Village

Village

Villages are the foundation of your Kingdom. A village produces Resources, Army, Culture and Science through Industry. Each village is made up of Buildings, which can be divided in resource fields and village buildings.

Resource fields

Every village depends on its surrounding Map tiles for its resource production. As a village's Population crosses certain thresholds, additional tiles can be claimed.

The resources page shows you the resource buildings for the village and any tile you claimed for the village. The resource buildings your village has access to depend on the tiles surrounding it.

Tile population thresholds

Tile	Village tier	Population required
1	Village	40
2	Village	80
3	Village	120
4	Town	350
5	Town	450
6	City	600
7	City	750
8	City	900

Village tiers

Villages consist of 3 tiers, with each tier unlocked by spending culture at the previous tier. With every tier, a new District can be created, higher building levels are unlocked and new buildings can be constructed.

• Village. The most basic tier, can claim 3 surrounding tiles and make a limited set of buildings.
• Town. The second tier, which can claim up to 5 tiles and 1 district.
• City. The third tier, can claim all 8 surrounding tiles and holds 2 districts.

While upgrading has an intrinsic benefit, many of the higher tier buildings need to be unlocked through Research.

Village Overview

The village overview provides quick information about your village in three columns, or stacked on mobile.

• Tile claiming: if you can still claim a tile, it shows you the next threshold or that you can claim a tile.
• Commission district: if you can still commission a district, it shows that the action is available.
• Loyalty: the current loyalty of the village.
• Merchants: currently available merchants, next incoming merchants, next outgoing merchants, and links to exchange and Trade route

• Incoming troops: summary of incoming troop movements by type (returning, reinforce, move and attack).
• Outgoing troops: summary of outgoing troop movements by type (reinforce, move, scout, attack, besiege, settle).
• Standing troops: summary of forces standing at another location (village, objective, event).

• Village notes: notes unique to each village, requires Aether premium.
• Village troops: overview of all units currently in the village.

Queue

Every village has only a single queue in which you produce everything you need. Buildings, units, and culture and science projects all take up space in the same queue. Balancing your queue to produce the right amount of everything is a strategy on its own, and with multiple villages they often end up specializing.

How long everything takes to make in a village depends on its Industry. Everything you queue will have an Industry cost attached to it. By upgrading the hourly Industry output of your village, it can build everything faster.

Builders

You can purchase Builders in the Aether Store to boost the Industry of your village.

Loyalty

A village has loyalty to its Kingdom. The base loyalty of a village is 100, which can increase to 200 for a Town and 300 for a City.

When the loyalty is below the maximum, it increases by 1 * tier per hour. So 1 loyalty/hr for a Village and 3/hr for a City.

An attack with Nobles lowers the loyalty of a village by 30 for each Noble that survives.

Upgrading a village to the next tier does not increase its loyalty right away, but instead raises the maximum loyalty. It's not recommended to upgrade while you're under attack, as it offers a window of vulnerability.