Kingdom: Classic

Kingdom: Classic

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Easy way to get the 'Safe in 25' achievement
By Totis
Hey there!
This is a simple guide to get the 25 day achievement. It's quite monotonous, but easy to remember. You'll need a basic knowledge of the game, but you don't have to be a pro to follow it.

1) The Begining (day 1)

At the start of the game immediately hold down the ‘down’ arrow key to deactivate tutorial mode. If you don't do that, you'll be obligated to buy/build unnecessary stuff, which is a waste of coin and time. Go to the camp, light the campfire, hire the two peasants, buy 3 bows and start hiring more peasants from the wilderness to recruit archers.

2) Recruitment (until day 15)

What you should do:
Get coin from hunting archers, buy bows and hire peasants, running back and forth until you have enough archers to supply you with enough coin for a full “hire-run”. A good strategy here (when you have the money) is to wait for an attack to be repelled at night and right after that gallop through the wilderness (alternately one side at a time/day) until you reach the last camp, while hiring every peasant on the way, than rush back to camp to buy bows. (Don’t go farther than your purse lets you OC.) If you’re fast/lucky enough you can still hire from the first 1 or 2 camps from the other side if they’re close enough. Stopping at grassy valleys for a brief moment to feed your horse is advised, as well as buying the dark-brown horse ASAP. Recruit as many archers as you can until you reach day 15.

What you shouldn’t do:
Don’t build/buy anything else. Trust me, you won’t need walls with that many archers early on. Don’t even think about improving your main building/camp, because if you do, you’ll destroy the hunter field for your archers (i.e. no income). Try to avoid leaving bows in the night, because them “greedies” will swipe ‘em right from under your nose.

3) Preparations (day 15-20)

Recruit builders (8-12) and upgrade your main building and the four surrounding walls to maximum level. If you’re smart enough you’ll start with the residence, because you’ll get free lvl 3 walls at its final stage. Towers are unnecessary if you want to win fast, so don’t build them. You’ll need two or at least one large farm. Always start by building a wall beyond the mill if you don’t want your farmers to be slaughtered. A good idea is to begin construction right after an attack. When you’re finished with all of this, clear some trees beyond your borders so that your hunters may remain active granting you additional income. Finally, buy the four knight crests and build the catapults. If you give some coin to the knights you can make them more durable.

4) The First Strike (day 20)

Send attacks from both sides at the same time early at dawn. Right after you launched them, rush to the Archer Monument and light it up to its maximum level, than back to camp. A good idea is to send the second attack in direction to the monument. Hire peasants on the way just in case. If you did everything right, you should have a ton of archers to repel the counter invasions easily. If some of your knights died, buy their crests again, recruit more archers if necessary and prepare for the final attack.

5) Finishing The Game (24)

It’s very important to launch your final attack at the beginning of day 24, because if you don’t, there’s a chance that you’ll run out of time before you could defeat the last wave. Once again send them simultaneously than run for the monument and back to camp, while hiring peasants for reinforcements. The last wave will be massive, but if you built up your defences well, you won’t need to fear anything. If you want to make sure, light up the Builder Monument right before day 24.

Good Luck! :)
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'Safe in 25' achievement guide
This is a simple step-by-step guide to get the 25 day achievement.
20 Comments
Pantherophis 23 Sep @ 9:04am 
did everything a bit faster and finished on day 17 :) good guide
EduanChamp 30 May @ 10:03am 
works quite good, great strategy
Mana 19 Dec, 2024 @ 7:20am 
Works perfectly still.

I took a few builders early to cut to the left for more hunting room. I would recommend getting the shrines to t3 a day or two before you do your attacks, especially if they're in really bad positions.
Totis  [author] 8 Oct, 2024 @ 2:34pm 
Thank you all for your kind comments! I'm really glad that it still works! Never thought that it would be this popular! ^_^

To clear the fog on the early deforestation topic: when I made this guide, there was a bug (or feature, idk) that I noticed, in which the early hunting field around your base would continuously spawn rabbits in an abnormally large rate. However, building walls would reset this rate to its normal stage and that's why I advised against doing that. I'm not sure if it's still in the game, but I agree on that hiring one or two workers to clear some trees isn't a big drawback. Although deforestation does drain some time from your hiring trips.

Completing the game earlier is absolutely possible! I was just aiming for a "safe" guide for less experienced players. :)
feeron 29 Sep, 2024 @ 10:31am 
Just followed the guide with my game knowledge and did it in 21 days. :greedyHeart:
MMStev 19 Jul, 2024 @ 3:25pm 
I can confirm the guide still works (and is very helpful), but I "accidentally" finished the game in 21 days because i thought there were three portals on each side (i somehow believed there was a third portal inside the cliff), so i started recruiting builders on day 10, finished the residence on day 13 or 14, launched my first attacks on day 18 and launched the second one on day 21, finishing the game in the night.

Also i would like to add that, if you have enough space between your base and the first bit of forest on each side, your archers will have enough space to accumulate so much gold in a day that your purse will be overfilled.
Unperson 13 Feb, 2024 @ 3:27am 
Thank you very much for this guide! I had very lucky hobo camp placements as well :) Was a breeze with this! :auyay:
Romwy 27 Aug, 2023 @ 4:22am 
Used this guide, finished on day 23 :greedyHeart::GreedRight:
Totis  [author] 12 Dec, 2022 @ 3:54pm 
@Kazuin You're right, I've corrected that mistake since then (in further writings). Although I'm pretty sure I still make a lot of mistakes, English is not my mothertongue. But I'm always learning.

For the others before: I made this guide years ago. I've played both other versions of this game and have learned a lot more ever since so I too do things differently now. In any case, I tested this method on multiple occasions before posting it back then and it always worked for me. I'm not saying it's the best way to do it, but it definitely works.
Anti Septikum 11 Dec, 2022 @ 11:57am 
There are allot of grammatical errors in the text, should be then not than.