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Account & Profile
- Can a sitter send the owner's troops outside the owner's villages?
- Can I delete my player from one world, and what is removed?
- Can I sign in with my username or my email address?
- How do I delete my whole Mulkora account, and what is lost?
- How do I request a password-reset link?
- How do I see the devices signed in to my account and sign them out?
- How does a sitter sign in to the owner's account?
- Must I activate my email before signing in?
- What happens after a successful password reset?
- What happens when I change my account password?
- What happens when I change my email address?
- What happens when I log out from all devices?
- What happens when I select a game world?
- What information is required to create an account?
- What is required to create a player on a world?
- Which details can I change in my profile?
- Which sitter permissions does the server enforce?
- Why does the game say my email address can't receive mail?
Admin & Support
- Can I attach files to a support ticket or reply?
- Did Contact Us change Support for signed-in players?
- How can I contact Support without signing in?
- How do I create, reply to, close, or reopen a support ticket?
- How do I know when Support replies to my message?
- How do I open and reply to my private support conversation?
- How is a support conversation displayed?
- How long does my support-conversation link remain valid?
- What do the support-ticket statuses mean?
- What information is shown through a guest conversation link?
- Which support tickets can I see, and how are they organized?
Alliance
- Can the alliance owner leave the alliance?
- Do alliance contracts change combat rules?
- How do I accept or decline an alliance invitation?
- How do I create a new alliance?
- How do I leave my alliance?
- How do I reject or end an alliance contract?
- How do I transfer alliance ownership?
- How does my alliance propose a contract?
- What permissions does the alliance founder have?
- Which permissions can an alliance member receive?
- Who can accept an incoming alliance contract?
- Who can disband an alliance, and how?
- Who can remove a member from an alliance?
- Why can't I change my own position or the alliance founder's position?
Artifacts
- Can one village hold more than one Artifact?
- Do Artifacts grant effects while held at their NPC origins?
- Do large and unique Artifacts work across all of a player's villages?
- Does a captured Artifact travel home with the returning troops?
- Does an Artifact capture appear in the battle report?
- How many Artifacts can a player own?
- Is there a delay before a captured Artifact becomes active?
- What does each Artifact type do?
- When do Artifacts appear in a game world?
- Which missions can target a live Artifact origin?
Barbarian Camps
- Do camp battles grant combat points or Hero XP?
- How do I find Barbarian Camps?
- How does a Barbarian Camp appear on the map?
- What happens if my army arrives after a camp is gone?
- When do Barbarian Camps start appearing?
- When do I receive loot from a Barbarian Camp?
- When is a Barbarian Camp removed from the map?
- Which missions can I send to a Barbarian Camp?
Battle
- Are the Residence, Palace, or Wonder immune to catapults?
- Can a totally destroyed village be conquered?
- Can catapults target a wall?
- Can I attack a village on another game world?
- Can I attack members of my alliance or an allied alliance?
- Can I attack one of my own villages?
- Can I reinforce a player outside my alliance?
- Do wild oasis animals and Tatar troops get bonuses in the Battle Simulator?
- Does an oasis become wilderness after its defenders are defeated?
- Does the slowest unit determine the contingent's speed?
- How do I choose where to send troops?
- How do I recover my Hero after defeat?
- How does a Hero add power to an army?
- How does a wall increase defensive power?
- How does the Stonemason's Lodge protect buildings from catapults?
- How does the Tournament Square affect travel speed?
- How is a raid different from a normal attack?
- How is catapult damage split between 2 targets?
- How is catapult damage to buildings calculated?
- How is ram damage to a wall calculated?
- How is troop travel time calculated?
- How many buildings can catapults target in one attack?
- How much allegiance do chiefs remove in each conquest attack?
- How much health does my Hero lose in the Battle Simulator?
- Is there a fixed size limit for reinforcements in a village?
- What conditions are required to conquer a village?
- What do the artefact choices in the Battle Simulator add?
- What does the Battle Simulator not simulate?
- What happens to surviving reinforcements when their host village is razed?
- What happens when a Hero is defeated in battle?
- What happens when I reinforce another village I own?
- When can catapults start damaging buildings?
- When several defending tribes are ticked in the Battle Simulator, who gets the Hero, the artefact and the wall?
- Which missions does the send-troops screen show for each target?
- Which troop mission types does the game support?
- Which upgrades and bonuses do reinforcing troops use in defense?
- Who pays the wheat upkeep for stationed reinforcements?
Buildings
- Are all buildings available to every tribe?
- Are any buildings restricted to special villages?
- Can a village run several celebrations at once, and can I cancel one?
- How are a building upgrade's cost and duration determined?
- How do building prerequisites work?
- How do I demolish or lower a building?
- How long does a Town Hall celebration take?
- How many construction tasks can I queue?
- How many culture points does a celebration give, and to which village?
- What do small and large Town Hall celebrations cost, and what do I need to start one?
- What happens to pending construction when a village is conquered?
- What is required to start building or upgrading a structure?
- What is the difference between the Residence and the Palace?
- Where can I build the Rally Point, and does it have prerequisites?
- Which buildings are resource fields, and what is their level limit?
- Which buildings can have multiple copies in one village?
- Which wall belongs to each playable tribe?
Farm List
- Can I add one of my own villages as a Farm List target?
- Can I save the same Farm List target more than once from one village?
- Can I start raids against multiple Farm List targets together?
- How do I add a village to my Farm List?
- How do I remove targets from my Farm List?
- How do I view my Farm List?
- How is a Farm List raid's travel time calculated?
- Must a Farm List target exist on the same world?
- Must I own the Farm List's source village?
- Which rules must a Farm List raid satisfy?
Game World
- Can I extend protection, and what does it cost?
- Can one user create more than one player on the same world?
- Can the world list be viewed before login, and how is it ordered?
- How does the training-speed setting work?
- How is troop and merchant travel speed calculated?
- How long does beginner protection last?
- How much free Gold does a new player receive?
- What determines a merchant's carrying capacity?
- What does a new player's first village start with?
- What does a world truce block?
- What does beginner protection prevent?
- What does world speed change?
- What happens when I select a world, and why can selection fail?
- What is the default world duration, and when does registration close?
- When does a new world open, or a new round start?
- When does the Tatar faction appear?
Gold & Premium
- Can I cancel a troop delivery I bought with Gold?
- Can I send Gold to another player?
- How do I buy Plus account, and how long does it last?
- How do I buy troops with Gold?
- How does Smart Resource Fulfillment use Gold?
- How much does custom protection or vacation mode cost?
- How much does it cost to extend an active Plus feature?
- How much does the Advisor cost?
- What can Smart Time accelerate?
- What do the Plus resource-production bonuses provide?
- What does the NPC resource merchant do, and what does it cost?
- What is the difference between total, free, and paid Gold?
- What is the local-currency amount next to Gold prices?
- When can I collect the Gold reward for inviting a player?
- Where can I see my Gold activity?
Hero
- Can a Hero in Coma move at all?
- Can Gold be charged if Coma ends while I try to skip it?
- Can I buy HP to take a Hero out of Coma?
- Can I send my Hero alone?
- Do I level up the Hero manually?
- Does the Hero have separate attack, defense, or strength attributes?
- Does the Hero Journey give my Hero experience?
- How do I get a Hero?
- How does a Hero earn XP from battle?
- How does Hero XP turn into levels?
- How does HP affect a Hero's combat power?
- How is a Hero's maximum HP calculated?
- How long does a Hero's Coma last?
- How much HP does a Hero lose in battle?
- How quickly does a Hero regenerate HP?
- What are Hero wound traits?
- What are the Hero's 3 states?
- What happens to my Hero when my troops leave or die away from my villages?
- What happens when a Hero's Coma ends naturally?
- What is Hero resilience?
- When can a Hero be sent on an outbound mission?
- When does the Hero Journey pay Gold?
Hero Journey
- How are Journey score and stars earned?
- How does a Journey level play?
- How does merging gear work?
- How is Journey power calculated, and what does a level require?
- How is the Hero Journey road laid out?
- How long does a Journey run last, and what if I leave it?
- How much Hero health does a Journey run cost?
- What do Journey stars reward?
- What equipment can my Hero wear?
- When can my Hero enter the Journey?
- Which Journey levels can I enter?
Live Chat
- Can I delete a message I sent in chat?
- Can I edit a chat message after I send it?
- Can I read alliance messages from before I joined?
- Can I send a voice message in chat?
- Can my sitter use Live Chat?
- How do I report a chat message?
- How do I send a chat message?
- How do reactions on chat messages work?
- How do replies and mentions work?
- How does Advisor use reports to help plan an attack?
- How does my private Advisor work?
- How is my unread chat count calculated?
- What content is allowed in chat?
- What do the message status ticks mean?
- What happens to chat after a connection interruption?
- What happens to chat history when the world resets?
- What happens when a chat message is deleted or removed?
- What happens when I block another player?
- When does chat become read-only?
- Which chat channels can I use?
- Which chat messages send push notifications?
- Which images can I send in chat?
- Who can moderate alliance chat?
- Why can't I send images or voice messages in world chat?
Map
- Are there predefined 9-wheat or 15-wheat village tiles?
- Can an oasis boost 2 resources at once?
- Does a public map tile reveal a village’s chosen resource mix?
- Does travel distance wrap around the map edges?
- How are a village’s resource plots assigned?
- How does a village annex an oasis?
- How is World Discovery different from browsing the visible map?
- How large is the world map?
- What is the strongest single oasis bonus?
- Where is a new player's first village placed?
- Which production bonuses can an oasis provide?
Merchants & Market
- Are resources lost if the destination village becomes ownerless?
- Can a resource shipment repeat automatically?
- Can I send resources back to the same village that is dispatching them?
- Does a Marketplace offer reserve its resources and merchants?
- How does the Trade Office increase merchant capacity?
- How is merchant travel time calculated between villages?
- How is the current number of available merchants calculated?
- How is the number of merchants required for a shipment calculated?
- How many merchants does a village have?
- How many resources can one merchant carry?
- What are the base capacity and speed of each tribe's merchants?
- What are the requirements for building a Marketplace?
- What are the Trade Office building requirements?
- What does an offer's maximum time mean?
- What happens when I accept a Marketplace offer?
- What happens when I cancel my Marketplace offer?
- What is the largest resource shipment a village can send at once?
- When is accepting a Marketplace offer rejected?
- Which accounts can send or receive resources?
- Which building enables resource shipments and Marketplace offers?
- Which Marketplace offers can I see?
Reports
- Does a battle report result change with the viewer's side?
- Does an oasis report show the animal garrison as a normal tribe?
- Does deleting a Report remove it for the other player?
- How is an attack report outcome determined?
- Is a Report's read status shared between both sides?
- What does a single village's report view show?
- What does the alliance reports page show?
- What does the unread-report indicator count?
- What outcomes can a spy mission have?
- When are Reports created?
- When can I see the defender's troops in an attack report?
- Where does a Report about my reinforcement losses appear?
- Which buildings does a strategic-building scout report show?
- Which Reports appear in My Reports?
- Which types of Reports exist?
- Who can open an individual report?
Resources & Fields
- Does the Hero consume wheat?
- Does the Hero provide a village resource-production bonus?
- Does tribe choice directly change resource production?
- How do game-world settings scale production and storage?
- How do resources accumulate over time?
- How does Auto-use choose resource items?
- How does automatic feeding protect a village from starvation?
- How is a village's net wheat production calculated?
- How is each unit's wheat upkeep determined?
- How is Warehouse and Granary capacity calculated?
- What are the four resources in the game?
- What happens when a resource field reaches level 0?
- What happens when wheat reaches 0 while net production is negative?
- What is free crop, and when can it block construction?
- What is the base production value of a level 1 resource field?
- When does an action show Get resources?
- Which buildings determine resource storage capacity?
- Which buildings provide percentage bonuses to resource production?
- Which village pays wheat upkeep for reinforcements and travelling troops?
- Who pays wheat upkeep for an owned oasis garrison?
Reward Bank
- Can direct use of a resource item waste overflow?
- Can the protection medallion cover Reward Bank confirmation on mobile?
- Do Reward Bank items expire?
- Does Gold buy resources or queue time directly?
- Does the Reward Bank have slots, a capacity, or per-item expiry?
- How do I earn Reward Bank items?
- How do I use resource items from the Reward Bank?
- How does Smart Resource Fulfillment use owned and purchased items?
- How does Smart Time choose and apply durations?
- What can an account sitter do in the Reward Bank?
- What does the New marker on a Reward Bank item mean?
- What happens when I use a Free Gold item?
- What is the Reward Bank?
- When can I view the Reward Bank but not use its items?
- Which item types are available in the Reward Bank?
- Which queues can Smart Time items accelerate?
Settings
- Can I see my village at night?
- Does Site News have a separate unread marker?
- How are notifications linked to my device and account?
- How do I change my profile photo?
- How do I edit or clear my public profile description?
- How do I remove my profile photo?
- How do I save my billing details?
- What picture do I show if I have no profile photo?
- When does Global News appear as unread again?
- Which account profile details can I update?
- Which game information pages are available before signing in?
- Which game rules can vary between game worlds?
- Which optional personal details appear on a public player profile?
- Why can my profile address be rejected?
Special Villages
- Can a chief conquer a capital village?
- Can a village holding an artefact be erased from the map?
- Can I change which village is my capital?
- Can I conquer an artefact village while already at the artefact cap?
- Do the Tatars attack the World Wonder as it grows?
- Does a Wonder village remain special after conquest?
- How do I capture an artefact with a normal attack?
- How does an artefact site appear on the map before and after transfer?
- What happens if a capital is completely destroyed?
- What happens to an artefact when its village is conquered?
- What Treasury level is required to capture an artefact?
- Where do artefacts appear on the map?
- Where do the Tatar villages appear?
- Where is the World Wonder placed?
Statistics & Rankings
- Can a rank be looked up by name?
- How is a Hero's rank calculated?
- How is a village's rank calculated?
- How is an alliance's attack or defense rank calculated?
- How is an alliance's population rank calculated?
- How is attack or defense points rank calculated?
- How is player population rank calculated?
- How is the player statistics list ordered and filtered?
- How much Gold do the top players receive?
- How often are weekly medals awarded?
- What does rank 0 mean?
- Which categories appear in the Top 10 Players list?
- Which categories are shown in the weekly top 10 alliances?
- Who receives medals in each period?
Taskmaster: Zero to Hero
- Can an account sitter progress or claim Taskmaster?
- Can I claim a task after the world reaches game over?
- Can I complete and claim a later task early?
- Do training tasks count troops that later die or leave?
- Does a task reward reimburse exactly what I personally spent?
- Does switching the selected village change campaign order?
- How are resource and Smart Time task rewards calculated?
- How do I claim a completed task?
- How does Taskmaster choose the next task?
- How does Taskmaster know a task is complete?
- How many tasks are in the current Zero-to-Hero campaign?
- Is the progress shown in Taskmaster enough to claim?
- What are the Barbarian Camp tasks in Zero to Hero?
- What are the Zero-to-Hero reward bands?
- What do I need to graduate from Zero to Hero?
- What is Taskmaster: Zero to Hero?
- What is the optional Conqueror's Path epilogue?
- Where do Zero-to-Hero rewards go?
- Which settings are frozen when I enter the Taskmaster campaign?
- Which tribes can enter the Taskmaster campaign?
- Why is a completed Free Gold task still not claimable?
Troops
- Do Smithy and Armoury upgrades actually affect battle?
- How do I research a new unit in the Academy?
- How do I upgrade a unit's attack and defense?
- How is the resource cost of a troop-training batch calculated?
- How is troop wheat upkeep calculated for a village?
- How many troop types can player tribes train?
- What are Tatar NPC troops?
- What are the Nature troops found in oases?
- What determines a unit's training time?
- What do a troop unit's statistics mean?
- What is required to found a new village with settlers?
- What prerequisites unlock a unit's research and training?
- Which buildings train each troop class?
- Which unit is each tribe's scout?
- Which units are catapults, and what can they target?
- Which units are chiefs and settlers, and what unlocks them?
- Which units are the wall-destroying rams?
Village
- Can I have more than one settlement expansion in progress at once?
- Does village allegiance recover by itself over time?
- How many culture points are required to found a new village?
- How many new villages can one village found with settlers?
- How many settlers are required to found a new village?
- How much allegiance does a Residence or Palace level restore?
- What are the rules for renaming a village?
- What does a settler-founded village start with?
- What happens to the old capital and its buildings when I change capital?
- What is the resource cost of founding a village with settlers?
- What roles can a village have?
- Where is settler expansion forbidden?
Win Conditions
- Can a player win through population, military points, or rankings?
- Can players start new tasks after the round ends?
- Can Smart Time accelerate the World Wonder?
- Does the World Wonder occupy several synchronized slots?
- How does a player win the world?
- How much Gold do the world winner and their alliance receive?
- Is victory Gold credited as free or paid Gold?
- What does a player see after the world ends?
- What happens to queues and in-flight tasks when someone wins?
- What is the maximum level of the World Wonder?
- When does the world reset after a victory?
- Why doesn't my Wonder picture change with every level?