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Woodworking Woodworking[]

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Land Clearance[]

Trees hewn. Lands despoiled. Culture effaced. All in the name of "progress"...

  • Increases output of timber from Logging Camps in a settlement with a Sawmill by Level 1

Cost

Requirements

Leads to

  • 250Metal; 250Food
  • Time to complete: Long
  • Level 3: Economic Theory Commerce
  • Circular Saw Woodworking
  • Commodity Agriculture Agronomics

Circular Saw
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Even the mightiest of tree trunks are little more than humble planks at its touch.

  • Increases output of timber from Logging Camps in a settlement with a Sawmill by Level 2.

Cost

Requirements

Leads to

  • 450Metal; 450Food
  • Time to complete: Very long
  • Land Clearance Woodworking
  • Level 6: Assembly Line Commerce
  • Level 3: Utilitarianism Civics

Agronomics Agronomics[]

Mechanised Farming
Drill
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The fecklessness of farmhands and the fickleness of the seasons are no match for the staid uniformity of a machine.

  • Increases output of food from Farms in a settlement with a Granary (+50%).
  • Fishing Busses gather Food faster (+50%).

Cost

Requirements

Leads to

  • 250Timber production; 100Metal
  • Time to complete: Short
  • Level 3: Utilitarianism Civics
  • Commodity Agriculture Agronomics
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Commodity Agriculture[]

And those who husbanded the Golden grain,
And those who flung it to the winds like Rain,

 Alike to no such aureate Earth are turn'd
As, buried once, Men want dug up again. — Omar Khayyam, Rubaiyat

  • Increases output of food from Farms in a settlement with a Granary (+100%).
  • Fishing Busses gather Food faster (+100%).

Cost

Requirements

Leads to

  • 350Timber; 150Metal
  • Time to complete: Medium
  • Mechanised Farming Agronomics
  • Level 5: Federalism Civics
  • Land Clearance Woodworking

Metallurgy Metallurgy[]

MinersFriendThm

Steam Pump[]

A crude but effective device for mine drainage and ventilation.

  • +100% Metal from mines in a city with a Smelter.
  • Required to build vehicles with steam propulsion.

Cost

Requirements

Leads to

  • 200Wealth, 160Knowledge
  • Time to complete: Medium
  • Mercantile Governance [2]
  • Level 4: Steam Power Commerce
  • Bessemer Process Metallurgy
Bessemer Process

Bessemer Process[]

A revolutionary technique to free prized steel from humdrum pig iron.

  • +150% Metal from mines in a city with a Smelter.

Cost

Requirements

Leads to

  • 500Wealth, 500Knowledge
  • Time to complete: Rather long
  • Steam Pump Metallurgy
  • Industrialisation [4]
  • Level 6: Physics Science
  • Steelworks Military-Industrial Complex
  • Epic Engineering Epic technology

All Ironclad-type units require this upgrade.

Note:
In Time of War: 1800, access to Engineering and Steelworks are blocked.
Costs in Wealth for this tech line are replaced with Coal for The Age of Conquest.

Religion[]

Missionaries[]

Missionaries

Spread the news of the joys and comforts of religion and civilisation to those who have yet to hear of them!

  • National Borders increased by +4 strength.
  • City Combat Range +2.
  • City Hitpoints increased by 50%.
  • Increases happiness derived from creating Missionaries for Catholics

Cost

Requirements

Leads to

  • 100Knowledge
  • Time to complete: Short
  • Level 1: Authority Civics
  • Civic Religion
  • Academic Disciplines Knowledge production

Civic Religion[]

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"One nation, one people, one congregation!"

  • National Borders increased by +5 strength.
  • City Combat Range +3.
  • City Hitpoints increased by 100%.Automatically upgrades your Sanctuaries to your civ's designated religious site, ie Cathedral for Protestants; Temples for Hindhus and Buddhists, reducing religious unrest.

Cost

Requirements

Leads to

  • 300Knowledge
  • Time to complete: Medium
  • Missionaries
  • Level 4: Constitution Civics
  • Existentialism
  • Blood and Soil Attrition

Existentialism[]

Existent

"I dread, therefore I am."

  • National Borders increased by +9 strength.
  • City Combat Range +4.
  • City Hitpoints increased by 150%.
  • For Westerners: stops all effects of religion on happiness for Protestants and Orthodoxy.

Cost

Requirements

Leads to

  • 900Knowledge
  • Time to complete: Long
  • Civic Religion
  • Mechanisation [5]
  • Level 7: Rights of Man Civics

Special Epic technology[]

These technologies are researchable only from Civic Wonders, and are extremely powerful. Should you be able to research all five, you will get a happiness boost of 100.

Physiocracy
Conuc
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"A city cannot thrive without fields and the fruits thereof pouring into its walls." — Alexander the Great

  • Food output increased to max
  • Successful completion of agricultural and medical technologies boost your happiness by 20 each (a total of 100 happiness is possible).

Base cost

Requirements

  • 300Knowledge
  • Grand Academy Wonder
  • Liberalism, Knowledge 2, (for Wonder)
  • Level 2: Political parties Civics
  • Credit Taxation

Porcelain Industry
Con2
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"Porcelain of Xing is akin to silver, / and that of Yue akin to jade."

—The Book of Tea

Base cost

Requirements

  • 350Knowledge , 150 Wealth
  • Porcelain Tower Wonder
  • Enlightenment, Religion 2, Liberalism (for Wonder)
  • Level 3: Thermodynamics Science
  • Missionaries

Great Exhibition
Sm summer01
[]

"I set no value on objects strange or ingenious, and have no use for your country's manufactures." — Emperor Qianlong, letter to George III of England

  • Tax production is increased
  • The effect of entertainment buildings on happiness is increased

Base cost

Requirements

  • 450Knowledge,
    200Taxation
  • Time to complete: Very long
  • Crystal Palace
  • Empire, Tax 2, Democracy (for Wonder)
  • Level 2: Pacioli system Commerce
  • Dialectic method Knowledge production
  • Social Contract Attrition

Manifest Destiny
Manif
[]

"Keep, ancient lands, your storied pomp! ... Give me your tired, your poor, / Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free." — Emma Lazarus, 19th century American poet, The New Colossus

  • Highest level for knowledge
  • Trade generates happiness, double happiness whenever new cities are acquired/built.
  • No happiness penalty on taxation income.

Base cost

Requirements

350 Wealth, 200 Metal

  • 450Knowledge,
    200Taxation
  • Statue of Liberty Wonder
  • Industrialisation, Metallurgy 2, Democracy (for Wonder)
  • Level 7: Rights of Man Civics
  • Scientific rationality Pedagogics

Epic Engineering
Engie
[]

"[Man] duplicates himself not only, as in consciousness, intellectually, but also in reality, and therefore he sees himself in a world that he has created." — Karl Marx, Estranged Labour

  • Maximum speed for building construction
  • Added hitpoints for your buildings
  • Double happiness generated from construction of capital ships
  • Allows happiness to be generated from the construction of modern armour and artillery.

Base cost

Requirements

  • 750Knowledge , 300Metal
  • Time to complete: Very long
  • Eiffel Tower Wonder
  • Welfare State, Mechanisation, Architecture 2
  • Level 6: Physics Science
  • Academic Disciplines Knowledge production

Knowledge[]

See University.

Construction[]

See here.

Medicine[]

See here

Logistics[]

See here.

Attrition[]

See here.

Tax[]

See here.

Fortification[]

See here.

Strategy[]

See here.

Politics[]

See here.

See also[]

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