Your Island

On these barren islets there are exactly three resources that determine the rise or ruin of every fledgling island realm.

TL;DR: Your island is the center of your empire.

- Three resources govern everything: Gold, Stone and Wood

- Buildings produce, protect and expand your capabilities

- Strategic upgrading decides success or failure

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The Three Resources #

Every island produces three basic resources needed for all actions in the game:

• Gold -- The most versatile resource. Gold is required for almost everything and serves as the universal medium of exchange. When looting, attackers split the stolen cargo evenly between Gold, Stone and Wood.
• Stone -- The eternal bottleneck. Stone is essential for defensive structures and many buildings, yet its production lags behind the other resources. Experienced players always plan around the Stone shortage.
• Wood -- The fuel of expansion. Without Wood there are no ships, and without ships there are no fleets. Those who fail to fell their forests remain prisoners of their own island.

Resources are produced continuously, even while you are offline. Production runs until your storage is full.

Buildings Overview #

Your town hall is the heart of the island. It unlocks new buildings and speeds up construction times. Every other building has a specific purpose:

• Gold mine, Quarry, Lumber camp -- The three production buildings. Higher levels mean more resources per hour.
• Warehouse -- Increases your storage capacity and protects a portion of your supplies from looting. The higher the level, the more is safe. It can be expanded up to level 40 -- each of the high levels is costly and slow.
• Stone wall -- Grants your defenders a significant bonus in land combat.
• Watchtower -- Extends your line of sight across the ocean and lets you spot approaching fleets earlier. It can be expanded far beyond the former limit, all the way to level 40. Line of sight and recall range, however, only grow up to level 20 -- every level above that sharpens your reconnaissance alone: the type and the exact arrival of an approaching fleet reveal themselves to you earlier. What stays hidden at first is explained by the sections on the fog of war and arrival within a time window in the "Combat" chapter.
• Barracks -- Trains land units and determines how many troops you can maintain in total across all your islands. Expanding additional barracks enlarges your troop pool. Barracks and harbor are strategic endgame buildings with an extended upgrade path: the barracks up to level 44, the harbor up to level 40 -- each of those high levels is costly and slow.
• Lab -- Enables research. Unlocks military and economic technologies.
• Harbor -- Builds ships, enables trade with other players and determines your total fleet capacity: harbor levels add up across all your islands -- every harbor contributes, not just the largest one. A fully developed harbor allows larger fleets and more ships in reserve.
• Statue -- Has a dual role: it earns you personal prestige and ranking points and, together with your alliance members' statues, drives the alliance buff. It grants no direct production bonus. How the buff unlocks is explained in the "Alliances" chapter.
• Trading post -- Enables resource exchange with the quartermaster and access to the player market.
• Shipping Office -- The counting house of your automatic trade routes: it raises the route limit of an island, lets you attach freight rules to a route and run circuits across several of your own islands. It only becomes visible once the harbor stands at level 10 and the trading post at level 5 -- everything else is explained in the "The Shipping Office" chapter.
• War Academy -- Here you choose a sea doctrine and gather Art of War points for the doctrine tree. It requires harbor level 10 and lab level 5 and stays invisible until then -- the "The Art of War" chapter goes into detail.

Buildings are constructed one at a time -- only one build order per island is active at once. Higher levels cost more and take longer. Canceling a build does not refund resources.

You can plan ONE upgrade per island: it starts on its own as soon as the resources are there and nothing else is being built. Until then it costs nothing, and you can change or delete it at any time. For barracks and harbor you pay when you queue an order; for a planned upgrade only when it starts. While the plan waits, the card on the build page also tells you what it waits for -- resources, the running build, a prerequisite, a bigger warehouse or a delivery.

If your resources are not enough for an upgrade, the link "Fetch what is missing from [island]" appears next to "Buildable in …": it opens the trade form of your supply island with the target and the missing amount already filled in -- one click on Send is enough. Which island serves as your supply island is set in the island overview (your main island by default).

Storage and Protection #

Your warehouse determines how many resources you can store at most. Excess production is lost when storage is full. The warehouse also protects a share of your supplies from looting -- even after a defeat you keep this baseline.

Always plan your warehouse level alongside your production. High output is wasted if your stores keep overflowing.

The high levels up to forty are meant for growing realms above all: every further colony ship costs more than the one before, and at some point your stores have to be able to hold that price at all. Each of those levels is expensive and takes a long time -- in return, the share no attacker can take from you grows with it.

Building Strategy #

• Diversify early: Do not build only gold mines. Stone becomes a bottleneck fast.
• Prioritize the town hall: It unlocks new buildings and shortens build times for everything else.
• Do not forget the warehouse: Protected resources survive an enemy attack.
• Use build times wisely: While a building is under construction you can research or train troops -- those run in parallel.

Island Names #

You can give your islands custom names -- for example Home Harbor or West Quarry. These names are private: only you see them. They accompany you throughout the game, wherever your own islands appear -- always beside the coordinate and visible only to you. Use the Manage Islands page to set, change, or remove them (leave the field empty + save to reset). Other players still see just the coordinates.