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# Settings › Building
- URL: https://help.kingshot-bot.com/settings-building/
- Published: 2026-10-29T22:04:43.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-29T22:04:43.000Z
- Description: Automate the build queue, run a second builder, order which categories get built first, and pick which buildings the bot is allowed to upgrade.
- Author: Kingshot Bot
- Tags: Settings

**Building** controls what the main build queue spends its time and resources on: whether it runs at all, whether it speeds itself up, whether a second builder is kept active, in what order building categories are upgraded, and which individual buildings are excluded.

> The values in the screenshots below are one account's configuration, not the defaults. Each option's default is listed in the tables.

## Building

![The Building section of the Building settings tab](https://help.kingshot-bot.com/content/images/2026/08/settings-building--building-3.png)

| Option                                      | What it does                                                                                                                                                                                                 | Default      |
| ------------------------------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ | ------------ |
| **Enable Auto Build**                       | Master switch for the automated build queue.                                                                                                                                                                 | On           |
| **Speed-up**                                | How the bot spends speedup items on the build queue: **Disabled** never uses them, **TypeOnly** uses only Building-type speedups, **TypeAndGeneral** also spends General speedups (which work on any queue). | **Disabled** |
| **Use Resource Bag for build costs**        | Draws on Resource Bag items in the backpack to cover a resource shortfall before starting a build.                                                                                                           | Off          |
| **Wait for alliance helps before speed-up** | Delays spending a speedup item until the queue has received the maximum alliance helps it can get (or the timeout below elapses), so free help-time reductions stack first.                                  | On           |
| **Help wait timeout (s)**                   | Upper bound on how long the bot waits for alliance helps before speeding up anyway. Only applies while the option above is on.                                                                               | 30           |

The build queue also has a separate, always-on gem-skip mechanism for short-remaining queues (30 to 225 seconds left, costing up to 50 gems per skip and 200 gems per session) that isn't exposed as a toggle in this section — it exists to satisfy in-game guide objectives without needing a setting.

## Second Build Queue

![The Second Build Queue section of the Building settings tab](https://help.kingshot-bot.com/content/images/2026/08/settings-building--second-build-queue-3.png)

| Option                                                        | What it does                                                                                                                                                | Default |
| ------------------------------------------------------------- | ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ------- |
| **Activate second build queue automatically**                 | Opens the second build-queue slot using a Construction Contract item from the backpack when the slot expires.                                               | On      |
| **Use gems (1000) when no Construction Contract in backpack** | If no Construction Contract is available, spends 1000 gems to activate the second queue for 2 days instead. Only applies while the option above is also on. | Off     |

## Build Priority

![The Build Priority section of the Building settings tab](https://help.kingshot-bot.com/content/images/2026/08/settings-building--build-priority-3.png)

An ordered list of building categories — **City, Resource, Military, Research, Defense** by default — that decides which category gets upgraded first when more than one is eligible. Select a category and use **▲ Up** / **▼ Down** to reorder it.

## Auto-Upgrade Buildings

![The Auto-Upgrade Buildings section of the Building settings tab](https://help.kingshot-bot.com/content/images/2026/08/settings-building--auto-upgrade-buildings-3.png)

A checklist of every building, grouped by category (City, Defense, Military, Research, Resource). Checked buildings are auto-upgraded when they come up in the priority order above; unchecking one permanently skips it. **All** / **None** buttons apply to every building in a category at once. With nothing excluded, the bot upgrades everything that passes its prerequisites.