Tower of Alchemy

The Tower of Alchemy provides a second location where you can use research items to obtain research points, greatly increasing your research power. However, unlike the Academy, which can always research any item, the Tower can only research items less than its current level; thus, a level 3 Tower can research level 1 (3m) and level 2 (15m) items, and so forth.

Like some other buildings (for example, the Quarters), your base starts out with the Tower of Alchemy at "level 1", but at this level it is still destroyed and does not do anything. Only when it is upgraded to level 2 does it actually begin to be useful.

The gallery below shows the tower of alchemy at all different levels.

Unusually for a building, the Tower does not require any resources to upgrade. The only thing necessary is that you have reached a certain number of stars from the Overthrow campaign (red stars). Once you've reached that level, all you need is time to upgrade.

Your journal has this to say about your Tower of Alchemy: Having received the distress signal of the Westfolk residents, no one could have imagined that in the valley of Richard we would meet the pre-war government of the Crimson Dominion, sunk into oblivion many years ago.

''Even before the occult wars, the Old Reich was obsessed with the search for immortality, and after the coup d'&eacute;tat, nothing has changed. Having lost everything, the "reichs" concentrated their efforts on achieving the cherished goal, which led them to the valley of Richard, where, according to legends, was the altar of Rearden Winterstein, the mysterious personality of pre-war times.''

''During "Overthrow" Operation, we managed to repel the tower from the enemy, to conduct its full inspection and inventory. Of course, there were no artifacts that bestowed immortality, but potions, books, recipes, formulas and reports were present in large numbers.''

''Guided by the found drawings, we erected an exact copy of the tower in the Osterberg fortress, later filled with equipment borrowed from Mr. Winterstein. Today, the greatest minds of the Resistance are engaged in studying the heritage of the great alchemist, conducting experiments on occult artifacts and developing the physiology of fighters in the name of victory over the Crimson Dominion! Demonstrate your tactical genius, Commander, and wipe him off the face of the earth!''