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Maester's Academy

Unlocks research; faster studies.

Entity ID
academy
Base build time (level 1)
26s — base 26 seconds
Level 10 build time
16m 40s
Level 45 build time
12d 5h
Unlocks at
Available from your first minute — no Keep-level gate
Produces
Nothing directly — this plot raises a limit rather than an income
Raw time, level 1 → 19
1d 8h
Raw time, level 1 → 45
99d 21h

Build time and upgrade cost by level

Every upgrade to Maester's Academy costs food, wood, stone and iron in a fixed 1 : 0.8 : 0.5 : 0.4 ratio, and takes a time derived from this plot's own base of 26 seconds. The curve has two phases: it climbs gently to level 19 — the tier-7 milestone the whole opening is paced around — and compounds harder above it, so the summit costs a real hoard as well as real patience.

Maester's Academy: cost and raw build time at each sampled level (before alliance help, speed-ups or build-speed research).
LevelBuild timeFoodWoodStoneIron
126s120966048
239s1801449072
359s270216135108
52m 12s608486304243
1016m 40s4,6133,6902,3071,845
152h 6m35,03228,02617,51614,013
1910h 40m177,347141,87888,67470,939
2522h 56m779,980623,984389,990311,992
301d 19h2,679,9922,143,9941,339,9961,071,997
353d 10h9,208,3847,366,7074,604,1923,683,354
406d 11h31,639,76725,311,81415,819,88412,655,907
4512d 5h108,713,41086,970,72854,356,70543,485,364

How much the Academy shortens a study

Nothing in the research tree can be studied at all without an Academy, and past level 1 each level takes 4% off every study's time — capped at 50%, which is reached at level 14. Alliance scholars and a royal edict then shorten it further on top. That cap is the reason the Academy is a fast early build and a poor late one: every level past 14 does nothing for research at all.

Academy: the study discount by level, and its effect on Agriculture level 20 as a worked example.
Academy levelStudy time reductionAgriculture Lv.20 study time
10%3d 1h
24%2d 22h
412%2d 17h
620%2d 11h
828%2d 5h
1036%1d 23h
1244%1d 17h
1348%1d 14h
1450%1d 12h
2050%1d 12h

Guide: Research & the Academy. Index: all 16 buildings · the whole database.

Other plots: The Keep · Farm · Sawmill · Quarry · Iron Mine · Barracks · Stables · Archery Range · Hospital · Dragon Pit · Watchtower · Embassy · Training Yard · Depot · Tavern

Every figure above is generated from the shipped game code — the same constants and formulas the running game uses — and regenerated whenever the balance changes. Nothing on this page is hand-typed.

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