Friends Tavern

What is the Friends Tavern?

If you've only started playing, you will notice a ruin along a river to the north of your city. Once you unlock the Construction research in Bronze Age, this will become a functional building - the Friends Tavern.

Your Tavern will come with its own interior, a small table and a few chairs. All your ingame friends can visit your Tavern and sit at these chairs if they are empty. Whenever there are friends sitting at your Tavern, you will be able to collect Silver and empty the table, making space for new friends to visit you. With this Silver you can activate various powerful boosts for your city or customize your Tavern to not only make it more appealing but also to increase your Silver income.

You can visit the Tavern of every friend once every day. This can easily by done via the social bar - simply open your friends list and you'll find a button for visiting their Tavern (on mobile you will need to tap the player's avatar for this option). To be able to sit down in a Tavern of your new friend, you have to wait 24h for your friendship to become strong enough. To make sure that this limitation does not affect new players, it will only kick in once you have removed 20 people from your friends list.

As you progress through the ages so will your Friends Tavern - it will change its appearance in specific eras!

Tavern Room

Your Tavern comes with a table for 4 chairs, but only 3 chairs are unlocked. The first chair gives you 50 Silver, and then it increments with +2 for every next chair. This means that when you collect your table with multiple players on it you will gain more Silver. But you need to keep in mind that if all your chairs are taken then other friends can't visit your Tavern.

As mentioned you will find various upgrades for your Tavern which you can purchase using Silver (or Diamonds if you do not have Silver - the cost in Diamonds is 1/2 of the Silver cost). Here is a list of those upgrades, the effect they have, and their cost in Silver.

Upgrade	Effect Description	Silver at Chair #1	Silver at full Table	Cost (Silver)
Chair #4	Adds an additional chair at the table.	+50	+212	250
Table Size #1	Increases basic Silver income and the table size, giving the ability to buy a 5th and 6th chair.	+52	+220	500
Chair #5	Adds an additional chair at the table.	/	+280	500
Chair #6	Adds an additional chair at the table.	/	+342	800
Table Size #2	Increases basic Silver income and the table size, giving the ability to buy a 7th and 8th chair.	+54	+354	1,500
Chair #7	Adds an additional chair at the table.	/	+420	1,200
Chair #8	Adds an additional chair at the table.	/	+488	1,600
Table Size #3	Increases basic Silver income and the table size, giving the ability to buy a 9th and 10th chair.	+56	+508	3,500
Chair #9	Adds an additional chair at the table.	/	+580	2,000
Chair #10	Adds an additional chair at the table.	/	+654	2,500
Table Size #4	Increases basic Silver income and the table size, giving the ability to buy a 11th and 12th chair.	+58	+670	8,000
Chair #11	Adds an additional chair at the table.	/	+750	3,500
Chair #12	Adds an additional chair at the table.	/	+828	4,500
Table Size #5	Increases basic Silver income and the table size, giving the ability to buy a 13th and 14th chair.	+60	+852	15,000
Chair #13	Adds an additional chair at the table.	/	+936	6,000
Chair #14	Adds an additional chair at the table.	/	+1022	8,000
Table Size #6	Increases basic Silver income and the table size, giving the ability to buy a 15th and 16th chair.	+62	+1050	25,000
Chair #15	Adds an additional chair at the table.	/	+1140	11,000
Chair #16	Adds an additional chair at the table.	/	+1232	15,000
/	Total Table Size Upgrades Cost:	/	53,500	/
/	Total Chair Upgrades Cost:	/	56,850	/
/	Total Tavern Upgrades Cost:	/	110,350	/

In addition to the ability to expand your Tavern Table and add extra Chairs, you can also customize your Tavern's look with changes that bring various benefits:

• Updating the Tray will give you a % increase on the Silver you collect from visiting friends at your Table.
• Updating the Table Cloth will add a chance that your Friends who sit at your Tavern can find a Forge Point.
• Updating the Floor will increase the potential coin you can receive when you sit down at the Taverns of your friends.

Here is an overview of these customization upgrades. As with other upgrades if you don't have the Silver you can pay in Diamonds at half the Silver cost.

Upgrade	Effect Description	Cost (Silver)
Wooden Tray	+0% Tavern Silver upon collecting from your Table.	/
Clay Tray	+2% Tavern Silver upon collecting from your Table.	1,000
Stone Tray	+4% Tavern Silver upon collecting from your Table.	2,000
Glass Tray	+6% Tavern Silver upon collecting from your Table.	4,000
Silver Tray	+8% Tavern Silver upon collecting from your Table.	8,000
Gold Tray	+10% Tavern Silver upon collecting from your Table.	16,000
/	Total Tray Upgrades Cost:	31,000
No Table Cloth	0% chance for Friends who sit at your Table to get a Forge Point.	/
Simple Table Cloth	1% chance for Friends who sit at your Table to get a Forge Point.	1,000
Tavern Table Cloth	2% chance for Friends who sit at your Table to get a Forge Point.	2,000
Floral Table Cloth	4% chance for Friends who sit at your Table to get a Forge Point.	4,000
Royal Table Cloth	6% chance for Friends who sit at your Table to get a Forge Point.	8,000
Burgundy Table Cloth	8% chance for Friends who sit at your Table to get a Forge Point.	16,000
/	Total Table Cloth Upgrades Cost:	31,000
Rustic Planks	20% chance to find 5 Silver when sitting at the Taverns of your friends.	/
Polished Planks	20% chance to find 10 Silver when sitting at the Taverns of your friends.	1,000
Cobblestone	20% chance to find 15 Silver when sitting at the Taverns of your friends.	2,000
Tavern Stone	20% chance to find 20 Silver when sitting at the Taverns of your friends.	4,000
Brick Floor	20% chance to find 25 Silver when sitting at the Taverns of your friends.	8,000
Throne Room	20% chance to find 30 Silver when sitting at the Taverns of your friends.	16,000
/	Total Floor Upgrades Cost:	31,000
/	Total Tavern Customization Upgrades Cost:	93,000

You have to unlock these customization upgrades in linear form, meaning one by one - you can't jump from no table cloth to a royal table cloth, for example. But once you have unlocked them you can freely choose which one you want to use!

Tavern Shop

With the Silver you collect you can activate powerful boosts that offer a wide variety of effects, like coin & supply boosts, fair merchants that trade goods with you in the market, a city shield that protects you from aggressive neighbors, and more!

These boosts are all temporary, each having a specific duration. At any given time you can have just one boost active. You can open another slot that allows you to have two boosts active at a time at the cost of 50 Diamonds. You would need to open this slot whenever you're running a new boost and you want to start a second boost.

Some of these boosts will be only available after you have bought a specific number of chairs in your Tavern.

Resource Boosts

As the name might tell you, this first group of boosts are ones that affect your resources in the game. These boosts will work as an addition to any existing boosts you may already have (for example if you have a 100% coin boost from St. Mark's, and a 20% coin boost from the Tavern, you will get a total of 120% coin boost until the Tavern one expires).

Name	Duration	Effect Description	Requires	Cost (Silver)
Coin Boost	4h	Boosts all your coin collections in the city by 20%!	/	200
Coin Boost	12h	Boosts all your coin collections in the city by 40%!	6 Chairs	800
Coin Boost	24h	Boosts all your coin collections in the city by 60%!	10 Chairs	2,000
Supply Boost	4h	Boosts all your supply collections in the city by 20%!	/	250
Supply Boost	12h	Boosts all your supply collections in the city by 40%!	7 Chairs	1,000
Supply Boost	24h	Boosts all your coin collections in the city by 60%!	11 Chairs	2,500
Extra Turn	15m	Grants you 1 extra turn in the Guild Expedition negotiation game!	5 Chairs	1,500
Extra Turn	30m	Grants you 1 extra turn in the Guild Expedition negotiation game!	11 Chairs	2,500
Extra Turn	1h	Grants you 1 extra turn in the Guild Expedition negotiation game!	14 Chairs	4,000
Enthusiasm	4h	Makes your city population enthusiastic even when you have not reached the happiness demand!	7 Chairs	3,500
Enthusiasm	12h	Makes your city population enthusiastic even when you have not reached the happiness demand!	13 Chairs	8,000
Enthusiasm	24h	Makes your city population enthusiastic even when you have not reached the happiness demand!	15 Chairs	14,000
1:5 Merchants	4h	Grants you a 1:5 ratio for all trades with the merchants!	9 Chairs	8,000
1:4 Merchants	4h	Grants you a 1:4 ratio for all trades with the merchants!	14 Chairs	15,000
1:3 Merchants	4h	Grants you a 1:3 ratio for all trades with the merchants!	16 Chairs	25,000

Military Boosts

The military boosts will be added to your army just like boosts from Great Buildings. When the attacker boost is active it will have an effect to your attacking army anywhere it is used (PvP, GvG, GE, or Continent Map). The defender boost will have an effect on your city's defending army (PvP).

Name	Duration	Effect Description	Requires	Cost (Silver)
Attacker Boost	30m	Grants your attacking army a 10% boost on their attack values!	/	750
Attacker Boost	4h	Grants your attacking army a 20% boost on their attack values!	5 Chairs	3,000
Attacker Boost	24h	Grants your attacking army a 30% boost on their attack values!	8 Chairs	8,500
Defender Boost	24h	Grants your defending army a 10% boost on their defense values!	/	1,000
Defender Boost	48h	Grants your defending army a 20% boost on their defense values!	/	2,500
Defender Boost	72h	Grants your defending army a 30% boost on their defense values!	/	7,000
City Shield	24h	Grants you a shield that prevents other players from attacking you!	8 Chairs	9,000
City Shield	48h	Grants you a shield that prevents other players from attacking you!	13 Chairs	17,000
City Shield	72h	Grants you a shield that prevents other players from attacking you!	16 Chairs	24,000

Time Boosts

These boosts will help you speed up things in the game! Once you activate the construction boost, newly placed buildings will complete their construction faster. The recruitment boost will make the production of units from military buildings faster (it will not work on Alcatraz though).

Name	Duration	Effect Description	Requires	Cost (Silver)
Construction Boost	24h	Speeds up construction of newly placed buildings during this time by 25%!	4 Chairs	400
Construction Boost	48h	Speeds up construction of newly placed buildings during this time by 50%!	9 Chairs	1,200
Construction Boost	72h	Speeds up construction of newly placed buildings during this time by 75%!	12 Chairs	3,600
Recruitment Boost	24h	Speeds up the recruitment of units started in this period by 15%!	10 Chairs	6,000
Recruitment Boost	24h	Speeds up the recruitment of units started in this period by 25%!	12 Chairs	10,000
Recruitment Boost	24h	Speeds up the recruitment of units started in this period by 35%!	15 Chairs	15,000