Map
Map
The map is the game board of Aether Kingdoms. The map consists of tiles with an X and Y coordinate, written as (X|Y) in the game.
A new map is randomly generated for every game server, so it's always different.
Tiles
Each tile on the map has a number of resource fields and can be claimed by a neighboring village. If a village is settled on a tile, its resource fields change to the default of a village. The tile is reset when the village is destroyed.
Every tile can be owned by a kingdom, an event can spawn on it, or an objective. Tiles with an event or objective can't be claimed from a village.
There are currently:
- 9 resource tiles
- 3 settlement types: village, town and city. Settlements grow on the map based on the available tiles.
- 10 objective tiles
| Tile | Resource fields | Can be settled | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Village | 1 wood, 1 stone, 1 iron, 2 food | - |
| 2 | Town | 1 wood, 1 stone, 1 iron, 2 food | - |
| 3 | City | 1 wood, 1 stone, 1 iron, 2 food | - |
| 4 | Plains | 0 wood, 0 stone, 0 iron, 4 food | Yes |
| 5 | Woodlands | 2 wood, 0 stone, 0 iron, 2 food | Yes |
| 6 | Hills | 1 wood, 2 stone, 1 iron, 1 food | - |
| 7 | Forest | 3 wood, 0 stone, 0 iron, 2 food | - |
| 8 | Marshlands | 0 wood, 0 stone, 1 iron, 3 food | Yes |
| 9 | Swamp | 2 wood, 0 stone, 1 iron, 1 food | Yes |
| 10 | Water | 0 wood, 1 stone, 0 iron, 3 food | - |
| 11 | Rocky plains | 0 wood, 3 stone, 1 iron, 1 food | Yes |
| 12 | Mountains | 0 wood, 2 stone, 4 iron, 0 food | - |
| - | Objectives | can't be claimed by a village | - |
Owned tiles
Player-owned tiles will have different colored borders on the map:
- Yellow: Part of your Kingdom
- Blue: Owned by a Kingdom in your Empire
- Red: Owned by a Kingdom from another Empire than yours
- Grey: Owned by a Kingdom not part of an Empire
Events on the map
Locations that have an on-going event will show this with an icon in the bottom right of the tile.
See: events
Army movements
A boots icon on the top left of the tile means you have activity from/to that tile. If the background is white, the activity is from the current village. If the icon is faded, they are from another village.
The activities that show the icon are:
- Troops underway
- Troops reinforcing that location
- Merchants underway to events, not to villages
