Study

Advance your village by researching at the Study! You can level up your Study as high as your village XP level.

### Stores

Scrolls

The **Study** is a Village Building where Research Projects are undertaken for your Village. Research Projects allow you to unlock and upgrade new Village buildings and construction materials, as well as crafting recipes for use in the Valley.

Each Research Project requires a certain number of **Scrolls** to complete. A Villager assigned to the Study will earn one Scroll per minute towards the currently selected Research Project. The currently selected Research Project can be changed at any time without losing progress made towards it.

A Villager's Scroll production rate can be temporarily increased by having them consume a Researchers' Mixture, Brew or Tonic.
Their production rate can be permanently increased by training them at the Researchers' Guild.

Scrolls can also be earned from Reward Chests or obtained from the Shop. Any Scrolls obtained in this manner are not automatically attributed to the current Research Project, but are instead able to be manually allocated to any currently available Project, reducing the time a Villager takes to complete it or, in sufficient quantity, immediately completing it.

## Sources

Reward Chests:

* The reward for completing all of Otto's daily tasks will always include a level-dependent number of Scrolls.
* Some Reputation Road rewards contain a fixed number of scrolls. The Everchest will always include at least 20 Scrolls.

Shop:

* A limited number of Scrolls can be purchased each day from the Shop using Gems. The number of Scrolls available to purchase increases with your Valley level.
* Some bundles that can be purchased from the Shop include Scrolls.
* The daily free resource form the Shop is sometimes 20 Scrolls.

## Building Upgrade Information

Unlike other Buildings in the Village, which are unlocked and upgraded via Research Projects, each Level of Study Upgrade becomes available when the Player themselves reach that Level (i.e. a Player at Level 5's maximum Study Level is also 5). Reaching a new Study Level does not mean that the next Tier of Research Projects can immediately be commenced; a Player must have completed any precursor Projects in the Research Tree first. For this reason, it is generally not recommended to invest resources into immediately upgrading to the next Study Level until you are ready to commence a Research Project in the next Tier.

## Research Tree

As you upgrade your Study, new Tiers of Research Projects become unlocked for you to research. Most Research Projects are only able to be commenced once all other projects on the branch leading up to it have also been completed. The exception to this are Potion Recipes, which also require the previous level of that potion to have been completed (i.e. you cannot commence the Woodcutters' Brew Project unless the Woodcutters' Mixture is complete).

Research Projects which allow you to upgrade the level of your buildings, such as Storages, do not require any previous instances in the tree of the same upgrade to have been completed, nor must the building itself have been built or upgraded. Other Recipes in the tree for Valley Buildings do not require that building to have been constructed in your Valley to be researched.

It is often desirable to rush down a branch of the tree in order to unlock a specific Research Project, such as for an Additional Villager. When pursuing this strategy, ensure that you've reviewed the Tree and have completed any potentially blocking Potion Recipe projects on other Branches.