One of the most important events in the game on World Wonder worlds is the Artefact release. The artefacts lay a foundation for future fights for victory and give lots of benefits to their owners.
- The detailed description of artefacts effects can be found in our Travian Knowledge base: Artefact effects.
- Step to step instruction on how to conquer an artefact you will find here: Capturing artefacts.
Conquering artefacts is mainly an alliance organised action. This doesn’t mean you cannot conquer some artefact as a solo player. However, if you play in an alliance, it would be wise to follow leaders’ instructions on that matter. Alliance leaders might ask you to build treasury 20, for example, or train 55 catapults in a certain village that they expect to be close to artefacts to ensure that alliance will have closest possible catapults to some artefact village.
If you are taking part in an artefact battle, make sure to be online when the artefacts appear – most valuable artefacts quite often are conquered within minutes!
Conquering an artefact
It’s not unusual that up to 3 players take part in conquering artefacts and it might be done in 3 waves:
The cleaner: Some player attacks Natar with a sufficient army accompanied by the hero equipped with Natar Horn (left-hand hero item that adds 20%-30% attack strength against Natars depending on its tier). Since Natars do not have walls when they appear and they can build wall max to level 1 in artefact village, the cleaner doesn’t need rams and can travel quite fast.
The catapults: Anyone who has closest catapults to a certain artefact sends catapults to destroy the treasury. Natars have treasury level 20 in all artefact villages, including those that contain small artefacts! That means you need to make sure that you send enough catapults to destroy building level 20. 55 non-upgraded catapults sent with one target – Treasury – will do the trick.
The hero: The hero attacks from the village that has an empty treasury of sufficient level: 10 for small artefact, 20 for great and unique.
Of course, the same action can be performed by one player and even with one wave, the above scenario is one out of multiple options how to optimise travel times and make sure you conquer as many valuable artefacts as possible with your alliance.
Where should I expect artefacts to appear?
On most game worlds Unique artefacts appear inside or close to grey area (coordinates 0 – 25), Great artefacts and a part of small ones will appear somewhere on a bigger spiral after Unique’s (coordinates 20-60), and small ones will appear somewhere from 40 to 110 coordinates. Those are approximate numbers. The higher and more stretched out the general population of a certain gameworld is, the more stretched the “artefact spirals» will be.
What defence should I expect in the artefact villages?
The artefact base defence formula is:
Base Natar defence * speed of the gameworld * some random multiplier different for each gameworld
Unlike independent Natar villages, the artefact villages do have scouts in them. So, make sure you send at least 200-400 if you want to scout Natar artefacts. The defence on all artefacts of the same tier (small, great, unique) is the same and they also have exact dependency between each other, so you don’t need to scout them all.
Just scout the closest and then you can figure out the defence on all 3 tiers using formulas below:
- Small to large: small defence * 1,5384
- Large to unique: large * 1,5
And the same the other way:
- Unique to large: unique defence / 1,5
- Large to small: large defence / 1,5384
Here is the example of artefact defence for one of the recent x1 gameworlds:
Other examples of Natar defences can be found here: Artefact defence records.
If you want to make sure in advance that your army is enough to clean up defence on a certain artefact, please use an in-game combat simulator.
Hope this article answers some of the questions you might still have about artefacts and helps you to prepare for this great battle.
See you next Thursday when we talk about preparation for the Construction Plans!
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