Lumberyard: levels, cost and upgrades

Lumberyard produces Timber, the resource that construction consumes in larger amounts than any other. Output accumulates in the building and stalls when the store fills, and a research node opens a fifth Lumberyard, cheaper than another level on the ones already standing. 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	144	3h 30m	400	Grain 5	under a minute
5	5,827	8h 40m	2,800	Grain 5,107, Timber 1,702	3m
10	11,630	9h 20m	5,900	Grain 91,770, Timber 30,590, Herb 20,270	45m
15	17,443	10h	10,800	Grain 878,000, Timber 296,100, Herb 182,600	2h 46m
20	23,252	10h 40m	22,900	Grain 7,533,000, Timber 2,511,000, Herb 1,668,000	14h 57m
25	28,345	11h 20m	50,900	Grain 36,230,000, Timber 12,080,000, Herb 7,385,000	2d 18h
30	34,158	12h	115,300	Grain 187,600,000, Timber 62,530,000, Herb 39,900,000	12d 19h

Full upgrade

Taking the building from level 1 to 30 costs Grain 642,756,614, Timber 214,436,268, Herb 137,925,710. Pure build time without speed-ups: 49d 20h.

How to use it

The output curve of a Lumberyard repeats that of a Farm: 144 Timber an hour at level 1 and 34,158 at level 30, with the store growing from 3 hours 30 minutes to 12 hours and holding 409,896 Timber at level 30. Timber leaves the stock faster than any other resource: a full upgrade of the Walls needs 5,145,448,295 Timber and the Granary 3,718,612,170.

The Lumberyard is paid for in Grain, mirroring the Farm: 642,756,614 Grain against 214,436,268 Timber across all thirty levels. Level 1 costs 5 Grain and level 30 costs 187,600,000 plus 12 days 20 hours, while the whole building occupies the queue for 49 days 20 hours and asks a further 137,925,710 Herb.

Four level 30 Lumberyards give 3,279,168 Timber a day. At that rate the Walls alone would take 1,569 days, so Timber is topped up by gathering on the map and by events, and Lumberyard levels are taken for Might: 115,300 from each and 461,200 from four.

A fourth Lumberyard opens at Sanctuary level 12, and a fifth comes from a research node. The fifth building beats another level: it adds a quarter to output, whereas level 30 demands 62,530,000 Timber and 39,900,000 Herb on top of the Grain.

Related pages

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

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