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Submarine
"The submarine can discover underwater treasures. Look for dive locations on the map, and send the submarine on missions. Upgrade the submarine for deeper dives that yield greater rewards."

Submarine
Level 1-10

General Information

  • The Submarine is an aquatic support structure similar to the Gunboat and Landing Craft.
    Dive Location
  • It can be sent on missions for deep sea treasure at dive locations (yellow buoys with red flags. See image to the right) to uncover large amounts of Resources, Power Stones, and diamonds.
    • Every dive costs a certain amount of gold.
    • The deeper the treasure, the longer and costlier it is to dive, but the better the rewards you will get.
    • The shortest dive time is 6 hours, while the longest can be more than 2 days.
  • To uncover dive locations, a level 5 Radar is required. You can have up to 3 open dive locations.
    • Over time, you will use up your dives and your number of open dive locations will diminish.
    • The fewer open dive locations you have on your map, the more likely it is that a new dive location will appear. This chance is relatively low, however, and it may take several days for a new dive location to appear.
    • Your map has a 16 possible dive locations that will appear and re-appear over time (See map below).
    • Each time a dive location appears it will offer different rewards and dive times. The deepest dive offered at a dive location may be less than its maximum possible depth.
Subdive

Icon when a Dive Location is found.

  • A dive can give any of the following as one of its three rewards:
    • Wood
    • Stone
    • Iron
    • Power Stones of any size or element
    • Diamonds
    • Often, one or more of the treasure slots are marked with three question marks. This means that the treasure in that slot can be any of the above treasures; it just remains unknown until the dive finishes. These mystery slots can also contain Prototype Modules or Classified Items, and such items can only be obtained from these slots (additionally, Prototype Modules only appear as treasure if you have already built the Weapon Lab).
  • Similarly to Resource Boats, no resources can be stolen from the Submarine by attackers unless it actually enters your storage after collection.
  • If the Submarine is diving, you can tap on that dive location to see what it is diving for, but you will not be able to see what other dives are available at that spot.
  • New dives cannot be started while the Submarine is upgrading or when it contains any treasure.
  • It is possible to upgrade your Submarine while it contains treasure. Simply move any building to the outside zone where it can't be placed. Then, tap on the Submarine and it will show the upgrade icon. The treasure will still be in the Sub when the upgrade finishes. However, you cannot claim your reward while upgrading the Sub.

Upgrade Differences

  • The Submarine is the only aquatic building in the game with no visual upgrade differences.
  • At all levels, the Submarine is a bright yellow marine craft with black highlights and windows, covered with metal plates. There is a large dome glass window at the front of the craft, and a smaller one on top. There is a hatch at the top, and silver rails on both sides, with a propeller on the back. Buoyant floats are also attached at the bottom of the submarine.
  • Each level increases the maximum depth that it can dive by 100 m.

Trivia

  • The time the Submarine takes to dive is one of the few timers in the game that cannot be finished instantly by diamonds.
  • The yellow color of the submarine may be a reference to the Beatles' song "Yellow Submarine".
  • There's an achievement which is called Submariner that gives a total of 60 diamonds upon diving for treasure 500 times.
  • The northern part of the Archipelago is filled with Ice Islands. Dive locations in this area are highly likely to give Ice Power Stones.

Statistics

HQ Level 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25
Number Available 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1
Level Level Max Dive Depth
Submarine-Dive
Upgrade Cost Upgrade Time Time Instant
Diamonds
Headquarters Level Required Headquarters XP GainXp
Wood
Wood
Stone
Stone
Iron
Iron
1 600 50,000 12,000 3,200 2h 184 9 1
2 700 57,000 13,500 3,600 3h 15m 217 9 1
3 800 99,000 24,800 8,000 5h 326 10 8
4 900 134,000 49,000 14,000 6h 422 11 12
5 1,000 201,000 95,000 24,800 7h 573 12 14
6 1,100 284,000 171,000 49,000 8h 754 13 15
7 1,200 390,000 340,000 95,000 10h 1,042 14 17
8 1,300 670,000 510,000 187,000 12h 1,435 15 20
9 1,400 950,000 850,000 370,000 13h 1,936 16 22
10 1,500 1,350,000 1,110,000 700,000 14h 2,517 17 26
Dive Locations
Dive
Number
Radar Level Required
Radar
Cost to Uncover Region
Gold
Maximum Possible Depth
Submarine-Dive
1 5 14,000 700 m
2 7 34,000 700 m
3 8 100,000 700 m
4 9 170,000 700 m
5 9 220,000 700 m
6 10 190,000 800 m
7 11 180,000 900 m
8 12 330,000 1,000 m
9 13 600,000 1,100 m
10 14 600,000 1,200 m
11 15 800,000 1,300 m
12 16 1,100,000 1,400 m
13 17 1,800,000 1,500 m
14 18 2,000,000 1,500 m
15 19 2,400,000 1,500 m
16 20 2,000,000 1,500 m


Map of the Archipelago with all Dive Spot Locations

View the full-size image here

Archipelago Map
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