🔬 Research
The knowledge tree by branch: what each node unlocks, what must be studied first, how much it costs and how long it takes.
Economy
- 🔬 HusbandrySheep farm: sheep give wool for cloth and clothes
- 🔬 WeavingWeaver and tailor: they make cloth and clothes
- 🔬 FertilizerFields give 20% more wheat
- 🔬 Warm housesIn winter heating uses 30% less firewood
- 🔬 StretchersPorters carry one and a half times more at once
- 🔬 ShelvingStorage holds one and a half times more: a stockpile tile — 150 items, a Storehouse — 750
- 🔬 Master guildsThe Guild hall: here artisans are made masters
⚠ Later chapters (3) — spoilers
- 🔬 ForestryThe nursery grows saplings, and foresters plant them where you marked 🌱. A planted tree grows in a year — even in the middle of a clearing
- 🔬 EarthworksThe island can be expanded: builders fill the void at the edge with stone and clay (the “Fill” tool)
- 🔬 LawThe Council house and the book of laws. Every law has a benefit and a cost, and the choice is forever
Crafts
- 🔬 CarpentryCarpenter: makes furniture for artisans’ homes
- 🔬 TanningThe tannery makes leather from hides. The tailor sews clothes from leather (choose “Leather clothes”)
- 🔬 MetallurgyThe smelter makes ingots from ore and coal (artisans work there). The charcoal pit makes coal from firewood
- 🔬 SmithingThe smithy forges tools. Sometimes they have useful properties
- 🔬 TemperingThe smithy forges rare tools more often
- 🔬 FiringThe kiln makes brick from clay and coal — for stone houses
- 🔬 JewelcraftThe jeweler makes jewelry from ingots and shard dust
⚠ Later chapters (3) — spoilers
- 🔬 WeaponcraftThe armory forges spears, bows and cleavers. With weapons the guard is stronger against bandits, and the hunter faster and more accurate
- 🔬 Ancient electricityCopper from ancient scrap, the water wheel, the wind turbine and poles. Ruins and the Trading post provide scrap, and the Dusky island supplies ready copper. Powered workshops work faster, and lit homes are cosier
- 🔬 HerbalismThe herb garden grows healing herbs, and the herbalist makes medicine from them
Ancient lore
- 🔬 GeologyThe map shows where ore, coal and clay are. You can build a mine by a mountain — ore and coal never run out in it
- 🔬 ArchaeologySearched ruins can be dug deeper — there are new finds there
- 🔬 Rune readingRunes can be set into items and fused. Guardians of ancient vaults can be put to sleep. Blueprints turn up in ruins one and a half times more often
- 🔬 Shard resonanceSalvaging items gives 25% more shard dust
- 🔬 WritingThe paper mill and scriptorium: they make books for masters
⚠ Later chapters (1) — spoilers
- 🔬 AeronauticsThe shipyard: the flying airship for trips to neighbouring islands is built here
This guide is built from the data of the game “Oskolki” — a browser colony simulator on a floating shard among the ruins of the ancients. Play for free in the browser.