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Wood
- You need a lot of wood
- Wood is produced at a sawmill
- Sawmills require laborers
- Sawmills don’t use any resources except money
- It is used to build and maintain things
- You need a lot of wood at the warehouse.
- Wood may be transported directly from a sawmill to the warehouse
- Build a lot of sawmills near the warehouse
- Wood is also needed to make paper which is needed to make books which are needed to run schools which are needed by craftsmen.
- It is very hard to produce enough wood to make all the paper necessary.
- Sawmills spread a little undesirable land around them but not much. Trees between them and houses alleviate that.
Coal
- Coal is needed at the warehouse to supply trains that stop there with fuel (Till diesel trains are in use)
- Coal may be shipped to the warehouse directly from a mining station.
- Warehouse coal is also used to get new trains out of the depot.
- Coal is also stored at small stations in the coal storage bins
- Coal seems to be also stored at passenger stations?
- Coal is stored in storages and towns.
- Trains are refueled anywhere they load, unload, swap, or visit.
- Coal mines produce undesirable land around them. This is true of ALL mines. A couple of rows of trees around them fix the problem.
- Farms around them also fix the undesirable land problem.
- Coal is required to make bricks and steel
Fish
- Fish are produced at docs
- A few docs can produce a lot of fish
- A dock requires a storage AND a market nearby
- Fish can be shipped – no spoilage
- Docs produce undesirable land around them
Potatoes
- Potato farms produce a lot of potatoes
- Potatoes may be shipped
- Potato farms produce some undesirable land around them.
- Potato farms need a nearby storage to operate
Cotton
- Cotton is used to make shirts at a clothing shop
- Cotton farms produce some undesirable land around them
- Cotton farms and clothing shops require a nearby storage to operate
Wheat
- Wheat is used to produce bread at a bakery
- Wheat is also needed to make beer.
- Wheat is also needed to make Ranches and Dairy farms work. They stop operating without wheat.
- Wheat farms produce undesirable land around thm
- Wheat farms and bakeries need a nearby storage to operate
- I think a bakery may need a nearby market
- Bakeries require nearby water to operate
Hops
- Hops are used to make beer
- Hops farms produce a little undesirable land around them
- Hops farms require craftsmen to operate
- Hops farms need a nearby storage to operate
- Hops are used to make beer
Meat
- Meat is produced at ranches
- Ranches require craftsmen and laborers to operate
- Ranches require wheat to operate
- Ranches produce undesirable land around them
- Ranches need a nearby storage to operate
Milk
- Milk is produced at dairy farms
- Milk is used to produce cheese
- Dairy farms require craftsmen and laborers to operate
- Dairy farms require wheat to operate
- Dairy farms produce undesirable land around them
- Dairy farms and cheese factories need a nearby storage to operate
Stone
- Raw Stone is produced at stone quaries
- Raw stone is processed at stoneworks to make cut stone
- Cut stone is required for bridges and many buildings
- Stone quaries need laborers to operate
- Stone quaries and stoneworks produce undesirable land around them
- Stoneworks require laboers to operate
- Stone must be in the warehouse to be used in construction and maintenance.
- When there is no cut stone in the warehouse, facilities requiring it for maintenance stop operating. (This is also true of wood, steel and bricks.)
- Stone works may be placed near any mountain.
- Stoneworks and quaries need a nearby storage to operate
Clay
- Clay is produced at clay pits
- Clay pits need a nearby storage to operate
- Clay pits require laborers
- Clay is used to make bricks at a brickyard
- Clay pits and brick yards produce a large area of undesirable land around them.
Bricks
- Bricks are required to build and maintain certain facilities.
- To be used for building or maintenance, bricks must be in the warehouse.
- Bricks are produced from clay and coal at a brickyard.
- Brickyards produce a large area of undesirable land around them.
Iron Ore
- Iron ore is produces at iron mines
- Iron is used to make steel at smelters
- Iron and coal are required to make steel
- Iron mines require laborers to operate
- Smelters require laborers and craftsmen to operate
- Iron mines and smelters require a nearby storage to operate
Steel
- Steel is required to make good bridges
- Steel requires iron ore and coal to make
- Steel is made in a smelter
- Smelters require laborers and craftsmen to operate
- Smelters require a nearby storage to operate
- Steel must be at the warehouse to be used for construction and maintenance
- If maintenance steel is not available at the warehouse, facilities requiring it will stop operating.
- Steel is used to make tools at a toolworks
Tools
- Tools are made from steel at a toolworks
- Tools improve productivity of some industries
- Toolworks require craftsmen to operate
- Toolworks require a nearby storage to operate
- Toolworks produce a undesirable land around them
Paper
- Paper is made from lumber at a papermill
- Papermills require craftsmen to operate
- Papermills produce substantial undesirable land around them
- Papermills require a nearby storage to operate
- Papermills require A LOT of wood and craftsmen
Books
- Books are made at a bookstore
- Books are required for a school to operate
- Bookstores require nearby storage to operate
- Bookstores require craftsmen to operate
- Bookstores require A LOT of paper
- Bookstores do not produce undesirable land around them
- Schools are required for craftsmen to be happy
Beer
- Beer is made from Hops and Wheat at a brewery
- Beer is required for craftsmen to be happy
- Beer is produces at bars.
- Breweries and bars require craftsmen and laborers to operate.
- Breweries require a nearby storage to operate
- Breweries produce undesirable land nearby.
- Breweries require nearby water to operate
- Craftsmen drink A LOT of beer
- Some industries, employing craftsmen, require nearby bars.
Oil
- Oil is produced by a SkipJack
- Skipjacks require craftsmen to operate
- Skipjacks produce undesirable land around them
- Skipjacks may be place in any “white” space once they appear in the menu.
- Oil is processed to Diesel to run trains at a refinery
- Refineries require nearby storage to operate
- SkipJacks require nearby storage to operate
- Refineries require craftsmen to operate
Bread
- Bread is made from wheat at a bakery
- Bakeries require a nearby storage to operate
- Bakeries require laborers to operate
- Bakeries may require a nearby market to operate
- Bakeries do not produce nearby undesirable land
Brickworks, Steel mills, Paper factories, Refineries, Cheese factories
- These facilities require nearby storage to operate
- Some require only laborers and some require both laborers and craftsmen to operate
- If there is not a full complement of workers, these facilities will operate at q reduced rate
- These have multiple associated buildings.
- All buildings must be connected to a city or distribution center road
- All these industries have their own roads
- All buildings for a facility must ALSO be on a facility road as well as a city or distribution center road.
- Associated storage need only be on the city or distribution center road.
- All these facilities produce substantial undesirable land around them.
Farms, ranches, and dairy farms
- These produce nearby undesirable land
- Ranches and dairy farms require wheat to operate
- Hops farms, and ranches and dairy farms require craftsmen to operate
- All these require nearby storage to operate.
- These must be on a road to operate
- Only ONE square of the main building of these facilities need be in city limits to operate in a city or town.
Craftsmen industries
- Craftsmen versions of bakeries, stone works, clothing stores, and markets are available when you have craftsmen.
- Normally these have twice the range and twice the connections and twice the production of a laborer facility.
- Passenger stations become available with craftsmen. They have twice the pickup range of small stations. They do seem to have coal storage though they do not have coal bins.
- Medium storage becomes available with craftsmen. They have twice the range and twice the number of connections – no storage facility requires workers.
Laborers
- Laborers require fish, potatoes, and bread to eat
- Laborers require nearby water, market and church
- Laborers ride on any train passenger car.
- Laborers stay in laborers residences
Craftsmen
- Craftsmen require fish, potatoes, bread, meat, cheese, and beer to work and be happy.
- Craftsmen are available in a town once the town reaches 1500 people at 100% happy.
- Craftsmen will only ride on ST30 or higher trains.
- Craftsmen stay in craftsmen residences
- Craftsmen require water, a market, church, bar, and school to be happy.
- It is hard to provide enough facilities to keep craftsmen satisfied.
City boundaries
- City boundaries move out as they increase in size and with stamps.
- If you build towns too close together, they will soon encroach on each other.
Upgrades
- Clicking on the upgrade button on the build menu will highlight all entities which can be updated. Just click on the entity to upgrade.
- For roads etc. you can click and drag to include multiple sections to upgrade.
- Upgrade roads as soon as you can. This improves facility operating ranges.
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