:: Quick-Start Guide for new beginners ::

Quick-Start Guide
(For members there are a exclusive advanced startup tactics! See Member forum)

Jump to Step 1 to get started right away!

It is easy to "get stuck" with no resources in Evony, especially in the beginning.

This guide gets you past the growing pains of the game and into the fun more quickly!

In 5 minutes you will have 200 prestige and more resources than you started with (Step 12).

In one hour you will be a Lieutenant with 1400 prestige and four times your original resources (Step 47).

By Step 60 you will be a Knight with 2100 Prestige and a lot of resources!

Let's begin!


Visit http://www.evony.com/

Create an account on the newest server and login.


Click on your favorite state.
They are all the same, differing only in name.

If your friends are playing, tell them to pick the same state so your cities will be nearby.


At this point the game starts!

1. Click Quest button
Daily Quest tab, Get reward

2. Build Cottage level 2
Speed it up

3. Build Inn
Speed it up

Click City

4. Build Farm
Speed it up

5. Build Sawmill
Speed it up

6. Build Quarry
Speed it up

7. Build Ironmine
Speed it up

Turn in quest

8. Build Sawmill level 2
Speed it up

9. Build 3 Cottages level 2
Speed it up

10. Build Rally Spot
Speed it up

11. Build Barracks
Speed it up

Turn in quest

12. Build Feasting Hall
Wait for it to complete

A good time is 3-5 minutes
A great time is 2 minutes
The record is 0:01:29

At this point you should have about 200 Prestige, 7300 Food, 3950 Lumber, 5750 Stone, 7300 Iron

While waiting
13. Do 10 push-ups because exercise is good for you!

14. Click Overview, Levy and choose Stone
15. Click Overview, Comforting and choose Praying
Turn in quest

16. Train 10 Workers in your Barracks

17. Click Overview and set the Production of all four resources to 100
Turn in quest

18. Click Overview and set the Tax Rate to 20%
Turn in quest

19. Click Overview and rename your city
Turn in quest

20. Click your portrait and change your flag
Turn in quest

21. Click the Wheel of Fortune (the roulette in the bottom-left corner), then Apply
Turn in quest

22. When Feasting Hall finishes
Turn in quest

23. Recruit hero from Inn
Turn in quest

24. Appoint him mayor in Feasting Hall
Turn in quest

Note: Check the Inn periodically - if a hero with at least 10 higher Politics is available, replace your current hero with him. Higher politics reduces construction time and increases resource production!

25. Build Marketplace
Turn in quest

26. Train 10 Warriors in your Barracks

27. Build Town Hall level 2
Turn in quest

28. Levy Lumber
Comfort with Disaster Relief

29. Build Embassy
Turn in quest

30. Build Academy
Turn in quest

31. Research Lumbering

32. Build Warehouse
Turn in quest

33. Research Agriculture

34. Build Ironmine level 2
Speed it up

35. Build Ironmine level 3

36. Build Forge
Speed it up
Turn in quest

37. Build Forge level 2

38. Research Military Science

39. Build Workshop
Turn in quest

40. Build Quarry level 2
Speed it up

Note: If you get stuck, Levy the missing resource

41. Build Walls
Turn in quest

42. Build Beacon Tower
Turn in quest

43. Build Beacon Tower level 2
Turn in quest

44. Build Beacon Tower level 3
Turn in quest

45. Build Town Hall level 3
Turn in quest

46. Build Walls level 2
Turn in quest

47. Click Gift icon in top-left corner
Claim Newbies Package and Package for Lords
Click My Items, Chest tab
Open both packages by clicking Detail, then Apply

At this point you should be a Lieutenant with about 1400 Prestige, 35000 Food, 15000 Lumber, 20000 Stone, 25000 Iron

48. Build Farm level 2
Speed it up

49. Build 6 Sawmill level 3
Speed it up

50. Build 3 Quarry level 3
Speed it up

Continue building up 10 Sawmill level 3 and 7 Quarry level 3
Build cottages to keep population from going red

51. Build Academy level 2 when resources allow
Turn in quest

52. Research Masonry

53. Build Barracks level 2
Turn in quest

54. Research Mining

55. Build Academy level 3
Turn in quest

56. Research Informatics
Speed it up

57. Research Military Tradition

58. Train 10 Scouts in your Barracks

59. Build Barracks level 3
Turn in quest

60. Train 10 Pikemen

At this point you should be a Knight with about 2100 Prestige, 40000 Food, 15000 Lumber, 7500 Stone, 10000 Iron

61. Build Marketplace level 2

Maximize all your production squares with equal numbers of Sawmills and Quarrys
Keep only one farm and one ironmine
Always buy your food (it is 10 times cheaper than any other resource)
Also buy your iron (it is half the price of lumber and stone)
It's the Walmart model of maximizing profit per square foot!

62. Start buying and selling resources

63. Create your second city
To see how, hover over the city icon in the bottom-right corner next to the Buy button

To conquer a Flat (where your new city will be), train an army of 200 warriors
Click Map and attack the closest level 1 or 2 Flat

In your second city

64. Build Rally Spot
Speed it up

65. Move your 250 workers back to your home city
Click Map
Select your home city
Click Reinforce
Send all workers home

66. When they return, go to your home city
Click Map
Select your new city
Click Transport
Select all your workers
Send equal amounts of lumber, stone and iron, resources your new city needs to grow

In your second city

67. Build Cottage level 2
Speed it up

68. Build Inn
Speed it up

69. Build Feasting Hall

70. Reinforce one high-politics hero from your home city to your new city

71. Maximize your production squares as before

72. Build Town Hall level 2

73. Build Academy
Without an Academy, you don't get the food and lumber science bonus

74. Build Academy level 2
Without an Academy level 2, you don't get the stone and iron bonus

75. Build Town Hall level 3
This opens up new resource squares
Click City and build on the new squares

See the Evony Theory Crafting section for more advanced strategies.