User Guide

tion will flounder if it tries to subsist solely on fish.
Raising Cattle.
Cattle Ranches can be built any-
where, even in desert areas. Cattle eat straw that
can either be grown on Grain Farms or imported
from a trade partner.
Cattle Ranches store this straw on site to keep the
cattle fed.
Hunting Lodges, Fishing Wharves and Cattle Ranches
all require road access and workers.
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Lodge nearby. Hunting Lodges train and equip
hunters to skillfully kill their quarry. Animals that
can be hunted for food are:
Ostriches
Water Fowl
Antelope
Hunters will never completely wipe out all the ani-
mals, but herd and flock size nevertheless is limit-
ed, as is the rate at which they are replenished.
Game meat from hunting is a good supplement to
citizens’ diets or a good way to feed a small popu-
lation. Herds and flocks obviously do not grow
larger as the city’s population increases; therefore,
game meat will make up a smaller percentage of
the city’s food stock as the city grows.
Fishing.
Not all waterways support fish. If a body
of water has fish, you will see them periodically
leaping out of the water into the air. To use these
fish for food, the city needs one or more fishing
boats.
Fishing boats are berthed at Fishing Wharves.
Shipwrights (see page 77) build boats for the
industries in the city that need them. Fishing
Wharves and Shipwrights must be built on straight
sections of coast, and half of the structure must
overhang the water so that vessels can have access
to them. If the city has a working Shipwright,
building a Fishing Wharf signals the ship builders
to get busy building a fishing boat.
Like herds and flocks, fish stocks are limited but
cannot be completely depleted. A large popula-
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Fishing Wharf
Cattle Ranch