The Shrine

Praying at the Shrine every single day, 200x

• Pay attention to your Daily Quests - on days when they list something particular, pray for that
• Prayer reward amounts go up with each prayer
• Notice the number below the resource - it shows you what you get for praying
• Notice it goes up each time you pray
• There is a hold over to the next day in “extra stuff”

Pray for Steel

You will want to pray for Steel every day that can. Steel becomes far scarcer than wood or food as the game goes on.

Buy Prayers every day!

When you buy resources at the store, 1 Gold gets you (depending on the total amount you buy 20.000 / 100K / 1M / 2.5M):

• Food and Wood – 444 / 500 / 666 / 714
• Stone – 66 / 75 / 100 / 114
• Iron – 17 / 20 / 26 / 28
• Steel – 50 / 50 / 50

Go to your Shrine and compare. Here’s an example of what the first prayer on a Shrine level 20 gets you for 3 Gold.

• Food / Wood = 17.550 (= 5.850 for 1 gold)
• Stone = 3.548 (= 1.182 for 1 gold)
• Iron = 600 (=200 for 1 gold)
• Steel = 4.120 (= 1373 for 1 gold)

The next prayer cost 6 gold and increase by 3 gold every prayer. Be careful not to pray above a decent price.

It's difficult to take everything in account because of all the bonuses the Shrine gives randomly. But above 45 Gold your reach the break point if we compare the raw value of a prayer to the value in the store (45 gold for 20.000 Food or Wood).

The best way is to spread min or more equaly your prayers or according the goals you fixed yourself and don't spend much than it would cost in the store.

Use your free Candles!

Don't forget to check your inventory regularly to use the free Candles !

Maester's Expeditions

The higher and rare the reward, the most resources it costs and the much expeditions you will have to complete to get them.

Don't spill expensive resources like pale steel, bricks, scholarly fragment or soldier pine in expeditions.

Stockpilling the Pantry / Cellar / Smokehouse

Doing those expeditions aren't really worth it as you turn precious resources like wood and soldier pine into boxed food.

If you really need to quickly turn your food into boxed food because you can't do anything else to protect them, use the expeditions. It's better to lose a small amount then all of it!

The Vitner's Goblet

Do the expeditions that costs you only basic resources like food, wood, stone and iron to earn Vintner's Cask. You need them to craft the trinket Vintner's Goblet (increases march speed and training capacity).

As there are a lot of other gear you can combine to increase march speed and training capacity, it can be a waste of time and resources to do those expeditions to craft that single piece.

Bricks / Soldier Pine / Scholarly Fragment / Pale Steel Shard

Do the expeditions that costs you only basic resources like food, wood, stone and iron.

It's preferable to hunt instead of complete expeditions for bricks in the beginning. When you need huge amounts of brick and can't get enough with hunting, begin the expeditions.

Dragon - Mustering of Livestock

Do the expeditions that costs you only basic resources like food and wood.

Do the expeditions only if you don't get enough food with hunting and gathering.

King's Landing

Merchant's Guide > you can get Keystones but you have to pay the price with basic resources and another expensive resource like scholarly fragment / Pale Steel Shard / Brick or Red Gold Flake.

Traveler's Guide > you can get Red Gold Flake at the same conditions.

On those maps there are no expeditions that costs only basic resources as the resources you earn there are a lot more expensive and can't be bought in game to level up buildings and complete researches.