How to Increase Your Power Faster in Tiles Survive

In Tiles Survive, displayed combat power does not fully represent your real strength. True power growth comes from a combination of buildings, research, troops, heroes, gear, and long-term resource management.

This guide breaks down all direct and indirect methods to increase your power faster and more efficiently, whether you are free-to-play or a light spender.

Understanding Power in Tiles Survive

Power is distributed across multiple systems, including headquarters progression, hero power, troop tiers, research levels, gear quality, and alliance bonuses. Ranking high in one leaderboard does not automatically mean overall strength. Efficient players grow by improving every contributing system in parallel, rather than over-investing in a single area.

Direct Power Sources

Prioritize Core Buildings( The Power Plant)

The Power Plant is the single most important building in Tiles Survive. Any building upgrade beyond a certain level requires the Power Plant to match that level first. If your Power Plant lags behind, your entire progression stalls.

Key supporting buildings include

Buildings	Effects
Barracks	Enables continuous troop training.
Laboratory	Required to unlock higher-tier research.
Artifact Workshop	Reduces building upgrade time.
Cosmos Outpost	Increases alliance help count and reduces timers.

Resource buildings should not be rushed to max level early. Upgrading them to around Level 20 is usually sufficient in the midgame, allowing you to focus on faster global progression.

Train Higher-Tier Troops Consistently

Troop level directly affects power:

• Higher-tier troops provide significantly more power per unit.
• Unlocking higher tiers requires upgraded Power Plant and Barracks.

Development research increases training speed and capacity, compounding gains over time.

Continuous troop training is one of the most reliable long-term power growth methods.

Upgrade Heroes Strategically

Heroes are central to both PvE and PvP content.

Key recommendations:

• Focus on five main heroes first.
• Keep hero skill levels balanced (e.g. all at level 5 → 10 → 15).
• Skill books are scarce, so avoid over-investing in temporary or secondary heroes.

Purple heroes can be upgraded moderately early on, but priority should remain on long-term core heroes.

Arena participation is one of the main sources of hero fragments and upgrade materials.

Equip High-Quality Hero Gear

Hero gear has a massive impact on power:

Orange (Legendary) gear >> Purple gear.

Health and defense increases scale dramatically at higher rarity.

Signature gear offers additional bonuses and should be prioritized when available.

Gear can be obtained through shops, events, and specific game modes.

Upgrade Chief gear

Chief Gear unlocks after 21 days on the server. Early materials can still be collected before unlock.

Gear enhancement requires increasing amounts of adhesive and blueprints.

Promotion from common to higher tiers introduces blueprint requirements.

Chief Gear provides permanent global stat bonuses and should not be ignored.

 

Growth Acceleration Systems

Construction speed research

Research provides some of the highest permanent power gains in the game.

Recommended research priorities:

Development Research> Troop Death Reduction> Garrison Capacity = Utility Research> Alliance Duel Research

Name	Effects
Development Research	Increases construction speed, research speed, and overall efficiency.
Troop Death Reduction	Reduces losses in PvP battles.
Garrison Capacity & Utility Research	Improves survivability and defense.
Alliance Duel Research	Essential if your server has active alliance duel events.

The Research Lab provides permanent, scalable advantages and should be treated as a core progression system. Early on, prioritize Development and Rapid Production research that increases construction speed and research speed, as percentage-based speed bonuses reduce the time cost of all future upgrades. Follow with March Speed and Load Capacity to improve gathering efficiency and daily resource throughput.

After securing economic efficiency, shift toward survivability and combat-focused research such as Troop Death Reduction, Garrison Capacity, Utility Research, and Alliance Duel Research (on competitive servers). In later stages, transition into Economic, Hero, and Troop research trees to strengthen overall combat performance.

Survivor morale optimization

Survivors directly affect construction speed and resource output through hunger, energy, and morale. Low morale reduces productivity, slowing base development. Upgrading kitchen recipes (e.g., Roasted Meat, Pasta) improves energy recovery and grants work speed bonuses, while better beds accelerate energy restoration. Maintaining high morale and fast recovery creates steady efficiency gains that compound over time.

Strategic Map Navigation and Waypoint Efficiency

The world map is the main source of resources and progression, so movement efficiency is critical. Use bookmarks and coordinates to create fixed waypoints for high-level resource nodes and elite targets, enabling instant troop dispatch. Optimized routing reduces march downtime, improves stamina usage, and increases daily gathering cycles.

Hero Formations and Combat Synergy

Raw combat power is insufficient without proper formation and synergy. Place tanks in the frontline and damage dealers in the backline, prioritizing hybrid heroes with sustain or counter mechanics for better efficiency. Faction bonuses provide hidden combat advantages that improve win rates, reward acquisition, and overall growth speed.

Events participation

Events are one of the largest sources of:

Resources, Speedups, Gear blueprints and Hero fragments.

Daily tasks, Terror Purge, Dire Dispatch, and limited-time events all contribute significantly to growth. Skipping events slows progression dramatically.

Arena, VIP, and Shops

Arena: Higher ranks provide exchange currency for heroes and skill manuals.

VIP Shop: Speedups are the highest-value purchases.

Alliance Store: Weekly store often offers better value than daily purchases.

Speedups should always be prioritized, regardless of spending level.

Exploration and Coal Management

Coal is a rare and essential resource in Tiles Survive, primarily required for power generation and certain research upgrades. Unlike standard materials, it cannot be gathered from the world map, making higher-level exploration the main source of supply.

If players neglect exploration progress, they may eventually face serious bottlenecks that can halt late-game research development.

 

Summary

To increase your power faster in Tiles Survive, prioritize upgrading your Power Plant and Laboratory, focus early on Development and Alliance Duel research, and keep training high-tier troops nonstop. Invest wisely in heroes, Mammoth upgrades, and quality gear, maintain steady resource income, and time your speedups during overlapping events. Smart optimization—not just spending—is what drives fast growth.

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