So you got yourself tossed back into some Medieval Times Clash of Clones war. You need somewhere to stay, right? So why not build a Castle…or Three. Lol.
In this post I will be going over the basics of building the Castles and what it means to “Level Up” each one.
First off, as you can see there are 3 Castles total. The Main one is the Barbarian Castle that you will be prompted to build at the first of the Event. Prince and the Premise Part 2.
The Next Castle you will be able to build will be the Recycled Castle you would have earned at 400 Gold Coins and would have been tucked into your inventory locked until you reach the unlock point. It will kick off after Prince and the Premise Part 9. Lisa will then launch into Eco Castle Part 1.
The Last Castle you will be able to build is Boxingham Castle. This one you would have earned at Gold and would have been tucked into your inventory locked until you reach the unlock point. It will kick off after Eco Castle Part 1 when Lisa completes building her Recycled Castle. It will then launch into Boxed In Part 1.
As you progress in the game, you get the chance to Level Up these 3 Castles. So how does it work? What benefit do you get from leveling up? Well, let’s break it down. (This list is the same for each Castle, the only difference is the Walls, Towers, and Gate will go with the one you Level Up.)
| Castle Level | Upgrade Elixr Cost | Bonus |
| 1 | * | Start with 5 Troop Generation |
| 2 | 200 | Troop Generation +5  |
| 3 | 350 | Max Troops +5 |
| 4 | 600 | Castle Walls +4 |
| 5 | 800 | Defense +1 Hr |
| 6 | 1000 | Castle Tower +2 |
| 7 | 1300 | Troop Generation +5 |
| 8 | 1600 | Castle Walls +4 |
| 9 | 2000 | Max Troops +5 |
| 10 | 2400 | Castle Gate +1 |
| 11 | 2900 | Defense +1 Hr |
| 12 | 3400 | Troop Generation +5 |
| 13 | 4000 | Max Troops +5 |
| 14 | 4600 | Defense +1 Hr |
| 15 | 5300 | Troop Generation +5 |
| 16 | 6000 | Max Troops +5 |
| 17 | 6800 | Defense +1 Hr |
| 18 | 7600 | Troop Generation +5 |
| 19 | 8500 | Max Troops +10 |
| 20 | 9400 | Defense +1 Hr |
| Additional Level | Level 21 – 10,500Price increases by 1,000 each additional level | Castle Wall +1 |
So as you can see, Leveling Up is quite beneficial to you as it will allow your Castles to create MORE Nerds to send into battle for you. It will increase the MAX amount of Nerds you can have at once. It will add 1 Hour each time to your Defense on all your Castles and buildings, making it harder for a Neighbor or Random Invader to destroy it. Not to mention it will help you to build each Castle to make it look a lot cooler. This is also why the walls stay locked in your Menu. You have to wait until you unlock them at the Levels.
You will need 68,750 Elixr for each Castle to reach Level 20. Now, do not fret on that amount. You earn a LOT of Elixr just by completing each task in the questlines, of which there are a ton. You also have the option to Level Up Characters to earn more too. (More details on that in the Character Level Up post.) There will be MANY ways to reach these goals. Of course if you prefer, you can always invest in the Elixr Sales every Wednesday during the Event.
So let’s add up the totals you can get if you MAX to Level 20:
For the Barbarian Castle you will earn a total of 8 Walls, 2 Towers, and 1 Gate
For the Recycled Castle you will earn a total of 8 Walls, 2 Towers, and 1 Gate
For the Boxingham Castle you will earn a total of 8 Walls, 2 Towers, and 1 Gate
For your town you can earn +5 Hours total per Castle. Giving you +15 Hours all together for Level 20 on all 3 Castles.
For your town you can earn +30 MAX Troops per Castle. Giving you +90 MAX Troops for Level 20 on all 3 Castles. Add to that the 40 you start with and that is 130 MAX Nerds total.
For your town you can earn +25 Troops Production every 2 hours per Castle. Giving you +75 Troops Production for Level 20 on all 3 Castles on top of the 5 that are already producing at Level 1. That is 90 Nerds Produced every 2 hrs.
There you have it. 3 Castles you can earn pretty easily and quick that will help you overall in the games events. The more you Level them up, the more they will help you out. Did this post help you out? What Levels are YOU on? What Castles do YOU have? Any suggestions to others on how you are Leveling Up? Feel free to add your thoughts below.
~Bunny
I feel the same way about Bart’s and Lisa’s castles Toni! I stopped leveling them up at 10 & can’t wait to get them out of my town & into storage.
Firstly, lovin’ the blog! How you guys get the time to type, tap and exist in the real world is, in its-self, worthy of a storyline in “The Simpsons Tapped Out”!!! HAHA!! Anyway, I recently achieved the lofty level of 20 for Lisa’s more than capable “Castle Recycle” yet I’m failing to see the wall, tower and gates change status. They remain premium items, whereas before “Barbarian Castle” has its wall, tower and gate made available to purchase with elixir after reaching level 20. Is this the way it should be? Am I doing something wrong? Have any other readers found this happen to them, one way or the other? I hope my questions can be answered, many thanks and keep up the great work!
The Recycle Castle and Boxingham pieces are supposed to be premium unfortunately. After Level 20 for both, you do earn one castle wall for each level for free though. Thanks for the kind words.
any way i can get a 4th tower for free/with elixir/with in game money, am NOT willing to use donuts for bloody decorations, i save up all my donuts painstakingly slowly to buy premium buildings
As of right now, there’s no way to get the 4th tower for Boxingham or Recycle without using donuts. Stinks.
Do you know if you store the castle do you lose your level ups and go back to level 1 or do the levels remain when you pull it back out of storage?
It stays at your level. Stored mine just to test it for you.
Thank you,
I am at level 15 and Bart’s castle and marge are both unlocked but I can’t use them.. Not sure why
Have you built Moe’s?
I attacked a Springfield that appeared to have two of each castle. Is that even possible?
“Altered” game. 🙁
After all three castles are at level 20, there is absolutely no point at all to keep upgrading them? It’s not like there was any point of upgrading the last 10 levels…
Lol. Not really. That is the point of this Event, it pokes fun of pointless leveling up. 😉
And the only point of collecting more elixir is if there is an other update with more free stuff? I think I have all I need of the free stuff already…
There’s a chance more will become available. Basically elixir just helps upgrade castles and buy the freemium stuff.
Ohh, I am so stupid. Just realised that Cardboard wall and Recycled Wall are premium items you actually can buy with elixir through Castle upgrades beyond level 20…
I see level 21 is offering me +1 wall…. Do I continue to receive +1 wall for each addition level up or will I get something different if I continue to level up?
It’s all walls after level 20.
I’m not going to update my castles anymore, and I’ve reached level 10 like ages ago. Because it’s TOTALLY USELESS. I’ll save my gold for extra towers and walls. BTW, I really hate the way Bart’s and Lisa’s castles look, they look like a pile of garbage and I’m putting them away the second this campaign ends. They’re ugly. Yeah, I don’t like kids’ creations, anyway…
i have a problem that i hope you can help me with! i cant level up bart’s and lisa’s castles – when i try, it says that i have to improve my vanity-score for my town. but my vanity-score is already great – i have 5 stars and i cant get more.. so now i cant improve my castles!
does anybody know what i can do? 🙂
Placing the parts helps Vanity. It is just an overall dialog. More just focus on leveling up the Castles. May take a lil time to complete it all, but the tasks will start to clear as you hit each target. 😉
Is there any point to upgrade beyond level 20, to Additional Level? That is one pricey piece of wall…
IMO- no. I’d rather spend my elixir on more decorations.
I haven’t had any issues with the game until yesterday. I spent 4000 exilirs to update one castle at level 13 to get max nerds. The game took my exilir and kept me at the same level telling me to repeat the 4000 exilir. I didn’t get max +5 nerds either. Is this a common glitch? I’m afraid to try again and lose 4000 exilir!! And I won’t update the other castles at that level fearful there’s a problem. I’m frustrated as I need more nerds!!
Contact EA
I’ve stopped levelling up my castle for the time being and concentrating on buying the items with my elixirs. I get 55 nerds every two hours which I think is more than enough as I’m over a week ahead on the gold calender. Producing extra nerds only means I have to spend even more time attacking b
Had just a update. Level 21 for castles is now 10’500. Thank you EA for having eliminated this error.
http://tstoaddicts.com/2014/09/04/in-game-update-new-decorations-and-more/
Upgrading and completing this thing is simple and hardly takes any time. I’m up to about 55,000 gold; 2 of my castles are level 19 and the other is level 17 — I’ve done all this without spending any money or donuts.
Also, I have a full-time job and two kids, so no, I do not spend hours a day on it. All it takes is 4 or 5 10-minute intervals a day.
Here is what you do:
1. ALWAYS defend your homes and castles. Do not let them sit there til they are destroyed. You owe nothing to anyone. Get your gold and elixir right away.
2. When attacking, attack the “Other Springfield” every day. Hit all castles first and then houses. Use all 5 attacks and only use one nerd on each. These are guaranteed wins. Just wait for them.
3. When attacking anyone but the “Other Springfield” only do attacks on strangers. They are worth more.
4. NEVER use more than one nerd when attacking — that is a waste. Why spend 9 nerds in the hopes that your attack pans out within an hour? It might not! If you attack 9 castles instead, and lose every fight, that’s 90 elixir right there.
5. Use up all your nerds, one at a time.
6. Come back after at least 2 hours and do it again.
That’s it. Less than one hour a day spent and you will end up making about 5,000 elixir a day. (10,000/day once you get your castles built up and have a lot of nerds). Be sure to keep upgrading your castles to get more nerds!!
I am on level 20 for all three castles. Until now, a level more was 900 elixier. Now the game wants 105’000 elixier for one more level. That is obviousely a programming error, where they put one zero too much! It should be 10’500 elixier.
Please EA do a game update without that obvious error!
They just updated it. 😉
Hi Bunny. How about opening a discussion & making some charts about the pros & cons of upgrading your castles past the point where you get quest bonuses for the upgrades. I know you get extra nerds & also nerd capacity for upgrading (BTW-what is the max nerd capacity for a level 20 castle?), but you also upgrade your defenses. I don’t know about y’all, but I bypass towns that have high defenses. Why use 17 nerds to bring a house down to 1 hour, when I can just keep hitting the attack button until I find a town that only needs 9 nerds for a 1 hour attack? I’m sure people are bypassing me all the time because of that. So I gain 5-10 nerds by upgrading, but I lose 5-30 elixirs every time someone skips me. Seems like it’s better to keep defenses low. (A chart showing the defense levels in hours per upgrade from 0 to 20 would be helpful.) What are your thoughts on it? Thanks.
The difficulty with it is you are not just playing against neighbors. Randoms pop in too. So there is not really an easy mix to go off of. I don’t think the defense levels has much to do with why you are or are not attacked. I think it is just people hopping town to town looking for castles as they pay out the most. Honestly for me, the most payout is 1 nerd, 1 building.
I spent 4000 elixir to level up to 13. It said I would get +5 more nets production but it stil show it producing 20 nerds. Same thing happened to another castle of mine.
Im now up to around 4000 gold and have got up to eco castle part 9 (i think) But it still wont let me place boxingham palace, how do i start the quest-line for this castle? Thanks for any responses
Sorry about that, im actually on eco castle part 5, ive had boxingham palace in my inventory for days but it says I need to start Boxed In part 1 before I can place it, how can i trigger this quest?
You need to get to part 9 of Prince and the Premise to trigger Lisa’s build of her castle. Then once hers is built and you unlock her skin, Barts quest will trigger.
What is Bart doing? Once Lisa builds hers and her skin is unlocked, Barts questline to build his gets triggered.
Ah, i haven’t got Bart yet, i didn’t know you needed him to start the quest, I thought it would only give you goblin Bart, but this way makes alot more sense, thanks
Hey are you sure its 105,000 for a wall? Wouldn’t 10,500 make more sense? Plus how is this awarded? Automatically? Or do you get an extra level up possibility on each castle that has reached level 20? So you can get a Lisa or Bart wall too…
Not if you paid attention to the dialog and them poking fun of the pointless upgrades games have. This…is just another pointless upgrade at a sickening amount. Lol.
Hmm. I don’t think so…
You can upgrade the Bart and Lisa castles for the same rate, so if you really want extra walls for them you can get them for about 100,000 elixir instead of two donuts. (Maybe after a few of those levels you get turrets or something?) For the homer castle extra walls are only 100 elixir, so it really does seem pointless to upgrade.
Not sure of this was answered already, but do you know if the castle levels will have any affect AFTER the event is finished?
I’m wavering between spending the elixir on upgrades vs. decorations, but if a level 20 or 21 castle will yield more return post-event (in-game cash, XP, etc.), than a level 10 or 12 castle… well, then I can skip the haybales, stockthings, and whatnot for now.
Honestly, there’s no way to tell. If I had to guess based on game dialogue, it won’t make one bit of difference. I could be wrong but I doubt it.
Thank you for the reply!
I just picked up my 15 donuts, and kinda wish I was singing some karaoke, too, myself!
Hey does anyone know why my power for Lisa is still locked it says to place recycled tower I just cant . Any ides y
I meant tower.
If you earned the tower via upgrading the castle, it should be in your inventory.
Double check your progress against the walkthrough. Lisa should unlock as you progress.
http://tstoaddicts.com/2014/08/21/turbo-tappin-medieval-style-prince-the-premise-clash-of-clones-and-the-power-of-upgrades/
If you’re past that point, you need to contact EA to unlock it.
http://tstoaddicts.com/2014/01/14/troubleshooting-101-contacting-ea/
Hi all, just quick heads up to all those worrying they need spent donuts to get 4th tower for Boxingham and Castle Recycle, don’t use your donuts, keep collecting your gold as you get one of each tower as the 8th prize, this gives you the extra tower necessary to have 4 for each castle without donut spend.
Sorry to burst your bubble RT but that prize tower is the 3rd one for each castle (you get 2 during the castle upgrades)…you then need to buy a fourth one yourself as no more can be earned through the quests. =(
How is that 4? There are 2 for levelling up your castle and 1 as the 8th price. So where is the fourth?
I’m going to pull a parenting move and just combine Bart and Lisa’s castles rather than spend donuts on extra towers, they’re just going to have to share their play-space. Harrumph!
I have the three compounds for the castles combined, and have a design plan that only cost me 20 donuts on castle walls to bring it all together. I just assumed that I wouldn’t be interested enough a month from now to get castle walls for free for going that far past level 21 on all of the castles. It’s a little crowded, but satisfies my completist “needs” while being a good steward of land and donuts.
Since there’s no character level-up post yet, I’ll just ask the general question here. I would LIKE to use some elixer to purchase decorations and thigns, but so far I’m saving it all to keep levelling up the castles/characters. My castles are all around level 10, and since they go up to level 20, I guess I have a long way to go. Further, I guess you can infnitely upgrade past level 21 for more walls.
My questions are 1) is there any real benefit to upgrading past level 21 other than to get an extra wall section? Or is that the logical place to stop upgrading? and 2) Does upgrading the characters have any effect on anything or is that just something you’re required to do to complete the quest lines? I know it doesn’t use elixer so you might as well upgrade them, but is it getting me anything by doing so?
Lol. We had them on the way. You can check it out here.
http://tstoaddicts.com/2014/08/27/character-level-up/
No benefit on Castles, no. You get more Elixr when you upgrade characters…see link.
I saw somewhere with 150000 elixir you can buy a castle wall or maybe tower. Can’t remember
At 150,000 Elixir and Level 21 you’ll earn more walls. However, I don’t know at which point you’ll earn more towers (if at any point).
Is there any way to get a fourth tower without donuts?? My castles look wonky with just three.
At 150,000 Elixir and Level 21 you’ll earn more walls. However, I don’t know at which point you’ll earn more towers (if at any point). It seems they’ll all cost donuts (well for Castle Recycle and Boxingham Palace…Barbarian Castle costs elixir)
Hi,
Some days ago I completed the quest to earn the two towers of the Barbarian Castle and I even got the msg saying that the were placed on my inventory. But when I look for them I don’t have them 🙁
The main issue is that I’m stacked on the quest as I need to place the towers to continue.
Have you seen this? Can it be fixed?
Any information would be appreciated.
Thanks.
Some folks have reported this. If they;re not in your inventory, unfortunately you need to contact EA to fix it. Hopefully they can fix it quick for you.
http://tstoaddicts.com/2014/01/14/troubleshooting-101-contacting-ea/
I am happy playing this medieval event…something different to pass the time while I wait to reach the 10M$ mark to buy the Sit-n-Rotate…;o)
Just one thing bugs me about it though…after reading on how I will be able to build up the different castles, it struck me that both the Eco Castle & Boxingham Castle will be stuck with only three towers after the freemium play (it seems that the fourth one for the Barbarian Castle can be bought with elixir)…what am I suppose to do with 3 towers!?
I find it a little frustrating that I will have to put in donuts if I want to get the fourth tower which is the logical way to build a castle with one in each corner…I guess that was planned by the marketing at EA saying that everyone will want the fourth one…let’s make some easy money…not cool people…=(
Another little thing is that I think that there is not much to buy with the elixir as decorations goes…I mean three (hay cart, stock & one banner) for a 7 weeks event? That seems very one dimensional to decorate around the castle areas…I get the upgrade thing which is very cool during the event…don’t get me wrong I want to get stuff to the next level as much as anyone…but all those upgrades to get more nerds and town defence, etc. won’t matter afterwards…only the stuff you actually put in your Springfield. The castles are really cool…but they are missing some garnish around it unfortunately.
Anyway…I am still having fun with this event…which is what matters most…but sometimes I think EA is a little disrespectful of the players…I mean I bought heaps of premium characters over the last year of playing so they are making money with me…but it was my choice to get them…this time I feel that I will be a little obligated to chip in some donuts at some point to round up this event and get my castles completed…
Hopefully they have a plan to add some more stuff during the event or something…
I hope they have a plan too.
After reading your other comments Wookiee…I think that I will do the same as you…spite EA a little by not buying the premium castle parts and find a creative way to use what I get for free…back to the creative drawing board to figure out how to build a castle with three towers…;o)
Cheers!
Do you have any guess as to whether there will be new stuff released to buy with elixir? Or do you think what’s in the menu is all there will be? Does upgrading beyond 10 change how the castles look in any way?
I have all three castles up to level 10. I have a pretty healthy stock elixir beyond that, and I’m holding onto it for now, just in case. I seem to be doing okay with my gold pile (just above 15,000), and I’m in no rush to increase defenses or nerd production. Just wondering what you thought…
The upgrades don’t change the appearance at all. As for additional items for elixir, nothing that we see right now. I sincerely hope EA has more planned for this long event. If nothing else, I’d be surprised to not see a level update somewhere in the middle of all this. Sounds like you’re doing good on game progress.
Yea….kind of surprised it’s such a long event , as let’s face it now people know the extra castle components are premium the vast majority are just not going to bother.
The freemium stuff will likely be done before September even for most addicts , which leaves a rather large empty timeframe .
I didn’t mind banners and stuff for donuts as at least they add a small conform bonus , but come on EA half complete castles is just a new low. Agree with wookie , use innovation to build some awesome free designs and maybe they will get the message.
It’s funny they mock games like clash of clans etc as by and large there free/premium models are far far better .
I actually think there is a new EU law in works that doesn’t allow a game to be called freemium if everything in game can’t be achieved for free ( I.E only premium speed ups allowed) , will be interesting to see if it goes ahead and how it affects gaming.