Tempered Truegold is the material that gates TG6 through TG8 building upgrades in Kingshot. Here is how Super Refinement works, the exact tier costs, the weekly schedule that maximises yield, and where to spend Tempered Truegold first for the highest KvK return.
Progression in Kingshot moves at a steady pace through the early and mid game. Buildings upgrade with standard resources, research queues fill on schedule, and troop tiers unlock predictably. Around kingdom day 310 to 320, that rhythm hits a hard wall. TG8 building upgrades require a material that cannot be purchased directly, cannot be stockpiled through daily missions alone, and is generated through a weekly-capped conversion system most players have never interacted with before — Tempered Truegold.
The bottleneck is intentional. Tempered Truegold is designed to slow TG6 through TG8 progression and give F2P players a chance to close the gap with heavier spenders, since no amount of diamond spending bypasses the weekly conversion cap. The players who reach TG8 fastest are not necessarily the ones who spend the most — they are the ones who understand the Super Refinement system well enough to extract maximum yield from every week's allowance. Governors keeping gem reserves ready for active progression weeks can manage their LootBar Kingshot top-up before pushing a TG upgrade rather than scrambling mid-build.
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What Tempered Truegold Is and When It Unlocks
Regular Truegold handles building upgrades from TG1 through TG5. Those upgrades require Truegold combined with standard resources — bread, wood, stone, iron — and no other special material. TG6, TG7, and TG8 are different. Each of those tiers adds Tempered Truegold as a required input alongside regular Truegold and resources. Without it, the upgrade cannot proceed regardless of how much Truegold or standard resources are available.
Tempered Truegold is obtained exclusively through Super Refinement inside the Truegold Crucible. The Crucible itself unlocks around kingdom day 150 when TG5 is reached, but the Super Refinement feature — the one that produces Tempered Truegold — does not become available until the kingdom hits TG8 territory around day 310 to 320. The Golden Glaives event provides a small supplemental source: participating in the event grants 2 free Tempered Truegold, making it worth attending consistently even before the Super Refinement feature opens.
The buildings that require Tempered Truegold for TG6 through TG8 upgrades are the Town Center, Embassy, Command Center, Infirmary, Barracks, Range, and Stable. Each building follows the same 5-step structure per tier — five individual upgrades per Truegold level, each with its own material cost — so the Tempered Truegold demand compounds quickly when upgrading multiple buildings simultaneously.
Super Refinement Tiers: The Cost Structure That Determines Weekly Yield
Super Refinement converts regular Truegold into Tempered Truegold at a rate that changes based on how many refinements have been completed that week. The system resets weekly and divides into five tiers based on cumulative refinement count.
Tier 1 covers the first 20 refinements of the week, costing 20 regular Truegold each and producing 1 to 3 Tempered Truegold per refinement. Tier 2 runs from refinement 21 through 40, with the cost jumping to 50 Truegold each for a yield of 2 to 3 Tempered Truegold. Tier 3 spans refinements 41 through 60, costing 100 Truegold each for 3 to 6 Tempered Truegold. Tier 4 covers refinements 61 through 80 at 130 Truegold each for 3 to 9, and Tier 5 handles the final 20 refinements at 160 Truegold each for 3 to 12.
The weekly cap sits at 100 total Super Refinements. Running all 100 in a single week at escalating tier costs is never the right approach — the Truegold expenditure in Tiers 3 through 5 is far too steep relative to the yield ceiling. The practical strategy lives in Tiers 1 and 2, where the cost-to-yield ratio is most favourable.
One mechanic softens the cost across every tier: the first Super Refinement of each calendar day costs half the normal Truegold for whatever tier the account is currently in. A Tier 2 refinement that would normally cost 50 Truegold drops to 25 on the daily first-use. This daily discount applies regardless of whether the account is in Tier 1, Tier 2, or beyond — it resets every day and should never be wasted.
The Optimal Weekly Schedule: Monday Burst Into Daily Singles
The schedule that extracts the highest Tempered Truegold per Truegold spent follows two phases within each weekly reset window. On Monday — or whichever day the weekly counter resets — run all 20 Tier 1 refinements back to back. At 20 Truegold each, completing the full Tier 1 block costs 400 Truegold and produces between 20 and 60 Tempered Truegold at Tier 1 rates. The first refinement of Monday also lands the daily discount, reducing that one from 20 to 10 Truegold.
After the Monday Tier 1 burst, the account enters Tier 2 for the rest of the week. From Tuesday through Sunday, run exactly one Super Refinement per day — always the first refinement of that calendar day to capture the 50% daily discount. That single daily refinement at the discounted Tier 2 rate costs 25 Truegold instead of 50 and produces 2 to 3 Tempered Truegold. Six days of discounted single refinements adds 6 Tempered Truegold at minimum, more on strong RNG days.
The full weekly output from this schedule — 20 Tier 1 refinements on Monday plus one discounted Tier 2 refinement per day Tuesday through Sunday — totals between 26 and 78 Tempered Truegold depending on RNG variance, at a maximum Truegold cost of 550 for the week. Running beyond this into Tier 3, 4, or 5 at their escalating costs produces diminishing returns that drain the regular Truegold reserve without proportionally increasing Tempered Truegold output.
KvK Timing: How to Stack Two Weeks of Refinements
The weekly reset and KvK scheduling interact in a way that creates an opportunity for governors planning a TG8 push around Kingdom vs. Kingdom. If the weekly reset falls shortly before KvK Prep Day 1, completing the Monday burst from the previous week and then running the full Monday burst again after the reset means two weeks of Tier 1 refinements land in a compressed window before the KvK scoring period begins.
This stacking approach is worth planning around rather than discovering by accident. Two consecutive Monday bursts — 20 Tier 1 refinements each, totalling 40 Tier 1 refinements — produce between 40 and 120 Tempered Truegold at the most efficient cost tier. Entering KvK Prep Day 1 with that stockpile ready means the TG8 upgrade can proceed immediately on the Construction scoring day rather than waiting for material accumulation to catch up.
Where to Spend Tempered Truegold First: Building Priority for KvK Value
Tempered Truegold is scarce enough that spending it across multiple buildings simultaneously at TG6 or TG7 stalls every upgrade rather than completing any of them. The correct approach is concentrating the full weekly allocation into one building at a time until the target tier is reached, then moving to the next priority.
Embassy and Command Center generate the most immediate KvK impact at TG8. The Embassy upgrade increases reinforcement capacity, which directly affects how many troops an alliance can stack in a defended position during castle battles and KvK structure fights. The Command Center at TG8 expands march capacity, which scales every rally and gathering march simultaneously. Both of these affect live combat outcomes more directly than upgrading troop production buildings to TG8 first.
Barracks, Range, and Stable — the troop training buildings — become the priority after Embassy and Command Center are secured. TG8 on these buildings unlocks the stat jump to T11 troops across each troop type. The T10 to T11 transition is the largest single power spike available through troop training, with roughly 15 to 20 percent across all stats compared to T10. Among the three troop types, upgrading Infantry first provides the strongest survivability return in rally compositions, followed by Archers for DPS output, then Cavalry.
The War Academy and Infirmary are lower priority during a focused TG8 push. War Academy upgrades provide long-term value but do not create the same immediate battlefield impact as the buildings above. Infirmary TG8 upgrades improve healing speed and capacity — useful for sustained KvK campaigns but not the first spend when Tempered Truegold is actively being rationed across an upgrade push.
Regular Truegold Farming: Keeping the Super Refinement Feed Running
Super Refinement consumes regular Truegold, so maintaining a healthy base Truegold supply is what keeps the weekly refinement schedule sustainable. The primary daily source is Watchtower Intel Missions, which unlock once the Town Center reaches level 30 and scale in Truegold yield as the kingdom ages. Running intel missions consistently every day is the baseline — skipping them is the most common way regular Truegold reserves erode below the level needed to sustain the weekly refinement schedule.
Event rewards supplement the daily intel income. The Armament Competition, Strongest Governor, Alliance Mobilization, Golden Glaives, and Kingdom of Power Shop all provide regular Truegold in varying amounts. The Kingdom of Power Shop in particular is worth spending KvK points in for Truegold, since KvK points are earned through regular event participation and the Shop purchase provides direct material rather than requiring conversion.
F2P governors have one specific consideration: using regular Truegold to buy Truegold Dust — the War Academy research currency — only makes sense when no TG6 through TG8 building upgrades are actively queued. Once Super Refinement is unlocked and a TG push is underway, every available regular Truegold should flow into the refinement schedule rather than converting to Dust at an unfavourable rate.
Conclusion
Tempered Truegold is the hardest bottleneck in Kingshot's late-game progression and the one resource that money alone cannot fully bypass. The weekly cap of 100 Super Refinements makes the schedule more important than the budget — running the 20 Tier 1 refinements on Monday, capturing the daily discount on a single Tier 2 refinement each following day, and avoiding the expensive upper tiers entirely is the strategy that produces the most Tempered Truegold per Truegold spent across a full season. Spending priority flows to Embassy and Command Center first for immediate KvK impact, then to troop training buildings in Infantry-first order for the T11 unlock.
Governors running an active TG upgrade push who want to keep their gem and resource supply ready can manage their Kingshot top up through LootBar before the next KvK cycle begins.
