2nd Workbench: levels, cost and upgrades

2nd Workbench adds a second research queue, so two technology nodes make progress at the same time. It requires no subscription, and its level adds research speed exactly as the Research Lab's level does. The building unlocks after Sanctuary level 9 and goes up to level 30. Only one can be built. Levels raise: research Speed.

Levels and cost

Reference levels of the building: what it gives, how much Might it brings and what the next step costs. Cost grows faster than the payoff: the last five levels take 79% of the total build time.

Level	Research Speed	Might	Cost	Time
1	0.7%	900	Grain 89, Timber 89	under a minute
5	2.7%	4,300	Grain 19,230, Timber 19,230	10m
10	5.2%	9,700	Grain 682,100, Timber 682,100, Herb 208,800	5h 1m
15	7.7%	24,400	Grain 5,892,000, Timber 5,892,000, Herb 1,948,000	19h 28m
20	10.1%	63,300	Grain 51,310,000, Timber 51,310,000, Herb 16,510,000	4d 8h
25	12.7%	153,600	Grain 259,900,000, Timber 259,900,000, Herb 82,600,000	19d 8h
30	15.1%	361,100	Grain 1,360,000,000, Timber 1,360,000,000, Herb 419,000,000	89d 19h

Full upgrade

Taking the building from level 1 to 30 costs Grain 4,524,713,384, Timber 4,524,713,384, Herb 1,448,087,400. Pure build time without speed-ups: 349d, that is, about 12 months.

How to use it

The second research queue opens at the first level of the building, for 89 Grain, 89 Timber and under a minute of work. The workbench asks for no subscription, unlike Squad 4 with its monthly pass, so at Sanctuary level 9 it is put up at once and its levels are added afterwards.

Research speed grows here exactly as it does at the Research Lab: 0.7% at level 1 and 15.1% at level 30. The second queue itself works from level 1, and two nodes out of the 348 in the technology tree advance at once from the first day. The two bonuses add up and a fully raised pair gives 30.2%, though it costs 349 days of pure build time on each building, close to two years for both.

By resources the workbench is second in the city after the Sanctuary: 4,524,713,384 Grain, the same amount of Timber and 1,448,087,400 Herb. The lab over the same span asks for 4,475,751,165 Grain, a difference of about one percent.

Its Might is second as well: 361,100 against the 384,300 of the Sanctuary and the 361,000 of the lab. The last five levels take 79% of the whole build time, so the workbench is usually kept at a middling level while the second research queue works from the very beginning. Level 30 alone costs 1,360,000,000 Grain and 89 days 19 hours.

Related pages

• All buildings
• Build calculator: an upgrade queue from building levels

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