Castleville is comparable to countless other games in Facebook, where energy is used to perform most of the actions in the game. Everything from collecting taxes, to chopping and clearing trees and rocks and fighting invading beasties requires the use of energy. You start the game with 10 energy points at level one. You may continually check your available energy at the top of your screen. It has a thunder-icon, you may be familiar with this icon because it’s typically used for most Facebook games. And one may notice the timer below it that says, “More in: 05:00.” This means your available energy will increase automatically by one point every five minutes.
But as quickly as you earn energy, you’ll find that you’re spending it just as fast. Fortunately, there are plenty of solid strategies for managing your available energy in CastleVille, including several energy cheats and secrets. The best technique for you depends on how quickly you burn through energy and how often you play the game each day.
Ask Your Friends
A dependable strategy for buffering your energy reserves is to ask your friends and neighbors to send you energy as gifts. If you have a lot of neighbors in the game, this can be a very effective way to accumulate energy.
Buy it from the Market
If you don’t mind parting with a few of your precious crowns, you can purchase energy potions in the Market. It’s not cheap, but if you only have a limited amount of time each day to play the game, this can be an effective strategy. Energy potions from the Market come in different sizes and can restore between 3 and 30 Energy per use. The most expensive, the HUGE Energy Potion, costs a whopping 21 crowns to purchase.
The Energy Potions for Sale in the CastleVille Market.
Craft Energy
CastleVille has a complex crafting system, and there are a few items that once crafted, can be consumed for extra energy. For example, hard-boiled eggs (crafted in the Kitchen) can be eaten to instantly restore 3 points of energy. Crafting takes some coordination and time, but also provides an efficient mechanism for energy restoration to frequent players of the game.