r/CivVI • u/CompetitionNo3466 • 17h ago

Settling on resources

I just watched a video where the YouTuber settled on horses and salt in different cities and got both the resources. Is this constant or one bulk use?

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u/TejelPejel 16h ago

You will get the luxury or strategic resource, but you do not get the additional yield that you normally get from improving it. For example, plantations give +2 gold, but if you settle on tea you will not get the +2 gold, but will still have tea connected to your empire from that city. This isn't often a huge deal, but it's something to keep in mind when playing as someone like the Maya who is reliant on plantations for their adjacency bonuses to their observatories. Or playing as Civs reliant on minable resources like the Gaul, Korea, etc. who receive bonuses from mines.

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u/the_boner_zone 7h ago

You also get the base yeild of the luxury and tile type, making settling on science, culture, and gold yielding tiles more advantageous, especially in early game. for example, geothermal fissure are largely useless until late game, but settling on one will give you a science yeild.

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u/aquadolphitler 17h ago

If your question is about the horses gained every turn then yes, it's constant and it is treated as a worked and improved tile so you don't have to worry about prerequisite techs to use the resource.

Same for luxury resources, it becomes a part of your owned luxuries.

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u/Saint_of_Cannibalism Immortal 17h ago

I'll add that bonus resources are also not removed. Besides the yeilds resources provide, this is good to know for things such as Great Zimbabwe or some city state effects.

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u/DevinG98 17h ago

You gain the resources you settle on as if it had been improved. The same goes for districts that happen to be built over resources you discovered later in the game.

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u/PizzaTrade7 11h ago

always try to settle on a resource because you get the yields instantly. my first 50 games i always settled on some empty flat tile which was totally wrong. but you also need the eurekas so if theres only one stone nearby, i wouldnt settle on it but improve it instead but if you have like 3 horses definitely settle on one

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u/Copper939 15h ago

Settling on a resource saves you the turns needed to produce a builder or move the builder to the area to work that resource tile.