Against the Storm carries resources, upgrades, and experience between settlement expeditions. The Smoldering City’s Upgrades tab uses Food Stockpiles, Machinery, and Artifacts to construct and improve seven great works. The supplied Official Wiki passage records permanent settlement modifiers, including changes to Queen’s Impatience growth, Hearth fuel burning duration, villager speed, and resource-node charges. It also lists feature unlocks tied to specific upgrade levels, including Trade Routes, Hearth upgrades, Rainpunk Engines and Geyser Pumps, and The Commons. This reference selects ten concrete tiers and describes their listed effects and progression links. It does not compare their value or establish optimal choices.
A reference to ten specific Citadel upgrade tiers and their recorded settlement effects or unlocks, based on the supplied Official Wiki passages. Steam metadata establishes identity, not mechanics. Later changes and current meta are not independently verified.
Mechanics are drawn only from the supplied Official Wiki passages; the supplied Steam metadata is used for game identity. Later changes are not independently verified.
The sources list selected tier costs and effects, but do not fully explain the operation of unlocks such as Last Stand, Mine Upgrades, Rainpunk Engines, Geyser Pumps, and The Commons.
This is a descriptive reference, not a complete upgrade-cost comparison or optimizer.
No separate edition or expansion context is established beyond the wiki’s note that some asterisk-marked unlocks require the appropriate DLC.
Explanations prepared with GPT-6 Luna and checked against the linked references. These are source-reviewed guides. They do not establish independently tested optimal builds or exact upgrade budgets. How coverage works.
