User Guide

plain farms, Work Camps supply the brute force need-
ed to construct a monument. When bricklayers or
stonemasons are ready at the site and Storage Yards
have the needed supplies in stock, a team of peasants
drags a huge sledge full of the required raw material,
either stone or brick, to the monument site.
A Work Camp’s first priority is to send peasants to
floodplain farms. If you build enough Work Camps,
though, work on monuments can continue year
round.
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The Construction Foreman and Overseer of
Monuments provide you with all the information you
need to know to successfully complete a monument.
Your Overseer of Monuments can tell you what is pre-
venting construction from starting on a monument.
He also manages the dispatch of burial provisions to
any tombs that may require them.
Once construction begins, the Construction Foreman
provides much more detailed information on the pro-
ject. He keeps a running tally of how much of each
construction material is needed to complete the mon-
ument. If construction is not running smoothly, he
can tell you why. To visit the Construction Foreman,
info-click on the monument site.
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Because of their immense size, some monuments can
be especially difficult to place in your city. For the
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with the stonemasons' independent attitudes. It is best
to avoid such conflict altogether by ordering your
city's monuments to be built sequentially, rather than
simultaneously.
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To build any of the great monuments that make Egypt
famous, you must have construction guilds working in
the city. If you will be needing their services, you will
see them listed when you click the Industrial Structures
button.
Each guild is host to skilled construction workers, each
of which specialize in working with one material. The
guilds need both road access and labor. The types of
guilds are:
Carpenters’ Guild
Bricklayers’ Guild
Stonemasons’ Guild
Carpenters’ Guilds stockpile supplies of wood so that
they can respond quickly to construction requests.
Stonemasons’ Guilds and Bricklayers’ Guilds do not
keep a store of raw materials on hand; when their ser-
vices are needed, they wait at the monument for peas-
ants to deliver large sledge loads of brick or stone.
The most complex monument, the brick-core pyra-
mid, requires services from all three construction
guilds. Most monuments will need the efforts of one
or two of the guilds.
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Bricklayers’ Guild
Stonemasons’ Guild
Carpenters’ Guild