Herb Garden: levels, cost and upgrades

Herb Garden produces Herb, the resource research burns through, and it comes in 36% slower than Grain and Timber. A fourth Herb Garden opens seven Sanctuary levels later than a fourth Farm, which is why Herb runs short first. The building is available from the start of the game and goes up to level 30. Up to 4 can be built. Levels raise: output/Hour, max Production Time.

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	Output/Hour	Max Production Time	Might	Cost	Time
1	72	3h 30m	600	Grain 8, Timber 8	under a minute
5	3,669	8h 40m	2,900	Grain 3,469, Timber 3,469	3m
10	7,319	9h 20m	5,900	Grain 62,390, Timber 62,390, Herb 19,170	45m
15	10,960	10h	10,600	Grain 572,600, Timber 572,600, Herb 172,400	2h 46m
20	14,613	10h 40m	22,900	Grain 5,050,000, Timber 5,050,000, Herb 1,531,000	14h 57m
25	18,263	11h 20m	50,800	Grain 22,830,000, Timber 22,830,000, Herb 7,328,000	2d 18h
30	21,912	12h	114,900	Grain 121,200,000, Timber 121,200,000, Herb 38,510,000	12d 19h

Full upgrade

Taking the building from level 1 to 30 costs Grain 422,532,117, Timber 422,532,117, Herb 134,839,230. Pure build time without speed-ups: 49d 20h.

How to use it

A Herb Garden gathers 72 Herb an hour at level 1 and 21,912 at level 30, against the 34,158 of a Farm at the same level. Its store follows the shape shared by all gathering buildings, 3 hours 30 minutes at the start and 12 hours at level 30, and the building occupies the queue for 49 days 20 hours.

The schedule widens that gap. A fourth Herb Garden opens at Sanctuary level 19, seven levels later than a fourth Farm, and throughout that stretch three buildings supply Herb: 1,577,664 a day against the 3,279,168 Grain of four Farms.

The Herb stock is therefore exposed twice over. Even four gardens give 2,103,552 Herb a day, while the Herb Storage shields 75,000,118, a third of what the Granary keeps. The protected line is crossed after 36 days of accumulation against 69 days for Grain, and everything above it goes to the attacker.

A full upgrade costs 422,532,117 Grain, the same amount of Timber and 134,839,230 Herb, and 121,200,000 Grain of that falls on level 30 alone, which takes 12 days 20 hours to raise. Might at level 30 comes to 114,900, close to the Farm and the Lumberyard, so Might never decides between gathering buildings. A fifth garden is opened by a research node and adds a quarter to output.

Related pages

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

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