Crown of Greed Heritage System: Permanent Kingdom Upgrades Guide

Heritage Points (HP) are a currency earned at the end of each campaign scenario based on your performance. They are not the same as in-scenario gold — they persist between missions and are spent in a dedicated Heritage upgrade screen between scenarios. Official description from BLUM Entertainment: 'Use the Heritage Points earned during your campaign to unlock permanent upgrades for your kingdom. The more deadly the quest, the more points you receive. Invest in your realm's future to ensure that each subsequent ruler starts with a stronger foundation.' [Steam store page, 2026] This means aggressively tackling dangerous content — high-threat nest clearing, raiding Deathlands biomes, defeating boss-type enemies — yields the most Heritage Points per scenario, enabling faster long-term progression.

Heritage Points are calculated at scenario completion based on several factors: **High-value actions that maximize Heritage Points:** - Clearing enemy dens and nests in high-difficulty biomes (Deathlands, Icelands) - Defeating boss-type enemies (Baba Yaga and equivalent threats) - Completing scenarios with bonus objectives (marked on the scenario briefing screen) - Losing minimum heroes (low casualty bonus) - Completing scenarios under time pressure (speed bonus on certain maps) **Actions that reduce Heritage Points:** - Scenario failure and restart - Excessive hero deaths - Ignoring bonus objectives The optimal Heritage farming strategy is to send hero parties into Deathlands biomes (highest point-per-encounter value) as soon as your roster can survive it, rather than turtling in safe Forest biomes.

Heritage upgrades are organized into several categories. Based on Demo and developer communications: **🏰 Kingdom Foundation Upgrades** - Increased starting gold per scenario (most popular early investment) - Additional starting building (start each scenario with a free Market or Inn) - Reduced building construction costs (percentage discount on all builds) **🦸 Hero-Related Upgrades** - Improved hero recruitment rate (heroes arrive faster at Inns) - Trait reroll option (pay small in-scenario gold to reroll one hero trait) - Hero starting level bonus (recruited heroes begin at level 2 instead of 1) **🗼 Defense Upgrades** - Guard Tower stat bonuses (global damage/range increase for all towers) - Tax Collector resilience (more health, faster respawn if killed) - Wall segment durability increase **🧙 Arcane Upgrades** - Spell gold cost reduction (stacks with Mage Tower upgrades) - Larger spell area of effect - Unlock additional ruler spells earlier in scenario progression **📈 Economic Upgrades** - Increased base tax yield per building - Trading Post bonus income percentage - Reduced duplicate building cost scaling

Not all Heritage upgrades are equal. Based on overall campaign impact: **Tier S (Highest Priority):** 1. 🥇 Increased Starting Gold — affects every single scenario immediately 2. 🥇 Reduced Duplicate Building Costs — the most impactful economic multiplier in the game 3. 🥇 Tax Collector Resilience — prevents the catastrophic income-loss scenarios that end runs **Tier A (Strong Investment):** 4. Hero Recruitment Rate Improvement — more heroes = more income = more combat power 5. Guard Tower Global Damage Bonus — passive defense improvement requires zero active management 6. Spell Gold Cost Reduction — if you rely heavily on ruler spells **Tier B (Situational):** 7. Trait Reroll Option — useful but situational 8. Hero Starting Level Bonus — valuable in long campaigns 9. Additional Starting Building — scenario-dependent value **Avoid Early:** - Wall durability upgrades (walls are rarely the limiting factor in defense) - Niche spell upgrades before foundational economic upgrades are maxed

Crown of Greed's campaign consists of 15 scenarios that progressively reveal the dark story of Rodovia's throne succession. Heritage Points compound across all 15 scenarios — early investments in economic upgrades yield returns across many more scenarios than late-game investments. Campaign pacing advice: - Scenarios 1–3: Invest entirely in economic Heritage (starting gold + building cost reduction) - Scenarios 4–7: Add defensive Heritage (Tax Collector + towers) - Scenarios 8–12: Begin arcane and hero Heritage investments - Scenarios 13–15: Invest in anything remaining — at this stage any upgrade helps for the final scenarios