Koninkrijk: New Lands Beginner’s Tactics and Strategy Guide

How to escape the islands as quickly as possible, and how to hold your ground until day 100 and beyond.

Overzicht

This guide will cover the features that are new in this installment of the Kingdom series. Er zijn er nu 6 islands (the sixth being Skull Island but is unrelated to the achievements). The goal on each island is to construct the boat and get off the island ASAP. This is not true for the 6th island, where you have 50 days to remove all portals on the island.

I found this game to be even easier than Classic because of the new towers like the Bakery and Ballista towers, so don’t worry if the premise seems a bit daunting.

Methode

Moving your boat faster to the port:

• The Boat will face in the direction of the port when you initially spend the gold coins to construct it. This will be the tallest side of the boat.
• 3 Engineers will push the boat to move it at max speed. Make sure you have 3 idle engineers to avoid wasting time.
• Clear the trees in the way of the boat. It will be pushed at a much slower speed through the forest than open ground.
• Clear any portals, including the cove portal, so your builders can get to the port safely.
• Time it properly. A boat can take anywhere from 3-10 days to get to the port, depending on the size of the island and the number of trees in the way. You should get to move it ASAP.

Hermits and their towers are very useful:

• Don’t forget to recruit them. They live in little huts somewhere on the island, so make sure you find them.
• Don’t lose them to Greed. They can make the difference between winning and losing. I almost lost on the 5th island because I forgot the Bakery hermit and the vagrant camps were very far away from my base.
• The ballista tower is great because, unlike the catapult, the Breeders can’t throw the bolt back. DO NOT place it right next to your wall. Floaters will just grab your engineer and you will have lost a recruit. Place it on the nearest tower position behind your front line, and it will maximize its damage.
• I never really used the Armoury hermit for the extra knight until the later islands where you would need to send as large a force as possible to destroy portals.

Play the RNG:

• What structures will be available on which island is random? You need to make sure that when you go to another island, you’re prepared for any eventuality. Having a ballista hermit with me saved my crown so many times on Island 5 which had no Archer or Builder statue.

Stock up and prepare for winter:

• Winter comes at different times for different islands. For example on Day 50 ish on the 5th Island. All the crops will wither, and all hunting will stop. Your only opportunity to get money is with the Treasurer in your town center.
• Building farms therefore may be justified so as just to pack as much money as possible for those winter days. Bear in mind winter never ends once it has come.

Choose an appropriate mount:

• The Stag runs faster in the forest which is good for early game but as you start clearing the trees, this becomes less useful. Useless and a straight downgrade in winter.
• The Unicorn is a good mount for early-day island establishment. They produce 3 coins every time they graze and this is incredibly helpful. Useless in winter.
• The bear is my personal favorite and the reasoning for this is below.

Why use the Bear?:

• It can hunt animals and greed. Its sprint is a charge that deals damage just after every time the bear touches the ground.
• Hunting is useful because you can easily get a full bag of coins in a day while exploring
• Your archers suck at hitting greed that clumps too close to your wall. A quick charge out and back into your walls will remove them.
• They remain useful in the winter as their walking speed is the highest, and you won’t be running a lot in winter with no areas to graze.

Build portals for easy access

• Whether it’s making your mad dash for the coast by being a lumberjack or recruiting vagrants far out or simply just scouting ahead, portals are very useful for movement and save you a lot of daytime.
• When you teleport to an open area (just grass with no tree background) from an un-linked portal, you will see that you can construct a second portal in that space. These portals will be linked, and you have instant movement between them when using one of those portals now.

Pay less for your statues

• Every statue has 3 ‘charges’. You pay a certain number of coins for each charge, Echter, you can maximize the time by paying at the right time.
• Each charge lasts a day. Echter, the statue will take a charge as being ‘filled’ regardless of when you pay for it.
• If you pay for 1 charge on the archer statue, wait until it is just about to run out (the charge will appear very faint blue) and then pay again. It will refill the first charge, and give you the second one as well.
• This way you can pay for 5 days worth of charge by paying only 3 charges worth of coins.

Make use of your treasurer:

• The treasurer comes with a level 4 campfire. He wanders around during the day and collects any coins you drop near him. He stores this safely in the keep.
• He generates interest on the money you give him, reaching a cap of 8 coins per day when you have 100 in the bank. You get the most use out of your treasurer by giving him a few gold coins and checking back in a few days, as the % return on your investment is higher.
• If coins are being dropped everywhere, make sure to put them in the bank so that you can use them in a pinch. Especially if you aren’t using the unicorn, this can help you in key situations.

Conclusie

As the achievements are virtually the same in this as Kingdom Classic, the guide linked above already explains how to unlock them. The only decision you have to make for New Lands is on which Island to go for the Day 100 challenge. I personally chose Island 5 for convenience and the longest wait until winter.

If I’ve missed anything, please do let me know. Hopelijk, this guide was helpful.