Fate War: The Definitive Economic Guide for New Players (2025)

Introduction: The Foundation of Your Empire

In Fate War, every army, upgrade, and research breakthrough is powered by your economy. Resources are the foundation of everything you do. If your lumber, stone, iron, and knowledge flow stalls, your empire stalls with it. This guide is a complete, practical blueprint for building a dominant economy from day one and breaking through the mid-game resource wall.

1. Mastering Your City’s Economic Engine

Your city is the heart of your economy. Before you chase overworld resources, optimize the production machine inside your walls.

1.1 The Production Fallacy: Transport Capacity Is King

A high production rate means nothing if resources are trapped in a building stockpile. The real income is what gets transported into your main storage.

Prioritize:

• Road upgrades that increase transport capacity.
• Ox Cart items from the Black Market for a direct transport boost.
• Keeping stockpiles low, which means resources are moving and usable.

1.2 Workforce Management: Peasants and Output

Each production building can take five workers. Every worker adds 10 percent output. Fully staffed buildings are a straight 50 percent boost to baseline income. Build houses to increase peasants, which improves both production staffing and tax income.

1.3 Coins: Two Sources, Two Rules

Coins are a hard gate for upgrades and research. Use both sources, but with discipline.

Source	Best practice
Tax collection	Limited to 100 per day and scales with Chieftain Hall and Bath House level. Collect daily.
Coin bundles	Save them for a higher Hall level so each bundle yields more.

1.4 Resource Priority Order

A simple priority order keeps you from stalling:

Wood > Stone > Iron > Food

Wood is almost always the tightest bottleneck during heavy construction phases.

2. The Knowledge Advantage: Research Dominance

Knowledge is the single most important resource for progression because every research step needs it. If knowledge is slow, your entire account slows.

2.1 Scholar Circles First

Upgrade Small, Medium, and Large Scholar Circles early. This is the fastest way to accelerate research, unlock troop tiers, and secure economic multipliers that compound over time.

2.2 The Optimal Early Research Path

1. Economy foundation: Gravel Roads, Scholar Circle upgrades, and basic economy nodes.
2. Military push: train T1 troops, skip T2, and rush the prerequisites for T3 then T4.
3. Return to economy: max out core nodes like Basic Taxation and Mathematics.

2.3 Chieftain Hall as an Economic Gate

Your Hall unlocks everything: higher buildings, stronger research, and larger taxes. Watch the prerequisite chain (Wall, Miracle Pier) so your Hall never stalls.

3. Beyond Your Walls: Overworld Resource Power

Passive income is not enough. The fastest growth comes from active overworld play.

3.1 Gathering Fundamentals

• Always use gathering speed boosts when sending marches.
• Gather inside tribe territory for the 30 percent speed buff.
• Use gathering heroes as primary commanders to apply their talents.

3.2 The Black Forge Engine

Hunting Black Forge monsters is the highest ROI economic activity in the game.

Typical returns include:

• Large resource bundles
• Speedups for building, research, and training
• Gems to fund more stamina
• Transport boosts for Scholar Circles
• Massive hero XP

Hunt inside your city first. Black Forge targets there level faster and usually pay better.

3.3 The Stamina to Resources Loop

Gems are best spent on stamina early. The loop is simple:

1. Spend gems on stamina.
2. Hunt Black Forge.
3. Gain resources, speedups, gems, and XP.
4. Repeat and scale.

3.4 Auto Hunt Settings That Actually Work

Setting	Recommendation
Monster level range	Choose a safe range you can clear with low losses.
Auto recall	Set at around 55 percent capacity to avoid waste.
Hospital limit	Stop auto hunt before permanent troop loss.
Auto item use	Allow stamina items so hunting runs without babysitting.

3.5 Hunter Talents for Maximum Loot

Only the primary hero’s talent tree applies. For hunting, prioritize:

• Stamina reduction talents
• Loot increase talents like Spoils of War
• Reaching level 23 to max the Hunter tree

3.6 Valhalla and Tribe Rallies

Valhalla is a tribe based resource engine. Every successful rally gives all participants massive rewards, including large resource packs. The best strategy is a help loop: request help on every level, then join every rally your tribe runs.

4. Strategic Spending and Daily Habits

4.1 Gems: Spend for Growth, Not Speed

Do:

• Buy stamina to fuel hunting.
• Save gems for high value events.

Avoid:

• Rushing buildings or research with gems.

4.2 Scaling Bundles: Delay for Maximum Value

Resource, knowledge, and coin bundles scale with your Hall. Save them until upgrades become expensive, then open them to break a wall instantly.

4.3 The Tribe as an Economic Engine

An active tribe gives:

• Construction and research helps
• Protection from raids
• 30 percent gathering speed in territory
• Tribe events, League rewards, and Auction House access

Playing solo is the fastest way to fall behind.

4.4 Your Daily Economic Checklist

• Keep builders and research queues active 24/7.
• Use all daily stamina.
• Gather or hunt whenever marches are idle.
• Collect taxes before reset.
• Request and give tribe help.

5. Breaking the Mid-Game Resource Wall

The mid game begins when upgrade demand outpaces passive income. Your job is to break that wall.

5.1 Diagnose the Bottleneck

• Production vs transport: resources trapped in stockpiles are wasted.
• Knowledge and coins: the biggest progression gates.
• Asymmetrical demand: wood is usually the first hard wall, then stone and iron.

5.2 Tactical Fixes That Scale

• Max workers in key buildings for a flat 50 percent boost.
• Upgrade roads and transport before production.
• Use stamina buying to brute force resource injections.
• Time big hunts with events to double dip rewards.
• Train T1 only, skip T2, and push directly to T3 or T4.

5.3 Long-Term Stability

• Save scaling bundles for late game spikes.
• Coordinate Valhalla rallies and tribe farming loops.
• Position inside tribe territory for safety and gather speed.

Conclusion: The Path to Economic Supremacy

A dominant economy in Fate War is built, not found. Prioritize transport capacity, accelerate knowledge, and turn Black Forge hunting into your main resource engine. Pair that with disciplined spending and tribe coordination, and you will break every resource wall the game throws at you. Master the economy, and everything else follows.