
Earthworks
Unlocks target's adjacent plots. Target's cards return to your hand, up to 3 copies.
- Type
- Tome
- Owner
- King of Stone
- Unlock the king
- Build 99 buildings
How players use it
- Reusing Concabulators Earthworks returns up to 3 copies of the target card when it unlocks plots, so using it on a spent Concabulator plot gives Concabulator cards back (a broken source returns fewer: 2 in the data). Jumpstart (1.0) replaces your hand with 3 Overhauls and 3 Broken Cabulators. For Scraps asks you to Earthworks a Broken Cabulator.
- Quests changed late in Early Access and in 1.0 Mycotocracy: +1 Earthworks at the start (Patch #31).
- Decrees that act once Hand replacers: Supplies (one copy of each of your king’s cards), Imports (one card from each of the 9 kings), Athenaeum (9 enchantments), Bulldozers (9 Earthworks), Jumpstart (3 Overhauls and 3 Broken Cabulators). They discard the cards you hold, so pick them when your hand is weak or nearly empty.
- Diplomats, towers and the Jack of Rainbows Expansion tower. Unlocks one more outer plot. The kingdom grows from 3×3 to at most 5×5; the Exploration and Wilderness decrees, the Earthworks tome and the Expansionist perk add more. Locked plots can hide treasure chests (Patch #22), opened by unlocking the plot.
How to get it
- In the King of Stone's 9-card deck: a run as this king can start with it, and losing a battle offers cards from your own deck.
- Loot after beating the King of Stone in battle when that king is one of your enemies.
- Merchant: Jack of Magic (tomes and enchantments).
- Joker mode: pick it for a custom deck.
Decrees, perks and cards that name it
| Entry | Effect |
|---|---|
| Bulldozers King of Stone decree | Replaces your hand with 9 Earthworks cards. |
Rest of the King of Stone deck
Patch history
- Patch #31
Mycotocracy: you now start with +1 Earthworks card. We also fixed a bug that caused your spores to not shoot enemies in the first quest year.
Lines from the official Steam patch notes since Patch #18 that name this card.
Data: 9 Kings 1.0 card table on the official wiki, imported 2026-11-13.








