Feed the Scorchpot Buildings Tier List

This list ranks building jobs. Exact Codex names vary; the geometry does not. Pair it with Buildings and Island Layout. Sibling ranks: recipes and dice.

S-tier: the engine

Triple-corner farms (and other collectors) on numbers you actually Mark. Nothing else scores if Fodder never arrives. A farm that sees three live hexes is S. A farm that sees one pretty coastline is C wearing an S costume.

Multiplier buildings that see those farms. Shrines, harbors, and their cousins that add Flavor, Essence, or extra recipe slots belong here when they share corners with the cluster. Isolated, they drop a full letter.

The first matching recipe is not a building and still outranks a second house. If this sentence makes you open the shop, good. See the recipes tier list.

A-tier: enablers

Dice buildings once the cluster exists. Extra cubes or rerolls that hit 8-9-10 are A. Extra cubes that hunt 2s are noise.

Gold printers when the shop is dry and you already own a matching recipe. Ducats exist to buy the next multiplier, not to win the year by themselves.

Trade posts / slot buildings when you have two legal recipes fighting for one slot. Extra slots are A. Extra slots filled with near-misses are a tax.

Upgrades of S-tier farms. An upgraded collector on the cluster beats a new collector on a dead number.

B-tier: luxury

Houses that only add peasants or cosmetics. They are allowed after the engine exists. They are bait in year two.

Second-food collectors on a side tile you already touch. Fine as a garnish for a recipe that wants a splash. Bad as a new peninsula.

Late 12-farms if you already own six-sixes dice. Otherwise they sit in C until the tray changes. Check Dice.

C-tier: souvenirs

Lonely buildings on 2 or 12 with a fair tray. Multiplier statues that cannot see a farm. Tier-two stamps you cannot legally support. Unlock menus will mock you with these. Leave the corner empty instead. Paving every legal intersection in year four. That is a C-tier habit, not a card.

Context modifiers

• Scorched land: redundant clusters jump to S. A single peninsula drops.
• Scorched shop: gold printers drop; pocket tools jump.
• Mean dragons: earlier Essence buildings climb.
• Teaching dragons: you can linger in A-tier gold longer.

Buy order reminder

Farm cluster → matching recipe → multiplier that sees the farm → biased die → gold or slots → vanity. The walkthrough is the calendar. This list is the shopping filter.

If two S-tier stamps compete for one corner, take the farm. Multipliers need something to multiply. For the exam, Scoring Combos.

Example boards, not screenshots

A year-ten S-tier skyline is boring on purpose: two triple farms on 7-8-9, a shrine that sees both, a harbor or trade post that sees at least one, empty corners waiting for Essence. A year-ten C-tier skyline is a postcard: houses on every beach, one farm on 12, a shrine on a cliff. The postcard dies to a tantrum. The boring board cooks.

If your Codex uses different names for shrine-like jobs, map the job, not the noun. Collectors collect. Multipliers multiply. Printers print gold. Everything else is a house until proven otherwise. The Items hub is the dictionary. This page is the ranking of those dictionary entries.

Stop ranking when the year is hungry. Stamp, cook, and read the walkthrough if the quota still looks illegal. If a friend still stamps houses first, send them Getting Started instead of this list. Rankings without the loop are how souvenir skylines get built.