All About Boosters

All About Boosters

In Empires & Puzzles, a Booster is an item that provides a limited-time gameplay bonus, typically for 48 hours — things like more loot from Story Map Stages or more Hero XP. Each one runs on a timer, and activating a new Booster replaces the current one of that type, so you should never start a fresh Booster while another still has time left on it.

Resource Boosters (Story Map farming)

These all increase what you collect from Story Map Stages, so only activate them when you're about to do a real farming session — ideally paired with energy refills so you don't waste the timer.

- Food Booster — more Food from Story Map Stages. Best before a grind to fund building upgrades, training camps, and hero leveling.

- Iron Booster — more Iron from Story Map Stages. Use it when stockpiling Iron for building upgrades, hero skill trees, and crafting items

- Recruit Booster — more Recruits from Story Map Stages. Great when you're feeding training camps heavily. If your Recruits storage is full, the overflow converts into Recruit Decrees (stored in inventory, with a daily cap) that you can use to instantly grab recruits later.

- Quartermaster's Booster — increases both the amount of ascension items and the chance of finding specific ascension items from Story Map Stages. Best when farming stages that drop the ascension materials you're chasing.

- Alchemist's Booster — increases the amount of crafting input materials and the chance of finding specific crafting items from Story Map Stages. Use it to stock up on battle items before a Titan or War.

- Omnia Booster — gives more Food, Iron, Recruits, and Items from Story Map Stages all at once, and its effects stack with other boosters. This is the one to run alongside a targeted booster (for example, Omnia plus Quartermaster's) for maximum yield during a big farming run.

Hero Progression Booster

- Experience Booster — increases the experience gained when leveling up Heroes. Activate it right before a large leveling session, when you've already saved up plenty of feeder heroes and food, so the bonus applies to as much XP as possible.

Event Boosters (seasonal)

Many seasonal events sell their own Booster — Santa's Booster, Spring Booster, Halloween Booster, Kalevala Booster, Lunar New Year Booster, Love Booster, Beach Party Booster, the Special (guest) Booster, and more. Each gives extra stage rewards plus a battle bonus (attack, defense, and health) to your Rare, Epic, and Legendary heroes for the duration of that specific event. They're worth buying if you plan to complete the event.

Timing Tips

- Activate resource and XP boosters only when you can take advantage of the timing window (farming or leveling), not right before you log off.

- Don't overwrite a running booster of the same type — the new one replaces it and you lose the remaining time.

- Use Omnia as your always-on stacker and layer a targeted booster (ascension or crafting) on top for focused farming.