Smelting Workshop: levels, cost and upgrades

Smelting Workshop produces Gearstones, the material that every step of strengthening hero gear consumes. Output stores for up to twelve hours, so the workshops are collected twice a day, and five of them at level 30 yield 310 Gearstones an hour. The building unlocks after Sanctuary level 5 and goes up to level 30. Up to 5 can be built. Levels raise: gearstone 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	Gearstone Output/Hour	Max Production Time	Might	Cost	Time
1	3	8h 8m	700	Grain 9, Timber 9	under a minute
5	13	8h 40m	3,300	Grain 6,926, Timber 6,926	8m
10	23	9h 20m	6,900	Grain 118,700, Timber 118,700, Herb 57,130	1h 28m
15	31	10h	13,700	Grain 1,048,000, Timber 1,048,000, Herb 574,500	5h 33m
20	43	10h 40m	31,600	Grain 9,850,000, Timber 9,850,000, Herb 4,748,000	1d 5h
25	53	11h 20m	73,400	Grain 45,730,000, Timber 45,730,000, Herb 24,000,000	5d 12h
30	62	12h	168,300	Grain 242,500,000, Timber 242,500,000, Herb 125,400,000	25d 15h

Full upgrade

Taking the building from level 1 to 30 costs Grain 842,976,577, Timber 842,976,577, Herb 423,745,110. Pure build time without speed-ups: 99d 17h, that is, about 3 months.

How to use it

Five Smelting Workshops may stand at once, and the queue between them splits by a single rule: level 20 costs 4 days 10 hours of pure build time, level 30 costs 99 days 17 hours. Five workshops at level 20 go up in 22 days and yield 215 Gearstones an hour, five at level 30 yield 310, but take 498 days. Those ninety-five extra Gearstones an hour cost 476 days of queue.

The second bonus, Max Production Time, grows from 8 hours 8 minutes to 12 hours. At level 20 the store holds 10 hours 40 minutes, so with two collections a day the workshop idles for an hour and twenty minutes, and a full store without waste arrives only at level 30.

The Weaving Workshop next door costs the same 99 days 17 hours and carries almost the same Might, 168,200 against 168,300, yet it turns out 91 items an hour against 62 Gearstones. The gap in pace comes from the goods: Gearstones go into strengthening hero gear, while Cloth serves as the lowest of the five crafting materials.

Sanctuary level 5 opens ten such buildings at once, five smelters and five weavers, and a full upgrade of all ten runs to 997 days. Level 20 on all ten fits into 44 days, which is where the queue here is usually stopped.

Related pages

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

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