Getting Started

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• Goal
• General Control
• Construction
• Road Construction
• Building Information
• Research
• Notifications
• Other controls

Goal

The goal of the game is to tap into the resources of your island to build a functioning merchandise management system. You have to protect your island from robbers and can also carry out your own raids. You can also trade surplus goods for other resources you need. Finally, you try to expand your kingdom to other, larger islands where more valuable resources are available. You will achieve the highest level of admiration from your subjects if you succeed in launching a zeppelin and sending it across the seas.

General Control

At the beginning of the game you see your island. When you play the first time, you already have a small village with some buildings. By finger gestures you can move the view over the island or zoom in and out. By tapping you can select a building. Double tapping will show additional information about that building.

For the first steps of the game, the pointing hand shows you what you should do next.

Construction

The backbone of your kingdom are your buildings. Your workers live here, who, depending on the type of building, collect resources on the island or produce new goods from other resources.

Not every position is suitable for a building. If you tap on an empty space on the map, a yellow house symbol will appear if the space is suitable for building. If a different icon is shown, you cannot build a house here and you will have to find another place.
Tap on the crane symbol if you want to construct a building at this location. You are now in construction mode, the map will now show all places where a building can be constructed, in case you want to change your mind about the construction site. Choose your building location carefully. Try to optimize transport routes by placing producers near consumers.

Tap on the building symbol next to the crane symbol to go to building selection. A list of symbols for various goods appears. If you select a symbol, a building will be erected to produce goods of this kind.
After you have selected a good, a new construction site will appear. Building materials are still needed to construct the building. These are mostly wood , bricks and boards . At the beginning of the game you have a small supply of building materials in your Start House, later you can produce these goods yourself.

With your first buildings you should ensure the supply of building materials. Make sure that you have a Forester, a Woodcutter, a Carpenter and a Stonecutter as soon as possible. Of course, you can also construct these buildings multiple times to increase the production speed.

Road Construction

In order for the building materials to be transported to your building site, you must build a path to the main camp. Paths can be built between two Signposts. Each building is always automatically connected to a signpost in front of its front door. Tap on this signpost and then select the path symbol to build a path. Then tap on one of the shoe symbols on the map to set the direction of the path construction. Connect your new building to one of the existing signposts that are already connected to the main camp by a path. Once the path has been created, your workers will start carrying the materials to the construction site.
There is exactly one carrier working on each section of the path. If the paths are very long, the carrier has to cover long distances for the transport, which is not very efficient. Especially on central routes, where many goods have to be transported, you should shorten the sections by building additional signposts as intermediate stations. To do this, tap on a place on the path where you want to set up the signpost. If a signpost is possible at this point, the signpost symbol appears at the bottom. Tap on it to set up the signpost. Each signpost must have a distance of at least two fields to other signposts.

Building Information

Tap on a construction site or building and then tap on the info symbol on the bottom of the screen for additional information. You can also tap the building twice quickly. For a construction site, you will be shown which resources are required for this construction. Only when all resources have been transported to the construction site will a construction worker start to construct the building.

If you tap on your Start House or any other Warehouse, your inventory will be displayed.

For a production building, the top row shows which goods are produced from which resource in this building. The second row shows a sleep symbol . This allows you to temporarily stop production in this building. Some buildings have special functions, which are indicated by additional icons at this point.
In the bottom row you will see the current resources stock of the building. In order for the goods to be produced, the resources displayed here must be delivered. Production will start automatically as soon as these resources are available. The goods will be produced automatically if the corresponding resources are available in your city and a route to their source exists.

Research

At the beginning of the game you will only have a few building types available. Further buildings have to be researched first. To select the current research, tap on the research icon to the left of the diamond at the top of the screen. A dialog will appear in which you can select the research goal using the corresponding symbols. After you have selected a goal, a progress bar will appear under the test tube symbol to show you how far the research has progressed.

You will need a Laboratory building to carry out research. You already have a laboratory on the first map, it is the building with the test tube . Open the information dialog for your Laboratory building. The bottom row will show you which resources you need to complete your current research. Make sure that you have these resources available. Sometimes you will need to construct additional buildings that produce these resources. After successfully completing research, new research options are often available to you.

Notifications

On the left side, the note icon indicates that a new message has arrived. When the icon appears, tap it to read the new message. For example, you will be informed when your current research is finished. You can select your next research goal directly using the corresponding icons in this dialog, or you can select it later using the research button at the top.

Other controls

In the upper right corner you will find the settings symbol . Here you can make various settings. As soon as you are more advanced, you can increase the game speed here.