New ruler handbook
A practical first-day plan for building a productive village, using your protection wisely and preparing your first army.
Do not try to unlock everything immediately. Your first goal is a village that continues making useful progress while you are away: production below its storage cap, one purposeful upgrade running, a small balanced garrison, and a clear next objective from Quests or Research.
After verifying your email, open Village and tap the illustrated Missions button. Claim Survey Your Village, then follow Seat of Rule to place your Town Hall. The next-step card explains each action. Complete and claim steps in order to unlock the next lesson; use Show me exactly what to do if you get stuck.
Throneweld uses food, wood, stone and gold. Food supports growth and training, wood and stone drive construction, and gold is important for advanced development. Production continues in real time until a resource reaches storage capacity. Spend before the cap so production is not wasted.
Choose Village for your interactive town. On a phone, 3D starts locked so swipes scroll the page. Tap Explore map to move the camera and select a plot, then Lock map to scroll again. You can also use Choose a parcel below the map. On a computer, drag to pan, scroll to zoom and click a plot or structure. Place the starter buildings you already own before buying extras. Walls and gates are upgraded in place, never placed on ordinary plots.
Your starter Farm, Lumberyard and Quarry establish food, wood and stone production. Upgrade the resource that blocks your next useful action, but keep the three producers reasonably balanced. Do not queue an expensive military upgrade while basic production is weak.
The Town Hall anchors general progression. A Warehouse increases the amount you can hold and helps prevent production from stopping at the cap. The Academy opens research, while the Marketplace, Hospital and Embassy support trading, recovery and alliance play as your village develops.
A new kingdom receives a temporary peace shield. Treat this as preparation time: improve production, learn the map, complete quests and build a defensible force. Check the shield timer before planning risky actions and do not assume protection lasts forever.
The Barracks trains troops through a real-time queue. Infantry provide a dependable foundation, archers emphasize damage and cavalry emphasize speed and carrying capacity. Compare training cost, travel speed and role before spending all resources on one unit type.
The illustrated Gift ready chest opens the Seven Banners rewards. Review the guaranteed contents and claim one free gift per UTC day. Missed days never reset progress; after seven claimed gifts, the track repeats. Items go to Realm Inventory for you to use later. Daily-login Realm Seals are credited separately. Missions also offer three daily orders, weekly objectives and completion chests. Finish an upgrade or training queue, then come back when it is useful to you—timers run while you are offline.
Upgrade your Main Gate to level 2, select a rival village on the World Map and choose Scout stationed forces. Each scout costs 50 gold. Eagle Eye research improves estimates; level 5 reveals exact stationed troops, including allied defenders. Reports are snapshots, not live tracking. Keep enough troops at home while your army is away.
A Bannerway Charter from the earned Quartermaster shop opens a relocation request from Inventory. Choose vacant dry land, optionally within five tiles of an alliance member. An administrator reviews the move; the charter is consumed only on approval. Active armies and deliveries block moves, requested moves have a seven-day cooldown, and outposts remain in place.
Battle and scouting reports explain what happened after an action. Compare casualties, defenses and recovered resources. A victory can still be inefficient when replacing lost troops costs more than the reward.
Alliances provide diplomacy, coordination and mutual assistance. The public Community Forum contains guides that can be read without an account; logged-in rulers can ask specific questions and share strategies.
Use the mechanics reference for detailed explanations or browse community strategies and troubleshooting discussions.