Keep: cost, levels and upgrades
Short answer
The Keep is the heart of your village: it makes a little scrap and timber on its own, guards the centre with its own fire, and is where you expand.
What it does
Every village starts with a Keep and never loses it. It produces 8 scrap, 8 timber every hour even before you build anything else, and it shoots raiders who reach the centre.
Expanding the island around the Keep raises how far your buildings can be upgraded. The table below shows each expansion.
Expansion
| Expansion | Cost | Time | Building pads | Highest building level |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 400 scrap, 300 timber | 1 h | 80 | 2 |
| 2 | 2,600 scrap, 2,000 timber, 800 biomass | 8 h | 120 | 3 |
| 3 | 7,000 scrap, 5,000 timber, 2,500 biomass | 20 h | 168 | 5 |
Tips
- Expand once before you upgrade anything past level 2: the island caps every building's level.
- Your Keep's income never stops, so even a quiet village has something to spend after a night away.
Questions
How much does it cost to expand the island?
The first expansion costs 400 scrap, 300 timber and takes 1 h. The last one costs 7,000 scrap, 5,000 timber, 2,500 biomass and takes 20 h, and brings the island to 168 building pads.
Numbers come straight from the game's rules and update with every release.
