User Guide

limit on how much the Granary will accept.
Don’t Accept.
If you want a Granary to stop
accepting a type of food altogether, click on the
button until “Don’t Accept” appears. The Granary
will not accept any more deliveries of that partic-
ular food, but Bazaar buyers and other Granaries
can continue to collect the food until the supply
is completely depleted.
Get Up To.
If a Granary runs low on a food you
would like to have on hand, tell it to go get the
particular food. You can specify how much of an
item you would like by using the scroll buttons to
the right of the food. The Granary’s cart pushers
will go to other Granaries or to Storage Yards
searching for the food, and will continue to go
after a particular item until they have met the
Granary’s quota. Cart pushers will not collect food
from Granaries that have the same “Get” order.
Otherwise, the Granaries’ cart pushers would spend
their time swapping the same load of that com-
modity back and forth.
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Granary and take food directly to a Storage Yard if you
set the Storage Yard’s special orders (see page 85) for a
particular food to Accept. From the Storage Yards, the
food can be exported to a trade partner.
You can see at a glance how full a Granary is by look-
ing through its fill holes at the foodstuffs stored inside.
Info-click on the Granary to see exactly how much
food and which types are stored there.
To build a Granary, click on the Storage and
Distribution Structures button on the Control Panel.
Granaries need both road access and labor.
Granary Special Orders
As your city grows, you might want to give specific
orders to certain Granaries to manage the flow of food
in your city. You can give Granaries instructions by
choosing Special Orders from the panel that appears
when you info-click on a Granary.
In the Special Orders panel, all the types of food avail-
able to your city are listed. The default setting is for
the Granary to “Accept All” foods to the maximum
amount the Granary can hold. By clicking the button
next to the foodstuff, you can choose one of the fol-
lowing commands for each item:
Accept All/Fill Granary.
You may decide to limit
how much of a single item a Granary accepts (for
example, to ensure the Granary carries a variety of
foods). You can tell the Granary to Fill anywhere
from 1/4 to 3/4 of the Granary, or not to limit
the amount and Accept All of the foodstuff. Use
the scroll buttons at the right of each item to set a
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Granary Orders.
Give the Granary special orders to manipulate the
flow of food.