Your Settlement. Your Allies. Your Path to Victory. Your smithies need resources. Your settlement needs food. And at your border, a neighbor’s army is growing. Do you invest in new production buildings, strengthen your defenses – or secure a trading partner before competition turns into war? Warstead combines living settlement building with resource management, research, diplomacy, and tactical real-time combat. Gather resources, get your economy running, and decide how you want to hold your ground against your rivals. Not every conflict requires an army. Sometimes a good deal is the smarter next move. Build a Settlement That Truly Works From your first buildings, a complex network of resource gathering, craftsmanship, and supply begins to take shape. Businesses need workers, goods need storage space, and your production chains need to work together. Goods physically move through your settlement: carriers transport resources and finished products between workplaces and storage buildings. Short routes keep your economy moving. If an important material is missing, an entire production chain can grind to a halt. What matters is not only what you build – but also where you build it and in what order. If You Want to Grow, You Need to Feed Your Settlers The next smithy is already planned. But do you have enough food for the people who are supposed to work there? Without food, your settlers will gradually starve. A reliable food supply keeps them alive. At the same time, the quality of your food affects population growth: The higher the quality of your food, the faster your population grows. Secure your basic food supply and continue developing your food production. This gives you the foundation for new workers, additional businesses, and a larger settlement. An Army Is Only as Strong as the Economy Behind It Command swordsmen, archers, and musketeers in real time. Combine melee and ranged units, protect your shooters, and secure important positions. An attack on enemy production buildings can hit your rival hard. But while your troops advance, your own settlement remains vulnerable. Decide when to attack, what to defend, and when a retreat is worth more than a costly victory. The next campaign does not begin at the border – it begins in your mines, workshops, and smithies. Trade in Goods – and in Opportunities Buy missing goods, sell your surplus, and bridge shortages through your trading house. Purchased goods must also be transported and stored after they arrive. You will also encounter gnomes, goblins, and moslings with different trade offers across the map. Their food, tools, and resources can save your economy or accelerate your expansion. But help costs coins – and a destroyed trading partner will not supply you later. Good relations open up new options: improve your standing with other factions through trade, work toward alliances, or negotiate peace. Whether the other side agrees depends on your relationship and on their personality. A neighbor