Stone tools
Recipes for the stone axe, the stone pickaxe, the stone shovel and the stone sickle.
- Cost
- 20 wood, 20 stone, 10 flint
- Time
- 5 min
Research
Stone Age
Weaving
Recipe for a tiny bag: 10 inventory slots instead of 5.
- Cost
- 30 fiber, 10 wood
- Time
- 10 min
Hunting
Recipe for a spear to hunt deer, and the smokehouse that makes meat of it.
- Cost
- 20 wood, 15 flint
- Time
- 10 min
Herbal lore
The first step to potions brewed at the base and carried along: Healing draughts and Stamina draughts build on it.
- Cost
- 30 berries, 20 fiber
- Time
- 10 min
Scouting
See farther: view radius 100 m → 150 m. Free citizens can become scouts (scout towers, exploring).
- Cost
- 30 berries, 20 wood
- Time
- 15 min
Storekeeping
Lets you build a storehouse.
- Cost
- 40 wood, 40 stone
- Time
- 15 min
Division of labour
Automatic gathering: no tap for every unit, it keeps gathering while you stay near.
- Cost
- 60 wood, 40 stone, 30 fiber, 30 berries
- Time
- 1 h
Warfare
Barracks, where citizens train as soldiers, the wooden shield, and the base's wall, defense towers and traps.
- Cost
- 40 wood, 20 stone, 10 flint
- Time
- 10 min
Archery
The bow (it also hunts deer) and arrows, made in the barracks: archers.
- Cost
- 30 wood, 20 fiber, 10 flint
- Time
- 10 min
- Needs
- Warfare
Trade
The market: sell and buy goods for coins with merchants, or with players within its reach. Free citizens pay a coin of tax an hour.
- Cost
- 60 wood, 40 stone, 30 berries
- Time
- 30 min
Healing draughts
Health potions, brewed at the base (Character): 40 health back, also between the rounds of a fight.
- Cost
- 80 berries, 40 deer
- Time
- 30 min
- Needs
- Herbal lore
Bronze Age
Bronze working
Lets you build a smelter: copper and tin make bronze.
- Cost
- 30 copper ore, 20 tin ore, 50 wood
- Time
- 30 min
Bronze tools
Recipes for the bronze axe, the bronze pickaxe (iron ore and coal), the bronze shovel and the bronze sickle.
- Cost
- 10 bronze, 50 wood
- Time
- 30 min
- Needs
- Bronze working
Leatherworking
Recipe for a small bag: 20 inventory slots; leather cap, gloves and boots for your character.
- Cost
- 30 deer, 40 fiber
- Time
- 30 min
- Needs
- Weaving
Packing
16 units of a resource fit in a slot instead of 8.
- Cost
- 5 bronze, 80 wood, 40 fiber
- Time
- 1 h
Settlement
Lets you build houses for citizens.
- Cost
- 60 wood, 40 stone, 20 clay
- Time
- 30 min
Forging
Lets you build a forge (it smelts iron in the Iron Age).
- Cost
- 20 bronze, 60 stone
- Time
- 1 h
- Needs
- Bronze working
Siegecraft
The battering ram: siege troops that break walls.
- Cost
- 80 wood, 5 bronze
- Time
- 20 min
- Needs
- Warfare
Agriculture
Fields that grow grain by themselves, and the bakery that makes bread of it.
- Cost
- 60 wood, 30 stone, 3 bronze
- Time
- 20 min
Espionage
Scouts go into other players' bases as spies and report on the garrison and the storage; your scouts at home catch foreign spies.
- Cost
- 5 bronze, 40 fiber, 40 berries
- Time
- 45 min
- Needs
- Scouting
Lockpicking I
Lockpicks (made at the base, five at a time, or bought at the market): a 20% chance to open a locked treasure chest.
- Cost
- 10 bronze, 30 wood
- Time
- 30 min
- Needs
- Bronze working
Stamina draughts
Endurance potions, brewed at the base (Character): 50 endurance back, also between the rounds of a fight.
- Cost
- 80 berries, 60 fiber, 10 bronze
- Time
- 45 min
- Needs
- Herbal lore
Iron Age
Iron working
The forge smelts iron ore with coal into iron.
- Cost
- 20 bronze, 20 coal, 100 wood
- Time
- 2 h
- Needs
- Forging
Iron tools
Recipes for the iron axe, the iron pickaxe (silver, gold and gems), the iron shovel and the iron sickle.
- Cost
- 10 iron, 60 wood
- Time
- 2 h
- Needs
- Iron working
Tailoring
Recipe for a medium bag: 30 inventory slots.
- Cost
- 40 deer, 60 fiber, 2 iron
- Time
- 1 h
- Needs
- Leatherworking
Cooperage
Barrels and crates: 32 units of a resource fit in a slot instead of 16.
- Cost
- 150 wood, 5 iron
- Time
- 2 h
- Needs
- Packing
Taming
Recipes for a rope (to catch wild horses) and a cart for workers.
- Cost
- 60 fiber, 20 deer, 5 iron
- Time
- 2 h
Armoring
Iron armor: heavy infantry and cavalry.
- Cost
- 6 iron, 20 deer
- Time
- 20 min
- Needs
- Iron working
Engineering
The catapult: breaks walls from afar, and towers on the map.
- Cost
- 100 wood, 10 iron
- Time
- 30 min
- Needs
- Siegecraft
Intelligence
Spies also report where the army is and what is being researched.
- Cost
- 10 iron, 100 wood, 60 fiber
- Time
- 2 h
- Needs
- Espionage
Horse breeding
The stable: breeds horses from grain and berries, instead of catching every one on the map.
- Cost
- 200 wood, 20 iron, 60 grain
- Time
- 3 h
- Needs
- Taming
Armories
The armory: repairing tools, weapons, shields and armor costs half as much and takes half as long.
- Cost
- 150 wood, 40 iron
- Time
- 3 h
- Needs
- Armoring
Lockpicking II
A lockpick opens a locked treasure chest with a 35% chance.
- Cost
- 10 iron, 10 bronze
- Time
- 1 h
- Needs
- Lockpicking I
Antiquity
Coinage
The mint strikes coins from silver: the money of the market and of the Antiquity army.
- Cost
- 40 marble, 10 iron, 10 silver ore
- Time
- 3 h
Roads
Paved roads: your workers, carriers, scouts and armies walk a quarter faster.
- Cost
- 400 stone, 60 marble, 100 wood
- Time
- 4 h
Warehousing
Stone warehouses: every storehouse holds half as much again.
- Cost
- 300 stone, 300 wood, 20 iron
- Time
- 3 h
- Needs
- Storekeeping
Legions
The legionary (iron sword, scutum, iron armor): slow, the strongest foot soldier. Paid in coins too.
- Cost
- 30 iron, 40 coins, 20 deer
- Time
- 4 h
- Needs
- Armoring
Composite bows
The composite bow and its archer: stronger shots with the same quiver. Paid in coins too.
- Cost
- 100 wood, 30 deer, 10 bronze
- Time
- 3 h
- Needs
- Archery
Ballistics
The ballista: siege that also shoots soldiers over the wall, and brings down towers. Paid in coins too.
- Cost
- 200 wood, 30 iron, 40 coins
- Time
- 4 h
- Needs
- Engineering
Fortification
The marble wall and the marble tower on the map; the base's defense towers hold 3 archers.
- Cost
- 80 marble, 200 stone, 20 iron
- Time
- 4 h
Granaries
The granary: the base holds 1500 more.
- Cost
- 300 stone, 200 wood, 100 grain
- Time
- 3 h
- Needs
- Agriculture
Aqueducts
The aqueduct: every house and block of flats has room for half as many citizens again.
- Cost
- 500 stone, 60 marble, 30 coins
- Time
- 4 h
- Needs
- Settlement
Civics
The forum: free citizens pay half as much tax again.
- Cost
- 80 marble, 200 wood, 40 coins
- Time
- 4 h
- Needs
- Coinage, Trade
Lockpicking III
A lockpick opens a locked treasure chest with a 50% chance.
- Cost
- 20 iron, 100 coins
- Time
- 2 h
- Needs
- Lockpicking II
Middle Ages
Milling
The mill grinds grain into flour; the bakery then bakes 6 bread from 2 flour.
- Cost
- 300 wood, 200 stone, 30 coins
- Time
- 6 h
- Needs
- Agriculture
Crop rotation
Fields grow 15 grain every 30 minutes instead of 10.
- Cost
- 200 grain, 100 wood, 30 coins
- Time
- 5 h
- Needs
- Agriculture
Steelmaking
The charcoal kiln and the blast furnace (steel); recipes for steel tools, the fastest and toughest.
- Cost
- 60 iron, 60 coal, 300 stone
- Time
- 8 h
Wool
Shears for the flocks of sheep on the map, the weaver (cloth) and the large bag: 40 inventory slots.
- Cost
- 20 iron, 200 wood, 30 coins
- Time
- 5 h
- Needs
- Tailoring
Monasticism
The monastery, built with gold and gems: every research 20 % faster.
- Cost
- 20 gold ore, 100 marble, 60 coins
- Time
- 6 h
Chivalry
The knight (steel sword, plate armor, a horse): the strongest unit. Paid 3 coins an hour.
- Cost
- 20 steel, 100 coins, 5 wild horses
- Time
- 8 h
- Needs
- Steelmaking
Crossbows
The crossbowman: bolts pierce armor (it protects half as much). Paid 1 coin an hour.
- Cost
- 10 steel, 200 wood, 40 coins
- Time
- 6 h
- Needs
- Composite bows
Trebuchets
The trebuchet: the strongest siege (120 a round) against walls and towers, very slow. Paid 1 coin an hour.
- Cost
- 400 wood, 20 steel, 60 coins
- Time
- 8 h
- Needs
- Ballistics
Castles
Ramparts (the 5th wall level), a moat (attackers strike 20 % weaker in the first round), the stone keep on the map; the base's defense towers hold one archer more.
- Cost
- 600 stone, 100 marble, 10 steel
- Time
- 10 h
- Needs
- Fortification
Feudalism
Own outposts become vassal villages: they make 10 an hour of what is most around them and pay 2 coins an hour.
- Cost
- 150 coins, 300 stone, 300 wood
- Time
- 8 h
Lockpicking IV
A lockpick opens a locked treasure chest with a 65% chance.
- Cost
- 10 steel, 200 coins
- Time
- 4 h
- Needs
- Lockpicking III
Renaissance
Printing
The printing press: every research takes 25 % less time (with the monastery, 40 %).
- Cost
- 30 steel, 40 cloth, 100 coins
- Time
- 10 h
Universities
The university: two researches at the same time.
- Cost
- 200 marble, 200 coins, 40 cloth
- Time
- 12 h
- Needs
- Printing
Astronomy
You see 200 m around you instead of 150 m.
- Cost
- 20 steel, 150 coins
- Time
- 10 h
Cartography
Scouts explore up to 3 km from the base, and scout towers see half as far again.
- Cost
- 60 cloth, 100 coins, 200 wood
- Time
- 8 h
- Needs
- Astronomy
Glassmaking
The glassworks: sand (dug by hand, faster with a shovel) and charcoal become glass for the printing press, the university and the bank.
- Cost
- 200 clay, 300 stone, 60 coins
- Time
- 6 h
- Needs
- Steelmaking
Banking
The bank: stored coins earn 1 % a day (on up to 5000), and 500 coins are safe from plunder.
- Cost
- 300 coins, 20 gold ore, 20 cloth
- Time
- 10 h
- Needs
- Trade
Gunpowder
The powder mill (saltpeter and charcoal) and the arquebusier: shots pierce armor and stop cavalry and knights. Paid 2 coins an hour.
- Cost
- 60 charcoal, 30 steel, 150 coins
- Time
- 10 h
Cannons
The cannon: the strongest siege (200 a round), and it shoots soldiers over walls. Burns gunpowder, very slow. Paid 2 coins an hour.
- Cost
- 60 bronze, 40 steel, 200 coins
- Time
- 12 h
- Needs
- Gunpowder
Bastions
The star fort (wall level 6); the base's defense towers get cannons: they shoot twice as hard and hold one more.
- Cost
- 800 stone, 60 steel, 40 gunpowder, 200 coins
- Time
- 12 h
- Needs
- Castles, Cannons
Lockpicking V
A lockpick opens a locked treasure chest with an 80% chance.
- Cost
- 20 steel, 10 glass, 400 coins
- Time
- 8 h
- Needs
- Lockpicking IV
Industrial Age
Cement
The cement works: limestone (an iron pickaxe, faster with a steel one) and coal become concrete for big buildings, bunkers and the concrete fortress.
- Cost
- 600 stone, 300 clay, 200 coins
- Time
- 10 h
Steam power
The engine house: everything made in the base's buildings takes half the time, for one more coal a piece.
- Cost
- 100 steel, 200 coal, 300 coins
- Time
- 14 h
Factories
The factory: tools and weapons made up to ten at a time, a fifth cheaper than at the workbench.
- Cost
- 120 steel, 40 glass, 400 coins
- Time
- 14 h
- Needs
- Steam power
Tenements
Tenement houses: room for 10 citizens each instead of 5.
- Cost
- 500 stone, 400 wood, 200 coins
- Time
- 10 h
Railways
A railway from the base to an outpost, laid by walking the way. With a locomotive (its own research) the outpost's carrier drives a train on it.
- Cost
- 200 steel, 600 wood, 400 coins
- Time
- 16 h
Locomotives
The steam locomotive: give it to the carrier of an outpost with a railway and it drives a train, ten loads at once and five times as fast.
- Cost
- 150 steel, 200 coal, 400 coins
- Time
- 14 h
- Needs
- Railways, Steam power
Steam wagons
A steam wagon from the factory: a worker or carrier drives it on the roads, five times as fast as on foot and with five loads, for 2 coal a trip.
- Cost
- 120 steel, 150 coal, 350 coins
- Time
- 12 h
- Needs
- Factories
Surveying
You see 250 m around you instead of 200 m, and reach 60 m instead of 50 m.
- Cost
- 60 glass, 40 steel, 300 coins
- Time
- 12 h
- Needs
- Astronomy
Ballooning
The hot-air balloon for a scout: it flies straight to a point up to 5 km away, three times as fast as on foot, sees 150 m around and only a guard tower with archers or gunners brings it down, for 5 coal a flight.
- Cost
- 150 cloth, 100 coal, 400 coins
- Time
- 12 h
- Needs
- Cartography
Telegraph
Word travels at once: you learn how many soldiers march at you and at your allies, and your spies' missions take half the time.
- Cost
- 100 bronze, 40 glass, 300 coins
- Time
- 12 h
Rifling
The rifleman: a rifle and 20 rounds of gunpowder, pierces armor, shoots from afar, stops cavalry and knights. Paid 3 coins an hour.
- Cost
- 80 steel, 60 gunpowder, 300 coins
- Time
- 12 h
- Needs
- Gunpowder
Artillery
The howitzer: shoots soldiers over walls and breaks walls and towers (300 a round); faster than a cannon. Burns gunpowder. Paid 3 coins an hour.
- Cost
- 150 steel, 60 bronze, 80 gunpowder, 400 coins
- Time
- 16 h
- Needs
- Cannons
Bunkers
The bunker (guard tower level 5) and the concrete fortress (wall level 7).
- Cost
- 150 concrete, 100 steel, 300 coins
- Time
- 14 h
- Needs
- Cement
Electric Age
Oil drilling
The drilling rig: a tool that pumps oil from the oil seeps on the map.
- Cost
- 200 steel, 100 concrete, 600 coins
- Time
- 16 h
Refining
The refinery: oil and coal become fuel for motor trucks, tanks and biplanes.
- Cost
- 250 steel, 150 concrete, 800 coins
- Time
- 18 h
- Needs
- Oil drilling
Electricity
The power plant: everything made in the base's buildings takes a third of the time (instead of half with steam), for one more coal a piece.
- Cost
- 300 steel, 100 glass, 1000 coins
- Time
- 20 h
- Needs
- Steam power
Assembly lines
The factory makes up to twenty at a time, for 70 % of the recipe instead of 80 %.
- Cost
- 300 steel, 900 coins
- Time
- 16 h
- Needs
- Factories, Electricity
Apartments
Apartment blocks: room for 20 citizens each.
- Cost
- 300 concrete, 100 glass, 600 coins
- Time
- 12 h
- Needs
- Tenements
Motor trucks
A motor truck from the factory: a worker or carrier drives it on the roads, eight times as fast as on foot and with eight loads, for 1 fuel a trip.
- Cost
- 250 steel, 50 fuel, 900 coins
- Time
- 16 h
- Needs
- Refining, Steam wagons
Radio
Spies' missions take a quarter of the time, and scouts go 1 km farther from the base, on foot and in the air.
- Cost
- 150 steel, 150 glass, 800 coins
- Time
- 14 h
- Needs
- Telegraph, Electricity
Machine guns
The machine gunner: shoots from afar, pierces armor and mows down riflemen and horsemen; loads gunpowder.
- Cost
- 300 steel, 100 gunpowder, 800 coins
- Time
- 16 h
- Needs
- Rifling
Tanks
The tank from the factory: fights in the front line, shoots soldiers over walls and breaks walls and towers, and it is fast.
- Cost
- 500 steel, 100 fuel, 1500 coins
- Time
- 24 h
- Needs
- Motor trucks, Artillery
Aviation
The biplane for a scout, from the factory: it flies straight to a point up to 10 km away at 8 m/s and sees 250 m around, for 3 fuel a flight. Only a guard tower with archers or gunners brings it down.
- Cost
- 200 steel, 200 cloth, 100 fuel, 1200 coins
- Time
- 20 h
- Needs
- Ballooning, Refining
Medicine
The hospital: new citizens take half the time.
- Cost
- 200 steel, 150 glass, 800 coins
- Time
- 14 h
- Needs
- Electricity
Fuel depots
The fuel depot: the base holds 5000 more.
- Cost
- 250 steel, 200 concrete, 600 coins
- Time
- 12 h
- Needs
- Refining
Atomic Age
Nuclear physics
The enrichment plant: uranium (an iron pickaxe, faster with a steel one) and coal become fuel rods.
- Cost
- 600 steel, 400 concrete, 2000 coins
- Time
- 24 h
- Needs
- Electricity
Nuclear power
The nuclear plant: everything made in the base's buildings takes a fifth of the time, for one fuel rod an order instead of coal.
- Cost
- 800 steel, 600 concrete, 5 fuel rods, 3000 coins
- Time
- 30 h
- Needs
- Nuclear physics
Electronics
The electronics plant: glass and steel become electronics for computers, radar, jets and rockets.
- Cost
- 400 steel, 300 glass, 1500 coins
- Time
- 20 h
- Needs
- Radio
Computers
The computer centre: one more research at the same time, and every research takes a quarter less time.
- Cost
- 300 steel, 100 electronics, 2500 coins
- Time
- 24 h
- Needs
- Electronics
Radar
The radar station: you see 300 m around you, and every manned guard tower of yours brings aircraft down, whatever its crew is armed with.
- Cost
- 300 steel, 80 electronics, 2000 coins
- Time
- 20 h
- Needs
- Electronics
Jet engines
The jet for a scout, from the factory: it flies straight to a point up to 25 km away at 25 m/s and sees 400 m around, for 6 fuel a flight. Guard towers bring it down like any aircraft.
- Cost
- 500 steel, 100 electronics, 200 fuel, 2500 coins
- Time
- 24 h
- Needs
- Aviation, Electronics
Highways
Your workers, carriers, scouts and armies travel half as fast again (instead of a quarter with paved roads).
- Cost
- 800 concrete, 300 steel, 2000 coins
- Time
- 20 h
- Needs
- Roads, Motor trucks
High-rises
High-rise blocks: room for 40 citizens each.
- Cost
- 600 concrete, 300 steel, 200 glass, 1500 coins
- Time
- 16 h
- Needs
- Apartments
Assault rifles
The infantryman: fights in the front line, pierces armor and beats riflemen and machine gunners; loads gunpowder.
- Cost
- 500 steel, 200 gunpowder, 2000 coins
- Time
- 20 h
- Needs
- Machine guns
Rocketry
The rocket launcher from the factory: the strongest siege, shoots soldiers over walls from 300 m and is strong against tanks.
- Cost
- 700 steel, 150 electronics, 200 fuel, 3000 coins
- Time
- 30 h
- Needs
- Tanks, Electronics
Reinforced concrete
The fortified bunker (guard tower level 6) and the reinforced fortress (wall level 8).
- Cost
- 1000 concrete, 500 steel, 2000 coins
- Time
- 20 h
- Needs
- Bunkers
Information Age
Microprocessors
The chip fab: electronics and rare earths (an iron pickaxe, faster with a steel one) become microchips.
- Cost
- 800 steel, 300 electronics, 4000 coins
- Time
- 30 h
- Needs
- Computers
Internet
The data centre: one more research at the same time, and every research takes a quarter less time again.
- Cost
- 600 steel, 100 microchips, 5000 coins
- Time
- 30 h
- Needs
- Microprocessors
Renewables
The solar farm: everything made in the base's buildings takes a quarter of the time, for nothing – no coal, no fuel rods.
- Cost
- 800 steel, 600 glass, 50 microchips, 4000 coins
- Time
- 24 h
- Needs
- Nuclear power
Satellites
The satellite uplink: you see 400 m around you instead of 300 m, and reach 80 m instead of 60 m.
- Cost
- 800 steel, 150 microchips, 500 fuel, 6000 coins
- Time
- 36 h
- Needs
- Radar, Rocketry
E-commerce
Merchants pay 70 % of their price instead of half, and you may have ten offers in your market instead of five.
- Cost
- 100 microchips, 8000 coins
- Time
- 24 h
- Needs
- Internet, Trade
Drones
The drone for a scout, from the factory: it flies straight to a point up to 30 km away at 20 m/s and sees 500 m around, for nothing. Only a guard tower of a player with a radar station brings it down.
- Cost
- 500 steel, 150 microchips, 5000 coins
- Time
- 30 h
- Needs
- Jet engines, Microprocessors
Autonomous trucks
An electric truck that drives itself, from the factory: a worker or carrier's loads travel at 14.4 m/s, twelve at a time, for nothing.
- Cost
- 600 steel, 150 microchips, 5000 coins
- Time
- 30 h
- Needs
- Highways, Microprocessors
Arcologies
Arcologies: room for 80 citizens each.
- Cost
- 1500 concrete, 800 steel, 500 glass, 4000 coins
- Time
- 24 h
- Needs
- High-rises
Smart weapons
Special forces: the strongest foot soldier, in the front line, pierces armor and beats every infantry before it; loads gunpowder.
- Cost
- 800 steel, 100 microchips, 300 gunpowder, 5000 coins
- Time
- 30 h
- Needs
- Assault rifles, Microprocessors
Guided missiles
The missile system from the factory: the strongest siege of all, shoots soldiers over walls from 500 m and is strong against every vehicle.
- Cost
- 1000 steel, 200 microchips, 500 fuel, 8000 coins
- Time
- 40 h
- Needs
- Rocketry, Satellites
Active defense
The missile battery (guard tower level 7) and the smart fortress (wall level 9).
- Cost
- 2000 concrete, 1000 steel, 100 microchips, 5000 coins
- Time
- 30 h
- Needs
- Reinforced concrete, Microprocessors