Isekai: Waifu Overlord – Village Economy Guide

Village Economy in IWO

This guide explains how to increase your income as quickly as possible by prioritizing the right buildings and upgrades. Bookmark the chart provided with the guide, as it can help determine which building is usually the best one to upgrade.

Part 1: Reaching the Gold Mine

In the very early game, your focus should be reaching the Gold Mine, as it is considered the best building in the game.

From the Farm to the Gold Mine, each building generally becomes better than the previous one. However, this progression does not continue after the Gold Mine.

You can unlock the next building faster by leveling your available buildings efficiently. A useful rule of thumb is to check which building you can tier up the fastest by filling the yellow progress bar beneath its level.

Usually, you can simply check which bar you can fill the most with a single click and upgrade that building.

However, tier requirements are not evenly distributed. Some tiers require 15 levels, while others require 25 levels or even more. Girl slot unlocks are also less desirable than actual multipliers. These factors can make the simple rule of prioritizing the fastest progress bar suboptimal.

If you do not want to think too much about each upgrade, however, this rule of thumb is still useful.

When unlocking the next building requires only a few hours of saving, approximately 2 to 3 hours at most, consider saving your resources instead of continuing to upgrade.

Part 2: The Gold Mine Meta

Buildings are not equal in value, and the newest building is not always the best one. This is only true up to the Gold Mine.

The building tier list is:

Upgrade Priority

The general strategy is to tier up the A and S tier buildings in unlock order:

Smithy → Bank → HotSpring → Mage Tower → Lab → Gold Mine

Then repeat the sequence.

The earliest building will always be one tier above the next one, and will be two tiers ahead immediately after you tier it up.

The latest building you tiered up will be the best one to place your best girls and pet in 99% of cases.

Matching girl and pet types is only a secondary factor when assigning girls and pets.

Part 3: The Level 300 Wall

According to the progression chart, tiers beyond level 300 are very difficult to reach. There are 75 additional levels to reach level 375.

Because leveling costs increase exponentially, reaching level 375 is extremely expensive, even though the first approximately 30 levels may initially seem affordable.

Until the Gold Mine itself reaches level 300, consider level 300 the maximum level for other buildings.

Once buildings such as the Smithy and Bank reach level 300, remove them from the list of good investments described in Part 2.

Update for Version 2.24

The Gold Mine has reached level 300, but there is no further information about the Gold Mine beyond that point.

The Anvil cost was reportedly increased significantly in version 2.24. As a result, it is no longer necessarily possible to have a maxed Anvil by the time the Gold Mine reaches level 300.