--- title: "Guide: The Palace, Residence And Command Center" description: "Guide: The Palace" url: https://support.travian.com/en/articles/216-guide-the-palace-residence-and-command-center collection: "Expansion" updated: 2026-10-27 language: en alternates: [fr, de, es, ar, cs, it, pl, pt, ru, tr] --- # Guide: The Palace, Residence And Command Center Guide: The Palace The administrative buildings: Palace, Residence and Command Center are special buildings that allow you to expand beyond your starting village. A village may only have one of these buildings, and you may only have one Palace overall. Command Center is a special building of Huns and other tribes cannot build it. ## What these buildings do The administrative buildings serve two core functions: - They provide expansion slots, required to settle allowing you to found new villages or conquer existing ones, and they allow training units that can do that - settlers or administrators - They protect the village from being conquered and they generate loyalty Additionally, Palace allows you to set the village as a new capital. ## Comparison between the buildings All these buildings unlock expansion slots and allow you to train the units needed for expansion. You may only have one such building in a village, so you have to decide which one it will be. The critical difference lies in how many of each you can have and what else they do:

	Palace	Residence	Command Center
Limit per avatar	One only	One per village	Only Huns, one per village
Expansion slots	3: at level 10, 15 and 20	2: at level 10 and 20	3: at level 10, 15 and 20
Trains settlers	Yes	Yes	Yes
Trains administrators	Yes	Yes	Yes
Capital relocation	Building it in a new village allows you to move capital there	Cannot move your capital	Cannot move your capital
Costs	High	Lower than Palace	Lower than Palace
Building duration	Very long	Shorter	Medium
Best used for	When more slots are needed, and to move capital	For most villages, also when construction time time and costs are critical	Great option for Huns

The Palace and Command Center provide more expansion slots, which is critical especially for conquering villages. Residence is much cheaper and faster to build, which is especially important in early game, to get the second village as fast as possible. Command Center combines the best of the other 2 buildings, but only Huns can build it. Keep in mind that while you may only have one Palace overall, you could build it first in one village, then demolish it and build it in some other village. The capital is not moved automatically, so you may have your Palace in a village that is not your capital. ## Expansion Slots Expansion slots are what allow you to add new villages to your empire. Each slot represents the ability to either found a new village by sending settlers, or conquer an existing one by sending administrators. You need an open slot to train 3 settlers or one administrative unit. A slot may still be occupied by settlers you already trained or by an administrator trapped or reinforcing another village, so check your existing settlers and administrators, including those deployed elsewhere. [Expansion Slots](https://support.travian.com/articles/52) ## Settlers Settlers are used to found a brand new village on an unoccupied tile. You train three settlers and send them to an empty valley on the map — once they arrive, a new village is established in your name. Each founded village takes up one expansion slot. [Settling Villages](https://support.travian.com/articles/56) ## Administrators Administrators are special units that can conquer villages. They have different names depending on their tribe: Senator (Romans), Chief (Teutons), Chieftain (Gauls), Nomarch (Egyptians), Logades (Huns), Ephor (Spartans) and Jarl (Vikings). They reduce the loyalty of a target village over successive attacks until conquest becomes possible. [Conquering Villages](https://support.travian.com/articles/54) ## Capital Village Palace is required to move your capital. The capital village is crucial, as it can never be conquered and it allows the development of resource fields to the highest levels. [Capital Village](https://support.travian.com/articles/50) * * * * * * * * *