Granary: levels, cost and upgrades

Granary shields part of the Grain stock from plunder, keeping 225 million of it safe at level 30. Anything above that line an attacker carries off, so spending the surplus before taking risks costs nothing. The building unlocks after Sanctuary level 3 and goes up to level 30. Only one can be built. Levels raise: protected Resource.

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	Protected Resource	Might	Cost	Time
1	1,087	700	Grain 4, Timber 14	under a minute
5	13,615	3,500	Grain 6,901, Timber 20,300	10m
10	180,176	7,500	Grain 183,300, Timber 540,300, Herb 176,700	4h 18m
15	1,440,194	19,500	Grain 1,743,000, Timber 5,228,000, Herb 1,613,000	16h 41m
20	9,900,166	50,400	Grain 15,380,000, Timber 46,140,000, Herb 13,690,000	3d 17h
25	36,000,138	122,600	Grain 74,480,000, Timber 227,600,000, Herb 68,300,000	16d 14h
30	225,000,183	287,500	Grain 344,600,000, Timber 1,053,000,000, Herb 342,800,000	76d 23h

Full upgrade

Taking the building from level 1 to 30 costs Grain 1,231,666,821, Timber 3,718,612,170, Herb 1,224,693,000. Pure build time without speed-ups: 299d 4h, that is, about 10 months.

How to use it

The protected stock grows unevenly: 1,087 at the first level, 180,176 at the tenth, 9,900,166 at the twentieth and 225,000,183 at the thirtieth. Most of the increase falls on the last five levels, and those same levels take 237 days out of the 299 days 4 hours of full construction.

The Granary is paid for in the resource it does not shield: 3,718,612,170 Timber against 1,231,666,821 Grain across all thirty levels. Its own levels consume three times less Grain, yet its queue competes for Timber with construction across the whole city. Level 30 alone asks 1,053,000,000 Timber and 77 days.

Whether the protection matters depends on how fast the stock builds up. Four level 30 Farms give 3,279,168 Grain a day, so 225,000,183 gathers in 69 days of an untouched stock. In practice Grain leaves for construction sooner, and the line is crossed mainly before a large purchase such as level 30 of the Sanctuary with its 1,356,000,000 Grain.

Sanctuary level 3 unlocks four buildings at once. The Lumber Depot and the Herb Storage ask the same 299 days 4 hours and carry comparable Might, 287,300 and 287,000 against the 287,500 of the Granary, while the Builder's Hut takes 199 days 10 hours and finishes upgrades shorter than half an hour for free.

Related pages

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

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