Costs are credits (cr) / materials (mat). Size is in grid cells. Power shows what a building produces (+) or uses. Construction takes the listed build time.
Upgrades: most buildings go to level 3 with UPGRADE in the building panel. The first upgrade (to L2) costs the listed price; the next (to L3) costs that × the current level, so twice as much. Every level adds +20% health on top of the building's own bonus.
Bulldoze: 100% refund if unfinished, 50% if built. Repair: REPAIR restores 10% of health per second, costs 35% of the build price for a full repair, and pauses for 3 s after each hit.
Your seat of power, given at the start. Provides power and storage, claims the first 16 tiles of territory around it, and keeps crime down within 8 tiles. Destroy the enemy HQ to win.
What a Mobile HQ becomes when it DEPLOYs. Claims new territory far from home so you can zone, build and reach resource sites or shorelines. Can't be placed on roads, water or buildings.
The backbone of the grid. Powers land within 5 tiles; chain pylons to carry it further. Pollutes 3 tiles beyond its footprint, so keep it away from homes.
Carries power 6 tiles further. Chain them to reach distant districts, extractors and turrets. Doesn't extend your territory.
Raises your material cap (500 base) and also stores food. Supply trucks unload here, so a depot near distant extractors shortens their trip.
Built only on 2×2 salvage resource sites. Produces 1.5 mat/s while powered, holds 60, and comes with a free supply truck that hauls loads of 40 to your depots or HQ.
Must touch water. While powered it earns 2.5 cr/s in trade, and it builds gunboats. Also where you research vehicle upgrades for your boats.
Production runs at half speed with no population and reaches full speed at 40 residents. Each upgrade level adds +30% build speed. Research (Weapons and Armour, 2 levels each) is bought here too: barracks for infantry; vehicle bay, drone pad or harbour for vehicles.
Trains rifle squads, rocket squads and engineers. Must sit alongside a road; troops come out onto it. Also suppresses crime within 6 tiles.
Builds battle tanks, scout buggies, mechs and the Mobile HQ. Must sit alongside a road.
Launches strike drones, which ignore walls, water and woods.
The Harbour (listed under Economy) builds gunboats.
Turrets and towers need power to work. Lose the power plant and the guns go quiet.
Spots enemies within 10 tiles, raises a tappable alert, and calls nearby idle units (within 12 tiles) to respond.
Cannon emplacement that hits ground units. Strong against vehicles (×1.2), half damage against infantry, can't hit air.
Flak battery that shoots only at aircraft, at double damage. The hard counter to strike drones.
Drag a line to build. Funnels ground attackers into your turrets. Drones fly straight over. Engineers can't capture walls.
Patrols 10 tiles: no crime there. Shields your buildings within 10 tiles so they take 25% less damage (a faint glowing blue field ring). Takes pot shots at nearby enemies with sidearms: a nuisance, not a defence.
| Zone | Per level | Produces | Cost |
|---|---|---|---|
| Residential | 4 residents | 0.03 cr/s tax per employed resident; eats 0.02 food/s each | 5 cr/tile |
| Commercial | 3 jobs | 0.12 cr/s per staffed job | 5 cr/tile |
| Industrial | 3 jobs | 0.06 mat/s per staffed job (pollutes 4 tiles) | 5 cr/tile |
| Farm | 3 jobs | 0.12 food/s per staffed job | 5 cr/tile |
| Road | — | Lots within 2 tiles can grow; ×1.75 unit speed | 10 cr/tile |
| Bridge | — | Road on water | 40 cr/tile |
| Clearing forest | — | Added when you build or zone on woods | +8 cr/tile |
Lots grow to level 3 when they have a road within 2 tiles, power and demand. Each lot level uses 1 power. More in the city guide.
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