Crownhold Tools Hub
Practical lists for the first hour and the first two prestige spends.
Crownhold does not need a damage simulator. It needs a place to put the opening ladder and the prestige shopping list so you are not re-deriving them every run. This Tools Hub holds those pages. Guides explain why; tools tell you what to tick.
The first-hour checklist is the on-ramp: click power, peasants, expand, monastery, guild, do not open prestige by accident. The prestige planner is the meta-ramp: Servants, wood, King is Watching, then the production node that hurt last time. Use them with the early-game build and prestige unlocks if you want the paragraphs behind the boxes.
What we will not ship as a “tool”
No fake code redeemer. No script injector. No Trello mirror. No army DPS sheet until sieges are actually playable and recorded. If a later patch adds a warfare layer, a new tool can appear — until then, a combat calculator would be fanfiction.
How to use these pages in a session
Keep the checklist on a second monitor or phone for run one. After the monument, switch to the planner, spend, then go back to Getting Started only if the opening feels foreign again. Controls is the tool for UI pain. Links is the tool for leaving the wiki toward Steam.
These pages are short on lore and long on verbs. That is intentional. Crownhold is a short game; the wiki should not outlast the run you came to finish. Launch notes if you need the date and price in one screen. The review if you are still in the store tab.
Sibling tools should link each other: checklist ↔ planner. If you only open one, open the checklist on a fresh save and the planner on a prestige prompt.
When a tool is the wrong tab
If you do not know what a scribe is, you are not ready for the planner — open How to Play. If you know the names and still stall, the planner and resource priority are the right tabs. If you are shopping, the review is the right tab. Tools do not replace a buy decision and they do not replace Steam’s own overlay.
We keep tools static on purpose. A live calculator that pretends to know your exact prestige cost would go stale the first time Mikula retunes a node. A written order ages more gracefully: Servants when they exist, wood if timber hurt, hover if you will actually hover. Update the prose when launch notes or a later patch page says the tree changed.
Print the checklist if you play on a small laptop screen. Crownhold’s hover panels already fight for space; a second window of wiki UI on top of that is how misclicks happen. Paper or a phone is calmer.
Frequently Asked Questions
Quick answers to the most common Crownhold questions.
Is the prestige planner a live calculator?
No. It is a recommended order based on recorded nodes. In-game costs win if they disagree.
Do I need both tools?
Checklist for hour one. Planner when the book is open. Many players only need one per session.
Will you add a siege planner?
Not until warfare is documented in play. We will not invent unit math.