# Village Quest 2.0 — Roads Between Villages
**Village Quest 2.0** expands the world beyond individual villages.
Build permanent trade routes, guide caravans across player-created roads, expand the Village Trade Guild, and continue the story with **The Empty Caravan**.
## Roads Between Villages
* Establish up to **five persistent trade routes** between inhabited vanilla or **CTOV villages**
* Survey real waypoint routes built directly through the world
* Watch route-colored caravans travel along your roads
* Manage long-term route performance, freight, incidents, and profitability
## New Maps and Navigation
* Explore the world using a new **terrain-backed full-screen map**
* Track your surroundings with a configurable **live minimap**
* View villages, routes, waypoints, caravans, and other important locations
## New Story Content
* Continue the Village Quest storyline through **The Empty Caravan**
* Establish the permanent **Caravan Yard**
* Unlock new systems as the Village Trade Guild grows
## Village Trade Guild
Develop the guild across **five progression ranks** with:
* Freight contracts
* Route specializations
* Permanent upgrades
* Dynamic incidents
* Long-term route economics
* Expanded progression and rewards
## Improved Interfaces
Village Quest's major systems now use a more consistent and unified interface:
* Journal
* Questmaster
* Pilgrim
* Ledger
* Route Office
## Progression Rebalance
Version 2.0 includes major balancing improvements for:
* Quest XP
* Quest rewards
* Shop prices
* Mastery progression
* Relics
* Existing-world progression backfills
## Compatibility and Reliability
* Improved caravan recovery
* Better cleanup when routes are paused or removed
* Expanded CTOV support
* Compatible right-click crop harvesting
* Numerous fixes and quality-of-life improvements
## Existing Worlds Are Supported
**No save wipe is required.**
Existing Village Quest worlds can be upgraded directly to Village Quest 2.0. Missing progression and required data will be backfilled automatically where possible.
Developer information
Projects on Modrinth are automatically available through a Maven repository for use with JVM build tools such as Gradle.
maven { name = "Modrinth"; url = "https://api.modrinth.com/maven" }