Guild Provinces

Provinces Overview

There are 9 guild provinces, located near the center of the map. There are 3 types of provinces: forts, castles, and strongholds. Guilds owning these provinces can use the freebuild system to design their castle as they see fit, and their guild heraldry is displayed on the world map. See State of War for information on how to obtain a guild province.

Provinces have several benefits:

• High quality resource areas and farmland
• Generates income for the guild bank through crafting workshop fees and the fast travel fee.
• +4 crafting workshops. Workshops are capped at +3 elsewhere.
• NPC workers gather resources that members can collect from storehouses.
• Fast travel for guild members and alliance members from anywhere on the map.
• Respawn point for members

A guild may own a maximum of 2 provinces. A nation may have no more than 7 provinces in total.

Guild members teleport to their guild province by clicking the flag of the castle on the map. Nation members may teleport there via the logistician in major cities. There is a cooldown on this activity.

Type	Name	Benefits
Fort	Norfolk Greatfall Lublin	Highest farm material output Capital connection +3 resource areas
Stronghold	Twinfall Leaktown Order of Original Faith's Keep	Difficult terrain Highest fortification budget +3 resource areas
Castle	Aquitania Audunstede Skergard	Highest economic budget +4 resource areas

Freebuilding

Freebuilding gives guilds the freedom to build their castle as they see fit, and equip it with defensive mechanisms such as ballistas, and economic structures such as vendors and crafting stations. Each province has a buildable area and each province type has a specific budget for fortification and economic structures which cannot be exceeded, so guilds will need to spend their points wisely to achieve a defendable and usable castle layout on their buildable area.

Only the guild leader and vice leader may place or delete Freebuild structures, but all guild members can place materials into the building scaffolds and complete construction.

The freebuilding menu is accessed in the Provinces tab of the guild menu [G]. Upgrades to the initial structures and "Set to destruction" options are done on the Upgrade screen at the architect’s table.

Structures created with freebuild that are no longer needed can be Set for Destruction and destroyed with the batttering ram that is at the farm area of every guild province, and any ballistas that can hit the structure.

Make sure you keep the effects of Splash Damage in mind while building.

There are some rules to keep in mind:

• It is not possible to build 2 towers or 2 gatehouses directly next to each other. A wall must separate them.
• the Bastion buildings will take Splash Damage from walls and towers touching them when those walls and towers are destroyed. This means it is very dangerous to have your bastion building touched by these structures.
• Gatehouses may not be built adjacent to bastion buildings.
• If the guild owner enables destruction of "constructions" (usually they do this because they want to edit the freebuild layout), they can destroy any and all furnaces in the province area with a few weapon hits. Those materials inside the furnace or campfire are permanently lost. It is a good idea to inform guild members if rebuilds will be going on and to empty their constructions as soon as possible.

Set for Destruction

Freebuild objects can be destroyed if they are no longer wanted by visiting the architect’s table and selecting “Set for destruction.” Only the leader or vice leader may use this ability. An object set for destruction will take 10x the damage it usually takes, allowing players to remove it fairly quickly. Any player can then destroy the object using siege equipment like ballistas and rams. Each province has a ram near its farm area for this purpose.

Fortification Budget

Each guild province type has its own fortification budget which determines how many points can be spent on fortification structures including walls, gates, towers, ballistas, door bars, and oils. Strongholds have the highest fortification budgets.

Open the guild menu (G) and navigate to the Provinces tab to purchase Fortifications for the province.

Economic Budget

Each guild province type has its own Economic budget which determines how many points can be spent on economic amenities including vendors, crafting workshops, castle keepers, and markets. Castles have the highest economic budgets.

Press G and navigate to the Provinces tab to purchase economic items for the province.

Workers and Storehouses

NPC workers gather raw materials throughout the day which are kept in Storehouses and may be gathered by anyone with the rank of Member or higher. Storehouses may be looted by enemies any time of day. Workers may be killed any time by enemy players which reduces their output. Keep workers well supplied and working to their fullest efficiency by keeping your Bastion needs met. Workers gather much slower during Nightlock.

Also see: State of War | Guilds | Bastion System | The Map