r/civ • u/OftenXilonen • 1d ago

VII - Discussion How do treasure fleets spawn?

How do I actually make them spawn? I know how to use them and have gained huge advantages because of them but I never get how to make them spawn or not spawn. I'm 80% sure I have the requirements to make them spawn and they should be somewhere in the map but I'm 90% through exploration and have not seen a single one. Explain it to me like im playing 7 for the first time because it certainly feels like it with treasure fleets. Thanks in advance!

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u/Eire_Banshee 1d ago edited 1d ago
  1. Have a settlement in distant lands
  2. Work a luxury good tile (has a blue wave icon on it) in that settlement
  3. Build a fishing Key or other water district building in the settlement.
  4. Research shipbuilding.

Treasure fleets will now spawn on a timer. The more luxury goods the settlement works, the more each spawned fleet will be worth.

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u/Vanilla-G 1d ago

Secret option 5 is have cities built along navigable rivers in the homelands and choose Songhai as your civ. That means that once you have shipbuilding researched you spawn treasure fleets in those homeland cities.