Next Reign: Kingdom Tools Hub

This hub holds the two planners the rest of the wiki keeps pointing at. They are not calculators with hidden formulas. Next Reign: Kingdom does not publish a public combat-power spreadsheet, and this site will not invent one. What the planners are is a way to stop guessing when the book HUD is full of arrows. The prestige planner is the crown checklist: when to reset, what the first spends should be, and what actually survives the handoff. The production planner is the stall checklist: wheat red, wood red, bars stuck, tools stuck, combat idle.

If you want prose and quest context, the guides are still the right room. Getting started is the first-hour order. Prestige is the systems page behind the crown. Production chains is the factory story behind the red arrows. Combat is formations and the Blade Queen. The planners exist so you can answer a single question without rereading a whole article.

Prestige planner — use it before you click the crown

The prestige planner assumes you already know the rule from the game itself: points land at the first 100 and the first 100,000 of each resource type, plus checkpoints, and the tutorial wants you to try a reset around six points. The planner turns that into a table. Are you at one point and drowning in manual trades? Take auto trade and go. Are you at four points with wheat still climbing? Wait. Are bars and combat both dead? That is a reset if six is already in the bank, not a reason to stare at 100,000 iron.

It also spells out keep versus lose, because the crown text is easy to misread. Milestones you already earned stay earned. Bought prestige upgrades stay bought. The current field — hired workers, placed buildings, stockpiles except starting bonuses, in-reign upgrades — does not. Some research progress carries based on total-run progress and prestige progress; that is a partial mercy, not a full keep. If you need the letter ranks for which node is S, that is the prestige upgrade rankings, not this hub.

Open the prestige planner when:

• The crown icon is nagging and you do not remember whether six is a suggestion or a law.
• You are about to spend your first points and can feel yourself reaching for starting stock.
• You just finished a reign and want a rebuild shopping list that matches what you will lose.

Production planner — use it when an arrow is red

The production planner assumes the v0.3 HUD: an open book, a left resource strip, green up and red down. It does not care about your skyline. It cares about the first broken step in a chain that always runs in the same order: wheat, wood, stone, coal and iron ore, bars, tools, then the combat and trade sinks that eat those outputs. If wheat is red, you do not need a windmill. If wood is red, you do not need a second warehouse. If bars stall, you need ore, coal, and a living smelter, not more peasants.

Combat idle is on that page on purpose. An idle quest log is often an economy problem wearing a helmet: no houses for the workers who print bars, no line of defense, no peasants, or a wipe you have not rebuilt. The planner will send you to walls and the unit tier list when the army is the actual hole, and it will keep you on farmers when the army is a distraction.

Open the production planner when:

• Any stock on the left is red and you were about to place a building because it looked new.
• Tools are not moving and you cannot remember whether the smithy or the smelter died.
• You are deciding between another house and another warehouse.
• Combat quests are sitting there while glory and remains are the next prestige points.

How the two planners talk to each other

They are not two versions of the same list. Production tells you whether the current reign can still print a point. Prestige tells you whether printing that point is worth more than starting the next reign with a better tree. A red wheat arrow on a first run is almost never a crown. A red wheat arrow on a run that already has six points and a dead iron chain is a crown. The prestige planner will ask you to glance at production before you reset so you do not hand over a field that was one house away from the next 100.

The reverse is also true. If you already own farmer yield, cheaper buildings, and extra house space, the production planner expects you to play more aggressively — more cottages, faster lumber, earlier smelter — because the tree already paid for that pace. If you own auto craft, the planner will treat a stalled smithy as a fuel problem, not a clicking problem.

What these tools are not

They are not redeem-code boxes. This is a paid Steam game from Tiny Tulip Games; there is nothing to paste. They are not damage simulators. Peasant hit points and spearman remain upgrades belong in combat writing, not in a fake DPS cell. They are not a substitute for the building priority list. Priority is houses, matching production, warehouse, market, walls. The production planner diagnoses which of those you skipped.

Use the hub as a fork, then stay on the child page until the arrow is green or the crown is spent. Come back here only when you have forgotten which of the two questions you were asking.