This post is about typical behavior of NPCs.
But to get my point across, I will start from the smallest:
First, I don’t know if Kingdom Come will feature children or not.
Featuring children in games with swords and death opens a whole can of worms. However, nursing a baby is one thing I would typical medieval housewife see doing all day. Needless to say, this makes a whole lot more sense than sweeping floor all day and/or pacing around town.
Life of medieval peasant consists hard work, all day, from sunrise to sunset. Peasants had quite short lifespan, so work started in early age: children aged 6 were already turned into shepherds. Yes, children, not adult men in full health. If there was no eligible children to shepherd animals, grandfather in the house could also do this, given there was a grandfather: poor people died in their 30’s and old people who made it that far were highly respected because of this.
Animals were usually taken to nearby plains or forest for the day (so they’d have new grass to eat), and back in the evening.
At early teen age (10+), children started helping fathers on the field and doing adult work. At any age, they did help with chores, such as carrying water from city or farm well, foraging and so on.
Women nursed children, took care of animals (milking cows, feeding, collecting eggs, etc), and did typical housework, such as laundry/cooking/cleaning.
Number one task for men was working in a field - sowing, planting, etc, since it was incredibly tough and extensive. This is why wife and children got to do basically everything else. When not at field, men took care of lighter work of carpentry, such as taking care of buildings, horses and so on.
At no point did people stand around to hand out quests to unknown hero, walk around aimlessly or spent hours on menial tasks. Doing so would result in horrible death of starvation. On Sunday, family put on the good clothes (!) and attended church.
At evenings - when not bogged down with work, young of the village gathered somewhere on the outskirts of the village - to sing, dance, exchange news/rumors and find love.
I seriously hope what I wrote is already known or will be at least considered by Warhorse Studios when giving NPC’s behavior. If you’re going to make breathing, living medieval civilization, this is how it should look on daily basis. Keep up the good work!