Village

The Village, unlocked after defeating Stage 11, adds a new resource, Village Coins, and several new sources of multipliers.

Broadly speaking, there are three types of buildings in the Village:

* Income buildings, which generate Village Coins over time
* Bonus buildings, which give various stat bonuses in return for Village Coins
* Combat Plants, which give stat bonuses in return for sacrificing Gear (and a small amount of Village Coins)

The Village has several levels, which are unlocked by spending Village Coins, and as the village level increases you gain access to more buildings. This includes more powerful income buildings and more opportunities for stat multipliers, so the optimal strategy is to rush your village to its max level asap, then go back and purchase bonuses with your now-substantial income.

## Optimal Village Upgrade Path

Upgrading the village optimally requires balancing leveling your income buildings with unlocking new village levels, and thus new income buildings with it. Performed properly, the entire process takes approximately two months, with most of that spent saving up for Village 7. The following guide is approximately optimal, and easy to follow:

* Save up for Village 2
* Level all income buildings to 5
* Save up for Village 3
* Level Tavern to 5
* Level all income buildings (including Tavern) to 30
* Save up for Village 4
* Level Market to 25
* Level all income buildings (including Market) to 40
* Save up for Village 5
* Level Ballroom to 35
* Level all income buildings (including Ballroom) to 45
* Save up for Village 6
* Level Bank to 40
* Level all income buildings (including Bank) to 50
* Save up for Village 7
* Level Casino to 50
* Save up for Village 8 (see Spending Fantasy Gear for when in your gear-upgrade path you should spend the sword and armor required)
* See Village 8 for guidance on optimal leveling of the combat plants on level 8.

*Mostly*, you should be ignoring the bonus buildings during this process, as they'll slow down your village levels, and they'll cost less real-world time once your village is higher level. However, feel free to grab any upgrades that are "cheap" relative to your income (an hour or less of earnings) - you'll appreciate the bonus to your stats more than the day or so of ultimate delay.

(The above upgrade path is based on the more precise calculations in https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1KS6bR81y3AdMO4eAq9R2dhlHBDya\_DpdR0Ocs15JCF8/edit#gid=269028117, just simplified and slightly deoptimized to round, easy-to-remember numbers.)

### Using Income Statements

In general, *spend your income statements*. Spending them "later", when they're worth more, doesn't help you - if it takes you 100 hours of waiting to afford a new level, and then you spend 20 statements for 100 hours of higher income, that's identical to spending 20 statements *now* to afford the new level immediately, and then just earning 100 hours of higher income. The exact same amount of real-world time passes, for the exact same result.

There are three caveats to the above:

* If you have multiple statements, spend them *one at a time*, upgrading income buildings in between, so each one is worth more than the last.
* If there's an event going on that grants village coins, *then* it's worthwhile to wait to spend your income statements until after the event. They'll be worth more at that point.
* Waiting between village levels (especially 6->7) can be very annoying and boring, whereas leveling your income buildings at least gives you *something* interesting to do each day. Some people thus prefer to save their income statements and use them to reduce the village level upgrade wait time. This is just as efficient as spending them immediately, so feel free to if several weeks of waiting sounds annoying.

### Buying Income Statements

You can purchase one income statement a day from the Shop (under the Currency tab), for 5k gems. Do so, every day! As each statement is worth 5 hours of income, it's effectively boosting your village's coin production by about 21% (you get 29 hours of production in 24 hours of time), which is absolutely worth 5k gems/day.