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Siege tools (attack)#

Crafted in the Siege Workshop and loaded into your attack waves. Each flank wave has 2 tool slots (up to 40 tools in total); the front wave has 3 slots (up to 50). A tool's effect grows evenly up to its maximum per slot.

Siege tools

Tool	Workshop	Cost each	Max per slot	Effect at max	Per tool	Craft time
Scaling Ladder	1	112 wood, 48 stone	20	−10% enemy wall protection	0.5%	20s
Siege Tower	1	120 rubies	50	−10% enemy wall protection	0.2%	20s
Battering Ram	1	224 wood, 96 stone	20	−10% enemy gate protection (front only)	0.5%	20s
Iron Ram	1	140 rubies	50	−10% enemy gate protection (front only)	0.2%	20s
Mantlet	2	420 wood, 180 stone	20	−5% enemy ranged defense	0.25%	30s
Cast Iron Mantlet	2	160 rubies	50	−10% enemy ranged defense	0.2%	30s
Loot Sack	2	500 gold	20	+15 loot capacity	0.75	30s
Loot Cart	2	150 rubies	50	+35 loot capacity	0.7	30s
Wood Bundle	3	820 wood, 380 stone	20	−5% enemy moat protection	0.25%	45s
Assault Bridge	3	180 rubies	50	−10% enemy moat protection	0.2%	45s
Reinforced Ladder	4	1,680 wood, 720 stone	20	−20% enemy wall protection	1%	60s
Heavy Battering Ram	5	2,560 wood, 1,120 stone	20	−20% enemy gate protection (front only)	1%	80s
Armored Mantlet	6	3,600 wood, 1,600 stone	20	−15% enemy ranged defense	0.75%	100s

How siege tools work#

Ladders and siege towers lower only the wall layer of the side they hit.
Rams lower only the gate layer, and the gate exists only at the front.
Wood bundles and assault bridges lower only the moat layer.
Mantlets weaken the enemy's ranged defenders on that side.
Loot sacks and carts add carry capacity to the whole attack, as long as soldiers survive to carry it.
Tools are used up in the battle. Against robber camps and event camps, tools in a wave that never fights (no soldiers, or the camp is already beaten) come home.

Defense tools#

Crafted in the Defense Workshop and placed in the tool slots of your walls, gate and moat (defense setup). Every wave that hits a side uses one of each tool in that side's slots, and that tool gives its full effect for the wave. Decoy tools put fake defenders on the wall for that wave (the number is in the table); they soak up the hit and never count as losses.

Defense tools

Tool	Workshop	Cost each	Slot	Effect per wave	Craft time
Hurling Rocks	1	40 wood, 94 stone	Wall	+25% wall protection	20s
Tar Pitch Kettle	1	126 rubies	Wall	+40% wall protection	20s
Castle Gate Reinforcement	1	280 wood, 120 stone	Gate	+35% gate protection	20s
Insulating Mat	1	187 rubies	Gate	+60% gate protection	20s
Flaming Arrows	2	525 wood, 225 stone	Wall	+25% ranged defense	30s
Bulwark	2	157 rubies	Wall	+40% ranged defense	30s
Dummy Melee Soldiers	2	350 wood, 250 stone	Wall	50 decoy melee soldiers	30s
Dummy Ranged Soldiers	2	450 wood, 150 stone	Wall	50 decoy ranged soldiers	30s
Sharpened Stakes	3	905 wood, 450 stone	Moat	+35% moat protection	45s
Swamp Snapper	3	182 rubies	Moat	+80% moat protection	45s
Boiling Oil	4	700 wood, 1,100 stone	Wall	+35% wall protection	60s
Iron Portcullis	5	900 wood, 1,300 stone	Gate	+50% gate protection	80s
Spiked Moat	6	1,300 wood, 1,500 stone	Moat	+55% moat protection	100s

How defense tools work#

Each side (left, front, right) has up to 4 wall tool slots, unlocked by castle level. The front also has up to 2 gate slots.
Once your moat is built, each side also gets one moat slot.
Wall slots take wall protection, ranged boost and decoys. Gate slots take gate tools, moat slots take moat tools.
A tool keeps working at full strength as long as you have any left. Only one is used per wave, so a small stock goes a long way.
If you don't pick tools, the game fills each slot with the strongest tool you own.

Defense tool slots by castle level

Castle level	Wall slots per side	Gate slots
1	1	1
2	1	1
3	2	1
4	2	2
5	3	2
6	3	2
7	4	2
8	4	2

Event tools#

These are not siege tools. They come from events, the Fountain and the Witch, and multiply the points you earn in one event. They are used up even if their wave does not fight. See events.

Event bonus tools

Tool	Max per slot	Effect at max
Tablet Crate 3%	50	Pharaoh attacks only: +3% tablets and points per crate.
Tablet Crate 5%	50	Pharaoh attacks only: +5% tablets and points per crate.
Tablet Crate 6%	50	Pharaoh attacks only: +6% tablets and points per crate.
Glory Flag 3%	50	Warlord Invasion attacks only: +3% glory and points per flag.
Glory Flag 5%	50	Warlord Invasion attacks only: +5% glory and points per flag.
Glory Flag 6%	50	Warlord Invasion attacks only: +6% glory and points per flag.

Crafting#

Both workshops have 2 crafting slots (more can be opened for a while with rubies). Stronger tools take longer to make, and higher workshop levels allow bigger batches.

Workshop levels (siege and defense workshops)

Workshop level	Batch size	Time per tool	New siege tools	New defense tools
1	50	20s	Scaling Ladder, Siege Tower, Battering Ram, Iron Ram	Hurling Rocks, Tar Pitch Kettle, Castle Gate Reinforcement, Insulating Mat
2	60	30s	Mantlet, Cast Iron Mantlet, Loot Sack, Loot Cart	Flaming Arrows, Bulwark, Dummy Melee Soldiers, Dummy Ranged Soldiers
3	70	45s	Wood Bundle, Assault Bridge	Sharpened Stakes, Swamp Snapper
4	80	60s	Reinforced Ladder	Boiling Oil
5	90	80s	Heavy Battering Ram	Iron Portcullis
6	100	100s	Armored Mantlet	Spiked Moat