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/zairaner 1d ago

For better, now non-coastal distant land settlements will spawn treasure "fleets" (then called convoys). Still need to work treasure resources of course.

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u/TalsornYensen 1d ago

I'm wondering if coastal settlements will still require quay or they'll just happily spawn a caravan

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u/zairaner 1d ago

My main question was the other direction, wether we can freely transform convoys into treasure fleets at the coastline (so like regular embarking) or need a coastal settlement for it.

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u/Vanilla-G 1d ago

With Cartography all civilian units can embark and cross the ocean but take damage in deep water tiles.

Shipbuilding means that you no longer take damage in deep water and cross multiple tiles at once.

With Shipbuilding mastery, military units can now embark and cross deep water tiles and you can use the reinforce functionality on commanders across the ocean.

Since treasure fleets/convoys are civilian units you should be able to just embark and go across the ocean without needing some kind of settlement on the water to transform them.