Guide

Lands, gardens and alchemy

Buy a parcel, build on it, grow crops, brew potions and sell to passing citizens, by hand or with bots.

Beyond the fighting, you can own land, farm it, run an alchemy table and keep a market stall. Lands are part of the online world. Your land is managed from the Land tab of the Hero window (C), from anywhere: Overview, Garden, Alchemy, Market, Access & bans and Presenter.

Three kinds of land

Land	Who has it	How you get it	Built with
Parcel	Every hero, one each	Buy it at the Land Marketplace, from 5,000 silver5K	Your hero's coins
Party ground	Every permanent party	Free with the party	The party's standing
Guild ground	Every guild	Free with the guild	The guild's standing

Lands lie beyond the Lands portal at the south-west corner of Embervale. Each land is its own place, linked to the others by coloured portals:

• Your parcel links to your permanent party's ground.
• A party ground links to every member's parcel and to its guild's ground.
• A guild ground links to every member party's ground.

Joining a party or guild adds the portal and leaving removes it. Parties and guilds explains how a party becomes permanent and how guilds form. Your parcel always stays your hero's, with everything on it.

Anyone may visit any land, for example to shop at a stall. Owners, and on party and guild ground those who can Manage ground, can Ban players from the land. A guild's ban also keeps that player out of every member party's ground and every member's parcel, and a party's ban covers its members' parcels. Let back lifts a ban.

Buying a parcel

Each hero of an account may own one land. Lands are sold on the Lands tab of the Land Marketplace, from anywhere: open the Land tab of the Hero window and press Get a land. The hero you're playing pays.

Land	Size	Price
Homestead	22 × 16	5,000 silver5K
Long Field	34 × 14	6,000 silver6K and 5 gold coins5
Estate	30 × 22	9,000 silver9K and 12 gold coins12

Changing to another land

Owning one land, you can buy a different kind with Replace my land. It asks twice, because:

• your old land is sold back for 50% of its silver price; gold coins paid for it are not refunded;
• the new land starts empty: everything you bought comes along, to place again, but extra placement fees already paid are not refunded;
• stall goods, the stock and batches loaded in the alchemy table come along; ripe crops go to the stock, growing crops are lost;
• terrain edits are lost.

Building

What stands on a land is bought once at the Land Marketplace and then placed in land edit mode. While you stand on a land you may build on, two buttons sit by the minimap: the Land Marketplace and land edit mode.

1. In the Land Marketplace, pick a tab (Biomes, Props, Decoration sets, Farming, Alchemy, Buildings) and press Buy. A prop or building comes with some placements included.
2. Press Place now, or turn on land edit mode and pick it from the palette that takes the skill bar's place. Its outline follows the pointer.
3. Click where it should stand (on a phone, tap, then Place). Placing more than the included ones costs a fee, asked before it goes up.

In land edit mode, click something placed to Move or Remove it. Done (or Esc) leaves edit mode. Who builds:

• Parcel: only its owner.
• Party and guild ground: members whose role holds Build buy at the Land Marketplace with the party's or guild's standing, switch the biome, and place and move what the ground owns. By default every party member can build its ground; in a guild, only the roles given Build.

What is bought with standing belongs to the party or guild. Taking down others' buildings, bans and access, the ground's name, the Presenter and the bigger ground need Manage ground. See roles and permissions.

Building	Parcel	Party ground	Guild ground	Most per land	What it does
Garden Bed	40 silver40	200 standing		12	Grows one crop at a time
Water Wheel	300 silver300	1,500 standing		1	Crops grow 1.25 times as fast
Barn	600 silver600	3,000 standing		1	Stock holds 600 items instead of 60
Alchemy Table	500 silver500			1	Brews potions
Market Stall	400 silver400			1	Citizens buy what you put on it
Workers' Lodge		8,000 standing		1	Every member's bots work twice as often
Guild Market			20,000 standing	1	Every member's stall sells more
Guild Hall			30,000 standing	1	Where the guild meets

Decorations can stand on any land: Silo, Beehives, Hay Bale, Water Trough, Long Table and Round Table. On a parcel they cost from 20 silver20 (Hay Bale) to 150 silver150 (Silo); on shared ground, from 100 to 800 standing.

Those who can Manage ground can buy a Bigger ground for the party for 15,000 standing. Everyone on the ground moves onto the new map. When the guild lacks standing for a building, the founder party's standing pays.

Production (garden, alchemy, stall, bots) runs on your own parcel. Party and guild grounds help it by bringing more citizens and faster bots.

The garden

Build Garden Beds on your parcel, then open the Garden tab.

1. Buy seeds from a general trader.
2. Pick a seed under Seeds to plant, then press Plant on an empty bed.
3. When the bed says ripe, press Harvest.

Crop	Seed price	Ripe in	Harvest	Worth each
Potato	20,000 copper20K	20 min	3	18,000 copper18K
Carrot	25,000 copper25K	25 min	3	22,000 copper22K
Beet	30,000 copper30K	30 min	3	26,000 copper26K
Onion	25,000 copper25K	30 min	3	24,000 copper24K
Cabbage	40,000 copper40K	45 min	2	45,000 copper45K
Garlic (herb)	35,000 copper35K	40 min	3	30,000 copper30K
Fennel (herb)	40,000 copper40K	50 min	3	34,000 copper34K
Rhubarb (herb)	45,000 copper45K	60 min	3	38,000 copper38K

A Water Wheel makes every crop ripen 1.25 times as fast. Garlic, fennel and rhubarb are herbs that alchemy needs.

Alchemy

Build an Alchemy Table, then open the Alchemy tab.

1. Buy the stations a recipe needs: Pulveriser (15 silver15), Mixer (20 silver20), Flask and Burner (12 silver12), Condenser (25 silver25), Furnace (60 silver60).
2. Press Choose on a recipe.
3. Set how many batches and press Feed from the bag. The table holds up to 10 batches.
4. When batches finish, press Collect by hand.

The Ember Elixir restores 400 health and 300 mana.

Every station starts as Glass. Upgrade it to Copper (40 silver40) for 1.5 times the speed, then to Steam (120 silver120) for 2.25 times. A recipe runs at the average speed of its stations. Upgrades wait until the table is idle.

The market stall

Build a Market Stall, then open the Market tab.

• Click potions, crops or materials in your bag to put them on the stall. Click an item on the stall to take it back.
• Citizens pass and buy each product at about 6 an hour, paying 1.2 times its worth. Demand for each product changes from day to day.
• Without a seller bot, buyers wait up to 2 hours. Press Serve citizens to sell to those waiting.
• Coins collect in the till. Press Grab the money.

More citizens come when your land is linked: 15% more for your party ground and for each other member's parcel, 15% for the guild ground, and 50% more with a Guild Market. The tab shows your traffic.

Bots

Each bot does one step on its own, every 10 minutes, offline too. You buy each once for your parcel.

Bot	Price	What it does
Feeder Bot	150 silver150	Replants empty beds and loads the alchemy table from the stock
Collector Bot	150 silver150	Harvests ripe beds into the stock and carries finished batches to the stall
Seller Bot	200 silver200	Serves citizens at the stall while nobody is there

Bots work from the stock. Shift-click an item in your bag to put it in. The stock holds 60 items of all kinds together, or 600 with a Barn.

Working by hand pays more: harvesting and collecting by hand give 1.25 times as much, and serving citizens by hand fetches 1.25 times the price. With a Workers' Lodge on your party ground, your bots go round twice as often.

Bots keep working while you're offline (see While you're away). A parcel nobody visits is worked out when someone next looks, up to 3 days back.

A noble's commission

Once a day, a noble buys 10 Ember Elixirs, delivered by hand, for 1 gold coin1. Every station of your alchemy table must be Copper or better. Press Deliver on the Market tab. This is the only way production earns gold coins (see Item shop and premium), and the whole game can pay out only a limited amount of them each day.