Beginners Guide

## How to become the best farmer in BLOCKLORDS

Hello farmer,

To get you started we have a few tips and tricks for you that will help your progress and understanding of the game. We highly recommend you play at your own pace and in your own style. As long as you enjoy the game, you are doing great!

### Fastest progress

There are multiple sectors in your game, which are unlocked after reaching certain stages. If you want to progress as fast as possible we recommend you focus on getting these required buildings leveled so you can get to Sector 3 as soon as possible.

You do not need to max out every building in a sector to continue to the next, if you want to progress fast we recommend you only upgrade the required buildings:

### Road to Sector 2 (S2)

* Granary level 4
* 2 Warehouses level 4
* Foreman House level 5

After you reached the above levels you will meet the requirements to unlock Sector 2. You can do this by looking for the lock icon hovering over the sector. If it does not show up try zooming in and out.

*Resources required to unlock Sector 2:*

 Wood
 Stone
 Food
 Tools

You can cancel a builder building/upgrading and restart your upgrade/build. You can do this by selecting a squad that is upgrading and right clicking somewhere. This will prompt a "Are you sure" window. After this you can use your builder and reassign them via the "Play" button.

### Road to Sector 3 (S3)

Now that you have unlocked S2 you have gained access to a lot of extra squads, this will help you progress a lot faster. These squads all need to have a good rest from time to time, this is why we recommend you focus on getting all your houses to level 5, this will help you a lot! After houses you can slowly progress buildings that have production items, like the Lumbermill, Stone Mine and the Hunters Lodge.

Keep in mind you can only spend resources once, so determine for yourself what you want to spend them on! We recommend you not using to many resources on maxing out a Sector 1, getting to Sector 3 is your main goal if you want to progress quickly.

To continue your progress and reach S3 you will need to have the following buildings upgraded, in this order:

* S1 both Warehouses level 5
* S2 one Warehouse level 6
* S2 Foreman House level 8

*Resources required to unlock Sector 3:*

 Planks
 Bricks
 Food
 Tools

## Squads

You will need lots of resources to improve your farm. Gathering these will be your main task (for now). All squads have their own purpose in the game and will be required, yet some of them are not very useful in Sector 1 since you have only so many squad slots.

Here are a few configurations that may help you decide how to hire squads:

* Slow Growth: If you want to play casually, slow growth may be for you. Your focus here is to just mine resources at a slow pace and relax. You're not going to progress quickly, but the game may be more relaxing at this pace.

* Balanced Growth: with a balanced approach, you will focus on mining resources to build your farm up as well as mining resources to earn more food items such as bread, wheat, grain and milk. You will maintain healthy levels of all resources this way and can use your food items to quickly earn gold in the marketplace. Cook are okay to have early on, you could replace one Hunter for a cook. You will only need one Farmer due to growth time of your crops. While one field grows, you can harvest and plant on the other farm. The second wheat field should be done growing at that point.

* Fast Growth: If you want to quickly open Sector 2 and gain access to more Forest and Stone Deposits, this will be a good setup. For now you do not need a Cow herd, Cook or Farmer; the resources they produce are really only worth your effort in S3 as this is when you will unlock the best building settings with the most ROI on your gold investment. Your Villagers should be able to produce most of the food you need to keep your squads fed. Miners typically harvest stone faster than Lumberjacks harvest wood, so you typically can have less Miners than Lumberjacks. alternatively, you could swap a Lumberjacks for a Militia to produce stone, wood AND meat. This will allow your Hunter to debone meat for food to subsidize what Villagers cannot produce themselves. With this setup, you will likely need to add more food resource squads once you have upgraded your Foreman House in order to earn the 1.000 gold needed to unlock Sector 2.

## Resources

Resources are the driving factor of the game right now and will be required for upgrading buildings, unlocking sectors and advancing your farm.

One resource is especially important in the beginning: **Food**

Food is needed to rest your squads and without food you will get yourself stuck. Always make sure you have enough food! If you ever run out of food there is only 1 squad that should be working, villagers. Until you get back to the amount of food required to feed your whole farm.

The "ideal squad" setup above allows 2 villagers always gathering food and one hunter deboning. This way you will have enough food and can save up meat to sell.

**Resources required for upgrades:**

* Wood
* Planks
* Stone
* Bricks
* Tools

**--DO NOT SELL THESE--**

It will only slow down your progress.

### Gold

Gold in the beginning is hard to get and you can only sell so many resources that you do not need. Most of your gold will be needed to buy more squads.

**Do NOT spend any gold on cows/grains/oats.** These will only be worth it in Sector 3!

Hunters and farmers are your best friends to get gold. These resources are fairly easy to gather and since you do not need most of it they are great to earn you some gold.

## Events

By playing the game your squads will trigger events, these will have different outcomes that can both benefit or cost you.

Most events have been documented and you can see the outcomes and costs in the sheet below, these will later be added to the Events page.

Information about Event outcomes

### Invasions

After your Foreman House is level 3 you will unlock PvE events. This will mean your farm will get attacked by invading forces, like bears, wolves and marauders.

These forces will attack every 3-4 hours and can kill your squads. Besides that militia patrolling also have a 5% chance to trigger a PvE fight. For a beginner can impact your progress since you will have to spent your hard earned gold to buy new squads, be careful out there farmer!

There will be a warning on the top of your screen when your farm gets attacked.

Invasions in Sector 1 have four points of interest. To prepare for a defence, have squads that are ready for a fight (preferably Hunters & Militia) waiting here. Every other squads that are weak and do not fight (villagers, farmers, cooks, cow herds) should not be in these areas, make sure you either rest them or move them down to the south of the sector.

Make sure you always send 2+ squads to attack at the same time. You can have them group up and all walk towards the invading forces.This way your chances of not losing any are increased.

## Heroes

If you just started the game you will have one free hero. You do not need heroes to play the game, they will only help you increase your productivity. In no way is this pay to win, since most benefits have a small chance to trigger.

All heroes have traits and stats, these can be found on the Squad page.