Kingdoms Reborn Starting Location & Beginner's Tips

Learn how to find the best starting location in Kingdoms Reborn; identify which resources are good to start with, as well as initial luxury items to increase your house level.

Introduction

Whether you’re a new Kingdoms Reborn player, or you’ve been playing for a while, your starting location can determine the rest of your Kingdom’s story.

When you initiate a new game in Kingdoms Reborn, in single-player or multiplayer, you’ll need to choose your game’s settings.

Note: This guide is based on the May_24 beta branch of Kingdoms Reborn. You can read our guide on how to change your Kingdoms Reborn game branch[unboxedreviews.com] to gain access to the latest changes.

Single Player Settings

I find the following settings work quite well on a single player game for beginners:

• Map Seed: You can choose to type anything here or randomize
  
• Map Size: Medium
  
• Sea Level: Very low
  
• Moisture: Wet
  
• Temperature: Medium
  
• Mountain Density: Medium
  
• AI Players: 3
  
• Difficulty: Normal

Starting Province

When choosing your starting location, you’ll want to choose a province with a lower disease frequency (like Boreal Forest). This will make things much easier at the start of the game, reducing the risk of your citizens succumbing to diseases and requiring more medicinal potions or herbs.



It’s also essential for the start of the game to find a province located near a body of water. If you can find a body of water with a river close by, you’ll be setting yourself up for later in the game.

Water allows you to place a Fishing Lodge so your citizens have access to a food source early on. While you won’t need to use a river just yet, rivers are useful for accessing higher tech buildings. Why? Because you can only place a Claypit next to a river (not a body of water).

Clay is used for forging Bricks which are required for more advanced buildings. Although you can import Clay via a Trading Post or similar, it will be far more expensive than producing it yourself.

Another Kingdoms Reborn tip is to scout your starting area before you lay down your roots. There are tiles that give you access to resource crates. These crates give you the option to choose up to 100x resources e.g. wood, coal, jewelry, etc.



Some tiles contain tribes of villagers; when unlocked, you will be asked if the tribe can join your kingdom. If you’re short on citizens, this is a quick and easy way to get some much-needed bodies on the ground.

Resources

As well as selecting a province to build your townhall on, you should consider what resources are nearby. Areas with Cannabis or Tulips are perfect for giving your citizens initial luxury.

One Cannabis farm or Tulip Farm will be plenty to easily advance to the Middle Age.



As you progress through the ages in Kingdoms Reborn, you’ll need to weigh up which other resources you might need. If you’re struggling to produce enough wood to heat your homes, you’ll want to consider mining coal which is more effective and in some cases easier to get.

When your population starts to grow, you’ll start running out of tools. Unless you want to import Steel Tools at an extortionate cost, you’ll need to find an area with access to Iron Ore. You’ll then be able to unlock a Blacksmith who can craft Steel Tools for your workers.

Leveling Houses

Higher-level houses will unlock house upgrades. When you have 7 complete houses that meet level 1 requirements, you’ll unlock house level 1+.



To level up your houses from 1 to 7, you’ll need to meet House Appeal requirements and Luxury Goods.

House Appeal
If you want to upgrade a house to level 5, you’ll need at least 70% appeal and the relevant luxuries. When you place a house down, the appeal level (percentage) will be displayed. I always try to aim for 100% appeal, but if you’re stuck for space initially, you shouldn’t place a house lower than 70%.

If you meet the house appeal and luxury requirements on the lowest appeal of 70%, your houses will automatically upgrade until level 5.

To upgrade past level 5, you’ll need house appeal to be at least 80% for level 6, and 90% or higher for level 7. Houses with a higher appeal level pay more coins towards your income.

To further increase appeal, you can place the following ornaments which become available later on in the game:

• Shrubbery (increases surrounding appeal by 5 within 5 tiles radius)
  
• Flower Bed (increases surrounding appeal by 5 within 5 tiles radius)
  
• Garden Cypress (increases surrounding appeal by 8 within 5 tiles radius)
  
• Garden (increases surrounding appeal by 5 within 11 tiles radius)

Luxury Goods

If you click on one of your houses, you’ll see a list displayed which contains Luxury Goods tiers. The tiers are as follows:

• Fuel (Level 1+ houses)
  
• Tier 1 (Level 1+ houses)
  
• Tier 2 (Level 3+ houses
  
• Tier 3 (Level 5+ houses)

Each luxury good falls into a tier:

• Tier 1: Beer, Cannabis, Furniture, Pottery, Tulip
  
• Tier 2: Clothes, Wine, Candles, Vodka, Magic Mushroom, Coffee, Glassware
  
• Tier 3: Book, Fashionable Clothes, Jewelry, Chocolate

To advance your house to the next level, you’ll need a certain amount of each luxury within each tier. In addition to the requirements below, you’ll need at least 3 luxuries from the previous tier. For example, Level 5 requires at least 3x tier 1 luxury plus 3x tier 2 luxuries:

• Level 2: Tier 1 (x1)
  
• Level 3: Tier 1 (x3)
  
• Level 4: Tier 2 (x1)
  
• Level 5: Tier 2 (x3)
  
• Level 6: Tier 3 (x1)
  
• Level 7: Tier 3 (x3)

Land Fertility

Another factor to consider is fertility. Fertile ground is required to plant crops using the Farm. The higher the fertility percentage, the better your crows will grow.

If you have a small amount of fertile land, don’t be put off by not placing a farm. You can start your farm tiles on the fertile land and spread the tiles out to a maximum of 64.

The fertility will average out based on the land you’ve covered. You can view the fertility by zooming in close to the selected tile, or zooming out to see the average fertility of the selected province.

Credits

This guide was created by me (Georgie Peru) and features on our gaming news, reviews, and guides website at https://unboxedreviews.com/

[Flike01]

Nice guide.

I also learned that info about the appeal right here and right now -- and i've been playing for years.

It just never occurred to me that was part of the equation. Glad I read through it.

[tacgnol06]

Don't be pedantic @Good Old Gamer. Author did say LIKE Boreal Forest. That implies there are other biomes types with lower disease rates. Also, the game itself makes it super obvious when choosing a province, this isn't hidden information.

[Good Old Gamer]

you know right at the start of the guide you haven't given full info....

Boreal forest/tundra AND grassland BOTH have 1.0 disease rate

[Brumble]

@hetare - Jungle biome

[hetarekusogaki]

anyone has idea where's likely to find panda for zoo in the new update? (as such in what biome, etc)

[Cupcaeke]

@ Im The Yeet Man. Look at your consumption of cabbage vs how much it's producing. There won't be any in storage if it's been consumed faster than you can produce it.

[Weaponized Autism]

I have a cabbage farm producing 1000 a year. However my storage isn't going anywhere near that close, do you know why?

[Morgywn]

great write up

[Rovalis]

tl;dr - leave space on your starting settlement for a market when you finally tech it up, and leave space for windmills to boost your farms. Build farms, focus wheat, cruise control up to Baking before you expand. Do NOT try to produce every single thing in your colony. Overproduce necessities and sell surplus - the only thing worth producing solely for trade early on is gold. Build at least 3 trade ports with adjacent trading companies, purchase things like Bricks, Iron Bars, Wood, and particular luxury items as necessary.

This guide was terrific, just a little heavy on information and a little light on guidance in my opinion. I hope this tl;dr is a helpful addition.

[Cupcaeke]

I tend to start with 400 wood, 400 food, 120 medicinal herbs, then leave the rest.