Buildings common to all towns

Buildings common to all towns contains strucures that can be build to all towns and have the same functions regardless of the town type. These common buildings are halls, castles, mage guilds, marketplace and tavern.

Halls

Castles

Mage guilds

A place in a town where heroes can learn new spells and purchase Spell Books.

A fully built Mage Guild will teach

5 First Level Spells
4 Second Level Spells
3 Third Level Spells Note:This is the highest level available in the Fortress and Stronghold
2 Fourth Level Spells Note:This is the highest level available in the Castle
1 Fifth Level Spells

A Tower with a Library built will teach one extra spell of each level. A Conflux with an Aurora Borealis will teach every non-banned spell.

A mapmaker can disable so many spells that some or all the slots can't be filled.

In addition to any disabling from the mapmakers side, the following spells won't appear in the mage guilds. (Spells that can't appear due to the Guild not being buildable to its level omitted):

Castle: Bloodlust, Curse, Death Ripple, Animate Dead, Armageddon
Rampart: Bloodlust, Curse, Death Ripple, Animate Dead, Armageddon, Air Elemental, Fire Elemental, Sacrifice
Tower: Bloodlust, Death Ripple, Animate Dead, Armageddon, Fire Elemental, Sacrifice
Fortress: Curse, Disguise, Death Ripple, Animate Dead, Protection from Earth
Stronghold: Curse, Death Ripple, Animate Dead
Conflux: Curse, Death Ripple, Animate Dead, Armageddon, Sacrifice
Necropolis: Bless, Cure, Destroy Undead, Hypnotize, Prayer, Fire Elemental, Magic Mirror, Water Elemental Note:Surprisingly enough, Resurrection is available
Inferno: Bless, Death Ripple, Ice Bolt, Animate Dead, Frost Ring, Prayer, Air Elemental, Magic Mirror, Water Elemental
Dungeon: Death Ripple, Animate Dead, Prayer, Air Elemental

If a hero runs low on spell points he can refill at a Magic Well or he may stay overnight in a town with a Mage Guild.

Marketplace

Rates of trade

#
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9+

→
2500	→	1
1667	→	1
1250	→	1
1000	→	1
833	→	1
714	→	1
625	→	1
556	→	1
500	→	1

→
5000	→	1
3333	→	1
2500	→	1
2000	→	1
1667	→	1
1429	→	1
1250	→	1
1111	→	1
1000	→	1

→
1	→	25
1	→	37
1	→	50
1	→	62
1	→	75
1	→	88
1	→	100
1	→	112
1	→	125

→
10	→	1
7	→	1
5	→	1
4	→	1
3	→	1
3	→	1
3	→	1
2	→	1
2	→	1

→
20	→	1
13	→	1
10	→	1
8	→	1
7	→	1
6	→	1
5	→	1
4	→	1
4	→	1

→
1	→	50
1	→	75
1	→	100
1	→	125
1	→	150
1	→	175
1	→	200
1	→	225
1	→	250

→
5	→	1
3	→	1
3	→	1
2	→	1
2	→	1
1	→	1
1	→	1
1	→	1
1	→	1

→
10	→	1
7	→	1
5	→	1
4	→	1
3	→	1
3	→	1
3	→	1
2	→	1
2	→	1

Legend:

for basic resources:

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for magical resources:

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Marketplace is structure where the player can trade resources to other resources, or give resources to another player.

The operation is always at a loss: selling X amount of resource A for Y amount of resource B, and then doing the reverse operation of trading Y amount resource B back for Z amount of resource A, will always give final result of Z much lesser than the starting X. This roughly follows the following formula: 400 units will be traded back for (n+1)² units, where n is the amount of cities with marketplaces that you own, capped to 9.

You can also give resources to enemies or allies.

Tavern

General purpose

Tavern as seen on Adventure Map.

Tavern is a building where player may hire heroes, visit Thieve's Guild and hear rumors. It also increases morale by +1 of the defending hero's army. Additionally, Tavern can also be found on Adventure Map, where it has the same functions except morale increase. In original Restoration of Erathia, the heroes available for hiring in a Tavern on Adventure Map were different than the ones in towns' taverns. However, this was changed somewhere along the way.

Hiring heroes

Heroes can be hired to the service of kingdom at the price of 2500 . There are always two new heroes available for hire, and if one is hired, a new one will appear. However, at the beginning of each week (including the beginning of the map), the two heroes have a random number of creatures with them associated with the town type they represent. After either one is hired, the new hero appearing will only have one non-upgraded first level creature in his army. Additionally, at the beginning of each week, at least one of the heroes (left one) will be from the town the player represents. In original Restoration of Erathia, heroes always had a new set of creatures with them, which lead to tactics where players hired several heroes in order to speed up the beginning.

Hearing rumors

In the tavern screen above the heroes is a small rectangle where bar keeper whispers rumors. The game has a bunch of built-in rumors, but the map maker can enter own rumors as many of as he sees fit. This in mind, rumors can be extremely helpful or completely nonsense. Default rumors can for example reveal the terrain of which the grail is buried or which player has the most artifacts.

Thieves' Guild

Thieves' Guild is in-build part of the tavern. It provides information on the relative strength of all the players and heroes. Each player is portrayed by a flag of their color which is placed further to the left depending on their rank regarding listed information. The information available in Thieves' Guilds are dependent on the number of towns a player controls.

Statistics	Number of towns
Statistics	1	2	3	4	5
Number of towns	X	X	X	X	X
Number of heroes	X	X	X	X	X
Gold		X	X	X	X
Wood & ore		X	X	X	X
Mercury, sulfur, crystal & gems			X	X	X
Obelisks Found			X	X	X
Artifacts Found				X	X
Kingdom army strength				X	X
Income					X
Best hero	X*	X**	X	X	X
Personality			X	X	X
Best monster				X	X
* Only portrait and name ** Primary skills

Heroes stationed inside towns, are not included in the best hero category. However, this is not true in the strongest monster category.