Founding a civilization

You found a civilization with the Founding Civilization Flag. You craft that flag in four steps from Tokens of Leadership and a series of processed materials. This chapter walks through each step.

Tokens of Leadership

36

steps on the crafting table

4

blocks from spawn

1000

chunks of flat ground

4 × 4

What you need

One flag takes these raw materials. All intermediate steps are counted in.

The tokens come from your camp's longhouse, see The camp. The rest you gather or buy.

The four steps

Everything is crafted on a normal workbench.

1. Badge of Leadership

Nine tokens make one badge. You need four, so 36 tokens.

2. Proof of Leadership

3. Royal Crown

The crown takes the Proof, three Jewelry Grade Gold and two Decorative Jewels.

4. Founding Civilization Flag

The flag is the only recipe in this chain with a fixed shape.

The intermediate materials

The flag takes five Compacted Stone and three Masonry Mortar. That is where most of the work is.

Compacted Stone

Three times nine: cobblestone becomes Refined Stone, which becomes Crushed Stone, which becomes Compacted Stone. One Compacted Stone costs 729 cobblestone.

Masonry Mortar

One Masonry Mortar takes two Sticky Resin and two Clay Molding.

Their parts are tier 1 materials, nine of one resource each time:

Founding

Before you right-click with the flag, this has to be true:

• You are no longer in a camp. Members type /camp leave, the owner /camp disband. Empty your chests first.
• You are not the mayor of an existing town.
• The spot is at least 1000 blocks from spawn.
• The spot is at least 15 chunks from the culture of another civilization.
• The ground is flat and solid. The Capitol is large: count on an area of about 4 by 4 chunks.

Then it goes like this:

1. Stand on the spot and right-click with the flag.
2. Type the name of your civilization. Letters only.
3. Type the name of your capital. Letters only.
4. The game shows what the land around you yields. Type yes to confirm. Anything else cancels.

The Capitol is then built block by block. The game reports the estimated build time; it depends on the hammers your land yields, and so on the biome.

What you have now

• You are leader of the civilization and mayor of the capital.
• The capital has its own piece of land and a culture border around it.
• The Capitol gives 50 culture per hour, has control blocks you have to defend in war, shows your research and has frames for trade goodies.

The first steps as a civilization

1. Fill the treasury. /town deposit <amount> puts coins in the town treasury. Structures, claims and upkeep are paid from it.
2. Start research. /civ research list shows what is possible, /civ research on <tech> starts it. See Research.
3. Invite people. /town add <name>, and they answer with /accept.
4. Claim land inside your culture border with /town claim. See Running your town.
5. Build your first structures with /build. See Structures.