Drag a building card from the left onto the map to place it.
Drag a placed building to relocate it. The ghost turns red when the spot is invalid (off-map, overlapping, or off-expansion).
Click an orange "+" tile to unlock that 4×4 expansion. The settlement has a fixed irregular shape — you start with 12 unlocked expansions (the 4×3 green block) and can unlock up to 41 total. To undo an unlock, click ⊟ REMOVE EXP. in the top bar; owned expansions get a red ✕ overlay — click one to remove it (must be empty of buildings). Press Esc to exit remove mode.
Click the × on a building to delete it.
Add custom buildings via the form on the left — set name, size, category and production values. Stats update live.
Zoom: use + / − / 0, the toolbar buttons, or scroll the wheel over the map. Press L to hide/show the right-hand ledger.
Undo / redo: Ctrl+Z undoes the last placement, move, deletion, expansion change, or other settlement-shaping action. Ctrl+Shift+Z (or Ctrl+Y) redoes. Up to 50 steps of history, kept only for the current session.
Calculator (🧮 CALC): Plan resource requirements for a list of buildings without committing them to the map.
Boosts from your main city (Great Buildings, special structures) add inside
the QI production formula:
total = base × (productivity + qi_bonus + main_city_boost)
Coin/Supply boosts apply per building via the formula above.
Actions/hour adds flat to the settlement total. The game also grants a baseline 5,000 actions/hour automatically.
Action Capacity adds to the baseline of 200,000.