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Palisades
A wooden ring before the stone rises — raises troop defense.
- Entity ID
palisades- Branch
- Defense
- Stat buffed
defense— Defense- Bonus per level
- +1%
- Maximum level
- 12
- Bonus at maximum level
- +12%
- Power per level
- 60
- Power at maximum level
- 720
- Base study time
- 25 seconds
- Study time at maximum level
- 28m 37s
- Prerequisites
- Fortification at level 3
Cost, time and bonus at every level
Palisades runs to level 12, adding +1% to defense and 60 power each time. Studying it out costs the four soft resources — the same amount of each — and takes 28m 37s for the final level alone. Gems are only ever the optional instant finish; the study itself is bought with what your fields already make.
| Level | Total defense | Power | Study time | Each resource | Gems to finish instantly |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | +1% | 60 | 1m 36s | 12,000 | 2 |
| 2 | +2% | 120 | 2m 5s | 15,600 | 3 |
| 3 | +3% | 180 | 2m 42s | 20,280 | 3 |
| 4 | +4% | 240 | 3m 31s | 26,364 | 4 |
| 5 | +5% | 300 | 4m 34s | 34,273 | 5 |
| 10 | +10% | 600 | 16m 56s | 127,254 | 17 |
| 12 | +12% | 720 | 28m 37s | 215,059 | 29 |
Taken from nothing to level 12 that is 1h 58m of raw study and 891,923 of each of food, wood, stone and iron — 3,567,692 resources in total. Levels above 10 additionally consume an advanced forging material, one more unit per level past the threshold, so the last 2 levels also need the forge working.
Where it sits in the tree
Palisades belongs to the Defense branch — the walls line — what an attacker has to get through before they reach your granary. It stays locked until Fortification reaches level 3. Nothing further in the tree depends on it, so it is a leaf: worth taking for its own bonus, never as a stepping stone.
The road here: Weaponry to level 3 → Armor to level 8 → Fortification to level 3 → Palisades. That is 3 studies standing between a fresh Academy and this one.
| Prerequisite | Level required | Each resource | Study time |
|---|---|---|---|
| Weaponry | 3 | 47,880 | 40m 47s |
| Armor | 8 | 286,292 | 4h 3m |
| Fortification | 3 | 47,880 | 40m 47s |
| Total before you may begin | — | 382,052 | 5h 25m |
Related
Guide: Research & the Academy · Research Priorities. Studied at the Maester's Academy. Index: all 81 studies · the whole database.
Rest of the Defense branch: Fortification · Siege Craft · Stonework · Watchtowers · Moat Works · Battlements · Portcullis · Curtain Walls · Barbicans · Gatehouses · Counter-Siege · Murder Holes · Arrow Slits · Siege Engineering · Concentric Castles · Deep Cisterns · Bombardment Doctrine
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.