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Watchtower
Reads inbound hosts — higher levels reveal strength, name, then composition.
- Entity ID
watchtower- Base build time (level 1)
- 2s — base 5 seconds
- Level 10 build time
- 1m 4s
- Level 45 build time
- 1d
- 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 → 26
- 1d 11h
- Raw time, level 1 → 45
- 15d 11h
Build time and upgrade cost by level
Every upgrade to Watchtower 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 5 seconds. The curve has two phases: it climbs gently to level 26 — the end of the opening ramp, which the whole early game is paced around — and compounds harder above it, so the summit costs a real hoard as well as real patience.
| Level | Build time | Food | Wood | Stone | Iron |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2s | 80 | 64 | 40 | 32 |
| 2 | 3s | 120 | 96 | 60 | 48 |
| 3 | 4s | 180 | 144 | 90 | 72 |
| 5 | 8s | 405 | 324 | 203 | 162 |
| 10 | 1m 4s | 3,075 | 2,460 | 1,538 | 1,230 |
| 15 | 8m 7s | 23,354 | 18,683 | 11,677 | 9,342 |
| 19 | 41m 3s | 118,231 | 94,585 | 59,116 | 47,292 |
| 25 | 7h 47m | 1,346,729 | 1,077,383 | 673,365 | 538,692 |
| 26 | 11h 41m | 2,020,093 | 1,616,074 | 1,010,047 | 808,037 |
| 30 | 13h 40m | 3,178,656 | 2,542,925 | 1,589,328 | 1,271,462 |
| 35 | 16h 38m | 5,601,878 | 4,481,502 | 2,800,939 | 2,240,751 |
| 40 | 20h 14m | 9,872,424 | 7,897,939 | 4,936,212 | 3,948,970 |
| 45 | 1d | 17,398,584 | 13,918,867 | 8,699,292 | 6,959,434 |
What the tower lets you see
The Watchtower gates the quality of your warning, not whether you get one. Without a tower you still know a host is riding at you and when it lands — you simply do not know whose, how many, or what they brought. Each tier peels back more of that fog, and the ladder is short: everything the tower can ever show you is visible by level 5, which makes this one of the cheapest complete upgrades in the keep.
| Watchtower level | Tier | Host size | Attacker's name | Troop composition |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 0 – 0 | Lookout | Hidden | “an unknown host” | Hidden |
| 1 – 2 | Watch | Shown | “an unknown host” | Hidden |
| 3 – 4 | Vigil | Shown | Shown | Hidden |
| 5 and above | Farsight | Shown | Shown | Estimated by band |
The composition read is an estimate, deterministic per march — the tower reads banners, not muster rolls — split across vanguard, horse, bowmen and siege. Seeing siege in that estimate is the single most actionable thing the tower tells you, because siege is what clears your traps.
Related
Guide: Combat & Marches. Index: all 17 buildings · the whole database.
Other plots: The Keep · Farm · Sawmill · Quarry · Iron Mine · Barracks · Stables · Archery Range · Hospital · Dragon Pit · Maester's Academy · Embassy · Training Yard · Depot · Tavern · Harbour
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.