How to Grow Fast in Elvenar: The Ultimate Speed Progression Guide

Introduction: The Speed Mindset

Growing fast in Elvenar requires understanding that this is fundamentally a marathon disguised as a sprint. While the game operates on timers and gradual progression, strategic players can accelerate their development dramatically through optimized decision-making, resource management, and activity patterns. Fast growth isn’t about spending money—though that helps—it’s about eliminating wasted time, maximizing efficiency, and prioritizing high-impact actions over low-value busywork .

The key insight from experienced players is that Elvenar rewards consistent engagement more than sporadic intensive play. A player who logs in three times daily for 15 minutes will outperform someone who plays for two hours once per week, simply because production timers, scouting, and resource generation favor regular interaction. This guide will show you how to transform that consistent engagement into rapid chapter advancement and city development.

Early Game Acceleration: Chapters 1-5

The Foundation Phase

Your first days in Elvenar determine your trajectory for months. Start by building at least eight Residences immediately—this provides the population and coin income necessary for all subsequent actions. Simultaneously construct Workshops for Supplies production. These two building types form your economic engine, and upgrading them should be your absolute priority before expanding into other areas

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A critical early decision involves choosing between Elves and Humans. While both races progress at identical speeds mechanically, their building shapes impact space efficiency. Elven buildings are circular and compact, while Human buildings are rectangular and easier to organize. For pure speed, many veterans recommend Humans for their predictable layouts, though Elves can be equally fast with proper planning

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Quest Optimization

Complete Mainline Quests aggressively—these provide substantial rewards including up to 200,000 Gold Coins and 15,000 Supplies in early chapters. The first questline in the Arrival era alone grants 20,000 Gold Coins instantly

. Don’t ignore Repeatable Quests either; while optional, they provide consistent income that accelerates your early economy significantly.

Active Scouting

The fastest way to generate Knowledge Points early is aggressive World Map scouting. Each province encounter completed—whether through fighting or negotiating—rewards KP. Passive generation provides only 24 KP daily, but active scouting can double or triple this. Scout continuously, keeping your scout active at all times, and complete encounters as soon as possible

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Mid-Game Surge: Chapters 6-15

The Guest Race Priority

Guest races (Dwarves, Fairies, Orcs, Wood Elves, etc.) introduce temporary settlements that produce chapter-specific goods. The fastest progression strategy prioritizes settlement unlocks above all else. Research Portal Tracks and production buildings immediately upon entering a guest race chapter, delaying residential upgrades, barracks improvements, and other secondary technologies until settlement production begins

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For example, in the Dwarven chapter (Chapter 6), your research sequence should be:

1. Portal Tracks (connects settlement to city)
2. Granite Mines (first production building)
3. Copper Foundries (second production building)
4. Portal upgrade to Level 2
5. Only then backfill other technologies

This approach minimizes “tech lock”—the frustrating state where you cannot progress because you’re waiting for settlement goods production to ramp up. The earlier your settlement produces, the faster you accumulate resources for subsequent research.

Ancient Wonder Acceleration

Ancient Wonders provide permanent bonuses that compound over time. For speed growth, prioritize these wonders in order:

1. Golden Abyss: Provides population and coins; at maximum level offers 18% population discount across your entire city. Build this immediately upon unlocking in Chapter 4 .
2. Mountain Halls: Another 18% population discount plus goods production bonuses. This pairs with Golden Abyss to create massive space efficiency .
3. Needles of the Tempest: Reduces barracks training time by up to 40%, accelerating military production for tournaments and map expansion .
4. Timewarp: Reduces tournament cooldowns, enabling “instant tournament” completion when combined with a fed Polar Bear pet .

Upgrade one wonder to maximum level before starting another. A level 30 wonder provides exponentially more value than three level 10 wonders. This concentrated power spike accelerates your growth more than spreading resources thinly

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Resource Management for Speed

The Trading Economy

Focus production exclusively on your three “boosted” goods—one per tier, indicated by relics surrounding your city. These produce at 400% efficiency compared to non-boosted goods. Trade surplus boosted goods for everything else you need. This specialization allows you to maintain fewer manufactories, freeing space and population for other buildings

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When placing trades, offer slight premiums (10-25% above 1:1 ratio). These attract takers faster, converting your surplus into needed resources more quickly than waiting for perfect trades. Join an active fellowship with robust trading to ensure your trades complete promptly

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Coin to Knowledge Point Conversion

As your city develops, consistently convert excess coins to Knowledge Points. While costs escalate with each purchase (reaching 10+ million coins per KP in late-game), your Main Hall capacity and coin generation scale faster than costs if you progress normally. Never let your coin storage sit full—excess coins represent wasted potential that could accelerate your research

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Time Booster Optimization

Time boosters earned from tournaments, Spire, and events should be used strategically. Apply them to:

• Barracks training before tournaments
• Guest race settlement construction
• Ancient Wonder upgrades
• Long-production manufactories when you need goods urgently

Don’t waste boosters on short productions or buildings that will complete while you’re offline anyway.

Tournament and Spire Dominance

Tournament Speed Strategy

Tournaments provide Knowledge Points, relics, and premium rewards essential for fast growth. The optimal approach:

• Fight the first 6-10 provinces (these are “Easy” difficulty)
• Negotiate provinces beyond Province 10 (resource efficiency)
• Complete fewer provinces to higher star levels rather than many provinces to low stars
• Use military boost buildings (Unleashed Unit Upgrade, Dwarven Armorer) late in the week to span two tournament cycles

Spire of Eternity Priority

Unlock the Spire in Chapter 3 and run it consistently. Even reaching the Laboratory (first boss) provides diamonds, time boosters, and Magic Residence/Workshop chances. These Magic Buildings are game-changers for speed—a Magic Workshop produces as much as 9 standard workshops while requiring only 2 residences worth of population. This space efficiency allows dramatic city densification and faster progression

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Space Optimization: The Hidden Accelerator

The Ten Golden Rules

Space is your most precious resource. Following these principles frees 15-20% more space for production buildings:

1. Place your Main Hall in a corner to minimize road requirements
2. Position culture buildings and Builder’s Hut along edges (no road access needed)
3. Upgrade roads to highest tier immediately for bonus culture
4. Ensure every road segment serves multiple buildings
5. Avoid roads touching only one building at your perimeter
6. Place small culture ornaments at road terminations
7. Maintain a compact, square city shape
8. Orient rectangular buildings with short side touching roads
9. Group similar buildings together for efficient collection
10. Leave expansion room for building size increases at levels 5-6

Magic Building Integration

Prioritize winning Magic Residences and Magic Workshops from the Spire. These buildings allow you to:

• Replace 8-9 standard workshops with 1-2 Magic Workshops
• Reduce residential footprint by 60-70%
• Free enormous space for guest race settlements or additional manufactories
• Increase production while decreasing population requirements

Top players in Chapter 24 operate with only 4 Magic Workshops and 8 Magic Residences, freeing space that would otherwise require 40+ standard buildings.

Common Speed Traps to Avoid

Over-Scouting Without Preparation

Scouting more provinces increases difficulty for all future provinces. While aggressive scouting generates KP, reaching “Very Hard” difficulty before developing adequate military or goods production creates bottlenecks where you cannot complete provinces efficiently. Maintain provinces at “Medium” difficulty or below through Chapter 10, then relax restrictions as your strength grows

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Neglecting Culture

Low culture reduces all production by 20% or more—far more expensive than the culture buildings required to fix it. Maintain “Enthusiastic” culture (130% of required) for optimal production speed. This multiplier affects everything: coins, supplies, goods, and even training speeds indirectly

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Building Too Many Armories

Armories consume massive population for minimal benefit. Instead, use the Shrine of the Shrewdy Shrooms (or Dwarven Bulwark for Humans) Ancient Wonder to increase training queue capacity without population cost. This wonder-based approach preserves population for production buildings while maintaining military capability

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Immediate Expansion Placement

Province expansions increase your city grid but also increase tournament and Spire difficulty if placed immediately. Hold expansions unplaced until you specifically need the space for a building project. This prevents difficulty spikes while maintaining rapid expansion potential

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Fellowship Dynamics: The Multiplier Effect

Join an active fellowship immediately. Fellowships accelerate growth through:

• Knowledge Point threads: Mutual Ancient Wonder donations generate free KP daily
• Goods trading: Access to resources you don’t produce, without cross-tier penalties
• Tournament coordination: Collective rewards for fellowship performance
• Neighborly Help: Chains of building motivation that increase production

Choose a fellowship matching your activity level. Competitive players need high-activity groups pushing 10+ tournament chests weekly; casual players become frustrated in hardcore groups with strict requirements.

Event Participation: Seasonal Acceleration

Events provide evolving buildings that permanently boost your city. Prioritize:

• Fire Phoenix: Combat damage boost essential for tournament and Spire progression
• Brown Bear: Troop production increase for military-focused players
• Polar Bear: Tournament cooldown reduction for frequent tournament runners

Craft base plates from the Magic Academy when offered, but don’t place evolving buildings until you have sufficient artifacts for meaningful evolution. A single fully-evolved building outperforms multiple level-1 buildings occupying the same space

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The Speed Mindset: Daily Execution

Fast growth requires consistent daily habits:

• Morning: Collect all productions, restart 9-hour productions, check trades, send scout if idle
• Midday: Collect short productions, check tournament/Spire progress, assist fellowship members
• Evening: Collect all productions, restart overnight productions, plan next day’s research

Never let your scout sit idle—queue scouting before sleep. Never let production buildings sit completed—collect and restart promptly. Never let Knowledge Points cap at 10—spend them before regeneration stops.

Conclusion: The Compound Effect

Fast growth in Elvenar emerges from thousands of small optimizations compounding over time. Each efficient decision—upgrading a residence instead of building new, scouting one more province, converting coins to KP, using a time booster strategically—accelerates your timeline measurably.