Ruins

Ruins in a Glade

Overview

Ruins are buildings found in Glades which can be repaired, salvaged or cleansed. There are regular Ruins and haunted Ruins.

Repairing a building grants Viceroys access to the building and all its production outputs. Workers can be assigned and it functions as a normal building.
- Viceroys usually do not gain the blueprint, so be careful, should you want to demolish it.
Salvaging a building will give some resources to Viceroys.
Cleansing a production building is much the same as repairing, except a cleansed building often has improved 3 ★★★ recipes.
Cleansed housing has 6 slots instead of 2.
Cleansed Service buildings have a powerful additional effect.

Constructed buildings can be turned into Ruins by the Lightning Catcher Glade Event and Devastation Forest Mystery.

Ruins map generation

Based on a sample of 1000 Dangerous Glades^[1], the chance to find a Ruin, 3 Ruins, or a haunted Ruin in a Dangerous Glade is roughly between 50 and 56%.

You will never find a Ruin in a Scarlet Orchard Glade with one of the Excavation Sites or a Sealed Forest Glade with the Ancient Seal. They seem to take up the Ruin "slot" of the Glade they generate in.

Around 5% of all Dangerous Glades will generate with 3 Ruins. Around 10% of all Ruins found will be haunted. Glades with 3 Ruins may have more than 1 haunted Ruin.

Haunted Ruins

Haunted Druid's Hut

The list of possible haunted Ruins is quite limited compared to regular Ruins, which can be most buildings in the game. Cleansing a haunted Ruin at Viceroy+ requires 30 Incense, Tea, Oil, Resin, or Scrolls, and imposes a working effect that lowers Global Resolve by 3 every 45 seconds. Alternatively, you can burn the Ruin down with 24 Planks or 15 Oil, 15 Sea Marrow, 15 Coal for a moderate amount of resources. Base solve time is 3 minutes and 50 seconds.

Haunted Ruins and cleansed buildings can be distinguished from their regular counterparts visually by the light blue aura they emanate. All Orders that require a specific building will accept its cleansed version.

You can find the list of all possible cleansed buildings below:

Flawless Brewery
Flawless Cellar
Flawless Cooperage
Flawless Druid's Hut
Flawless Leatherworker
Flawless Rain Mill
Flawless Smelter
Holy Guild House
Holy Market
Holy Temple
Hallowed Herb Garden
Hallowed Small Farm
Purified Beaver House*
Purified Fox House*
Purified Frog House*
Purified Harpy House*
Purified Human House*
Purified Lizard House*

*Purified Housing has 6 Housing slots instead of the regular 2. In all other respects it is identical to regular Species Housing.

World Modifiers affecting Ruins

Abandoned Settlement	Another Viceroy tried to settle this area, but unfortunately failed... You start with a small destroyed settlement (3 random Ruins) in your initial Glade.
Ruins Modifier	This region was settled very frequently in the past. The chance of finding Ruins in Glades is much higher.

Trivia

Before update 1.4, basic and species-specific Housing could be found as Ruins.
Since update 1.4, Small Warehouse can only be found as a Ruin as part of special Glades.
Before update 1.4, Flawless Brewery's Ale and Pickled Goods Recipes had an output of 15 units, and Pack of Crops - 5.