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The City Hall is the main building of your city that determines what other buildings you can build.
Your entire civilization depends on it, which is why you should prioritize upgrading it.
When you upgrade your City Hall, you unlock access to new buildings and higher levels of existing buildings.
The further into the game you make it, the more resources and time it will require to upgrade your City Hall.
In this guide, we give you all the information you need to know about the City Hall in Rise of Kingdoms.
Table of contents
- What is the City Hall
- Why you should upgrade your City Hall
- City Hall upgrade requirements
- Rewards from each City Hall level
What is the City Hall
The City Hall is a magnificent landmark and the most important building in your city in Rise of Kingdoms.
It is the foundation on which all the other buildings hang.
Overall, it keeps a watchful eye on the development of troops, technological research, construction of buildings, the gathering of resources, and everything else.
Before you improve on anything else in your city, you must upgrade your City Hall first.
That’s because it determines the maximum level of all the other buildings in your city.
No other building level in the city can be higher than that of the City Hall.
The City hall determines the upper limit for technological research, the number of troops that can be taken into the hospital, the number of troops that can be controlled by the commanders, and the dispatches that can be sent out.
Furthermore, some buildings in the game require you to have your City Hall at a specific level before they can be built.
Why you should upgrade your City Hall
Given the many benefits of upgrading your City Hall, we recommend you seek to get your City Hall’s level up quickly.
Just some of the benefits of upgrading your City Hall include;
- Access to new buildings and higher levels of existing buildings.
- Technological advancement.
- Rewards from City Hall upgrades.
- Expansion of your hospital.
- Higher troop capacity – each commander will have more troops to help fight barbarians, gather resources, and fight enemy troops.
- More dispatches because of higher troop capacity, which results in faster work, more resources, and progress.
Throughout the game, you should, of course, also upgrade other buildings and construct new ones, but the City Hall should definitely be your main focus.
City Hall upgrade requirements
Here is a complete overview of the requirements you need to meet before you can upgrade your City Hall to each level, as well as the troop capacity you have and buildings you unlock at each one, and the upgrade time.
Age 1: Stone Age
Level 1
- Troops: 2,000.
- No cost or building requirements – this is the starting level of your City Hall.
Level 2
- Troops: 3,000.
- Cost of food and wood: 3,5K each.
- No building requirements.
- Unlocks Scout Camp, 1st Lumber Mill, and Archery Range.
- Time: 2 seconds.
Level 3
- Troops: 4,000.
- Cost of food and wood: 6,5K each.
- Upgrade Wall to level 2 required.
- Unlocks Alliance Center and 2nd Farm.
- Time: 5 minutes.
Age 2: Bronze Age
Level 4
- Troops: 5,000.
- Cost of food and wood: 11,8K each.
- Upgrade Wall to level 3 required.
- Unlocks Academy, 2nd Hospital, 1st Quarry, and Stable.
- Time: 20 minutes.
Level 5
- Troops: 7,000.
- Cost of food and wood: 21,3K each.
- Upgrade Hospital and Wall to level 4 required.
- Unlocks Siege, 2nd March Queue, Shop, Workshop, and 2nd Lumber Mill.
- Time: 1 hour.
Level 6
- Troops: 9,000.
- Cost of food and wood: 36,3K each.
- Cost of stone: 12K.
- Upgrade Scout Camp and Wall to Level 5 required.
- Unlocks Courier Station and 3rd Farm.
- Time: 2 hours.
Level 7
- Troops: 12,000.
- Cost of food and wood: 54,4K each.
- Cost of stone: 19,2K.
- Upgrade Storehouse and Wall to Level 6 required.
- Unlocks Castle and 2nd Quarry.
- Time: 5 hours.
Level 8
- Troops: 15,000.
- Cost of food and water: 81,8K each.
- Cost of stone: 30,8K.
- Upgrade Barracks and Wall to Level 7 required.
- Unlocks Monument, 3rd Lumber Mill, and tier 2 troops.
- Time: 10 hours.
Level 9
- Troops: 19,000.
- Cost of food and water: 122,8K each.
- Cost of stone: 49,2K.
- Upgrade Alliance Center and Wall to level 8 required.
- Unlocks 4th Farm and 3rd Hospital.
- Time: 15 hours.
Age 3: Iron Age
Level 10
- Troops: 23,000.
- Cost of food and water: 184,3K each.
- Cost of stone: 87,7K.
- Upgrade Academy and Wall to Level 9 required.
- Unlocks the Lyceum of Wisdom, Trading Post, 1st Goldmine, and 3rd Quarry.
- Time: 24 hours.
Level 11
- Troops: 28,000.
- Cost of food and water: 277,5K each.
- Cost of stone: 120K.
- Upgrade Hospital and Wall to Level 10 required.
- Unlocks the 3rd March Queue and the 4th Lumber Mill.
- Time: 1 day, 6 hours.
Level 12
- Troops: 33,000.
- Cost of food and water: 417K each.
- Cost of stone: 180K.
- Upgrade Storehouse and Wall to level 11 required.
- Unlocks the 2nd Goldmine.
- Time: 1 day, 16 hours.
Level 13
- Troops: 38,000.
- Cost of food and water: 627,5K each.
- Cost of stone: 270K.
- Upgrade Archery Range and Wall to Level 12 required.
- Unlocks the 4th Quarry.
- Time: 2 days, 2 hours.
Level 14
- Troops: 44,000.
- Cost of food and water: 942,5K each.
- Cost of stone: 405K.
- Upgrade Wall, Trading post, and Alliance Center to Level 13 required.
- Unlocks the 3rd Goldmine.
- Time: 2 days, 12 hours.
Level 15
- Troops: 50,000.
- Cost of food and wood: 1.4M each.
- Cost of stone: 607,5K.
- Upgrade Scout Camp and Wall to Level 14 required.
- Unlocks the 4th Hospital.
- Time: 2 days, 22 hours.
Age 4: Dark Age
Level 16
- Troops: 57,000.
- Cost of food and water: 2.1M each.
- Cost of stone: 912,5K.
- Upgrade Academy and Wall to Level 15 required.
- Unlocks tier 3 troops and the 4th Goldmine.
- Time: 4 days.
Level 17
- Troops: 64,000.
- Cost of food and water: 3.2M each.
- Cost of stone: 1.4M.
- Upgrade Hospital and Wall to Level 16 required.
- Unlocks the 4th March Queue.
- Time: 4 days, 20 hours.
Level 18
- Troops: 72,000.
- Cost of food and water: 4.8M each.
- Cost of stone: 2.1M.
- Upgrade Storehouse and Wall to Level 17 required.
- Time: 5 days, 20 hours.
Level 19
- Troops: 80,000.
- Cost of food and water: 7.2M each.
- Cost of stone: 3.1M.
- Upgrade Stable and Wall to Level 18 required.
- Time: 7 days.
Level 20
- Troops: 90,000.
- Cost of food and water: 10.8M each.
- Cost of stone: 4.7M.
- Upgrade Alliance Center and Wall to Level 19 required.
- Time: 8 days, 6 hours.
Age 5: Feudal Age
Level 21
- Troops: 110,000.
- Cost of food and wood: 16.2M.
- Cost of stone: 7M.
- Upgrade Academy and Wall to Level 20 required.
- Unlocks tier 4 troops.
- Time: 11 days.
Level 22
- Troops: 110,000.
- Cost of food and wood: 24.3M each.
- Cost of stone: 10.6M.
- Upgrade Hospital and Wall to Level 21 required.
- Unlocks the 5th March Queue.
- Time: 17 days, 13 hours.
Level 23
- Troops: 120,000.
- Cost of food and wood: 36.5M each.
- Cost of stone: 15.9M.
- Upgrade Storehouse and Wall to Level 22 required.
- Time: 23 days, 23 hours.
Level 24
- Troops: 130,000.
- Cost of food and wood: 54.8M.
- Cost of stone: 24M.
- Upgrade Siege Workshop and Wall to Level 23 required.
- Time: 36 days.
Level 25
- Troops: 150,000.
- Cost of food and water: 82.2M each.
- Cost of stone: 36M.
- Master’s Blueprint: 1.
- Upgrade Trading Post and Wall to Level 24 required.
- Unlocks tier 5 troops.
- Time: 126 days, 8 hours.
Many of the resources and requirements you need to meet before you can upgrade your City Hall are hard to come by, but especially the upgrade time towards the end is high.
These upgrade times show why speedups are so important in the game – without them, progress becomes very slow later on in the game.
Rewards from each City Hall level
Every time you upgrade your City Hall in Rise of Kingdoms, you will be rewarded with resources and items.
Here is a complete overview of the rewards you get from upgrading your City Hall at each level.
Level 1
- No rewards – this is the starting level of your City Hall.
Level 2
- 10K food and water.
- 1 Universal speedup (5-minute).
Level 3
- 20K food and water.
- 2 Universal speedups (5-minute).
Level 4
- 30K food and water.
- 3 Universal speedups (5-minute).
Level 5
- 40K food, wood, and stone.
- 1 Universal speedup (30-minute).
Level 6
- 50K food, wood, and stone.
- 2 Universal speedups (30-minute).
Level 7
- 50K food, wood, and stone.
- 5 Universal speedups (30-minute).
Level 8
- 50K food, wood, and stone.
- 2 Universal speedups (8-hour).
Level 9
- 50K food, wood, and stone.
- 1 Universal speedup (24-hour).
Level 10
- 50K food, wood, and stone.
- 10K gold.
- 1 Civilization Change.
Level 11
- 50K food and wood.
- 11 Building speedups (10-minute).
- 11 Training speedups (10-minute).
Level 12
- 100K food and wood.
- 12 Building speedups (10-minute).
- 12 Training speedups (10-minute).
Level 13
- 100K food and wood.
- 13 Building speedups (10-minute).
- 13 Training speedups (10-minute).
Level 14
- 100K stone.
- 20K gold.
- 14 Building speedups (10-minute).
- 14 Training speedups (10-minute).
Level 15
- 100K food and wood.
- 15 Building speedups (10-minute).
- 15 Training speedups (10-minute).
Level 16
- 100K stone.
- 20K gold.
- 1 Universal speedup (7-day).
- 100 Gems.
Level 17
- 100K worth of food and wood.
- 17 Building speedups (10-minute).
- 17 Training speedups (10-minute).
Level 18
- 100K stone.
- 20K gold.
- 18 Building speedups (10-minute).
- 18 Training speedups (10-minute).
Level 19
- 100K food and wood.
- 19 Building speedups (10-minute).
- 19 Training speedups (10-minute).
Level 20
- 100K stone.
- 20K gold.
- 20 Building speedups (10-minute).
- 20 Training speedups (10-minute).
Level 21
- 100K Food and Wood.
- 200 Gems.
- 1 Universal speedup (7-day).
Level 22
- 100K stone.
- 20K gold.
- 22 Building speedups (10-minute).
- 22 Training speedups (10-minute).
Level 23
- 150K food and wood.
- 23 Building speedups (10-minute).
- 23 Training speedups (10-minute).
Level 24
- 150K stone.
- 30K gold.
- 24 Building speedups (10-minute).
- 24 Training speedups (10-minute).
Level 25
- 200K stone.
- 50K gold.
- 1 Master’s Blueprint.
- 500 Gems.
Some of the levels give gems as a reward – check out our guide on the best way to spend gems in Rise of Kingdoms.
If your City Hall is close to being upgraded, you can plan for your next upgrades or builds with the rewards that you’ll be getting upon its completion.
That’s everything you need to know about the City Hall in Rise of Kingdoms!
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