City Buildings

Before upgrading your Capitol: Check that Academy, Temple, Warehouse, and main Barracks are all within 1–2 levels. If not, upgrade those first.

Slot budget: Your city has 24 small slots (farms and mansions) and 13 large slots (barracks and resource buildings). Plan against those totals, not against “one of everything”.

Building Reference

Building	Qty	Target Level	Purpose
Capitol	1	Paced	Sets city level. Never rush ahead.
Academy	1	C or C-1	Unlocks troop tiers and research. Most important building.
Temple	1	C or C-1	Revives dead troops with Sacred Potions.
Warehouse	1	C to C-2	Caps stored resources; protects them from raids.
Barracks	2–3 → 10	Main at C-1	More barracks = faster parallel training.
Consulate	1	C-2 to C	Reinforcements (from C4).
Forge	1	C-2 to C-4	Gear crafting. Keep behind core.
Tar Workshop	1	C-2 to C-4	Upgrade more if you crypt often.
Portal Master	1	C-3 to C	Available from C10.

Small Slots

Building	Slots	Notes
Farmer’s House	~2/3 of small slots	Food production. #1 priority; deficit is devastating.
Mansion	~1/3 of small slots	Silver for training. Later replace with farms as clan chests cover silver.
Lumberjack / Stonecutter / Foundry	1 each	Low level. Clans cover wood/stone/iron through chests.

Early game: 2 each of wood/stone/iron buildings, rest farms + mansions. Mid-game: demolish extras down to 1 each, add barracks and farms. Walls and siege: Low priority. Use mercenary siege engines early; they hit harder, don’t eat food, and are cheaper to revive.

City Placement

Place your city on a clan territory tile with the best resource bonus. The ceiling is 90% Food Production; don’t settle for less if a 90% tile is reachable. Invest talent points in the Tile Bonus node (Economy section) for the bonus to take effect.

Great Architect’s Blueprints

Every 5th level (10, 15, 20, …) of the Capitol, Barracks, Academy, Farmer’s House, Mansion, Temple, Forge, Caravan, Tar Workshop, Portal Master, and Consulate requires Great Architect’s Blueprints, in addition to the usual resources. Mines also need them to construct. The cost grows fast, so a blueprint shortage is one of the most common bottlenecks past mid-game.

How to get them:

• Gold conversion in the in-game shop, typically 5 blueprints per 5,000 Gold (1,000 Gold each).
• Daily quest rewards.
• Bundle purchases in the shop.

There is no fixed total to aim for, since the requirement scales with how many buildings you push and how high. The practical rule: spend gold on blueprints early and often so you are not blocked when a tier-up window opens during an event.

Cost per tier (single building)

Each entry is the blueprint count required for that single upgrade, plus the gold needed to buy those blueprints at the standard 1,000 gold rate.

Level	Tier	Blueprints	Gold equivalent
10	T2	320	3,200
15	T3	2,450	24,500
20	T4	10,400	104,000
25	T5	25,600	256,000
30	T6	51,000	510,000
35	T7	112,000	1,120,000
40	T8	196,000	1,960,000
45	T9	343,000	3,430,000

Caution

Costs are per single building upgrade. Pushing several buildings to the same tier multiplies the bill, e.g. 10 barracks to level 30 is 510,000 blueprints, not 51,000.

Upgrade cost reference

For exact RSS and time costs per building and level, see the community-maintained TotalBattle Cost table (US).