Laboratory

	Laboratory

Laboratory Information

The Laboratory is unlocked at level 18 which costs 1800 coins and requires 560 population.

You can create and activate special booster at the lab that temporarily supercharge your town's crop yields, factory production, and much more. You'll need gems to create booster and you can get them by loading and sending planes at the airport or by finding them in different places

Laboratory Boosters

There are 10 boosters which you can activate with gems.

• When you have bought a booster you will see a number (1) after it.
• You can activate a booster by dragging and dropping it onto the Laboratory's screen.
• You can have a maximum of 3 boosters active at once.
• Note: You can copy the direct links to boosters by copying the link for any booster name.

Boosters		Cost	Days	Description
Super-Harvest	File:Superharvest.png	5 3	2	Fields yields twice as much. If you plant 1 wheat you will harvest 2.
Advanced Farming	File:Advanced farming.png	7 2	2	Animals produce twice as much. Receive two product units from each of the animals in the Farm Buildings.
Generous Customer	File:Generous customer.png	6 3 2	2	Orders earn twice as many coins. Double the amount of coins earned from filling townspeople's orders using the helicopter.
Vibrant Market	File:Vibrant market.png	6 4	3	The items at the Market are updated twice as often. New refreshes will only take 3 hours instead of 6, and the current refresh will take 50% less time.
High-Speed Production	File:Highspeed production.png	8 2 2	2	Goods at your factories take 30% less time to produce. The booster is an additional -30% time to your factories upgrades at the Academy of Industry.
Favorable Voyage	File:Favorable voyage.png	7 2	2	Ingots are twice as efficient when sending off ships. Best used when islands are upgraded to reduce time by 50%. Frutus is fastest (2-4h), but different artifacts come from each island.
Efficient Smelting	File:Efficient smelting.png	2 4 3	2	Ingots take 50% less time to produce. B:30m, S:1h, G:1h30m, P:2h. Make sure you have enough ores to smelt as much as possible for 2 days.
Popular Passion	File:Popular passion.png	5 3 2	2	Selling items at the Zoo earns you twice as many popularity points. Use it on a day you have time to sell 15 min hot items or big point hot items over 2 days. Take note of when hot items change!
Active Cooperation		6 2 1	2	New requests can be made in 30% less time. Requesting goods in a co-op will take 2 hours instead of 3 hours. (8 extra requests over 2 days)
See the Light	File:See the light.png	4  3  2	1	Makes ore and artifacts from the darkened areas in the mine visible. Save a lot of mining tools, so you can mine as much as possible within 1 day.

Laboratory Event Boosters

There are 8 boosters which you can obtain for free from events or purchase with tokens at the Yacht Club.

• These boosters are not purchasable with gems.

Boosters		Cost	Days	Description
Rich Fields	File:Rich Fields.png	Free	1	Crops are ready 40% faster. Use with Super-Harvest for extreme harvesting.
Profitable Flight	File:Profitable Flight.png	Free	1	Filling airplane crates earns twice as many coins. Fully-loading airplanes will earn even more coins.
Record Demand		Free	1	New orders at the heli-pad appear 80% faster. Save 2 boosters to use with Generous Customer and Vibrant Market to maximize coin earnings.
Shortcut	File:Shortcut.png	Free	1	Trains arrive twice as fast. Upgrade trains to -50% time for maximum effect (1h15 mins least time).
Smart Navigation	File:Smart Navigation.png	Free	1	Ships arrive twice as fast. Upgrade islands to -30% time for maximum effect.
Busy Trade	File:Busy Trade.png	Free	1	Dealer's break time cut in half. The dealer will wake up every 30m instead of 1h. Make sure you've got the day off to buy ores or whatever you need.
Spacious Barn	File:Spacious Barn.png	175 Tokens	2	Increases barn capacity by 20%. Make sure you're able to recover the 20% extra space before the 2 day expiry!
Large Request	File:Large Request.png	210 Tokens	2	Requests in the co-op chat will bring you 30% more goods. Helpful for filling any orders or selling more zoo hot goods.

Obtaining Gems

• Gems can be found in the mine. Often hidden in dirt or stone, but sometimes found in treasure chests.
• Fully loading all crates in the Airport will earn you the maximum reward which includes a random gem.
• Opening cash chests in friends towns. Costs 3 Tcash. Maximum of 4 chests opened per day.
• Using ingots to send off ships gives a chance to get treasure chests which may contain gems.
• You can win gems at the House of Luck for playing with 5 clovers.
• The shops at the Zoo occasionally reward gems from giftboxes.
• You can buy gems from the store, but it's not not recommended due to the high Tcash cost.

Gem Prices

Gems can be used to purchase boosters or animals at the Zoo.

Gem		Cost
Topaz		10
Emerald		20
Ruby		30
Amethyst		50