Resources

City resources

City resources are specific to each City.

Culture

When a City's Culture bar fills a positive Event occurs and the city's Culture Level increases. Culture is primarily increased by building Shrines and Odeons, training certain Specialists, adopting certain Laws or spreading a Religion to a City.

National resources

National resources are refined from natural resources and used directly by a Nation. Some national resources can be bought and sold for Money. The option will appear by hovering over the resource.

• Regular click buys 1 resource
• SHIFT+click buys 10 resources
• CTRL+click buys 100 resources

Resource	Use	Primary sources	Can be bought
Food	Feeding the population Producing settlers	Farms Farmers Fishers Ranchers	Yes
Iron	Producing military units Upkeep of certain military units	Mines	Yes
Money	Buyng resources	Selling other resources Hamlets Markets Treasuries Members of the Court with high Discipline	Yes
Orders	Unit actions Assigning governors Sending councilors of missions Unused orders are sold for Money at the end of the turn	Legitimacy Garrissons	Yes
Stone	Producing improvements	Quarries	Yes
Wood	Producing improvements Producing some military units Upkeep of certain military units	Chopping down trees Lumbermills	Yes
Civics	Producing specialists Producing projects Enacting Laws Establishing Theologies Constructing Wonders Hurry Production Missions	Stonecutters Forums Members of the Court with high Charisma	No
Science	Researching new technologies	Freedom Law Archives I project Training specialists Members of the Court with high Wisdom	No
Training	Producing military units Buying Orders Moving units beyond their Movement stat Assigning generals Promotions	Miners Barracks Ranges Members of the Court with high Courage	No

Natural resources

Natural resources appear on certain hexes on the map and can be refined into national resources. They can also be desired by certain Families. Natural resources can be exploited in three ways:

• Having the natural resource within the Nation's borders provides a small amount of national resources each year
• Constructing a certain improvement on the natural resource provides a large amount of national resources each year
• Certain units may harvest from the natural resource every couple of years, providing a large amount of national resources

Resource	Yearly resources (no Improvement)	Yearly resources (Improvement)	Improvement
Barley	1 Food	5 Food 2 Growth	Farm
Camels	5 Money	0.5 Orders	Camp
Cattle	1 Food	10 Food 2 Growth	Pasture
Citrus	1 Food	10 Food 2 Growth	Grove
Crabs	1 Food	10 Food 2 Growth	Nets
Dyes	1 Culture	2 Culture 20 Money Luxury Resource	Nets
Elephants	5 Money	0.5 Orders	Camp
Fish	1 Food	10 Food 2 Growth	Nets
Fur	1 Culture	2 Culture 20 Money Luxury Resource	Camp
Game	1 Food	10 Food 2 Growth	Camp
Gems	1 Culture	2 Culture 20 Money Luxury Resource Unlocks Bullion	Mine
Goats	1 Food	10 Food 2 Growth	Pasture
Gold	5 Money	40 Money Unlocks Bullion	Mine
Honey	1 Culture	2 Culture 5 Food Luxury Resource	Grove
Horses	5 Money	0.5 Orders	Pasture
Incense	1 Culture	2 Culture 20 Money Luxury Resource	Grove
Lavender	1 Culture	2 Culture 20 Money Luxury Resource	Grove
Marble	1 Stone	5 Stone 2 Civics	Quarry
Olives	1 Culture	2 Culture 5 Food Luxury Resource	Grove
Ore	1 Iron	5 Iron 2 Training	Mine
Pearls	1 Culture	2 Culture 20 Money Luxury Resource Unlocks Bullion	Nets
Pig	1 Food	10 Food 2 Growth	Pasture
Sale	1 Culture	2 Culture 20 Money Luxury Resource	Mine
Sheep	1 Food	10 Food 2 Growth	Pasture
Silver	5 Money	40 Money Unlocks Bullion	Mine
Sorghum	1 Food	5 Food 2 Growth	Farm
Wheat	1 Food	5 Food 2 Growth	Farm
Wine	1 Culture	2 Culture 5 Food Luxury Resource	Grove