Township/Training

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

This guide is based on the post of u/No-Train4777 on reddit with some tweaks.

Before Starting Township

Township takes approximately 30 days to reach level 120. It'll provide you with plenty of GP, resources and consumables. Completing Casual Tasks can help speed up this process.
Your Town will degrade if you don't keep upgrading it. Be consistent when it comes to Township. You should be updating your town at least once per day. More will be beneficial.
Degradation will delete resources if your storage cannot hold them. This could slow you down significantly.
Seasonal Modifiers boost production early and decrease it later making it better to build quickly at the start. If you're not quite ready to commit to Township, it may be better to just wait until you are.
You cannot fail Township. No matter how bad it looks, there's always a solution to fixing your town.
Each "tick", or "town update", is takes 1 hour and is done automatically.

Quick Tips

Casual Tasks can greatly speed up the early game. Completing each of the base game dungeons will give a casual task for 10,000-75,000 Food+Wood+Stone with later dungeons also giving Planks and Bars!
The general goal with Township is to prioritize whatever resource you're low on and then increase Population (XP).
If you are unsure which worship to use, Aeris is the safest and pick due to having the highest cost reduciton at -25% building cost which is doubled in spring. This can dramatically reducing the GP cost for township, especially town halls.
Building costs to Lv 99 are around 60m. Statues and Townhalls will add 320m (Aeris) or 470m (other gods) on top of this.
Repairing early is a waste of resources. Building a new building repairs for FREE so when possible try to build a new building instead of repairing first and then building a new one.
Building Cost Reduction will also reduce repair cost which can be very valuable before town halls are built.
Worship modifiers are multiplicative dramatically increasing resources gained.
If your population is low, check Health. Health can be repaired with Herbs and Potions using the buttons below Repair All. Each individual building along with your town Health have a 25% chance to be reduced by 1% per tick.
Buildings that are at 0/x (meaning they are no new tier buildings) do not receive any damage! This can be useful to prevent buildings from decaying (loss in resource production). This is a very niche use case.
Seasons have modifiers. Click the 'View Season Modifiers' to check them out!

General Progression

The general progression may change based on which god you choose. The following will be based on Aeris.

Always bulk up your storage before going to sleep to ensure you don't cap out over night!
Always prioritize resources you aren't generating enough of to avoid delays at higher levels of township and higher tiers of buildings.
After resources, always prioritize Population which is required to build later upgrades. A general goal is to reach the next upgrade population threshold before unlocking it. This becomes easier as you progress and may be harder if you don't play as often. Don't worry too much if you can't reach it in time.

Remember, building a new building will repair for FREE. Do not repair unless that building is 100% maxed out. Its likely you can avoid repairs entirely by just building new buildings until you're past level 90.

Level 1-14

Build 20 Basic Shelters, 20 Woodcutters, and 4 Carpenters Workshop. Save the rest of your wood for more Carpenters.
If you're an adventure mode character, check for any Casual Tasks that give wood. Completing these will speed up the beginning by a lot. Non-Adventure mode characters will not have tasks yet.
You can either dump the rest of your wood into Wooden Huts or save for more Carpenters Workshops.

Level 15-34

New Upgrades: Storage, Housing, Miners, Bars

New Buildings: Tailor (Grasslands, Snowlands), Gardens (Grasslands), Taverns (Grasslands, Snowlands), Orchard (Forest, Jungle), Trading Post, Prats Hats, Market

All wood should go into Carpenters Workshops until maxed at 20/20.
If you don't have all Wooden Huts in the Grasslands, prioritize doing so now.
When you have approximately 1,500-2,000 stone left, build 20 Miners Pits in the Mountains.
For now, you will want to balance your plank usage between Logging Camps and Miners Fields for a roughly 3:2 wood:stone per tick ratio, prioritizing the resource you have the least of. This ratio will quickly change after 35+ since Wood will be phased out of most buildings and replaced with Planks.
Clothing will become a valuable resource soon. Around this time I aim for at least 150 leather/tick so I can build 1 Tailor/tick. More leather can help to get basic shelters in the Arid Plains built sooner. This will also be needed in high quantities in the Snowlands, which will eventually become the best biome to build in when possible.
Food production will likely be a problem around Lv 30-35. I prefer to get 20/20 Farmlands in the Grasslands to prevent decay and then move onto Fisherman's Dock in the Swamp. Aim for around 1,200/tick for now.

Level 35-59

New Upgrades: Storage, Housing, Plank, Leather, Clothing, Herb and Potion

New Buildings: Chapels (Grasslands), Malc's Cats (Grasslands), Trading Post (Grasslands, Arid Plains, Snowlands)

Around now it may become difficult to keep up. You will need food, wood, planks, stone, clothing, and potions and you've got a limited amount of resources. It will take a bit to catch up to everything so don't feel bad it you're behind.

Try to get the new Plank upgrades and max out your wood production.
Potion production will start becoming necessary for housing. Try to get a baseline started. You will want every upgrade when all your housing requires potions and Lv 35 potion upgrades cost 3+ hours of the max herbs/tick at this stage.
Work towards getting Worship to 25% (+3-5% as a buffer). You can get 50% if you're more active however 1% damage will result in those modifiers being lost.
Bars are going needed at Lv 60 so get some production now (about 200/t will do for now, just to start stockpiling). Start with the Mountains for now since if you picked Aeris, the 25% Worship bonus will increase production by 25%.
In the Snowlands, focus on building Clothing then Miners then Housing for now.
Malc's Cats and Prat's Hats can be built whenever you feel like it. These won't require repairs until after Lv 110. Malc's Cats is especially important as these pets can provide significant bonuses to your town and globally.

If you find yourself at max storage, and you can't build more storage, you can make 1 trading post and trade out excess resources. You may not need to do this until around level 110. Avoid repairing storage buildings when you can as these can get very expensive!

Level 60-79

New Upgrades: Housing, Wood, Planks, Miners, Bars, Leather, and Herbs

New Building: Magic Emporiums (Desert, Snowlands)

If you haven't built all the Gardens and Taverns by now, they should be very cheap to build and will help you reach the 15,000 population needed for level 60 buildings.

Food will be needed in higher quantities soon. For now, something like 2-4k per tick will do. You'll mostly be limited by other resources anyway but this will help with Taverns and get a nice stockpile going for level 60 Housing, which require 7,200 food each
Purchase a few Magic Emporiums for rune essence as it will be needed in large quantities later on. The goal would be about 200-300 per tick for now. After sorting out stone get to 2,000/tick. This will stockpile over time.
Stone and Coal will begin to be heavily strained. Prioritize getting every upgrade (Mountains, Desert, Snowlands) prioritizing the Snowlands since it gives 2x production compared to the Grasslands.
Schools (Grasslands, Snowlands) and Libraries (Grasslands) should be cheap enough that they're worth grabbing now. You may want to get planks upgraded first.
Bars will start to be heavily used. Mountains will probably be the easiest to max out since Coal and Clothing will be in short supply.
Cemetery can be built in the Grasslands to further increase Potion production, if needed. They cost quite a bit of herbs/bars so only dump your remaining resources, if you have any.

Level 80

New Upgrades: Storage, Clothing, Potions, Schools

New Buildings: Townhalls (Grasslands) and Statues (Grasslands).

If you can hit Lv 99 (for the skillcape) before your worship's 2x season buff runs out then do so before building Townhalls and Statues. It's up to you if you want to wait up to 9 days for the next 2x season buff. The costs for both Townhalls and Statues without the 99 cape and with the 2x season buff is 447.5m with Aeris and ~605.5m with others. With 99 cape it would be 320m and ~475m respectively
Around level 90 start maxing out all Magic Emporiums. You will need a lot when you hit Lv 100. Building a stockpile now will prevent any delays at higher levels from lack of rune essence.

Level 81+

At this point the leveling process becomes very straightforward by prioritizing population for XP and improving your resources/tick for resources you are lacking.

Markets are something you should look into eventually. They'll help reduce the repair costs which should start becoming more relevant now that you're starting to max out some buildings.
With the Throne of the Herald DLC you'll get another upgrade for just about every resource.
At Level 100 you unlock Cool Rocks allowing you to buy cool rock pets from the shop. These primarily improve mining and smithing, but provide some small global buffs as well. These won't have any impact on your town so they can be delayed until later.
Trading posts are another thing you'll want to be building around level 110 or so. When all 150 are built, this will reduce trading costs by 49.5%
You can increase Rune Essence production after you've got the basic resources done. You'll need a LOT for the level 110 storage upgrades. *Storage should probably be the very last building you build. Build them during your 2x season for decreased Rune Essence cost

Which worship is best?

This chart shows the average resource/t of each god with a maxed out Lv 120 town, Astrology, and all Pets.

The resources from each god will make a very small factor in choosing which god to worship. You will likely want Bane or Herold due to their special season. Bane gives 50% astrology interval reduction during Nightfall and Herold gives -1s monster respawn time during Solar Eclipse.

The Trader

The Trader offers consumables that are not available elsewhere. The best trades will depend on where you are in the game due to them having Township level requirements and in some cases, skill level requirements. For boxes, pick whichever tier of box you need resources from. The exception would be Food Box I which provides more overall healing per township resource than Food Box II and Food Box III. Some key items of note from the trader:

Food: The monster hunter scroll can be very helpful as one of the earliest ways to decrease the Monster Respawn Timer. The Ranged Hinder Scroll can be used to fill the consumable slot if you have no better options. The Food Boxes can also be used to quickly gather secondaries for Pig and Wolf tablets

Wood: Quick Burner will be very useful until you have the Kindling Pouch from Crafting. The Wood Boxes can be used to quickly gather secondaries for the Ent Tablet.

Ore and Bars: The boxes can be used to quickly gather secondaries for the Mole and Salamander tablets. In addition, the Bar Box can provide resources to craft weapons and armor to be used for other summon tablets as well.

Stone: The Melee Hinder Scroll can be used to fill the consumable slot if you have no better options.

Essence: Scroll of Essence can dramatically increase the amount of essence you can mine while the Looter Pouch can increase combat loot. The Magic Hinder Scroll can be used to fill the consumable slot if you have no better options.

Leather: The Gem Preserver Scroll can help reduce the cost for Monkey tablets.

Potions: The consumable enhancer can significantly upgrade some consumables and should be used when possible after purchasing major township upgrades. The Potion Boxes can be very useful for gathering large amounts of potions, especially potions that you don't have the level for yet, or don't greatly benefit from being upgrade like Diamond Luck I potions.

Modifiers

Cemetery (Grasslands): Cemeteries provide 100% more Potion production.
Markets (Grasslands): Markets reduce Repair costs by 25% (This is shown as 30% due to rounding).
Taverns (Grasslands, Snowlands) and Gardens (Grasslands): Taverns provide Happiness which increases Population (XP).
Schools (Grasslands, Snowlands) and Library (Grasslands): These provide Education which increases all Township resource production
Worship: Worship modifiers can be found in-game by clicking 'All' or the Bar Graph and clicking 'Change' beside your god. Don't accidentally change your worship!
Seasons: Season modifiers can be found in-game by clicking the 'View Season Modifiers' button. Each season is always 3 days.

Biomes themselves have an resource multiplier. This makes it more resource efficient to build in these biomes. Unlike other modifiers, these effect Storage from Repositories, Education from Schools, Happiness from Taverns and Population from Housing. They don't effect Trading Posts.

Grasslands, Forest, Mountains, Water: 1x
Swamp, Valley, Arid Plains: 1.5x
Forest, Desert, Snowlands 2x

Boosts

Below is an automatically generated list of boosts that will speed up leveling. However, none of the boosts are necessary to reach 99, and can be easily skipped.

Source	Type	Township Boosts	Other Modifiers
Pit Jump	Agility Obstacle 3	+3% Global Skill XP	-4% Agility Skill XP
Tree Climb	Agility Obstacle 5	+4% Global Skill XP	-10% Ammo Preservation -10% Chance to Preserve Resources in Skills -10% Rune Preservation +3% Global Mastery XP
A Lovely Jog	Agility Obstacle 8	+5% Global Skill XP	-6% Global Mastery XP
Haemir	Constellation	+8% Township Skill XP	-5% Township Building Cost (Does not affect GP cost. Capped at -80%) +5% Township Education +5% Township Happiness +8% Township Maximum Storage +8% Township Resource Generation
Ancient Ring of Skills	Item (Ring)	+8% non-Combat Skill XP
Book of Scholars	Item (Shield, Passive)	+3% Global Skill XP	-15% Global GP (except Item Sales)
Candelabra (Lit)	Item (Consumable)	+4% non-Combat Skill XP	-3% Interval for all non-Combat Skills +4% Global Mastery XP +3% Chance to Preserve Resources in Skills
Cape of Completion	Item (Cape)	+5% Global Skill XP	Bypass Slayer Area item requirements for areas that require less than level 100 Slayer -20% Agility Obstacle Build Costs -50% Prayer Point Cost for Prayers (Prayer Point cost cannot go below 1) -0.5s Thieving Interval -0.5s Crafting Interval -15% Woodcutting Interval -15% Cooking Interval -50% Coal Costs for Smithing -15% Township Building Cost (Does not affect GP cost. Capped at -80%) x2 Items received from Fishing x2 Items received from Fletching x2 Items received from Herblore Create +5 Additional Runes of the same type in Runecrafting +50% Ammo Preservation +1 to base drop quantity of Stardust and Golden Stardust from Astrology +1 Coal Ore per Ore Mined. (Item doubling does not apply) +100% chance to receive Ash per log burnt in Firemaking +2% Global Perfect Cook chance +100% chance to successfully Cook an item +15% Chance to Double Items in Runecrafting +5% Damage To Slayer Tasks +25% Farming Yield +100% chance to receive coal when burning logs in Firemaking +10% GP From Agility +100% GP From Thieving +10 Flat Hitpoints Regeneration +25% Mastery Pool XP Cap Items that reduce Rune costs are now 2x as effective +20% Chance to Preserve Resources in Summoning +25% Flat Slayer Area Effect Negation +10% Chance to preserve Summoning Charges +10 Base Quantity for Summoning Tablet Creation +150 Stealth while Thieving
Firemaking Skillcape	Item (Cape)	+5% Global Skill XP	+100% chance to receive Ash per log burnt in Firemaking +100% chance to receive coal when burning logs in Firemaking
Golden Wreath	Item (Helmet, Passive)	+3% non-Combat Skill XP	+100 GP gained when earning GP, except Alt. Magic and Item Sales +3% Global Mastery XP
Maximum Skillcape	Item (Cape)	+5% Global Skill XP	Bypass Slayer Area item requirements for areas that require less than level 100 Slayer -20% Agility Obstacle Build Costs -50% Prayer Point Cost for Prayers (Prayer Point cost cannot go below 1) -0.5s Thieving Interval -0.5s Crafting Interval -15% Woodcutting Interval -15% Cooking Interval -50% Coal Costs for Smithing -15% Township Building Cost (Does not affect GP cost. Capped at -80%) x2 Items received from Fishing x2 Items received from Fletching x2 Items received from Herblore Create +5 Additional Runes of the same type in Runecrafting +50% Ammo Preservation +1 to base drop quantity of Stardust and Golden Stardust from Astrology +1 Coal Ore per Ore Mined. (Item doubling does not apply) +100% chance to receive Ash per log burnt in Firemaking +2% Global Perfect Cook chance +100% chance to successfully Cook an item +15% Chance to Double Items in Runecrafting +5% Damage To Slayer Tasks +25% Farming Yield +100% chance to receive coal when burning logs in Firemaking +10% GP From Agility +100% GP From Thieving +10 Flat Hitpoints Regeneration Items that reduce Rune costs are now 2x as effective +20% Chance to Preserve Resources in Summoning +25% Flat Slayer Area Effect Negation +10% Chance to preserve Summoning Charges +10 Base Quantity for Summoning Tablet Creation +150 Stealth while Thieving
Pirate Captain Hat	Item (Helmet)	+2% Township Skill XP
Skillers Body	Item (Platebody)	+2% non-Combat Skill XP
Skillers Boots	Item (Boots)	+2% non-Combat Skill XP
Skillers Hat	Item (Helmet)	+2% non-Combat Skill XP
Skillers Leggings	Item (Platelegs)	+2% non-Combat Skill XP
Superior Cape of Completion	Item (Cape)	+8% Global Skill XP	Bypass All Slayer Area item requirements -30% Agility Obstacle Build Costs -20% Agility Pillar build costs -75% Prayer Point Cost for Prayers (Prayer Point cost cannot go below 1) -0.8s Thieving Interval -0.8s Crafting Interval -20% Woodcutting Interval -25% Cooking Interval -10% Summoning Interval -10% Astrology Interval -75% Coal Costs for Smithing -20% Township Building Cost (Does not affect GP cost. Capped at -80%) x2 Items received from Fishing x2 Items received from Fletching x2 Items received from Herblore Create +8 Additional Runes of the same type in Runecrafting +75% Ammo Preservation +2 to base drop quantity of Stardust and Golden Stardust from Astrology +1 Bolts produced per action in Fletching +2 Coal Ore per Ore Mined. (Item doubling does not apply) +50% Chance to gain +1 additional bar in Smithing (Cannot be doubled) +100% Chance to gain +1 additional resource in Fishing (Cannot be doubled) +100% Chance to gain +1 additional resource in Fletching (Cannot be doubled) +15% Chance to gain +1 additional resource in Crafting (Cannot be doubled) +100% Chance to gain +1 additional resource in Herblore (Cannot be doubled) +20% Chance to Double Farming Yield +100% chance to receive Ash per log burnt in Firemaking +100% chance to receive Charcoal per burn in Firemaking +4% Global Perfect Cook chance +100% chance to successfully Cook an item +20% chance to avoid the stun interval and stun damage in Thieving when pickpocket attempt fails +25% Chance to Double Items in Runecrafting +1% chance to find a Lost Chest while Fishing (This is separate to the Special Fishing Chance) +5% Chance to Preserve Food when eaten +5% Chance To Preserve Potion Charge +5% Chance To Preserve Prayer Points +8% Damage To Slayer Tasks +40% Farming Yield +100% chance to receive coal when burning logs in Firemaking +20% GP From Agility +150% GP From Thieving +5% Chance to find gem veins when Mining +15 Flat Hitpoints Regeneration +5% Lifesteal +5% Magic Damage Bonus from Equipment +5% Melee Strength Bonus from Equipment +1 minimum Bird Nest's received from Woodcutting +5% of Maximum Hit added to Minimum Hit +5% Ranged Strength Bonus from Equipment +5% Reflect Damage +10% Rune Preservation Items that reduce Rune costs are now 4x as effective +25% Chance to Preserve Resources in Summoning +35% Flat Slayer Area Effect Negation +10% Slayer Coins +15% Chance to preserve Summoning Charges +10 Base Quantity for Summoning Tablet Creation +10% Summoning Maximum Hit +270 Stealth while Thieving
Superior Firemaking Skillcape	Item (Cape)	+8% Global Skill XP	+100% chance to receive Ash per log burnt in Firemaking +100% chance to receive Charcoal per burn in Firemaking +100% chance to receive coal when burning logs in Firemaking
Superior Max Skillcape	Item (Cape)	+8% Global Skill XP	Bypass All Slayer Area item requirements -30% Agility Obstacle Build Costs -20% Agility Pillar build costs -75% Prayer Point Cost for Prayers (Prayer Point cost cannot go below 1) -0.8s Thieving Interval -0.8s Crafting Interval -20% Woodcutting Interval -25% Cooking Interval -10% Summoning Interval -10% Astrology Interval -75% Coal Costs for Smithing -20% Township Building Cost (Does not affect GP cost. Capped at -80%) x2 Items received from Fishing x2 Items received from Fletching x2 Items received from Herblore Create +8 Additional Runes of the same type in Runecrafting +75% Ammo Preservation +2 to base drop quantity of Stardust and Golden Stardust from Astrology +1 Bolts produced per action in Fletching +2 Coal Ore per Ore Mined. (Item doubling does not apply) +50% Chance to gain +1 additional bar in Smithing (Cannot be doubled) +100% Chance to gain +1 additional resource in Fishing (Cannot be doubled) +100% Chance to gain +1 additional resource in Fletching (Cannot be doubled) +15% Chance to gain +1 additional resource in Crafting (Cannot be doubled) +100% Chance to gain +1 additional resource in Herblore (Cannot be doubled) +20% Chance to Double Farming Yield +100% chance to receive Ash per log burnt in Firemaking +100% chance to receive Charcoal per burn in Firemaking +4% Global Perfect Cook chance +100% chance to successfully Cook an item +20% chance to avoid the stun interval and stun damage in Thieving when pickpocket attempt fails +25% Chance to Double Items in Runecrafting +1% chance to find a Lost Chest while Fishing (This is separate to the Special Fishing Chance) +5% Chance to Preserve Food when eaten +5% Chance To Preserve Potion Charge +5% Chance To Preserve Prayer Points +8% Damage To Slayer Tasks +40% Farming Yield +100% chance to receive coal when burning logs in Firemaking +20% GP From Agility +150% GP From Thieving +5% Chance to find gem veins when Mining +15 Flat Hitpoints Regeneration +5% Lifesteal +5% Magic Damage Bonus from Equipment +5% Melee Strength Bonus from Equipment +1 minimum Bird Nest's received from Woodcutting +5% of Maximum Hit added to Minimum Hit +5% Ranged Strength Bonus from Equipment +5% Reflect Damage +10% Rune Preservation Items that reduce Rune costs are now 4x as effective +25% Chance to Preserve Resources in Summoning +35% Flat Slayer Area Effect Negation +10% Slayer Coins +15% Chance to preserve Summoning Charges +10 Base Quantity for Summoning Tablet Creation +10% Summoning Maximum Hit +270 Stealth while Thieving
100 Hexes Mastered	Mastery Bonus	+5% Global Skill XP
Marcy	Pet	+2% Township Skill XP
Pyro	Pet	+1% Global Skill XP