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Buildings

Sawmill

Timber from the deep wood — keeps and siege engines alike are born here.

Entity ID
sawmill
Base build time (level 1)
18s — base 18 seconds
Level 10 build time
11m 32s
Level 45 build time
8d 11h
Unlocks at
Available from your first minute — no Keep-level gate
Second plot
Sawmill II, at Keep level 15 — doubles this resource's ceiling
Produces
Wood — 1.2 per second per level
Raw time, level 1 → 19
22h 9m
Raw time, level 1 → 45
69d 3h

Build time and upgrade cost by level

Every upgrade to Sawmill 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 18 seconds. The curve has two phases: it climbs gently to level 19 — the tier-7 milestone the whole opening is paced around — and compounds harder above it, so the summit costs a real hoard as well as real patience.

Sawmill: cost and raw build time at each sampled level (before alliance help, speed-ups or build-speed research).
LevelBuild timeFoodWoodStoneIron
118s120966048
227s1801449072
341s270216135108
51m 31s608486304243
1011m 32s4,6133,6902,3071,845
151h 27m35,03228,02617,51614,013
197h 23m177,347141,87888,67470,939
2515h 52m779,980623,984389,990311,992
301d 6h2,679,9922,143,9941,339,9961,071,997
352d 8h9,208,3847,366,7074,604,1923,683,354
404d 11h31,639,76725,311,81415,819,88412,655,907
458d 11h108,713,41086,970,72854,356,70543,485,364

Wood output by level

Output is strictly linear in the plot's level: 1.2 wood per second for each level standing. Seasons then multiply it — a winter cuts food production to 45% of this and gathering to 60%, and a Long Night is harsher still — as do studied production research and the favour of your smallfolk.

Sawmill: base wood output, before seasonal and research modifiers.
LevelPer secondPer hourPer day
11.24,320103,680
5621,600518,400
101243,2001,036,800
151864,8001,555,200
1922.882,0801,969,920
2530108,0002,592,000
3036129,6003,110,400
3542151,2003,628,800
4048172,8004,147,200
4554194,4004,665,600

What wood is spent on

Wood pays for every construction order, the shafts and stakes of your traps, and the engines that clear somebody else's. Every building upgrade in the game bills the four resources in a fixed ratio, and wood is charged at 0.8× the headline figure — the third largest share of the four.

How long this plot alone takes to pay for one building upgrade in wood.
Level (of plot and of the upgrade)Wood demandedThis plot's output per hourHours of output to cover it
548621,6000.02
103,69043,2000.09
1528,02664,8000.43
19141,87882,0801.73
25623,984108,0005.78
302,143,994129,60016.54
357,366,707151,20048.72
4025,311,814172,800146.48
4586,970,728194,400447.38
Sawmill: output through the year, once the season is applied. Gathered resources are governed by the season's gathering multiplier.
SeasonMultiplierPer hour at level 19Per hour at level 45
Summer1.2×98,496233,280
Autumn82,080194,400
Winter0.6×49,248116,640
Spring1.05×86,184204,120
The Long Night0.4×32,83277,760

The second plot — Sawmill II

At Keep 15 a second plot of this kind opens — Sawmill II. A second timber yard for a growing city. It is the same building in every respect that matters: the same 18-second base, the same cost curve, and the same 1.2 per second per level. That is what makes Keep 15 the most valuable single level of the opening: it does not improve this resource's income, it doubles its ceiling.

Both sawmill plots held at the same level, against one plot alone.
Level of each plotOne plot per hourBoth plots per hourBoth plots per day
1564,800129,6003,110,400
1982,080164,1603,939,840
25108,000216,0005,184,000
30129,600259,2006,220,800
35151,200302,4007,257,600
40172,800345,6008,294,400
45194,400388,8009,331,200

Guide: Maximizing Resources. Index: all 16 buildings · the whole database.

Other plots: The Keep · Farm · Quarry · Iron Mine · Barracks · Stables · Archery Range · Hospital · Dragon Pit · Maester's Academy · Watchtower · Embassy · Training Yard · Depot · Tavern

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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