Customize

To Customize your village, click on the button at the bottom center of the screen. When you do it, the grid of the village will show up.

Relocation of buildings

You can perform relocation of a building when you click and hold the left button of the mouse. The chosen object moves with dragging the cursor to the desired direction. All zones on which the object can be placed are marked in yellow color. If there is another object on that spot (building, monument or decoration) or the object goes out of the site allowed for building, the object goes back automatically to the spot it has been taken from. If you intend to move a building to a spot not visible on the screen, you need to scroll with the mouse to get to it. Imperial routes cannot be relocated.

Choice of layout

You can change the layout of the buildings in your village. Set Customize on and click on any building. You will see two buttons - Change layout and Merge.

Change layout

It won’t change the functionality of the building - only its layout. All buildings have 3 stages of layout. When a stage unlocks, all buildings change their layout accordingly and that is layout 1.

• 1st stage - this is the initial stage
• 2nd stage - it unlocks after you build level 4 of Fortress
• 3rd stage - it unlocks after you build level 7 of Fortress

With the option button you can choose one of the 3 stages of layout for the building (provided that all 3 stages are unlocked). With the button Use this stage for all buildings, you set the chosen stage as default for all available and future buildings. Each stage offers a couple of layout options. With the up and down arrows you can see all possible layouts of buildings in one stage.

There are no stages for monuments, only varieties.

Merge buildings

Merge is another visual change which do not affect buildings’ functionality. Only buildings built in numbers can be merged. To merge buildings, you need 4 of one kind ordered in the form of a square. If a building is good for merging, the icon for merging shows up. When you click on it, all 4 buildings merge into 1 bigger building. Monuments cannot be merged.

When merged with other buildings, a building’s layout stage is the one that is currently unlocked (the highest one) with layout 1.

Dividing merged buildings

A building, formed by merging of buildings, can be unmerged by clicking on it. When clicked on, the building splits into 4 buildings, whose layout stage becomes the one that is currently unlocked and their layout becomes layout 1.

When you put the mouse’s cursor on one of at least 4 buildings of one kind on the village map, which are not ordered in the form of square, a tooltip shows up to explain how to order them so that they can be merged into one.

Decorations

This is the menu where decorations of the village can be set. Decorations have no effect on the mechanics of the game whatsoever. The Decorations menu can be accessed through the icon at the bottom center of the screen, next to icon Customize.

Special

The decorations in this tab are paid with diamonds.

Infrastructure

It offers different types of decorative roads. These roads have no affect on the mechanics of the game whatsoever. After you select a road type, the grid of the village map opens. You initiate the road by clicking on an idle square from the grid and build it in the desired direction marking the idle squares with the mouse’s cursor as they color in yellow. You can spread the road out to a desired point within the zone allowed for building. If the road is to go over buildings or other decorations, it will go around them through the shortest possible route. To set decoration mode off, you need to click on the Cancel icon.

Trees

Bushes

Gardens

Others

Alliance holdings can be decorated only by the Leader, First officer and Construction Officer. They have access to all tabs of the menu and are allowed to decorate all holdings of the alliance. They can buy special decorations with diamonds taken from the alliance treasury.

Deleting decorations

When you click on Customize, 2 buttons show up: a Cancel button to set the mode off and a Clean button (only free decorations can be deleted).

While in Customize mode, use the icon of man with a spade in his hand in the Customize field to delete decorations at any time. By selecting a zone with decorations, you can delete the group of decorations within it. Only free decorations can be deleted (including decorative roads).