Combolands All Buildings — Trigger Types, Range and Combos

Combolands: Roguelike Citybuilder ships with more than 120 buildings, and this Combolands all buildings guide explains how that pool actually reaches the board rather than listing every card as a fixed tier. The official Steam page advertises "120+ buildings to construct your town," and buildings behave like cards: you draw from a pool shaped by the two guilds you picked, then place them for score, adjacency and trigger effects. Because the pool is filtered per run, no single run shows every building, and a complete tier list is not something the public sources currently support.

What the Building Pool Contains

The pool is not one global deck. Guild choice decides which building cards can appear, and one guide notes that starter cards repeat early in a run before later offers widen the pool. That means your first few placements are usually drawn from a common opening set, and the more distinctive guild buildings arrive once the run is underway.

Building group	Example cards	Documented effect
Crop and production	Sunflower Field, Wheat Field	Score scales with nearby crop fields or the building's timer (to confirm)
Range support	Town Bell, Well	Town Bell gives adjacent buildings +1 range; a Well speeds crops next to it (to confirm)
Removal and mulch	Composter, Manure	Removal in range adds a farm multiplier; adjacent Manure is removed and pays Gold (to confirm)
Military and training	Barracks, Training Ring	Score from terrain and from triggering training neighbours; placement rules apply (to confirm)

Placement source also matters. The v1.0.6 patch notes fixed an Inn effect that failed to work when the building was placed from a blueprint, which is a reminder that the same building can behave differently depending on how it entered the board.

How Triggers and Timers Work

Most of the depth in Combolands comes from trigger timing rather than raw card stats. Sources describe buildings that fire when they are created, when they are removed, and on a weekly timer, and some fire when an adjacent building is created or transformed. The same community thread that covers agriculture notes that a building can trigger only a limited number of times per week, so stacking every bonus onto one tile has a ceiling (to confirm).

Trigger type	How it behaves
On creation	Pays out once, when the building is placed
On removal	Pays out when the building or a neighbour is removed
Periodic timer	Fires every few weeks while it sits on the board
Neighbour-driven	Fires when an adjacent building is created, removed or transformed

Range, Adjacency and Placement

• Range is an effect radius shown on the board; adjacency means the tiles directly touching a building.
• A range effect such as the Town Bell can pull extra tiles into a chain you already have, which is often cheaper than adding a new building.
• Some buildings carry placement restrictions, such as sand-only military buildings reported by players (to confirm).
• Railway tiles are described as counting as adjacent to all connected railway, which can link distant buildings into one network (to confirm).
• Transformation and paint effects can change a tile's type, which may break a chain that depended on what used to be there.

Named Building Examples Worth Knowing

A handful of buildings come up again and again in community and guide coverage, and they are useful anchors when you are learning the trigger system.

Building	What sources say
Apiary	Fires on a timer and is boosted by nearby flowers; the strongest version uses the Honeypot item (to confirm)
Sunflower Field	Scores from nearby crop fields and is a steady turn-by-turn generator in agriculture builds (to confirm)
Scarecrow	The main agriculture payoff that absorbs bonuses from surrounding fields (to confirm)
Granary	Harvests crops in range and resets fields back to empty (to confirm)
Watchtower	Fires when nature is created; the v1.0.6 patch fixed tree creation on plateaus when a watch tower is removed

• Removal is a real mechanic, not just a correction: some buildings pay out or multiply farms when they or their neighbours are removed.
• Transformation changes a building into another one, which is how some chains restart.
• The in-game Compendium added in update v1.0.5 shows buildings you may have dismissed from the pool for the current run.