HQ Upgrade Costs

Approximate resource cost to upgrade your Headquarters, cross-checked across two independent sources.

Approximate · Last checked 2026-09-02 · 2 independent sources
These are approximate, and they are not fresh. Both sources describe their own figures as approximate — your real cost is changed by research, talents and skills you have unlocked. The more detailed of the two was last updated February 2022, and the game shipped an update in August 2026. Use these to plan, not to budget to the last unit.
HQFoodWoodSteelGas
46,9906,990
511,90011,900
621,40021,400
740,70040,700
881,30081,300
9163,000163,000
10326,000326,000
11627,000627,0006,600
121,140,00025,400
131,920,0001,920,00067,800
143,020,0003,020,000150,800
154,380,0004,380,000292,000
166,020,0005,850,000502,000
177,780,0006,770,000790,00028,200
1810,100,0007,610,0001,218,00076,500
1913,000,0008,220,0001,850,000154,500
2016,700,0008,330,0002,780,000277,500
2121,400,0007,490,000468,500
2227,300,0005,060,0006,080,000760,000
Why the table stops, and what we threw away.
We compared two independent sources and published only what they agree on within 2%.
HQ 23–31 are withheld — the two sources disagree by 6–14%. We will not average a real disagreement.
HQ 36–40 are refused outright — in one source, all twenty values there (five levels × four resources) are exactly 1.05× the row above. A cost curve does not do that. Someone dragged a formula down a spreadsheet, and publishing it would pass a stranger's arithmetic off as a fact about the game.
HQ 32–35 is refused — in that same source, food sits at exactly 377,000,000 for four consecutive levels, and steel (45,200,000) and gas (22,600,000) do the same, while wood climbs past them. Three resources frozen and one moving is a half-filled spreadsheet, not a cost curve.