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Field Manual
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- Output (mana/day)
- 30 Arcana
Where the ley lines cross. The realm's supply of raw magic.
Field Manual
Sources & Customers
Every building you'll route mana to or from. Numbers here are each building's standard values. Operations sometimes adjust a particular building's needs or output, so the in-game tooltip always has the final word.
Reading the numbers
- Output is mana produced per day, in mana/day. It's split evenly across the building's outgoing conduits, and a source can have at most two.
- Needs is mana required per day, for each type, in mana/day.
- Pays is daily revenue in gc (Gold Crowns) when fully supplied and Content: total needs × 2gc. See Revenue.
- Sensitivity is how fast the building gets frustrated when it's short, measured in feels. Each day it gains (shortfall in mana × feels) frustration. Higher means touchier. See Customer satisfaction.
Sources
Sources produce one type of mana, 30 mana per day, forever, for free. They never get frustrated. Since a basic conduit carries 15 mana, it takes two conduits (or one upgraded conduit) to use a source's full output.
- Output (mana/day)
- 30 Fire
A vent of elemental fire. Keep gas lines well away.
- Output (mana/day)
- 30 Water
The only natural water supply on most maps, and hard to replace if it's missing.
- Output (mana/day)
- 30 Earth
A seam of elemental earth. Often far from the customers who need it.
- Output (mana/day)
- 30 Gas
Trapped underground gas. Many maps don't have one, so plan on a hybrid or Transformer.
Mixed sources
Three campaign operations (The Filtering Problem, The Intersection and Explosive Neighbors) have sources that produce two types at once: 15 mana of each per day. Operations give them local names (a Mud Spring might be called a bog, for instance), but hovering over one always shows what it produces. Mixed sources never appear in Freelance or Form 27-B jobs.
You have two ways to use one:
- Raw. A conduit drawn straight from a mixed source is a raw mixed line carrying both types. It must run directly to a customer that needs both types, it can't feed any component, and its two types react with each other along its whole length.
- Filtered. Place a Filter on a hex next to the source to send out just one type, on an insulated line you can route anywhere. Shift+Click the Filter to choose which type.
Left: a raw mixed line carries both types and reacts with itself. Right: a Filter sends one type on an insulated line. View full size
- Mixed source (a Mud Spring)
- Raw mixed line: earth and water together
- Fertile Growth along the raw line
- Filter on the next hex
- Insulated water line: passes fire with no reaction
Mixed sources put out two energy types on one conduit. A raw line can only feed a consumer that needs both. Place a Filter on the hex next to the source to send out just one type.
Field prompt
A mixed source produces two types at once.
- Two types, 15 of each
- The game's hint to filter it
Caldera
Mixed source- Output (mana/day)
- 15 Fire + 15 Earth
A raw Caldera line triggers Magma Vents along its entire length.
Flare Pit
Mixed source- Output (mana/day)
- 15 Fire + 15 Gas
A raw Flare Pit line is an Explosion Risk on every hex. Filter it.
Mud Spring
Mixed source- Output (mana/day)
- 15 Earth + 15 Water
A raw Mud Spring line triggers Fertile Growth along its length, which is good news for any Farming Village it feeds.
Customers
Customers need mana and pay for it. They only accept the types they need. Keep them supplied or they'll get frustrated, stop paying, and eventually start costing you money.
| Customer | Needs (mana/day) | Pays (gc/day) | Sensitivity (feels) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Farming Village | 5 3 | 16 | 0.5 |
| Market Town | 5 3 | 16 | 1.0 |
| Goblin Bazaar | 4 2 | 12 | 1.0 |
| Wizard Academy | 10 3 2 | 30 | 1.5 |
- Needs (mana/day)
- 5 3
- Pays
- 16gc/day
- Sensitivity
- 0.5 feels
Patient, reliable folk. Earns 25% more inside a Fertile Growth zone.
- Needs (mana/day)
- 5 3
- Pays
- 16gc/day
- Sensitivity
- 1.0 feels
Wants arcana and gas, which never react with each other, so its lines can run side by side safely.
- Needs (mana/day)
- 4 2
- Pays
- 12gc/day
- Sensitivity
- 1.0 feels
Needs fire and gas, which is exactly the pair that explodes. Bring the two lines in from different sides, or filter them.
- Needs (mana/day)
- 10 3 2
- Pays
- 30gc/day
- Sensitivity
- 1.5 feels
The best-paying regular customer and the touchiest. Its big arcana demand often needs a conduit of its own.
Hybrids
Hybrids are customers that also produce. They need mana like any customer (and pay for it, and get frustrated without it), but while all of their needs are met they also put out a different type. If any need falls short, production stops completely, and everything downstream goes dark with it.
Dragon Lair
Hybrid- Needs (mana/day)
- 2
- Produces (mana/day)
- 30 Fire
- Pays
- 4gc/day
- Sensitivity
- 3.0 feels
A tiny sip of water buys a full source's worth of fire. The catch: sensitivity 3.0 makes it the touchiest building in the realm. Never let its water run short.
Dwarven Forge
Hybrid- Needs (mana/day)
- 8 5
- Produces (mana/day)
- 12 Gas
- Pays
- 26gc/day
- Sensitivity
- 1.0 feels
Turns fire and earth into gas. Its two inputs are the Magma Vents pair, which earns the Forge 30% more but risks eruptions on everything at the Forge's hex, including its own gas output. That gas output also meets the fire input on the Forge's hex, adding an Explosion Risk (and some Mineral Deposits income). Upgrade or filter the gas line to soften the hits.
Mushroom Colony
Hybrid- Needs (mana/day)
- 3 2
- Produces (mana/day)
- 12 Gas
- Pays
- 10gc/day
- Sensitivity
- 0.3 feels
A calm, cheap gas supply. With sensitivity 0.3 it's the most patient building in the campaign.
Tip
Hybrid output follows the same rules as any source: it's split evenly across the hybrid's outgoing conduits, and dissipation still applies on the way out.
Freelance customers
Freelance Operations and Custom Requisitions can also generate these customers, which don't appear in the campaign. Each pays total needs × 2gc per day when Content.
| Customer | Needs (mana/day) | Pays (gc/day) | Sensitivity (feels) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Water Mill | 6 | 12 | 0.4 |
| Smithy | 6 | 12 | 0.6 |
| Quarry | 6 | 12 | 0.4 |
| Carnival | 6 | 12 | 1.2 |
| Shrine | 7 | 14 | 1.0 |
| Steamworks | 5 3 | 16 | 1.0 |
| Oracle Pool | 5 3 | 16 | 1.3 |
| Crystal Mine | 5 3 | 16 | 0.8 |
| Kiln Works | 4 4 | 16 | 0.6 |
| Tunnel Market | 4 3 | 14 | 0.3 |
| Brewhouse | 4 3 | 14 | 0.9 |
| Rune Forge | 5 3 | 16 | 1.1 |
| War Forge | 8 5 3 | 32 | 1.8 |
| Alchemist's Lab | 8 4 4 | 32 | 1.6 |
| Sacred Grove | 7 5 3 | 30 | 1.4 |
| Skydock | 7 4 4 | 30 | 1.7 |
| Ward Checkpoint | 7 4 4 | 30 | 0.3 |
| Frontier Outpost | 5 5 4 | 28 | 0.7 |
| Distillery | 5 4 5 | 28 | 1.0 |
| Smelting Works | 6 4 4 | 28 | 0.8 |
| Marsh Outpost | 5 4 4 | 26 | 0.6 |
| Dark Citadel | 10 5 5 3 | 46 | 2.0 |
Freelance contracts can also include the campaign's regular customers. They never include hybrids or mixed sources.
Dark Citadel
Freelance & Form 27-B- Needs (mana/day)
- 10 5 5 3
- Pays
- 46gc/day
- Sensitivity
- 2.0 feels
The hungriest customer there is: four types and a short temper. It can appear on any Freelance or Form 27-B map that has all four of its types. The Overload a Citadel goal in Form 27-B always places one as the target: deliver at least 150% of its total need (34.5 mana against its 23) for the required number of days.