Kingshot Sub-Farm Guide: How to Farm and Transfer Resources

To speed up progression on your primary account in Kingshot without buying material packs, set up a secondary "sub-farm" account dedicated solely to gathering resources and feeding them to your main settlement. This setup keeps your main account’s march queues free for combat and events while ensuring a steady influx of timber, food, and iron for high-level upgrades.

Farm Account Progression Milestones

A farm account does not need high combat power. Upgrading combat structures or training expensive troops consumes the very resources your main city needs. Build only what is required to expand gathering capacity:

Target Headquarters Level: Upgrade your farm's Headquarters only until you unlock your fourth March Queue. This maximizes your map gathering uptime without incurring steep building costs.
Build All Resource Generators: Construct every farm, lumber mill, quarry, and iron mine permitted by your current tier. Level them evenly to build steady passive production while offline.
Train Low-Tier Units Exclusively: Train Tier 1 or Tier 2 infantry or dedicated gatherers. Lower-tier units carry high load capacities, train quickly for minimal food and wood, and heal almost instantly at negligible cost.
Limit Military Upgrades: Ignore combat academies, rally halls, and wall defenses beyond the minimum requirements for upgrading your Headquarters.

Research, Talent, and Hero Investments

Every upgrade on your farm account should increase harvesting speed, squad march capacity, or resource protection. Leave combat-oriented trees uninvested.

Investment Category	Recommended Focus	Direct Benefit
Academy Research	Gathering Speed & Troop Load	Reduces node collection time and raises the resource haul per march.
Lord Talents	Economy Tree	Delivers permanent percentage bonuses to world-map gathering.
Hero Assignments	Gathering & Logistics Roles	Grants passive collection rate buffs and boosts march troop capacity.
Warehouse	Protected Storage Cap	Shields a baseline reserve from enemy scouts and opportunistic raids.

Prioritize Academy research for high-demand materials like Iron and Timber. When deploying all four march queues to high-level nodes, activate gathering speed boost items to cycle nodes efficiently before map resets.

How to Transfer Resources to Your Main Account

Stockpiled resources on your farm account must be moved to your main account through one of two methods:

1. Alliance Market Trading

If both accounts are in the same alliance, you can transport goods directly through the Alliance Market.

Advantage: Completely safe from outside attackers and does not require lowering city shields.
Disadvantage: High transport tax rates reduce the delivered amount until the market building is upgraded.
Best Use: Small, routine transfers when shields cannot be dropped.

2. Controlled City Attacks

You can attack your own farm with your main account to strip its surplus materials.

Advantage: 100% payout with zero market tax.
Disadvantage: Requires clearing the farm's defenses and exposing it to attack.
Procedure:

Position both settlements close together inside your alliance territory to minimize travel time.
Empty the farm’s defenses by sending all its troops and heroes to an alliance structure or an isolated gathering node far away.
Attack the unguarded farm using high-capacity transport squads from your main account.

Farm Defense and Inventory Safety

Unprotected resources will attract enemy scouts. Protect your farm's assets with two operational rules:

Keep Resource Packs in Inventory: Never open resource tokens or boxes until immediately before a transfer or essential upgrade. Stored pack items cannot be scouted or plundered.
Leave Wall Defenses Empty: When running controlled city attacks, confirm that no defensive units or heroes remain stationed at the barricade. Defending troops will suffer casualties, filling hospital beds and consuming resources for recovery.