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This article is about the Township skill. For training the skill, see Township/Training.

Township

Township is a skill which tasks the player with running a town inside the land of Melvor. Similar to Farming, it can be trained relatively passively. However, unlike Farming, Township has no Mastery levels, and uses a unique tick system instead of constantly running. Ticks are a passively generated resource at a rate of 1 Tick per 5 minutes. Ticks can be spent at any time to progress your town, affecting all aspects of your town from population to resources, and with no limit on the amount of Ticks you can store, the town does not need constant attention to run.

It is important to note that you receive unspent ticks with a minimum of 144 ticks back when you reset your town. Starting over can be useful and should not be cause for alarm.

Town

Maps

The following maps are available to start a Town. A Town must be completely reset to change maps.

	Grasslands	Forest	Desert	Water	Swamp	Arid Plains	Mountains	Valley	Jungle	Snowlands	Total Land
Map 1	231	296	256	280	174	88	129	149	204	241	2048
Map 2	111	333	55	251	161	157	237	63	301	339	2008
Map 3	212	161	112	260	237	172	206	190	249	249	2048
Map 4	462	167	249	246	235	133	106	114	90	146	1948
Map 5	258	47	305	296	77	245	126	219	217	258	2048
Map 6	333	184	331	6	153	288	223	305	73	152	2048
Map 7	346	153	317	204	51	243	51	391	102	190	2048
Map 8	71	321	24	337	321	372	131	423	45	0	2045
Map 9	98	47	30	73	73	157	335	366	387	482	2048
Map 10	124	180	460	45	376	110	135	104	40	474	2048
Map 11	221	534	124	0	0	108	227	479	315	40	2048
Map 12	163	462	174	100	124	69	194	378	274	110	2048

Land

Each building requires a piece of land to be built. A map starts with 32 free pieces of land which are randomly assigned to the various biomes. Each subsequent piece of land becomes progressively more expensive. When a Town is reset, land that has already been purchased may be reassigned to different biomes for free.

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Biomes

Each biome can build a restricted number of buildings. In addition, some buildings have production bonuses in certain biomes. Lastly, the Desert biome consumes 60 Clothing per building per tick, and the Snowlands biome consumes 30 Coal per building per tick. Biomes are covered in more detail in the buildings section.

Stats

Population

Population is the most important resource in Township - without it, the skill produces nothing and earns no experience. The population cap is gained by building Basic Shelter, and spending ticks will cause population to increase until it reaches the cap.

For every citizen in the Town, the player gains 0.3 experience per tick. This amount is further increased by Happiness, up to an additional 100% bonus, which is additively added to normal skill boosts.

To maximize experience, once a basic Town setup is completed, Happiness should always be at 100% to provide at least 0.6 experience per citizen per tick.

If less than 40% of the total population is living in the Town, then the population has a 100% chance to grow each tick. At 70% of total population, the growth chance is 70%, and at 100% total population, the growth chance is 40%. The number of citizens will increase by 1.5% every growth phase.

A citizen ages by 1 year every 8.7 ticks, meaning that it takes approximately 3.02 real-life days to age from 0 to 100 years old.

Workers

Available Workers indicates the number of citizens that are available to perform jobs in the Town. All citizens with an age between 8 and 70 are considered Workers. The left number indicates the number of jobless Workers, out of the total amount on the right.

Unemployed citizens generate -5 Happiness.

Storage

Storage allows Resources to be stockpiled in the Town. A Town starts with a base Storage of 19,000, and is gained by building Storehouse. In addition, Basic Shelter contributes a small amount of storage space. No resources can be gained past the storage cap, and hitting the cap will cause buildings that consume resources to continue doing so.

Happiness

Happiness is a modifier to the amount of experience you earn. Happiness provides a flat increase to the amount of experience you earn, where 1% Happiness increases experience by 1%. The max amount of Happiness is twice your Population.

Each point of Education provides 1 Happiness, and is often the main source of a Town's Happiness. In additiona, a small amount of Happiness is gained or lost from each building in the Town. Notably, Gardens and Tavern buildings are intended to increase Happiness. Lastly, Happiness is decreased by 5 points for every overflowing corpse and unemployed citizen, and Happiness is decreased by 40% and 50% additively from a Potions shortage for elderly citizens and a Clothing shortage from buildings in the Desert biome.

Education

Education is a modifier to the amount of Resources each building produces. Education provides a flat increase to the amount of production, where 1% Education increases production by 1%. The max amount of Education is three times your Population.

Every point of Education also provides one point of Happiness. Education is produced from School and Library buildings.

Health

Health is a mechanic that prevents elderly citizens from dying. In V1.1, Health is bugged and citizens never die under the age of 100.

Health is first calculated using the following parameters weighted out of 235:

Happiness with a weight of 100
Education with a weight of 100
Nonzero Potions stockpile and positive growth rate contributes 15 weight
Nonzero Clothing stockpile and positive growth rate contributes 15 weight
Nonzero Herbs stockpile and positive growth rate contributes 5 weight

This is then modified by any "total health" modifiers and expressed as a percentage capped between 0 and 100%.

Worship

Worship is a stat that provides multiple powerful bonuses based on which Deity you choose. It is gained by building Chapel or Statue of Worship and has a set cap of 2000. The benefits of each Deity you choose is outlined below:

Completion of Impending Darkness Event is required to unlock worship of Bane.

All bonuses are additive with one another.

	Aeris	Glacia	Terran	Ragnar	Bane
Always Active	• 50% Happiness • 25% Leather • 25% Mountain Biome • -50% GP	• 25% Fishing Dock Building Production • 25% Education • 25% Magic Emporium Building Production • 25% Valley Biome Production • 25% Water Biome Production • -50% Arid Plains Biome Production • -50% Desert Biome Production • -50% Mountain Biome Production	• 25% Orchard Building Production • 25% Farm Building Production • 25% Herb Production • 25% Woodcutting Building Production • 25% Forest Biome Production • -50% Fishing Dock Building Production • -75% Leather Production	• 25% GP • -50% Coal Usage in Snowlands • 25% Blacksmith Building Production • 25% Arid Plains Biome Production • 25% Desert Biome Production • -50% Herb • 50% Building Happiness Penalties	• -25% Citizen Food Usage • 25% Grasslands Biome Production • 25% Jungle Biome Production • 25% Dead Storage • -75% Education • -75% Happiness
25% Worship	• +25% (50% ttl) Leather Production	• +25% (50% ttl) Fishing Dock Building Production	• +25% (50% ttl) Orchard Building Production	• -25% (-75% ttl) Coal Usage in Snowlands • +25% (50% ttl) Blacksmith Building Production	• +25% Building Production in the Jungle Biome
50% Worship	• +25% (50% ttl) Mountain Biome	• +25% (50% ttl) Valley Biome Production • +25% (50% ttl) Water Biome Production	• +25% (50% ttl) Woodcutting Building Production • +25% (50% ttl) Forest Biome Production	• +25% (50% ttl) Arid Plains Biome Production • +25% (50% ttl) Desert Biome Production	• +25% Township Dead Storage
85% Worship	• +25% (-25% ttl) GP	• +25% (25% ttl) Arid Plains Biome Production • +25% (25% ttl) Desert Biome Production • +25% (25% ttl) Mountain Biome Production	• +25% (-25% ttl) Fishing Dock Building Production • +25% (-50% ttl) Leather Production	• +25% (-25% ttl) Herb • -25% (+25% ttl) Happiness Penalties	• +25% Township Education • +25% Township Happiness
100% Worship	• +25% (50% ttl) Happiness • -15% Building Costs	• +25% (50% ttl) Education • -15% Building Costs	• +25% (50% ttl) Farm Building Production • +25% (50% ttl) Herb Production • -15% Building Costs	• +25% (50% ttl) GP • -15% Building Costs	• -25% Township Citizen Food Usage • -15% Township Building Cost
Total if 100%	• 75% Happiness • 50% Leather • 50% Mountain Biome • -15% Building Costs • -25% GP	• 50% Fishing Dock Building • 50% Education • 25% Magic Emporium Building • 50% Valley Biome • 50% Water Biome • 25% Arid Plains Biome • 25% Desert Biome • 25% Mountain Biome • -15% Building Costs • -50% Arid Plains Biome • -50% Desert Biome • -50% Mountain Biome Production	• 50% Orchard Building • 50% Farm Building • 50% Herb • 50% Woodcutting Building • 50% Forest Biome • 25% Fishing Dock Building • 25% Leather • -15% Building Costs • -50% Fishing Dock Building • -50% Leather Production	• 50% GP • -75% Coal Usage in Snowlands • 50% Blacksmith Building • 50% Arid Plains Biome • 50% Desert Biome • -15% Building Costs • -25% Herb • +25% Building Happiness Penalties	• -50% Citizen Food Usage • 25% Grasslands Biome • 50% Jungle Biome • 50% Dead Storage • -15% Township Building Cost • -50% Township Education • -50% Township Happiness

Dead Space

Dead Storage is checked by highlighting the Population icon, representing the number of citizens that have died. This storage is created by building Cemetery. 20% of the total Dead Storage will be cleared every day (288 ticks).

Once a Town has a fixed total Population and achieves steady-state over several real-life days, one Cemetery holding 250 Dead Storage will be required for every 107 Population on average.

Corpses overflowing the maximum Dead Storage generate -5 Happiness.

Resources

There are a total of 13 resources. The production of all resources can be increased by up to 100% through Education, stacking additively with any regular modifiers.

GP is a special type of resource that is deposited directly into the player's bank, while the other 12 resources are kept in Storage. This is the only resource that is exceptionally not affected by Education, although it does get increased by other production bonuses. The base generation is [math]\displaystyle{ \text{Citizens}*\text{Tax Rate}*30 }[/math], subject to other modifiers.

The other 12 resources may be used within the town, or traded via the Trading Post to obtain items for the player (see Trading Post).

Food is used to feed citizens. Each citizen will consume 30 Food per tick. It is also the most profitable resource to be traded.

Wood is a basic resource used to build the lowest-level buildings.

Planks are produced Wood and is used to build low- to high-level buildings.

Stone is used to build buildings of all levels. A large amount of stone is needed for high-level buildings.

Bar is produced from Ore and Coal. It is used to build mid- to high-level buildings.

Ore has no use, except to be converted into Bar.

Coal is consumed by buildings built in the Snowlands biome. In addition, it can be converted into Bar.

Rune Essence is used to build high-level buildings.

Herbs provide a very small Health bonus, but are mainly used to be converted into Potions.

Potions are consumed by citizens over the age of 55, and provides a small Health bonus. If there are not enough Potions, a 40% Happiness penalty is applied.

Leather has no use, except to be converted into Clothing.

Clothing is consumed by buildings built in the Desert biome, and provide a small Health bonus.

Buildings