The Governor's Handbook

The Inselnova beginner's guide. Your first day as Governor: what to build, why to join an alliance early, scouting your first shore, and the road to your first warship and raid.

The second Inselnova playbook. Choose a second shore, usually for the wood, let raids pay for the charter, and sail the first Colonisation Ship.

Keyboard shortcuts, swipe gestures, and navigation tips for getting around Inselnova on desktop and mobile.

Glossary of in-game terms, abbreviations, and lore vocabulary used in Inselnova council affairs, expeditions, and reports.

Gold, stone, lumber, lumen — the four currencies that run Inselnova. Production rates, storage caps, tax, and when each one becomes the bottleneck.

Every building in Inselnova with construction costs, build times, production rates, and upgrade prerequisites for each level.

The Workshop in Inselnova: goods storage that grows with the building, the common bench and the doctrine benches a steward opens, unlocking recipes one at a time, and crafting durable goods to order.

Population, housing, and happiness in Inselnova. How your island actually grows — what feeds it, what kills it, and how to keep islanders loyal.

Visible island conditions in Inselnova: overcrowding, a choked harbour, weathering war engines, curses. What raises them, what they cost, and how to clear them.

Research tree for Inselnova. Unlock stronger units, faster production, and advanced strategies through the Laboratory.

All military units in Inselnova: soldiers, ships, siege weapons. Stats, training costs, combat values, and building requirements.

Island prestige in Inselnova. How buildings and research raise an island's standing, why damage lowers it, and what each milestone means.

Island stewards in Inselnova: the seat that opens at Dominion, the four doctrines, the ranks and the fund, and what a steward adds to an island.

Shuttered mode in Inselnova: how to close your whole realm while away. Duration and cooldown limits, what you can and cannot do, and how shuttering turns away fleets and pauses decay.

The Tavern in Inselnova: the Harbour Watch's wall of leads, today the bounty, how a lead opens with its Info and Ledger, how it ends, and the games at the tables.

Council dispatches in Inselnova. How affairs arrive, how rulings resolve, and why the council seat shapes local consequences.

Realm identity in Inselnova. How your deeds and affair rulings shape your realm across four bearings: Warrior, Commonwealth, Mystic, and Merchant.

Honour in Inselnova: the ten labels the ports call you, punch-downs, even fights and punch-ups, strikes not waves, the Matchup row on the send screen, Wanted, and how a shared bounty hunt is paid.

Lumen, gods, awakening, blessings, and curses in Inselnova. The slow rhythm of the church, how to wake each god by sacrifice, and what their offerings cost and grant.

Achievements in Inselnova. Track your milestones, earn titles, and unlock recognition for your accomplishments.

Wealth statues in Inselnova: per-island monuments fed from the treasury. Permanent archetype choice, Bronze / Silver / Gold tiers, and the Bright Coast vs Black Tide alignment they lock in.

World map and navigation in Inselnova. Explore the archipelago, find neighbours, and chart your course.

What an ocean is in Inselnova: reading a bearing, the rocks at sea and their ore seams, prospecting, holding a rock with a flag and a garrison, the rock veto on an ocean claim, and what a storm over the water means.

Durable goods in Inselnova: what they are, where they come from, how to craft, use, store, and trade them, and why they never leave the island that holds them.

Story-driven voyages in Inselnova. Capital-only dispatch, stage-by-stage choices, governance effects, durable goods, route unlocking, and recall.

Treasure islands in Inselnova: scheduled shimmering shores that yield gold or cursed chests when raided, rotating every few hours.

A guide to the Black Tide in Inselnova. How it appears, what provokes it, how it grows, and what it cannot do.

The Lumen Rupture in Inselnova: why the Black Tide's hoard tears the boundary, the four Risen that come through, marks and doctrine shot, where a creature flees, the curses it lays, and what ends it.

The early-game help a new Governor's first raids and settlings receive in Inselnova: visible favor supplies against unclaimed shores, a steadied first spy, and how it fades over the first two weeks.

Attack and battle mechanics in Inselnova: attack strength, defence calculations, wall bonuses, siege, razing, and the patrol that answers every raider.

Raiding unclaimed shores in Inselnova: resource tiers, wild defenders, carry capacity, withdrawal attrition, diminishing returns, and treasure chests.

Plunder runs in Inselnova: the getaway roll, Old Guild Seals, storehouse protection, punch-down loot scaling, focus choices, and staying off the Plunderers board.

Blockades in Inselnova: loiter in an enemy island's waters, ambush cargo convoys, split catches between watchers, and the Watch Tower spotting model.

Espionage and spying in Inselnova. Send spies, gather intelligence on enemy islands, and defend against rival scouts.

Colonisation guide for Inselnova. How to claim new islands, expand your territory, and build a multi-island empire.

Fleet and transport in Inselnova. Move resources and units between your islands, supply allies, and manage logistics.

Garrison support in Inselnova: ferry troops to a friendly settlement, how stationed forces fight and resupply, and how garrisons come home.

How trade works in Inselnova. Posting offers, reading the order book, spotting arbitrage, and turning a surplus into the resources you actually need.

The Bazaar in Inselnova. Browse NPC trade deals, purchase rare goods, and find unique opportunities.

Alliance system in Inselnova. Create or join alliances, manage members, share intelligence, and coordinate attacks.

Shared co-op goals an alliance works toward together to earn alliance XP. The board, the level ladder, contributions, and why no single Governor can finish one alone.

How a banner raises its standing in Inselnova: the quest ladder, the uncapped raid farm, the daily muster and depot trickle, the anti-farm guards, and why alliance XP never falls.

Call your alliance to defend an island under threat. Raising a call, sending aid that garrisons, the coalition battle report, and recalling your troops.

Put an ocean to your council, name it, and fly your flag over it. The three gates (rank cap, Ocean Influence, the two-thirds council vote), how the vote forces you to purge dead members, and how rival coalitions pool influence to block it.

Messaging, contacts, and chat in Inselnova. Send letters, manage your contacts list, and communicate with allies.

Battle reports and dispatches in Inselnova. Read combat results, spy reports, and incoming attack warnings.

The morning newspaper of Inselnova. What each page holds, how Governor of the Day is earned, why the back page changes daily, and why Sunday's story is fiction.

Leaderboards and scoring in Inselnova. How player scores are calculated from buildings, units, and research.