Scarlet Orchard

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Overview

A beautiful yet dangerous land that is colored a strange shade of crimson. It's called the Herb Garden of the Kingdom due to its abundance of herbs, berries, and roots.

Effects

Royal Archaeologists	Every viceroy embarking on an expedition to the Scarlet Orchard is assigned a royal archaeologist. You gain access to a new essential building.
Buried Mysteries	A lush and exotic land, filled with prehistoric remains. Ancient excavation sites can be found here.

Resources

The Royal has an Average amount of Fertile Soil and contains the following Resources:

Trees

All trees can be harvested by Woodcutters' Camps to give Wood. They may also grant additional resources depending on the biome. These trees have 2 charges each.


Trees	Charges	Bonus Resources	Description
Coppervein Trees	2	Wood 60% + Copper Ore 10% + Dye 5% + Plant Fiber 5%	A scarlet tree covered in enormous thorns.

Natural Resources


Primary Resources	Charges → Resource Deposits	Bonus Resources	Gathering Building	Speed per Unit	Specialization Bonus
Grain Roots	70 → Swamp Wheat Field 70 → Roots Node	100% + 20% 30% + 30%	Foragers' Camp ★★	00:17	Farming Humans
Grain Roots	12 → Swamp Wheat Field 15 → Roots Deposit	20% 20%	Small Foragers' Camp ★	00:25	Farming Humans
Reed Leather	60 → Reed Field 60 → Water Strider Molt	40% + 40% 100% + 40% + 20%	Harvesters' Camp ★★	00:08	none
Reed Leather	20 → Reed Field 20 → Water Strider Molt	20% + 20% 20% + 10%	Harvesters' Camp ★★	00:08	none
Herbs Berries	70 → Herb Node 70 → Dewberry Bush	40% + 20% 80%	Herbalists' Camp ★★	00:17	Alchemy Harpies
Herbs Berries	15 → Herb Node 15 → Dewberry Bush	20% 20%	Small Herbalists' Camp ★	00:25	Alchemy Harpies
Sea Marrow Stone	60 → Sea Marrow Deposit 60 → Stone Deposit	100% + 50% + 1% 30% + 30% + 10%	Stonecutters' Camp ★★	00:08	Masonry Frogs
Sea Marrow Stone	20 → Sea Marrow Deposit 20 → Stone Deposit	80% + 40% 20% + 20%	Stonecutters' Camp ★★	00:08	Masonry Frogs
Eggs	70 → Drizzlewing Nest	40%	Trappers' Camp ★★	00:17	Meat production Lizards
Eggs	15 → Drizzlewing Nest	20%	Small Trappers' Camp ★	00:25	Meat production Lizards
Fish	80 → Thunderfish Pond	100% + 2 50%	Fishing Hut ★★	00:15	none
Fish	60 → Thunderfish Pond	40%	Small Fishing Hut ★	00:20	none
Copper Ore	75 → Copper Vein	30%	Mine ★★	00:40	Engineering Beavers

Node weighting

Stone Deposits have triple the normal weighting in this biome. ^[1]

Archaeologist's Office

This is a unique blueprint Viceroys receive when venturing into the Scarlet Orchard. It's a 3x3 Human-themed building.

Construction cost: 2 Planks, 2 Bricks, 2 Fabric. Once the office is built, it cannot be destroyed.

It can be upgraded in the following ways:

LEVEL I (Choose 1)
Cost: free

Short-range Scanner: Reveals the location of the nearest archeological discovery. Always in a Small Glade.
Carved in Stone: +10% Glade Event working speed for every 2 Reputation Points gained from Glade Events. (Retroactive)
Ancient Strength: Scouts carry +4 Items and move 7% faster for every 2 Ancient Tablets in the Warehouse.

LEVEL II (Choose 1)
Cost:
10 Amber / 4 Tools / 6 Pipes +
15 Planks / 20 Scrolls / 20 Oil / 20 Sea Marrow

Mid-range Scanner: Reveals the location of the second nearest archeological discovery. Usually in a Dangerous Glade, rarely in Forbidden Glades.
Forbidden Tools: Every 2 Hostility levels grant +1 to Tools production.
Decryption: -10 Hostility Points for each Ancient Tablet in the Warehouse.

LEVEL III (Choose 1)
Cost:
15 Amber / 8 Tools / 12 Pipes +
20 Planks / 25 Scrolls / 25 Oil / 25 Sea Marrow

Long-range Scanner: Reveals the location of the farthest archeological discovery. Usually in a Forbidden Glade, rarely in Dangerous Glades.
Escaping the Shadows: Any villager loss will be prevented at the expense of 1 Ancient Tablet.
Ancient Practices: +10% chance of double yields for every worker per 2 completed Dangerous or Forbidden Glade Events. Clones do not count. (Retroactive)

Excavation Sites

There are 3 unique sites of excavation that can be dug up and restored by your villagers. Each site must be excavated, conserved and then restored. Once restored, it becomes a 9 Harmony decoration, gives 2 Reputation Points and a powerful Perk.

These digsites and their requirements can be viewed on Glade Events.

Strategy

It is possible to narrow down the closest Excavation Site to 1-2 Small Glades. They are never found in Small Glades directly adjacent to your starting Glade, and there is always a patch of forest between the starting Glade and the Glade with the Excavation. For the second Excavation Site, you could also exclude 1-2 Dangerous Glades - the Dangerous Glade excavation can never be found in a Dangerous Glade directly adjacent to the starting Glade.
Each Excavation Site stage requires a large amount of resources to solve. It is highly advisable to build a Warehouse in close vicinity to minimize the time it takes to haul resources to the event.
Stages 2 and 3 of the Excavation Sites can both accept Incense as an input. Therefore the Incense Delivery Line embarkation bonus can very useful in the Scarlet Orchard even if you don't expect to use Incense for boosting resolve.
Excavation Sites take a long time to solve. Glade Event work speed increasing effects can save both time and scout labor. Sacrificing Sea Marrow also helps.
Steel Drills (+1/2 Copper Ore production) Perk is uniquely strong on Scarlet Orchard because of Coppervein Trees. Same with Big Phials (+2/3 Dye production).
Archaeologist's Office encourages stockpiling Ancient Tablets to scale its Ancient Strength and Decryption effects.
Not being able to source raw food is somewhat common for Scarlet Orchard due to its trees and resource distribution. Invest in farms or a food processing building to avoid starvation.
Consider using big Stone deposits for food if your villagers are at risk of starvation. 60% chance of bonus food yields combined with Stonecutters' Camp's short production cycle will keep villagers fed at least until Stone nodes run out.
There are no nodes for Jerky ingredients in Scarlet Orchard. The only source of protein ingredients for Skewers outside of byproducts is Thunderfish Ponds. Should you want to produce Jerky or Skewers sustainably, you will have to resort to using Ranch or delivery lines.