User Guide

Each raw material producer generally furnishes enough
commodity to supply two manufacturers.
Manufacturers
To really rake in the trade debens, build manufacturers
to turn raw materials into finished goods.
Manufactured goods tend to have a higher market
value than raw materials. Furthermore, citizens have
little use for raw materials directly, though they clam-
or for manufactured goods.
All manufacturers function similarly. They all require
road access and labor. They all also require raw mate-
rials delivered to them from a raw material producer or
a Storage Yard. If the city cannot produce a raw mate-
rial that manufacturers need, the city will be able to
import it from a trade partner.
To build most manufacturers, choose the Industrial
Structures button from the Control Panel, then pick a
manufacturer. The only manufacturers that are not
listed here are the Weaponsmith and the Chariot
Maker. These structures can be built by clicking on the
Military Structures button on the Control Panel.
Following is a complete list of all manufactured prod-
ucts
. Because access to different raw materials is limit-
ed, not all regions will be able to manufacture all the
products listed.
Pottery.
Potters turn clay into pottery. Pottery is
an important commodity in any city. It’s the first
good your citizens will demand after you satisfy
their needs for food and water.
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consider the amount of resources available before
building Wood Cutters and Reed Gatherers.
Clay Pit.
Clay Pits produce clay that can be turned
into pottery by a Potter (see page 75). When
combined with straw, clay can also be turned into
brick (see page 76), an important construction
material for certain monuments.
Clay Pits need to be near a body of water because
that is where the best quality clay is found. You’ll
know that you’ve picked a good spot for a Clay Pit
when you see a green ghost of the building.
All raw materials producers employ delivery men,
either cart pushers or sled pullers, that bring their
materials to other buildings that
need them. The delivery men first
try to find a manufacturer that needs
supplies. Because they don’t like to
work any harder than necessary, they
always try to bring their raw materi-
als to the closest manufacturer. If
no manufacturer needs their load of
raw materials, the delivery men find
the closest Storage Yard that has
space for their load.
The only raw material delivery men who do not behave
in this fashion are the Gold Mine cart pusher and the
quarry sled puller. The Gold Mine cart pusher brings
his gold only to the Palace, never to a Storage Yard.
Because stone cannot be manufactured into any other
good, quarry sled pullers always bring their materials to
a Storage Yard.
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Potter
Clay Pit