🔬 Ancient electricity

⚠ Spoiler: this opens in chapter 5.

Copper 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

Branch

Crafts

Time

≈ 4 d of one researcher’s work (skill 5)

Price

10 Ingots + 20 Ancient scrap + 20 Shard dust

Study first

🔬 Metallurgy, 🔬 Rune reading

Unlocks buildings

⚒️ Copper works, ⚡ Water wheel, ⚡ Wind turbine, ⚡ Power pole

Available

from chapter 5

Research is done in the Study of antiquities (the “Research” job, the “Lore” skill). As many studies, as many research topics at once: two studies — two topics. Or all researchers work on one — then it goes faster. The price is paid once, when the node is first chosen.

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.