest: the job that makes a tired person well.
  • Root cellar: keeps potatoes safe from frost.

S to Z

  • Same again: puts back last season's jobs (R, or Y).
  • Sámi family: your neighbours on the mountain, who move with their reindeer. See the fell.
  • Sauna: a warm hut that helps tired people get well twice as fast.
  • Season goals: two or three tips for each season, with a tick when done. Never a test.
  • Send: the button in a place's card that sends a worker there.
  • Sledge: what your family pulls on the trek. It holds 8 spaces.
  • Stars: up to 3 per job, earned by doing it a lot. Each makes the person 10 % faster.
  • Stoke: tapping Keep the fire going! in a storm, so the wood lasts longer.
  • Stop time: freezes the season while you change jobs (Space, or A).
  • Storm line: the mark on the woodpile that shows enough wood to get through the storm.
  • Story Book: your collection of the stories you have found.
  • Sun festival: the party at the end of every year when the sun comes back. Everyone gets a year older.
  • The dark: the eighth season, when the sun stays behind the mountain.
  • Tired: a person who works at 60 % speed. Cold or short piles make people tired.
  • Tired place: a place worked too much. It gives less until it rests.
  • Trek: the five-day walk to the mountain in chapter 1. See the trek.
  • Warm circle: the area around your home where nobody gets cold. See cold days and the big storm.
  • When you are bigger!: what the job ring says when a child is too young for a job.

The family stands by their log cabin, with yellow hay bales by the lake

The whole valley from above: the lake, the forest and the farm

See also

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