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Your Stronghold is your survivor's home base and the centre of long-term progression. Its buildings let you train, recover, process resources, craft equipment, manage survivors, and unlock systems such as vehicles.

Building layout

Every stronghold begins with five fixed, pre-built buildings. These occupy protected positions and cannot be destroyed. Alongside them are expansion slots: the early slots are available near the start of the game and more unlock as your player level rises. An unlocked empty slot lets you construct one eligible building, which can then be upgraded individually.

Unlocking, constructing, upgrading, replacing, or repeating a building can consume valuable materials and time. The expansion-slot table below shows each unlock's required items, cash cost, and duration directly from the game definitions.

Current layout and building rules

The tables below come directly from the current game definitions and update automatically. They separate the pre-built buildings from expansion slots, list the cost and time needed to unlock each slot, and show how each building is obtained, whether multiple copies are allowed, and its current level requirement.

Expansion slots

Slot	Player level	Items required	Cash cost	Unlock time
Slot 1	1	None	$125	5 seconds
Slot 2	1	None	$1,500	5 seconds
Slot 3	7	None	$2,000	15 minutes
Slot 4	8	None	$2,500	30 minutes
Slot 5	9	None	$5,000	1 hour
Slot 6	10	None	$15,000	1 day
Slot 7	11	None	$20,000	1 day 6 hours
Slot 8	12	5 × Broken Remote	$25,000	1 day 13 hours 30 minutes
Slot 9	13	5 × Advanced Tools	$30,000	1 day 22 hours 52 minutes 30 seconds
Slot 10	14	5 × Salvaged Tech	$50,000	2 days 10 hours 35 minutes 38 seconds
Slot 11	15	6 × Electrical Components	$75,000	3 days 1 hour 14 minutes 32 seconds
Slot 12	16	7 × Electrical Components	$100,000	3 days 19 hours 33 minutes 10 seconds
Slot 13	17	8 × Electrical Components	$250,000	4 days 18 hours 26 minutes 27 seconds
Slot 14	18	9 × Electrical Components	$500,000	5 days 23 hours 3 minutes 4 seconds
Slot 15	19	10 × Electrical Components	$1,000,000	7 days 10 hours 48 minutes 50 seconds
Slot 16	20	1 × Computer Board	$2,000,000	9 days 7 hours 31 minutes 3 seconds
Slot 17	21	2 × Computer Board	$3,000,000	11 days 15 hours 23 minutes 48 seconds
Slot 18	22	3 × Computer Board	$4,000,000	14 days 13 hours 14 minutes 45 seconds
Slot 19	23	4 × Computer Board	$5,000,000	18 days 4 hours 33 minutes 27 seconds
Slot 20	24	5 × Computer Board	$6,000,000	22 days 17 hours 41 minutes 49 seconds

Available buildings

Building	Purpose	Pre-built	Fixed	Multiple
Medical Bay	Recover health and craft medical supplies	✓	✓	—
Gym	Train combat stats to become stronger in battle	✓	✓	—
Weapon Bench	Craft melee weapons and firearms	—	—	✓
Ammo Bench	Produce ammunition and gunpowder	—	—	✓
Kitchen	Prepare food and purify water	—	—	✓
Armour Bench	Craft clothing and protective equipment	—	—	✓
Radio Tower	Trade resources for useful materials and supplies	—	—	—
Survivor Camp	House survivors and manage prisoner labour	—	—	✓
Grill	Cook meat and fish into food	—	—	✓
Tech Lab	Salvage technology and craft electronic components	—	—	✓
Garage	Build vehicles for travel and exploration	✓	✓	—
Furniture Workshop	Craft furniture and furnishings for your House	—	—	✓
Coal Auto Mine	Automatically produce Coal over time	—	—	✓
Chem Bench	Combine ingredients to produce powerful boosters	—	—	✓
Iron Auto Mine	Automatically produce Iron Ore over time	—	—	✓
Crafting Bench	Craft tools, weapons, and useful equipment	✓	—	✓
Furnace	Smelt and forge raw materials into useful resources	✓	—	✓
Materials Bench	Refine basic resources into advanced materials	—	—	✓

Important ownership rules

The Gym and Garage are pre-built and limited to one fixed building each.
The Medical Bay is also pre-built only and cannot be duplicated through an expansion slot.
The starting Crafting Bench and Furnace are fixed, but additional copies can be constructed in expansion slots.
The Radio Tower is constructed in an expansion slot but is limited to one per stronghold.
Buildings marked as repeatable can occupy multiple slots. Their construction and upgrade costs scale when you own additional copies.

Choosing what to build

Build for the next part of the game you want to improve:

Combat and recovery buildings support stat training, equipment, ammunition, and healing.
Crafting and processing buildings turn gathered resources into components, consumables, and finished equipment.
Automation buildings provide longer-running production options.
Vehicles and exploration begin with the Garage and support travel beyond the city.
Survivor management begins with the Survivor Camp and expands the work your settlement can perform.
Housing production creates furnishings used in your House.

Open a building name in the live table to see its current recipes and relationships. Individual recipe pages show their requirements, outputs, and which building uses them.

Stronghold area tabs

Stronghold contains your fixed buildings and expansion slots.
Survivors manages survivors, prisoners, assignments, health, and development.
House contains your personal home and furnishings.
Outposts manages specialised bases at exploration locations.

Planning tips

Let Quests introduce the early buildings and systems.
Keep a reserve of common construction materials.
Check the entire production chain before starting a final item.
Upgrade buildings that support the Skills and activities you use most.
Revisit empty slots after levelling; a new slot or building choice may now be available.

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-Your '''Stronghold''' is your survivor's home base and the centre of long-term progression. Its buildings let you train, recover, process gathered resources, craft equipment, and unlock systems such as vehicles.
+Your '''Stronghold''' is your survivor's home base and the centre of long-term progression. Its buildings let you train, recover, process resources, craft equipment, manage survivors, and unlock systems such as vehicles.
-== How stronghold progression works ==
+== Building layout ==
-Buildings begin with limited capabilities. Constructing and upgrading them costs resources, may require a player level or earlier upgrade, and usually improves the work available there. Read the requirement panel before committing materials: early resources often compete between quests, equipment, and several buildings.
+Every stronghold begins with five fixed, pre-built buildings. These occupy protected positions and cannot be destroyed. Alongside them are expansion slots: the early slots are available near the start of the game and more unlock as your player level rises. An unlocked empty slot lets you construct one eligible building, which can then be upgraded individually.
-A useful approach is to upgrade for your next goal. Improve production when you need a crafting chain, recovery when combat is slowing you down, and the garage when you are ready to [[Explore]].
+Unlocking, constructing, upgrading, replacing, or repeating a building can consume valuable materials and time. The expansion-slot table below shows each unlock's required items, cash cost, and duration directly from the game definitions.
-== Main buildings ==
+== Current layout and building rules ==
-=== Gym ===
+The tables below come directly from the current game definitions and update automatically. They separate the pre-built buildings from expansion slots, list the cost and time needed to unlock each slot, and show how each building is obtained, whether multiple copies are allowed, and its current level requirement.
-The Gym uses energy to train your combat stats:
-* '''Strength''' increases the damage you can deal.
-* '''Defense''' reduces incoming damage.
-* '''Speed''' helps your attacks hit.
-* '''Agility''' helps you avoid attacks.
-Upgrading the Gym improves the value of training. These stats work together, so a balanced survivor is less likely to be stopped by an enemy that exposes one weak area.
+{{#zed_list:stronghold}}
-=== Medical Bay ===
+== Important ownership rules ==
-The Medical Bay shows your recovery information and supports the production of medical supplies. Improve it if injuries are creating a bottleneck in your combat progress. You can also use suitable medical items from your [[Inventory]].
+* The '''Gym''' and '''Garage''' are pre-built and limited to one fixed building each.
+* The '''Medical Bay''' is also pre-built only and cannot be duplicated through an expansion slot.
+* The starting '''Crafting Bench''' and '''Furnace''' are fixed, but additional copies can be constructed in expansion slots.
+* The '''Radio Tower''' is constructed in an expansion slot but is limited to one per stronghold.
+* Buildings marked as repeatable can occupy multiple slots. Their construction and upgrade costs scale when you own additional copies.
-=== Crafting and production ===
+== Choosing what to build ==
-Stronghold workstations turn resources into the supplies needed by the rest of the game. Available recipes depend on the relevant building, blueprint, requirements, and materials.
+Build for the next part of the game you want to improve:
-* The '''Crafting Bench''' produces general equipment and components.
+* '''Combat and recovery''' buildings support stat training, equipment, ammunition, and healing.
-* The '''Furnace''' smelts and forges materials.
+* '''Crafting and processing''' buildings turn gathered resources into components, consumables, and finished equipment.
-* The '''Ammo Bench''' produces ammunition for ranged weapons.
+* '''Automation''' buildings provide longer-running production options.
-* The '''Weapon Bench''' produces and improves weapons.
+* '''Vehicles and exploration''' begin with the Garage and support travel beyond the city.
-* The '''Armour Bench''' supports protective equipment.
+* '''Survivor management''' begins with the Survivor Camp and expands the work your settlement can perform.
-* The '''Kitchen''' prepares food and other useful consumables.
+* '''Housing''' production creates furnishings used in your House.
-* Specialist buildings expand later production chains.
-Open an item in the [[Items]] reference to understand where it fits, but use the live recipe shown in-game as the source for current ingredients and requirements.
+Open a building name in the live table to see its current recipes and relationships. Individual recipe pages show their requirements, outputs, and which building uses them.
-=== Radio Tower ===
-The Radio Tower offers rotating trades, letting you exchange resources you have in abundance for resources you need. Check both sides of a trade before accepting and keep materials reserved for quests or upgrades.
-=== Garage ===
-The Garage unlocks and manages [[Vehicles]]. Vehicles use fuel to travel beyond the city, carry loot, and can be improved with suitable parts. See [[Explore]] before planning your first trip.
 == Stronghold area tabs ==
-The stronghold area also links to related systems:
+* '''Stronghold''' contains your fixed buildings and expansion slots.
-* '''Survivors''' manages the people who can work for your settlement.
+* '''Survivors''' manages survivors, prisoners, assignments, health, and development.
-* '''House''' covers your personal home and its improvements.
+* '''House''' contains your personal home and furnishings.
 * [[Outposts]] manages specialised bases at exploration locations.
 == Planning tips ==
-* Let quests introduce buildings before trying to upgrade everything.
+* Let [[Quests]] introduce the early buildings and systems.
-* Keep a reserve of common construction and crafting materials.
+* Keep a reserve of common construction materials.
-* Check the full production chain; a final item may need several processed components.
+* Check the entire production chain before starting a final item.
-* Match building investment to the skills and activities you use most.
+* Upgrade buildings that support the [[Skills]] and activities you use most.
-* Revisit older buildings after levelling, finding blueprints, or gathering new materials.
+* Revisit empty slots after levelling; a new slot or building choice may now be available.

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