🏙 UrbanPact

Resources

Resources are shared at the city level. They flow in from building production and gather actions, and flow out toward build projects and trade routes. Resources are organized into tiers:

Tier 0 — City Currency

Tier 1 — Raw Materials

Gathered by players or produced by buildings each tick. Foundation of all construction.

Tier 2 — Crafted Materials

Processed from Tier 1 resources using personal crafting tools. Required for Level 2+ building upgrades — your city needs these in its shared stockpile before the project can complete.

Use /craft to open the crafting panel. The panel shows all recipes, what you have in stock, and which ones you can afford right now. Tap a recipe button to start it immediately — resources are deducted from the city stockpile on start and output is added when the craft finishes.

Tier 3 — Luxury Goods

Rare resources required to construct Tier 3 specialty buildings. They are not gatherable — your city can only get them three ways:

• Produce them — build the matching specialty building (1 unit/tick, but each city can only build 2 of the 10)
• Buy them — the Mayor or Minister of Treasury can spend 500 Treasury per unit at a Level 3 Trading Post
• Trade for them — negotiate a deal with a city that produces what you need (Tier 3 trades transfer once a day, at the daily reset)

Luxury goods are only shown in /resources once your city has some — they don't clutter the stockpile view at zero.

Crafting

Refined goods (Planks, Bricks, Iron Ingots, Mortar, Steel, Rope, Charcoal) are never gathered raw — they're crafted. There are two player-driven crafting systems depending on your tier, plus your city's own automated NPC crafting once it's built the right building (see Masterwork below).

Workbench crafting (all tiers)

The /craft panel lets any player with a Workbench produce goods on demand, with a dedicated crafting queue that runs on its own timer (separate from the hourly tick). This is the main crafting path for Settlers and Citizens. Each craft makes 2 items and takes about 6–10 minutes — your output, XP, and materials per hour are the same as a fast one-at-a-time timer would give, but you re-queue half as often, so there's much less to mind. Your Prize Crate chance over time is unchanged.

Your recipe tool's level multiplies what you get. A fresh Level 1 tool crafts at the base rate, but every level beyond that multiplies your output — by Level 10 a tool makes roughly ten times what it made at Level 1, for the same craft. This applies to every crafting tool (Axe, Shovel, Scythe, Pickaxe, Crucible, Chisel, and Tanning Rack), so levelling up is now the single biggest thing you can do to boost your workbench output. This doesn't change how a craft counts toward City Score — the amount that scores is unaffected, so the realm's rankings stay exactly as they were; only what you actually walk away with grows.

Requirements

• Workbench — 1,500g at /vendor. Required by all recipes — but you won't need one until your city is ready for Level 2 building upgrades, so don't rush it. Levels up as you craft, adding one slot and shaving time per level (Lv1 ≈ 10 min, Lv5 ≈ 6 min, 5 slots) — and each craft makes 2 items. Beyond Lv5 (with a Master's Charter) each level keeps adding a slot, so a Lv10 Workbench crafts 10 batches at a time.
• Recipe tool — each recipe also requires one specific tool (Axe, Shovel, Scythe, Crucible, or Chisel).
• City stockpile — inputs are deducted from your city's shared resources when the craft starts. Because each craft makes a batch of 2, it pulls double a single item's materials — the cost shown on each recipe line in /craft is the full amount you'll be charged, and you need all of it on hand to start.

How it works

1. Use /craft to open the crafting panel.
2. The panel always shows your city's current stockpile of all craftable goods, so you can see what's worth banking. If your city has an active build project that needs crafted materials, a progress block is shown above it too — one progress bar per needed Tier 2 resource, with how many are already in the stockpile (+N next tick) and how many you're currently crafting.
3. The panel lists every crafting recipe — the eight core crafted goods (Leather included once your city has a Hunter's Lodge) plus the five Merchant Quarter goods, thirteen in all. Each line shows how much of each input your city currently has and whether you can afford it (✅ = craftable, ⚠️ = short on resources, 🔒 = missing tool).
4. Tap a recipe button to queue it. Resources are deducted immediately.
5. If you have open slots and a previous recipe to repeat, a 🔁 Fill button appears at the bottom of the panel — tap it to fill every remaining slot with that recipe in one tap.
6. Crafts complete automatically (about 6–10 minutes depending on Workbench level, making 2 items each). When done, output goes straight into the city stockpile and you receive a Telegram notification.
7. To cancel a single queued craft, tap its 🚫 button in the panel — resources are refunded in full. Queued up a big backlog you want to abandon? A 🧹 Clear queue (keep current) button appears once you have more than one craft queued — it cancels everything except the one being made right now (refunding all of it), so you keep the in-progress craft and drop the rest in one tap. To cancel the in-progress one too, just tap its own 🚫.

Your first completed craft (by either system) unlocks the one-time 🏆 Artisan medal worth +5 ⭐ Reputation.

Queue crafting (Developer + Workbench 5)

Once you reach Developer tier and max out your Workbench, you can also queue crafting actions in your hourly action queue alongside (or instead of) gathering. Each queued craft slot fires once per tick — one finished batch of goods per hour, no timer-watching required. See Your Action Queue for details.

Workbench levels

The Workbench levels up from XP gained every time a craft completes (XP per craft = current level; threshold = 10 × level² for Levels 1–4, a steeper 15 × level² for Levels 5–9). Each level adds one queue slot and shaves 30 seconds off the craft time, down to a 3-minute floor at Lv5. Reaching Level 5 is free to everyone — going past it to Level 10 requires the Master's Charter, and those extra levels keep adding slots, never more speed.

Levels 6–10 require the Master's Charter (50,000g, Trading Post Level 4) — see the Tools section below.

Recipes

The last five — Furnishings, Cloth, Provisions, Crockery and Fittings — are the Merchant Quarter district goods; they're crafted just like the rest but feed a district rather than a building upgrade.

🏭 Masterwork (Industrial Era)

Once a city upgrades its Craftworks building to Level 2 — only possible after Town Hall reaches Level 4 — it's renamed Masterwork. Its NPC workforce switches to a flat, very high output rate that no longer scales with your city's population, unlike every earlier level. It's what makes the expensive Level 4 building upgrades affordable. Masterwork output is never counted toward City Score — it's automated industrial throughput, not personal craftsmanship. Recipe assignment works the same as before. A Labor Contract still adds +50% workers — but at Masterwork scale that's a real +1,400 workers, not the token amount it added at your city's first Craftworks level; see Cities & Building for the full building mechanics and current pricing.

🔦 Library Insight (Library Level 4)

Once your city's Library reaches Level 4, a one-tap 🔦 Library Insight button appears right on the main /queue panel (and in its gather and craft sub-menus). Tap it and it instantly fills every one of your open queue slots for you — no picking resources by hand. The main-panel button is needs-aware: it looks at what your city's active project is actually short on and mixes gathering and crafting to suit — crafting the finished goods it needs (when you own the tool and the raw materials are in stock) and gathering the raw materials it needs otherwise. The gather and craft sub-menu buttons stay single-purpose if you'd rather fill with just one.

• If your city has an active build project, it prioritizes whatever the project is short on, weighted by the size of the shortfall.
• Otherwise (or with slots left over after covering the project), it spreads the rest across your city's three scarcest stockpiled resources.

It fills your queue exactly as things stand the moment you tap it — it won't re-plan later if your city's needs change, so use it right before you're about to be away for a while.

Tools

Tools are personal equipment that make you more productive. They improve how much you gather each hour and unlock crafting recipes for Tier 2 materials. Your city needs a Trading Post before the vendor will set up shop.

Tool leveling

Every tool starts at Level 1 and caps at Level 5 — or Level 10 with the Master's Charter (see below). Each time it fires (on a gather or a workbench craft), it earns XP equal to its current level. The XP needed for each level climbs fast, and climbs even faster from Level 5 onward — but so does what the tool gives back.

Gather bonus applies only to the four gathering tools (Axe, Pickaxe, Scythe, Shovel). Craft bonus-yield chance applies to Axe, Shovel, Scythe, Pickaxe, Crucible, and Chisel when used in a workbench craft — a successful roll adds a bonus unit before your tool's level multiplies the whole thing (see above), so a higher tool level makes that roll worth more too. The Workbench levels up the same way but improves crafting slots and speed instead — see Workbench levels above. Levels 6–10 on any tool require the Master's Charter.

Available tools

The Master's Charter (Levels 6–10)

Once your city's Trading Post reaches Level 4, any citizen can buy the Master's Charter from /vendor for a one-time 50,000g. It's a permanent personal license — buy it once and it's yours for life, in any city.

• Raises every tool's level cap from 5 to 10 — your gathering tools keep climbing the gather-bonus curve above, and your crafting tools keep climbing their output multiplier and bonus-yield chance, all the way to Level 10.
• Unlocks leased Masterwork crafting. Queue a craft in any city whose Craftworks has been upgraded to a Masterwork (see Crafting above), and your batch is produced at 7× the normal scale by leasing its industrial capacity. Each unit produced burns 1 Grain as fuel, on top of the recipe's normal ingredients — a big batch needs a well-stocked granary. Leased output is pure industrial throughput, so — like Masterwork output itself — it never counts toward City Score.

Buying the Charter earns the one-time 🏆 Licensed Master medal (+10 ⭐ Reputation); your first leased craft earns 🏆 Leased Genius (+5 ⭐ Reputation); reaching Level 10 on any tool earns 🏆 Grandmaster.

Hunting tools — require Hunter's Lodge

These tools only appear at /vendor once your city has a Hunter's Lodge. They level up through use the same way as regular tools, up to the same Level 5/10 cap.

Consumables

Consumables are single-use items that give you an immediate boost. They're sold at /vendor once your city's Trading Post reaches Level 2.

Purchasing

Open /vendor and scroll to the 🛒 Consumables section. Tap any buy button to purchase immediately. Some effects apply on the spot (Queue Boost, Rested Potion); others — Rush Token, Hired Help, and Hunting Party — are stored in your inventory so you choose when to activate them.

Available consumables

Using stored consumables

Rush Tokens, Hired Help, and Hunting Party go into your inventory when purchased — you choose when to activate them. Queue Boost and Rested Potion apply instantly, because their effect is banked the moment you buy.

Or open /craft and tap the ⏩ Activate Rush Token or 👷 Activate Hired Help button at the bottom of the panel; for the Hunting Party, open /hunt and tap 🐕 Activate Party. Each button shows how many you own. The Rush Token button hides while a boost is running; the Hired Help and Hunting Party buttons stay (they read "Extend" instead).