Settlers demand cloth to upgrade. This is your first multi-tier chain. Sheep farms require fertile soil suited for livestock. Intermediate Chains (Settlers to Citizens)
You cannot force crops to grow on infertile land. Before building a colony, click the island to check its native fertilities (e.g., Grain, Tobacco, Sugarcane). If you lack a resource, establish a secondary mining or farming colony and use the automated Trade Route menu to ship the raw goods back to your primary manufacturing hub.
Use the warehouse menu to see if your raw materials are increasing or decreasing. If your iron ore is at 0 but your smelters are idle, it’s time to find a new mine. 4. Avoiding the "Overproduction Trap"
[Grain Farm x2] ──> [Windmill] ──> [Bakery] ──> Warehouse (Food) [Iron Mine] + [Charcoal Burner] ──> [Smelter] ──> [Toolmaker] ──> Warehouse (Tools) [Tobacco Plantation x2] ──> [Tobacco Products Factory] ──> Warehouse (Tobacco) Food (Bread) 2 Grain Farms : 1 Windmill : 1 Bakery anno 1701 production chains
In the original 1701, it could be tricky to track where exactly a bottleneck was occurring. A modern feature could include:
Building one of each building in a chain without calculating production cycles leads to idle buildings and unmet population needs.
To create efficient production chains, keep the following principles in mind: Settlers demand cloth to upgrade
You can assign a "Master Craftsman" to a production chain. For example, a "Master Baker" might reduce the grain requirement for all Bakeries on that island by 10%, rewarding players for specializing specific islands rather than making every island a "jack-of-all-trades." 3. Dynamic Waste & By-products
You cannot produce everything on one island. Anno 1701 demands that you build trade routes to transport raw materials from specialized islands to your main industrial hubs.
If you want, I can draw these chains as or provide optimal building ratios (e.g., 1 wheat farm : 1 mill : 1 bakery). Just let me know. Intermediate Chains (Settlers to Citizens) You cannot force
Most plantations require fields to grow crops. A typical plantation has a radius that fits a specific number of fields.
Like sugarcane, tobacco requires specific island fertility. Ensure your processing plants are built near the docks on your tobacco-producing colony to stream trade logistics. 3. Bricks (Construction)
Efficiency is King: Mastering Production Chains in Anno 1701