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Defense Workshop is a building where defense tools are produced. Only one can be built in each castle and/or outpost. It has four levels, and at each level, different tools can be made to protect your castle from incoming attacks. Can be placed inside Military District.

Stats[]

Image Building level Level required Cost Exp points Production speed bonus
DefenseWorkshop-lv1 1 5 61 Wood & 30 Stone 9 0%
DefenseWorkshop-lv2 2 16 1693 Wood & 1580 Stone 35 +5%
DefenseWorkshop-lv3 3 38 8146 Wood & 13623 Stone 65 +10%
DefenseWorkshop-lvl4 4 Unlocked by skill: The last line of defense level 1 550 Construction Tokens & 2300 Upgrade Tokens 98 +15%

Low Level Stats[]

Instead of using its intended construction time and cost to build, in the game, there is a feature where only those who are at lower levels can build this structure in a much faster time at a much cheaper price.

Defense workshop level 1[]

Image Level required Cost Build time (hh:mm:ss)
DefenseWorkshop-lv1 5 61 Wood & 30 Stone 00:00:30
DefenseWorkshop-lv1 6 61 Wood & 30 Stone 00:01:40
DefenseWorkshop-lv1 7 61 Wood & 30 Stone 00:05:00
DefenseWorkshop-lv1 8 61 Wood & 30 Stone 00:09:50
DefenseWorkshop-lv1 9 61 Wood & 30 Stone 00:15:00
DefenseWorkshop-lv1 10 61 Wood & 30 Stone 00:20:00
DefenseWorkshop-lv1 11 61 Wood & 30 Stone 00:25:00

Upgrades[]

Upon building the Defense Workshop (level 1) you start with access to Hurling rocks, Tar pitch kettle, Castle gate reinforcement, and Insulating mat.

At level 2 you unlock Flaming arrows and Bulwark. At this point, you now also gain access to Dummies, which are defensive tools, that when your castle or outpost is spies upon fool enemy players into thinking that they are units. The three types of dummies are the Dummy melee soldiers, Dummy ranged soldiers, and Dummy archers.

At level 3, seeing as you might have a moat tools, by now you gain access to two moat defense tools, there are Sharpened stakes and Swamp snapper.

At level 4, you will unlock various defense tools, which all of these tools has double effect. You must unlock building skill first in Hall of legends in order to unlock tools.

Strategies[]

The Defense workshop is effective but costly and slow in production. Here are ways to cut costs and increase productivity:

Decreases Cost[]

  • Defense tool cost build item (primary).

Increases Speed[]

Gallery[]

Changelog[]

  • June 2011 - Initial Release. This building already appeared during the beta phase of the game, before its official release on August 2011.
  • March 26, 2012 - announced that tool production can be cancelled. Implemented on March 27, 2012 between 8:00 a.m. and 11:00 a.m. CET.[1]
  • November 23, 2012 - announced that the soldiers produced will be doubled instead of cutting the production time in half. Implemented on November 27, 2012.[2]
  • December 7, 2012 - announced a bug fix where defense tools were limited to 99 tools. Implemented on December 12, 2012 between 8:30 a.m. and 11:00 a.m.[3]

References[]

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