We'll be expanding this FAQ as needed. This will cover questions geared toward new players, as well as more involved questions for seasoned vets.

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Gameplay Questions
General Questions
Advanced Questions

Q: This FAQ is great but I have a question that isn't answered here!

A: Thats not a question. But if you have a question that isn't answered here please feel free to share it here on the forums and some of our helpful members or active developer team will help you out. Alternatively, you can contact the developers in-game with any questions, concerns or problems by tapping the Feedback button on the game's menu.

Gameplay Questions

Q: What is the point of this game?!

A: To grow in power from a devastated village to a massive Kingdom of ten cities, battling your neighbors for local supremacy.

Then create an Alliance of other Kingdoms. Battle enemy Alliances for dominion over the whole world!

Q: What are those bubbles above my Gold Mines, Lumber Mills and Farms?

A: When you tap on those bubbles, you harvest extra bonus resources in addition to the resources your buildings generate every 10 seconds.

Q: How do I build another city?

A: Tap on a Forest or Mountain you own and there will be a New City button. Tap that, pay the fee and you've successfully built a new city and contributed to the urban sprawl in your realm.

Q: Is there a limit to how many cities you can have?

A: As of the 1.4 update, you may only have a total of 10 cities.

Q: What if I already had more than 10 cities?

A: You can lose cities if players attack you, but you cannot take over anymore cities until you have less than 10 cities. Stock up on defenders!

Q: Can you turn a castle back into a forest/mountain?

A: Nope, unlike real life nature does not slowly reclaim everything. Once it's a city there is no turning back.

Q: How can I reinforce a city or a resource?

A: Tap on a resource or city on the world map that you own. There will be a Reinforce button. Tap that and select how many units you'd like to send over from one of your cities.

Q: How do I upgrade my walls?

A: Tap the door in the wall, near the top right corner of your city's map.

Q: How do I expand my field of view on the world map?

A: Capture forests, mountains and city. Your view will also expand when you upgrade your castle.

Q: What are Dragon Crystals?

A: Dragon Crystals are magical gems that you can use in Castlecraft to speed up the construction of buildings, the researching of technologies and training of troops giving you a huge tactical advantage. A few technologies requre some Dragon Crystals to research them as well. You can also trade in your Dragon Crystals for Gold, Lumber and Food at your Castle.

Q: How do I get Dragon Crystals?

A: There are a few ways:

- Send troops to harvest Dragon Craters. There are always a number of Dragon Crystal craters in any given realm. Be patient and a meteor will crash near your city.

- Some quests reward Dragon Crystals.

- You can buy Dragon Crystals via in-app purchase from the store button in the menu.

Q: What are the resource caps for each level?

A: Your gold and lumber supplies are limited by the level of your castle. Raise the level of your castle, and you raise the amount of gold and lumber you can store.
Level 1 = 10,000
Level 2 = 50,000
Level 3 = 125,000
Level 4 = 625,000
Level 5 = 3,000,000

Q: How do I turn off push notifications?

A: From the home screen of your device, go to settings. In the setting menu, click on notifications. Here you will see a list of all apps that can send you notifications. You can tap on Castlecraft and turn off notifications if you wish. If you want to turn them back on again later, follow the same steps.

Q: How do alliances work?

A: You can create an alliance for 10,000 Dragon Crystals or join one for free. You must be able to see a city to invite them to an alliance. To invite someone, tap a city they own and hit the invite button. Only alliance leaders can invite people to join. Leaders may promote others to be leaders.

- Everyone in the alliance shares a map, so you can see much more of the world map while in an alliance.

- Allied cities show up with blue names on the map.

- You cannot attack allied cities.

Q: Where do troops go when they are recalled?

A: Troops will always get recalled to the city nearest to them that you own.

Q: What do the colors of city names mean?

Green: That city is owned by you!
Blue: That city is owned by an ally.
Orange: That city is a secondary city owned by an enemy. You may take it over.
Red: That city is an enemy's capital city. You may only loot it, you cannot take it over. There is also a gold crown symbol next to these cities.

Q: How do you capture other cities?

A: You can only capture NPC cities, or NPC cities that another player took over. You can attack a player's capital city, but you cannot take it over. If you win a battle against a capital city you will loot their resources. See the above question too find out how to tell if you can take over a city or not.

You may not have more than 10 cities total.

Q: What are the red gems at the top of the resource list?

A: Those aren't gems, that is meat which is used to feed your troops.

Q: How does food work?

A: Your people will eat more as your population grows, just make sure your farms are keeping up with production and you aren't losing food every tick. You will start losing population even if your food is not at 0.

Q: How do I change my icon?

A: Go to the My Kingdom menu via the People button. Tap the picture of the castle that says "Tap to Change", and you can select one of the icons you purchased.

Q: I bought the Obelisk of All Time pack. How do I use them?

A: Tap on a Forest or Mountain on the world map that you on and press the Obelisk button. This will let you build an Obelisk on that location. You will then be prompted to enter a message for your Obelisk for all to see. You can write whatever you want, whether it's a warning to stay away from your stuff or a declaration of your love of pie. Just please keep it clean!

Q: Help, this quest notification keeps popping up! It's really annoying!

A: You may turn quest notifications off in the settings menu.

Q: I don't care about chat, can I turn it off?

A: Yep, you can turn chat on/off in the settings menu.

Q: Is there a way to send supplies, troops, etc to other realms?

A: No, you can't send anything to other realms.

General Questions

Q: If I buy a crystal pack and start a new realm, will they show up there?

A: Crystal packs will only show up in the realm you bought them in. So if you start a new realm and you wanted more crystals, you'd have to buy them there.

Q: What are challenge realms?

A: Challenge realms are realms that reset periodically. The player that controls the most when time is up wins an honor point!

Q: What are honor points for?

A: Honor! For real though, right now they're just for bragging rights. Theres a leaderboard for the players with the most honor points as well.

Q: Can I play Castlecraft on my PC/Android Phone/Atari 2600/etc.

A: No, sorry, currently Castlecraft is only available for iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch.

Advanced Questions

Q: Is there a difference between power for troops which comes from city L5 and troops comes from city L1?

A: No, troop strength is dependent on the level of your technologies. So if you have Level 5 Swordsman technology researched then your Swordsmen will be Level 5 regardless of if they are built at a Level 5 city or a Level 1 city.

Q: Which units are considered ground units?

A: Ground units are non-magical human units - Swordsman, Archers, Pikemen, Cavalry and Knights.

Q: Does the mage bonus for ground units also improve the mage's own stats?

A: It does not improve the mage's own stats, only the stats of ground units.

Q: Do white mages improve the stats of regular mages? and vice versa?

A: White mages do not improve the stats of regular mages or themselves.

Q: Does the bonus from white and normal mages stack?

A: Yes it does.

Q: How exactly does priest healing work?

A: Each priest can bless 10 troops, and 1 will live if all 10 would normally be killed. So if you send 100 troops with 10 priests and you are overmatched, you will get 10 troops back. Priests are pretty important when you are sending out the higher level, expensive units.

Q: How do units with abilities like "+30% against dragons" or "+200% against cavalry" work?

A: Only the unit with the ability gets the bonus, it is not transferred to the whole army. The bonus is 1:1 unless specified otherwise. For example, only one pikeman will get the bonus if you are up against 1 cavalry.

Q: What does "Battle +XXX" mean?

A: Battles are evaluated based on the battle score of all of the units at a location plus the battle scores of defensive structures. You need to have a higher battle score to win a battle, and then the number of troops you and your opponent loses is based a ratio between yours and their battle score.

Currently defensive structures don't take damage, but we are considering changing that.

Q: What is my units defense? How do I find out what my units defense is, and how is that number used to resolve combat?

A: Units don't have defense stats. The defense score you see for structures get added to your battle score, which affects how many troops you lose in a battle.

Armor tech doesn't protect your troops but enables higher level battle units.

Q: There is one player in my realm that has two characters because he plays on two different devices. Is this allowed or should this be reported?

A: This is allowed, no need to report this please.

A: This is allowed, no need to report this please.
Armor tech doesn't protect your troops but enables higher level battle units.