The Rise of Kingdoms Farming Guide explains the best ways to farm Food, Wood, Stone, Gold, Gems, and Speedups efficiently. Learn how to optimize gathering commanders, Alliance territory, Gem deposits, Action Points, Barbarian farming, farm accounts, boosts, and resource protection.
Rise of Kingdoms uses four primary city resources:
Food
Wood
Stone
Gold
Gems act as the premium currency.
Your resource priorities change as your account develops. Food and Wood are heavily consumed throughout early development, Stone becomes increasingly expensive during higher building upgrades, and Gold becomes particularly important for advanced technology, higher-tier troops, healing, and equipment-related expenses.
Food is heavily used for:
Troop training
Healing
Buildings
Research
Troop upgrades
Large armies consume huge amounts of Food indirectly because fighting creates constant healing and replacement costs.
Wood is another major general-purpose resource.
It is used extensively for:
Buildings
Research
Troops
Healing
Food and Wood are usually the easiest major resources to replace because map nodes are common.
Stone becomes increasingly important as your city develops.
Major building upgrades can consume enormous quantities of Stone, so waiting until you are completely empty before gathering it is inefficient.
Gold becomes one of the most important late-progression resources.
It is required heavily for:
Advanced research
Higher-tier troop training
Healing
Equipment-related progression
Gold nodes are also generally more limited than basic Food and Wood farming opportunities, making dedicated Gold gathering increasingly important on developed accounts.
Gems are different.
They can support:
VIP progression
Books of Covenant
Commander-related events
Shop purchases
Speedups
Utility items
Other premium progression systems
Because Gems can solve bottlenecks that ordinary resources cannot, spending them inefficiently can hurt an account far more than wasting several million Food.
City production helps, but your marches are the real farming engine.
Current resource guides continue to identify map gathering as the largest controllable source of regular resources once several march queues are available.
That means every idle march represents lost economic potential.
When you are not:
Fighting
Rallying
Reinforcing
Completing an event objective
your unused marches can usually be gathering.
Additional march queues dramatically increase farming capacity.
A player with five efficient gathering marches can collect resources in parallel rather than relying on one or two armies.
This makes City Hall progression economically important in addition to its military benefits.
The fifth march queue becomes available at City Hall 22, making this one of the most valuable economic milestones for a developed farming setup.
Do not use one good gathering commander and assume your economy is finished.
You can gather with several marches simultaneously, so you want several dedicated economic commanders.
Useful gathering commanders currently include:
Matilda of Flanders
Constance
Seondeok
Cleopatra VII
Wak Chanil Ajaw
Joan of Arc
Šárka
Gaius Marius
Ishida Mitsunari
Centurion
Casimir
Pepin
Different commanders specialize in different resources or provide additional-resource effects.
Useful options include:
Wak Chanil Ajaw
Gaius Marius
Use Food specialists when troop training, healing, or construction begins consuming your reserves faster than you can replace them.
Strong options include:
Constance
Joan of Arc
Wak Chanil Ajaw
Wood remains useful throughout almost every stage of account development.
Cleopatra VII is one of the best-known Stone specialists.
Wak Chanil Ajaw can also provide strong gathering utility for Stone and other standard resources.
Seondeok remains one of the most useful Gold gathering commanders.
As your Academy and high-tier troop costs increase, keeping at least one dedicated Gold march active becomes increasingly valuable.
Flexible commanders include:
Matilda of Flanders
Šárka
Joan of Arc
Ishida Mitsunari
These commanders can be sent to whichever resource is currently limiting your account.
Some gatherers provide more than simple gathering speed.
Matilda of Flanders and Constance are especially useful because their developed skills can provide additional resources after completing gathering.
That is different from gathering-speed bonuses.
Gathering speed reduces how long it takes to clear the resource node.
Additional-resource effects increase what you effectively receive when the gathering action is completed.
Both mechanics are valuable.
A good farming setup therefore considers:
Gathering speed
Troop load
Resource specialization
Additional-resource bonuses
March travel time
rather than looking at one percentage alone.
Legendary gathering commanders can be useful.
That does not mean they deserve Universal Legendary Sculptures.
For F2P and low-spending players, sculptures such as those used for Seondeok, Cleopatra VII, or Ishida should generally come through their normal acquisition methods.
Universal Legendary Sculptures are far more valuable when reserved for competitive combat commanders.
The difference between a slightly stronger gatherer and a completed meta PvP commander is enormous.
Only the primary commander's talents affect the march.
That means a dedicated gathering primary should generally use the Gathering talent tree.
Important Gathering talents improve areas such as:
Gathering speed
Resource-specific gathering
Troop load
March efficiency
Superior Tools is a particularly important Gathering talent because it improves overall gathering speed.
Do not waste huge amounts of Commander XP pushing every economic commander to Level 60.
The objective is to reach the important Gathering talents.
Many dedicated gatherers can perform their economic role at a much lower commander level once the required talent points are available.
Save your major XP investment for combat primaries.
Siege units are naturally suited to resource farming because of their high load capacity.
For farm accounts and general economic marches, Tier 1 Siege units are particularly popular because they are cheap, fast to train, and provide useful load for gathering. Current farm-account guides continue to recommend T1 Siege as the standard economical farming troop.
You do not need expensive combat troops sitting inside a peaceful resource node.
Use enough troops to carry the node's full resource amount.
Sending dramatically more troops than necessary does not make the node more valuable.
One of the largest easy gathering bonuses comes from your alliance.
Normal resource points owned inside your Alliance territory provide 25% increased gathering speed to alliance members. Gathering from owned resource nodes also contributes additional resources to the Alliance Storehouse.
This makes Alliance territory extremely valuable economically.
When choosing between two similar resource nodes, the node inside your Alliance territory is usually better.
There is one exception.
Do not march halfway across the kingdom for a small theoretical gathering improvement.
Real farming efficiency includes:
Gathering time + travel time + idle time.
A slightly worse resource tile beside your city can sometimes outperform a theoretically superior node that requires excessive travel.
Organized alliances can construct Resource Centers dedicated to particular resources.
These provide another valuable source of:
Food
Wood
Stone
Gold
for members.
Alliance structures are especially useful because many members can gather there safely and efficiently within organized territory.
An active alliance is therefore not only important for war.
It is part of your economy.
Enhanced Gathering items can significantly improve farming sessions.
Current versions provide +50% gathering speed for either 8 or 24 hours.
Use them when you expect to keep several marches gathering.
Activating an 8-hour boost and then leaving three marches idle wastes most of its value.
The bonus becomes much stronger when combined with:
Gathering commanders
Gathering talents
Alliance territory
Economic technology
Alliance technology
Gathering runes
Relevant titles
Many small bonuses can combine into a much faster economy.
Runes can provide temporary economic bonuses, including bonuses to particular resource-gathering types.
Before sending multiple long gathering marches, check whether your alliance has shared a useful rune location.
Do not spend excessive march time collecting a weak rune.
But when a strong gathering rune is close, taking it before launching several farming marches can improve the whole session.
Some kingdom and alliance titles provide temporary gathering bonuses.
Current gathering references list:
Saint: +10% gathering speed
Queen: +15% gathering speed
Availability depends on leadership and title management, so these should be viewed as temporary optimizations rather than permanent farming bonuses.
Gathering speed is also increased by economic technology.
Do not neglect research simply because commanders provide visible farming bonuses.
Technology can permanently improve the efficiency of every future gathering march.
Farm accounts in particular should prioritize:
Gathering speed
Troop load
March efficiency
Useful production bonuses
rather than consuming massive amounts of resources on military research they do not need.
Do not gather Food simply because your Food commander is your strongest gatherer.
Economic efficiency means solving bottlenecks.
If your next upgrade requires massive amounts of Stone, gather Stone.
If military research is consuming Gold, gather Gold.
If KvK fighting drained your Food reserves, rebuild Food.
A slightly less optimized gathering commander farming the correct resource is more useful than a perfect gatherer collecting something you already have in excess.
A major difference between strong and weak economies is simple march uptime.
A gathering march produces nothing while sitting inside your city.
When practical, send your marches to resource nodes before you stop actively playing.
Choose nodes with enough remaining resources that the march does not return almost immediately.
You do not need a complicated schedule.
Just reduce unnecessary idle time.
Gems require a different approach from normal resources.
You can obtain Gems through several systems, including:
Daily objectives
Events
Quests
Barbarian rewards where applicable
Alliance rewards
KvK rewards
Gem deposits
Gift codes
Other progression activities
Current 2026 guides still identify these as major free Gem sources.
Before gathering Gem deposits on the map, you must unlock the appropriate economic technology.
Jewelry allows your troops to gather Gems.
Further economic research through Cutting and Polishing improves Gem gathering speed.
This distinction matters.
Jewelry unlocks Gem gathering.
Cutting and Polishing improves its efficiency.
Gem farming is different from normal gathering.
Standard Food, Wood, Stone, and Gold nodes can hold large resource quantities and keep a march occupied for a long period.
Gem nodes are much smaller.
Current references list:
Level 1 Gem Deposit: 10 Gems
Level 2 Gem Deposit: 20 Gems
which means serious Gem farming requires frequent march movement.
When actively farming Gems:
Find several deposits in the same general area.
Send a Gathering march.
After finishing one node, move directly to another nearby node.
Avoid returning to the city after every small deposit.
Return when troop load or map positioning makes it necessary.
Reducing unnecessary return trips increases Gems earned per active farming period.
You do not need special Gem-only commanders.
Normal gathering commanders remain useful.
Strong options include:
Matilda of Flanders
Constance
Seondeok
Šárka
Gaius Marius
The same principles apply:
Gathering talents
Troop load
Gathering speed
Additional-resource effects
Low-cost Siege troops
Current 2026 Gem-farming guides continue to recommend these economic commanders.
This is extremely important.
Food, Wood, Stone, and Gold can be transferred between compatible accounts through resource assistance.
Gems cannot be transferred in the same way.
Therefore, if your main account needs Gems, the main account needs to earn or gather them.
Your farm accounts can still help indirectly.
If the farm supplies your main account with regular resources, your main account can spend more of its own gathering time hunting Gem deposits.
Direct Gem farming should complement other free sources, not replace them.
For example, current daily objective rewards include 100 Gems in the final activity chest at 100 activity points.
Other activities can also provide Gems without dedicating gathering marches exclusively to Gem deposits.
The key principle is simple:
Take the easy Gems first.
Then use active Gem gathering when the opportunity cost makes sense.
Farming Gems efficiently means very little if you waste them afterward.
Gems should generally be saved for high-value progression such as:
Important VIP milestones
Books of Covenant when Castle progression becomes a bottleneck
Valuable commander events
High-value event spending
Selected shop items
Current 2026 Gem guides still identify VIP 6 as a major early priority because it permanently unlocks the second building queue, while VIP 10 becomes another important long-term milestone because of recurring Legendary Commander Sculpture value.
Avoid treating Gems as ordinary Speedups.
If you already intend to spend a large Gem reserve, the More Than Gems event can provide additional rewards for spending toward objectives you needed anyway.
Current 2026 versions use progressive spending milestones and award valuable items including Universal Legendary Commander Sculptures.
The important farming lesson is not to obsess over an event calendar.
It is:
Do not spend a large Gem reserve randomly when planned spending can produce additional value.
Converting premium currency directly into Food, Wood, Stone, or Gold is generally poor value for a normal account.
Those resources can be:
Gathered
Produced
Earned from events
Supplied by farm accounts
Obtained from Alliance sources
Gems cannot be replaced nearly as easily.
Keep premium currency for premium bottlenecks.
Speedups come in several categories:
Universal Speedups
Building Speedups
Research Speedups
Training Speedups
Healing Speedups
Universal Speedups can substitute for the specialized types and are therefore the most flexible.
That flexibility also makes them worth protecting.
Normal Barbarians remain one of the most repeatable uses of Action Points.
Depending on current reward tables and events, Barbarians can provide combinations of:
Commander XP
Resource packs
Speedups
Tomes of Knowledge
Event items
Gems where applicable
Arrows of Resistance
KvK-related progress
Use Peacekeeping commanders whenever possible because their talents can improve PvE efficiency.
Barbarian chaining uses area-of-effect damage to involve multiple nearby Barbarians after paying the initial AP cost for the original target.
This can dramatically increase the value obtained from a limited Action Point reserve.
AoE commanders are naturally useful for this method.
The objective is not simply killing the highest-level Barbarian available.
You want better:
Rewards per Action Point.
Current speedup and Barbarian guides continue to highlight chaining as an important F2P efficiency technique.
Barbarian Forts provide another important AP-based farming activity.
They are particularly valuable because they can provide:
Books of Covenant
Commander XP
Resources
Speedups where included
Alliance gifts
Event rewards
Books of Covenant are especially important because Forts remain the primary repeatable free source used toward Castle progression.
A strong active alliance makes Fort farming significantly easier because you can continuously join successful rallies rather than trying to organize everything yourself.
The Courier Station's Mysterious Merchant can offer:
Resources
Speedups
Boosts
Commander-related items
Utility items
Some of the best purchases are Speedups offered for ordinary resources rather than Gems.
Those trades effectively convert farmable Food, Wood, Stone, or Gold into progression time.
The merchant can reappear after activities such as building upgrades, troop training, and Barbarian defeats, giving active players additional purchase opportunities.
Gem-paid refreshes exist, but repeatedly spending premium currency simply to search for minor Merchant discounts can erase the value you were trying to gain.
Take profitable offers.
Do not turn discount hunting into Gem waste.
The VIP Shop includes discounted items that become available at different VIP levels.
Examples can include:
Universal Speedups
Resources
AP recovery
Teleports
Equipment materials
Commander-related items
Certain Universal Speedups are substantially discounted compared with ordinary Shop prices.
This does not mean you should purchase everything.
Evaluate:
Price → scarcity → immediate need → long-term account value.
Many events provide Speedups through:
Milestone rewards
Event stores
Objective completion
Ranking rewards
Chests
The important principle is to avoid spending more Speedups than an event gives back simply because a reward looks attractive.
Events should improve the value of progression you already intended to complete.
They should not force wasteful account decisions.
When you have:
10 hours of Research Speedups
10 hours of Universal Speedups
and you need to complete research, use the Research Speedups first when practical.
The Universal Speedups can later solve:
Construction
Research
Training
Healing
Specialized Speedups cannot.
Flexibility has value.
Do not immediately burn Speedups after beginning an eligible building or research timer.
Let Alliance Help reduce the timer first.
Then use Speedups on the remaining duration.
Over hundreds of upgrades, ignoring free Alliance Help can waste enormous quantities of progression time.
Speedups are not valuable because they make a timer disappear.
They are valuable because they let you choose when progression happens.
That flexibility matters when:
Unlocking an important troop tier
Completing critical research
Recovering after warfare
Training troops
Meeting useful event thresholds
Reaching a major City Hall milestone
Do not consume an entire Speedup reserve simply because you are impatient.
Eventually, one city may struggle to gather enough resources for:
Advanced technology
T5 troop costs
Large healing bills
Continuous training
Major construction
This is where a farm account becomes valuable.
A farm account is a secondary city designed primarily to produce and gather resources for your main account.
A farm account should prioritize:
City Hall
March queues
Trading Post
Academy economic technology
Siege Workshop
Gathering commanders
Resource production
Storehouse
Alliance Center
It generally does not need:
Premium PvP commanders
Expensive Legendary equipment
Maximum military technology
T5 troops
Heavy combat specialization
Every unnecessary military investment consumes resources the farm could have transferred to your main.
Current farm guides identify two especially practical targets:
City Hall 17 provides four march queues.
City Hall 22 provides five march queues.
A CH17 farm is cheaper to establish.
A CH22 farm requires more development but provides another permanent gathering march.
The correct choice depends on how seriously you intend to maintain the farm.
Regular resources can be transferred between alliance members through resource assistance using the Trading Post.
That allows a farm account to support the main account with:
Food
Wood
Stone
Gold
Taxes apply, which makes Trading Post development important.
Remember:
You cannot transfer Gems this way.
Gathering millions of resources and then losing them to a city attack defeats the purpose.
Resources exist in two important forms:
Raw resources
Resource items
Resource items stored in your inventory cannot be plundered.
Raw resources above your Storehouse protection can potentially be stolen.
Keep large resource items inside your inventory until you actually need them.
Open enough for:
An upgrade
Research
Training
Healing
and keep the rest protected.
A huge raw-resource balance is not a trophy.
It can become a target.
Resource nodes can become dangerous during:
Kingdom wars
KvK
Pass fights
Enemy incursions
Territory disputes
Gathering commanders and Siege units are not designed to survive serious PvP.
Monitor your marches and avoid sending valuable troops to exposed nodes near active battle areas.
Alliance territory provides economic advantages, but it does not make gatherers invulnerable.
For a strong economy, prioritize these principles:
Keep spare march queues gathering.
Develop several Gathering commanders.
Use Gathering talents on your farming primaries.
Use Siege units for efficient troop load.
Gather inside Alliance territory when practical.
Use Enhanced Gathering boosts for serious farming.
Collect the resource your account actually needs.
Treat Gold as an increasingly important long-term resource.
Unlock Jewelry before attempting dedicated Gem farming.
Farm Gems on the account that needs them.
Use Barbarians and Forts to convert Action Points into progression.
Buy resource-priced Speedups from the Merchant when worthwhile.
Preserve Universal Speedups whenever specialized ones can do the job.
Create farm accounts when one city's resource income becomes insufficient.
Keep resource items unopened until needed.
Efficient farming comes from stacking small advantages rather than finding one magical resource source.
An idle gathering march generates nothing.
Farm your bottleneck instead of collecting random resources.
The 25% owned-territory gathering bonus is substantial.
Gathering commanders should perform their economic job efficiently.
Most dedicated economic commanders do not need maximum levels.
Combat Legendaries generally provide far more value from universal sculptures.
Siege units are usually more efficient economically.
Regular resources are replaceable.
Premium currency is much harder to replace.
Gems cannot be transferred to your main account like Food, Wood, Stone, and Gold.
A discount is only valuable if the underlying item is worth buying.
Preserve flexibility whenever possible.
Inventory resources are protected from plunder.
Keep them there until needed.
A farm exists to produce resources, not compete with your main account.
Use multiple dedicated Gathering marches with developed Gathering commanders, economic technology, appropriate Siege units, and Alliance-territory bonuses.
Map gathering remains the most important controllable source of normal resources.
Strong gathering options include Matilda of Flanders, Constance, Seondeok, Cleopatra VII, Wak Chanil Ajaw, Joan of Arc, Šárka, Gaius Marius, Ishida Mitsunari, and Centurion.
There is no reason to choose only one.
Build several.
Seondeok is one of the strongest dedicated Gold gathering commanders.
Gold becomes increasingly valuable as research, troop, healing, and equipment expenses grow.
Siege units are normally preferred because of their high troop load.
Tier 1 Siege units are particularly useful on economic and farm accounts because they are inexpensive and easy to replace.
Members gather 25% faster from normal resource points owned by their Alliance territory.
Enhanced Gathering items currently provide a 50% gathering-speed increase, with 8-hour and 24-hour versions available.
Unlock Jewelry in the Academy, find Gem deposits on the map, and use Gathering commanders with enough troop load.
Also collect Gems from normal account activities such as objectives, events, quests, Barbarians where applicable, Alliance rewards, and KvK.
No.
Regular resources can be transferred through resource assistance, but Gems cannot.
Usually not as a normal habit.
Gems generally provide greater long-term value through important VIP milestones, Books of Covenant when necessary, commander-related systems, and planned high-value purchases.
Combine several sources:
Barbarians
Barbarian Forts
Events
Mysterious Merchant
VIP Shop
Alliance rewards
Quests and progression activities
The Merchant is particularly valuable when Speedups are offered for ordinary resources rather than Gems.
Yes.
Fort rallies are especially important for Books of Covenant and can also provide XP, Alliance rewards, resources, Speedups, and event progress depending on the current reward structure.
A farm account becomes increasingly useful when your main city's marches cannot support your resource consumption.
City Hall 17 provides four gathering marches, while City Hall 22 provides five and is a strong long-term farm target.
Yes.
Raw Food, Wood, Stone, and Gold above your Storehouse protection may be plundered.
Resource items kept in your inventory cannot be plundered.
Farming in Rise of Kingdoms is ultimately about keeping your account economically sustainable.
Your marches should gather the resources your account actually needs. Gathering commanders should be developed for economic efficiency rather than combat. Alliance territory, boosts, technology, runes, and titles should reinforce those marches whenever practical.
Gems require more discipline.
Earn them through normal account activities and Gem deposits, then protect their value by avoiding unnecessary purchases.
Speedups should be treated similarly.
Barbarians, Forts, events, the Mysterious Merchant, Alliance activity, and shops can steadily build your reserve, but the real advantage comes from using Speedups only when the progression they create is worthwhile.
Once your main account consumes more resources than it can produce, add farm accounts rather than allowing your combat progression to stall.
A strong commander roster wins battles.
A strong economy makes sure you can afford to keep fighting them.
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