Castle

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The Castle governs the construction of new buildings, as well as the expansion of existing ones. Increasing building size will let you fit more vassals inside, which will in turn produce more resources and therefore that building will complete its tasks faster.

• Assign some vassals to your Castle – from there you can direct construction of new buildings.
• Increased building size will allow more vassals inside and generate more work.
• Wall defends against enemy attacks targeting Castle
• If your vassalage is large, use Castle to make buildings bigger.
• If you have few vassals, upgrade them and get more out of their hard work.

Your Castle can have different size and efficiency levels. The bigger the size, the more vassals you can fit inside and therefore more work will be produced. The building quality can be improved by Workshop and makes the workers inside more productive.

Building	Requirements	Allows building of
Castle	nothing	Marketplace

[edit] Building and Expansions

• You begin the game with only a castle. Other buildings may be built from the castle. Some buildings cannot be built until you build other buildings and expand them to a certain size.
• Production in the castle is measured in units of hammers.
• Hammers may be bought for 10 gold.
• All buildings start out at size 2.
• Each expansion to a building increases its size by 1.
• Each expansion increases the number of vassals that can man that building by 1.
• Because hammers cost 10 gold, a vassal placed in the castle is 10x more effective than a vassal placed in the market.
• See more in Size and level.

[edit] The Quarry and Stone

• stone bought in the quarry increases the rate of production in the castle
• stone is sold in blocks of 500 bars at an escalating cost
• stone is used up at a rate of ~0.7 per second
• The maximum efficiency gain possible from buying stone is +25%
• stone costs more the bigger your castle is
• The cost of stone rises greatly with each purchased block of 500
• We have not yet worked out the rate of cost increases, but it seems that buying stone to increase castle efficiency becomes less cost effective than simply buying hammers directly after buying just a couple stones.

[edit] Build Costs for Castle

• Size 2 = - (built for you)
• Size 3 = 200 
• Size 4 = 1000 
• Size 5 = 5000 
• Size 6 = 20000 
• Size 7 = 100000 
• Size 8 = 500000 
• Size 9 = 2000000 

[edit] Upgrade Costs for Castle

• Level 1 = 200 
• Level 2 = 1000 
• Level 3 = 5000 
• Level 4 = 20000 
• Level 5 = 100000 
• Level 6 = 500000 
• Level 7 = 2000000 
• Level 8 =
• Level 9 =

[edit] Castle Images

Title	Picture
Knight/Lady
Baron/Baroness
Viscount/Viscountess
Count/Countess
Marquis/Marquise
Duke/Duchess
King/Queen
Emperor/Empress

[edit] Related Information

• Knighthood#Buildings - Tabular summary of buildings.

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                   The most important part of growing your power is growing your vassalage.