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Buildings

Maester's Academy

Unlocks research; faster studies.

Entity ID
academy
Base build time (level 1)
2s — base 6 seconds
Level 10 build time
1m 17s
Level 45 build time
1d 5h
Unlocks at
Available from your first minute — no Keep-level gate
Produces
Nothing directly — this plot raises a limit rather than an income
Raw time, level 1 → 26
1d 18h
Raw time, level 1 → 45
18d 13h

Build time and upgrade cost by level

Every upgrade to Maester's Academy costs food, wood, stone and iron in a fixed 1 : 0.8 : 0.5 : 0.4 ratio, and takes a time derived from this plot's own base of 6 seconds. The curve has two phases: it climbs gently to level 26 — the end of the opening ramp, which the whole early game is paced around — and compounds harder above it, so the summit costs a real hoard as well as real patience.

Maester's Academy: cost and raw build time at each sampled level (before alliance help, speed-ups or build-speed research).
LevelBuild timeFoodWoodStoneIron
12s80644032
23s120966048
35s1801449072
510s405324203162
101m 17s3,0752,4601,5381,230
159m 44s23,35418,68311,6779,342
1949m 16s118,23194,58559,11647,292
259h 21m1,346,7291,077,383673,365538,692
2614h 1m2,020,0931,616,0741,010,047808,037
3016h 24m3,178,6562,542,9251,589,3281,271,462
3519h 58m5,601,8784,481,5022,800,9392,240,751
401d9,872,4247,897,9394,936,2123,948,970
451d 5h17,398,58413,918,8678,699,2926,959,434

How much the Academy shortens a study

Nothing in the research tree can be studied at all without an Academy, and past level 1 each level takes 4% off every study's time — capped at 50%, which is reached at level 14. Alliance scholars and a royal edict then shorten it further on top. That cap is the reason the Academy is a fast early build and a poor late one: every level past 14 does nothing for research at all.

Academy: the study discount by level, and its effect on Agriculture level 20 as a worked example.
Academy levelStudy time reductionAgriculture Lv.20 study time
10%18h 40m
24%17h 55m
412%16h 26m
620%14h 56m
828%13h 26m
1036%11h 57m
1244%10h 27m
1348%9h 42m
1450%9h 20m
2050%9h 20m

Guide: Research & the Academy. Index: all 17 buildings · the whole database.

Other plots: The Keep · Farm · Sawmill · Quarry · Iron Mine · Barracks · Stables · Archery Range · Hospital · Dragon Pit · Watchtower · Embassy · Training Yard · Depot · Tavern · Harbour

Every figure above is generated from the shipped game code — the same constants and formulas the running game uses — and regenerated whenever the balance changes. Nothing on this page is hand-typed.

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