Truegold — what needs it, and the refining trick that saves you months

📚 Cross-checked · Last checked 2026-07-29

Truegold is the extra material eight buildings require past a certain level, in ten tiers each. Refining it into Tempered Truegold gets more expensive the more you refine in a week — so clear the cheap tier in one Monday burst, then refine once a day and keep the first-refine discount. Note that each Truegold star counts as one level for battle scoring.

Truegold is Century Games' own English word for it — it appears in the App Store description: gather enough Truegold and upgrade your Town Center. It is the mid-game wall, and unlike resources you cannot farm your way around it.

What needs it

Eight buildings require Truegold past the mid-game threshold, each in ten tiers: the Town Center, the Embassy, the Command Center, the Infirmary, the three troop barracks, and the War Academy. Because every one of them feeds combat power, the order you take them in is a real decision rather than a cosmetic one.

Your Truegold level is a matchmaking stat too

This catches people out in Kingdom of Power and it is in the publisher's own FAQ. You only score points against an opponent within 3 levels of you; beyond that the kill pays nothing. For a rally it is measured against the rally captain's level, not yours. And the sentence that matters here: each star of the Truegold level counts as 1 level. So pushing Truegold stars is not free — it moves you up the ladder and can silently put the targets you used to farm outside your scoring range. Push it because you want the building tiers, and go in knowing what it does to your bracket.

The refining curve — this is the part that matters

Tempered Truegold is produced by a weekly refining system, and the cost per refine rises in stages as your weekly refine count climbs:

Stage	Refines that week	Truegold per refine	Tempered Truegold gained
1	1–20	20	1–3
2	21–40	50	2–3
3	41–60	100	3–6
4	61–80	130	3–9
5	81–100	160	3–12

Look at the ratio, not the yield. Stage 1 costs 20 Truegold for 1–3 Tempered. Stage 5 costs 160 for 3–12 — eight times the cost for roughly four times the return. Refining deep into a week is a straightforward loss.

The routine

Do your 20 stage-1 refines in one burst on Monday, then refine once a day for the rest of the week. That keeps you on the cheap stage, keeps the first-refine discount alive every day, and stops you from sleepwalking into stage 4 pricing. Over a few months this is the difference between one extra building tier and none.

Sources: "Truegold" and "Town Center" are Century Games' English wording; the ±3 level scoring rule and the one-star-equals-one-level rule are from the official English help centre, I'm at Truegold Lv. 3 — why didn't I gain points?. The refining stage table is cross-checked from independent reference tables and is not a publisher release; per-building tier costs vary by building and are not reproduced here.

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