ANNO 1404

[thedude23]

Im on mission where you have help the children,I need to make beer,yet for some reason when I try to make herb farms it tells me the ground isn't fertile,where am I suppose to plant them?I tryed my other island but it did'nt work either,I even build a noria and it did'nt work,help please.

 

[Ross1234]

Try the other other island

 

[4p]

my god patricians are a greedy lot!

 

[Jimothy]

my god patricians are a greedy lot!

Yes! I keep hitting a brickwall in this game by the time I gain my first patrician. Everything bottle-necks and stagnates, I run out of gold and then ...

 

[4p]

Yes! I keep hitting a brickwall in this game by the time I gain my first patrician. Everything bottle-necks and stagnates, I run out of gold and then ...

Sell rope

About 20tons will get u 2000 gold

 

[Nieldo]

Im on mission where you have help the children,I need to make beer,yet for some reason when I try to make herb farms it tells me the ground isn't fertile,where am I suppose to plant them?I tryed my other island but it did'nt work either,I even build a noria and it did'nt work,help please.

when you look at an island look at the top middle of the screen, it shows details about the island. You can only grow things like wheat, hemp, herbs etc on the land if its fertile for it. So if the land is fertile for wheat it will have a picture of some wheat at the top.

If you have an island that is not fertile for something theres a chance you can buy seeds for it from the Lord northwhatever or the orient guy. The island needs to have a spare slot for the seeds though.

 

[smogsy]

can you buy the retail version and activate it on steam its far cheaper that way?

 

[Bleek]

How do I grow my own spice in continuous play?

 

[thedude23]

when you look at an island look at the top middle of the screen, it shows details about the island. You can only grow things like wheat, hemp, herbs etc on the land if its fertile for it. So if the land is fertile for wheat it will have a picture of some wheat at the top.

If you have an island that is not fertile for something theres a chance you can buy seeds for it from the Lord northwhatever or the orient guy. The island needs to have a spare slot for the seeds though.

Thanks,that worked a treat,now do I make quartz? so I can build a church.

 

[Dave85]

edleake you need to find an island that supports it then build enough nomads etc untill you unlock spice farm then you transport it back to your main island.

 

[D D Danneh]

Thanks,that worked a treat,now do I make quartz? so I can build a church.

Quartz is only found on orient (desert) islands. If you click the bar at the top that shows you the fertilities, it'll bring up another little box with the mineable stuff it contains, like iron, stone, quartz etc. If it has the purple rock, it has quartz. If you then click on that purple rock, it'll take you to a quartz deposit. Plant a quartz mine there, just like you would a stone mine, and you'll start getting quartz.

From there, you need potash and a glass smelter to make glass. You can make a potash building (forest glassworks i think) on an occidental island, and ship the potash over, or use a noria to make a piece of artificial green land, and make potash on your orient island. Then make a glass smelter, and they'll use those two to make glass. Ship the glass back to your main island and bob's your grandma.

 

[Bleek]

edleake you need to find an island that supports it then build enough nomads etc untill you unlock spice farm then you transport it back to your main island.

I just realised you also have to take a gift, the scrolls, right?

They then gift you the architecture.

 

[Dave85]

Yeh sorry bud forgot to say that doh. Yeh gift that to the oriental dude and he lets you build his stuff.

 

[Cannaton]

Okay, here are some shots of my main city. Outsourced almost all farming to other islands now bar some cider and hemp.

First off, the main port:

Town centre, where most of the noblemen live:

View from rear of the town, where the farms start:

Bird's Eye view:

Really enjoying the game so far... and i haven't even started the campaign mode yet! Sorry if the images are too large for anyone.

 

[Teaf]

Very impressive city

 

[thedude23]

Quartz is only found on orient (desert) islands. If you click the bar at the top that shows you the fertilities, it'll bring up another little box with the mineable stuff it contains, like iron, stone, quartz etc. If it has the purple rock, it has quartz. If you then click on that purple rock, it'll take you to a quartz deposit. Plant a quartz mine there, just like you would a stone mine, and you'll start getting quartz.

From there, you need potash and a glass smelter to make glass. You can make a potash building (forest glassworks i think) on an occidental island, and ship the potash over, or use a noria to make a piece of artificial green land, and make potash on your orient island. Then make a glass smelter, and they'll use those two to make glass. Ship the glass back to your main island and bob's your grandma.

I could'nt see quarts on desert island so I just brought it off someone .I need to build a tannery next but it say I need to build it on a river?even though when I try it does'nt let me .

 

[Snaggle]

I could'nt see quarts on desert island so I just brought it off someone .I need to build a tannery next but it say I need to build it on a river?even though when I try it does'nt let me .

Can only build on the river where the small crossings are ...Just move yer build icon down the river and it will eventaully fit .

Persil

 

[Revolution6000]

You can only build on certain parts of the river, when you select the building it'll show you where you can place it.

 

[Cannaton]

Look for where there is row of stones in the river, usually an arrow will hover over the locations also.

 

[snowdog]

Do you guys know you can press and hold ''+'' on the numpad to speed the game up ? Makes waiting for those pesky ships to arrive and more construction materials to be made a bit less annoying .