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Khazad Greathold

Core expansion building for major unlocks, housing, and workforce growth.

Role and Priority

Main use	Core expansion building for major unlocks, housing, and workforce growth.
When to prioritize	Prioritize its unlock path because it opens key buildings and workforce growth.
Upgrade chain	17 linked upgrades on this page.

How to Unlock

Availability	Available from the start as the settlement hub.
What it opens	Use its upgrades to buy new buildings, housing, and core settlement tools.

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Upgrades

Image	Name	What It Does	Unlock / Requirements	Cost / Tiers
	Artillery Hall	Unlocks and places the Artillery Hall building. Its building page covers Cannons, rockets, explosions, and artillery upgrades for burst damage and 15 linked upgrades.	Requires Ballistics Workshop and The Great Forge .	Gold: 1800 Mithril: 2 Dwarves: 0
	Ballistics Workshop	Unlocks and places the Ballistics Workshop building. Its building page covers Harpoons, ballista-style weapons, and projectile upgrades for sustained mountain damage and 21 linked upgrades.	Requires Flameworks or Demolition Shack .	Gold: 600 Dwarves: 0
	Build Underground Housing	Adds +2 Dwarves through Underground Housing. Buy it early when workforce count is the bottleneck.	Requires Miner's Guild .	Gold: 0 Gold base: 25
	Ravenous Gaze	Increases damage dealt when clicking by bonus damage. Dens take only 25% damage.	Available once Khazad Greathold is unlocked.	No direct listed cost
	Demolition Shack	Unlocks and places the Demolition Shack building. Its building page covers Demodwarves, explosives, TNT, and den-damage tools and 15 linked upgrades.	Requires Miner's Guild and The Great Maw . Requires 4 Runners in The Great Maw.	Gold: 350 Dwarves: 0
	Flameworks	Unlocks and places the Flameworks building. Its building page covers Fire, flamers, burn effects, and damage-over-time upgrades and 12 linked upgrades.	Requires Miner's Guild and The Great Maw . Requires 4 Runners in The Great Maw.	Gold: 400 Dwarves: 0
	Geode Sanctum	Produces Stonecallers. Unlocks rituals and transmutation magic.	Available once Khazad Greathold is unlocked.	No direct listed cost
	Grand Laboratory	Unlocks and places the Grand Laboratory building. Its building page covers Science scaling, luck, mithril, and late upgrade support and 17 linked upgrades.	Requires Flameworks or Demolition Shack .	Gold: 650 Mithril: 1 Dwarves: 0
	Manufactorum	Unlocks and places the Manufactorum building. Its building page covers Machines, bulldozer support, gyrocopters, repair, and automation-style upgrades and 15 linked upgrades.	Requires Manufactorum prestige. Requires The Great Forge .	Gold: 1000 Mithril: 0 Dwarves: 0
	Meadhall	Unlocks and places the Meadhall building. Its building page covers Brewmaster, keg, gold, and temporary buff upgrades and 9 linked upgrades.	Requires The Great Forge and Flameworks .	Gold shown after unlock Dwarf shown after unlock
	Miner's Guild	Unlocks and places the Miner's Guild building. Its building page covers Miner damage, luck, crits, and direct ore/gem production and 14 linked upgrades.	Available once Khazad Greathold is unlocked.	Gold: 0
	Shrine	Unlocks and places the Shrine building. Its building page covers Priests, rituals, altars, and religion-themed economy/combat scaling and 11 linked upgrades.	Requires The Great Forge and Flameworks .	Gold shown after unlock Dwarf shown after unlock
	Smuggler's Guild	Upgrade in this building's progression chain; prioritize it when that building is part of your current strategy.	Available once Khazad Greathold is unlocked.	No direct listed cost
	Spelunker's Guild	Unlocks and places the Spelunker's Guild building. Its building page covers Spelunkers, treasure hunters, dens, artifacts, mithril, PP, and underground mapping and 12 linked upgrades.	Requires Spelunker's Guild prestige. Requires The Great Forge .	Gold: 1200 Dwarves: 1
	Swap Buildings	Through geomantic rune magic, clever modular construction and amish relocation technique, this ritual swaps the positions of 2 buildings, or places a building into an empty slot.	Requires the linked building or system to be present.	Gold: 40 Gold base: 40
	The Great Forge	Unlocks and places The Great Forge building. Its building page covers Forge, artifact, rune, enchant, and equipment-style scaling and 18 linked upgrades.	Requires Grand Laboratory or Ballistics Workshop .	Gold: 700 Dwarves: 0
	The Great Maw	Unlocks and places The Great Maw building. Its building page covers Core mountain-feeding, hauling pressure, and early economy support and 15 linked upgrades.	Requires 6 Miners in the Miner's Guild.	Gold: 0

Sound	Preview	Length
Building Construction		1.99s
Building Rising		6.19s
Select Building		0.16s

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