Since the release of Path of Exile 3.25, many players might be wondering how to maximize rewards in Settlers of Kalguur’s City Builder game mode. Long story short, you should be interacting with this mechanic early and at regular intervals and progress all aspects of the settlements.
For a more in-depth explanation, let us further analyze below the optimal order and progression for setting up your base of Kingsmarch.
If you want an overview of Settlers of Kalguur City Builder mechanic, please refer to here.
1. When should you start playing the Settlers of Kalguur mechanic?
As soon as you have accumulated some gold. Approximately 5000 golds, which could be realistically gathered by Act VII. One essential fact that you need to know about Settlers of Kalguur Mechanic is that it is time-gated and resource-gated. This means that you should be playing the mechanic as soon as you have enough gold to start hiring workers and making some upgrades.
For many other Path of Exiles League mechanics. One common way to approach them is to put together a decently strong build and blast through the mechanics’s content easily. In other words, you can say that most POE League mechanics are power-gated. Such is not the case for this City builder mechanic of Settlers of Kalguur.
In Settler of Kalguur, You are meant to “tend” to your settlement frequently while engaging in the main game mode, which is mapping, in between.
2. How to maximize rewards in Settlers of Kalguur mechanic?
In order to maximize rewards in Settlers of Kalguur mechanic, the first thing you need to know in order to maximize your output for your settlement is that this mechanic is heavily time-gated and can potentially have many bottle-necks that could greatly slow down your progress if you choose to neglect certain aspects of the base’s resource allocation.
For example, one of the earliest bottlenecks you could encounter is the lack of Thaumaturgic Dust from your Disenchanter. This is because the disenchanting takes a long time and you will need the resulting Dust to upgrade your own Disenchanter to increase its production.
In other words, you should aim to accumulate all resources and make all upgrades evenly throughout all your stations within Kingsmarch. This will ensure to relieve you of any bottlenecks and allow you to snowball your progress much better.
To keep it simple, you can refer to these general rules to guide your approach to Settlers of Kalguur settlement mechanic.
General Rules to Maximize Your Rewards in Settlers of Kalguur
1. Hire as many workers as you can
One important thing to note is that your worker will improve their Specialty Level as they continue to work on their assignment. Hence you don’t need to worry about their specialty and should focus on increasing production on everything as much as possible. You can hire workers within Raulf, The Recruiter in the Tavern.
2. make all upgrades as soon as possible
Progression in Settlers of Kalguur mechanic is generally interlocked. Furthermore, all stations and their upgrades are important so you should do all of them. In other words, you should be upgrading every station in the settlement evenly as soon as possible.
3. Work on all tasks and make all upgrades
You will need all resources you can get your hand on so no need to worry about which resource to focus on. Unless you are facing certain bottlenecks then temporary adjustments could be made to help relieve the shortage.
The same goes for the extraction points you encounter during mapping and the campaign. Until you have an abundance of resources with all your upgrades maxed out, just clear all extraction points you come across.
4. Always focus on bottlenecks
Bottlenecks in Kingsmarch are essentially in the form of 2 types: time and resources. This is why you should always keep in mind the specific bottlenecks you are facing so you can focus on getting the requirements. back to Kingsmarch at intervals when sufficient time has gone by to initiate the next
Optimal order for Settlers of Kalguur early progression
If you still need a clearer set of instructions, please refer to the below step-by-step to guide your early progression in Settlers of Kalguur city building mechanic.
1. Start at the completion of Act VII, you should have a decent amount of gold to kick-start your settlement.
- Travel to Kingsmarch, start hiring all workers, assign all of them to work and make all upgrades possible while you are there.
- Start Mining Station, Farming Station, Smelting Station and Disenchanter
- Keep in mind what’s blocking your progression to keep an eye out for
2. By Act IX when some time has passed, go back to Kingsmarch and do everything you can just as before.
Focus on Disenchanter, give Rog your unused gear as early as possible. Dust is likely to be a bottleneck early as it is behind many unlocks. Dust is also very important for shipping and as fuel for Recombination,
3. Clear the campaign
4. Start running maps for lots of gold. As you go up in map tiers, the amount of gold gathered will essentially trivialize the gold requirement.
5. Start shipping your excess resources and always keep shipping to get Runes.
Here is the Modifiers List for the new Rune Smith table enchantments.
6. Once you have enough Thaumaturgic Dust, unlock Isla’s map device and assign workers to start running your unused maps
At this point, your settlement progression should be relatively even, the rest is just a matter of executing the same tasks before rinse and repeat until you have achieved your vision for Kingsmarch as a wealthy city providing you with all manners of riches.
