Medieval: Total War/Buildings

= Basic Buildings =

Watch Tower

 * Requirements: None
 * Cost: 100
 * Time to Build: 1 year

Watch towers are a basic, cheap building which should be placed in every province. They give your population an increased sense of security and increases happiness (+20 boost). Watch towers let you see into neighboring provinces, letting you examine in detail the troops and buildings located there.

Border Fort

 * Requirements: Watch Tower (replaces Watch Tower)
 * Cost: 200
 * Time to Build: 1 year

Border Forts have the same ability to see into neighboring provinces as Watch Towers do. They also act like you have a spy in your province; enemy spies and assassins can be caught while they are in a province with border forts. Border Forts give your population an even greater sense of security and thus a larger boost to happiness (+30 boost).

Port

 * Requirements: Province must be on sea coast
 * Cost: 750
 * Time to Build: 4 years

Ports have many functions. Agents can jump from a province with a port to any other province with a port. Your armies can move from one port to another, provided you have a string of ships between the two ports, and there are no hostile ships in the way. Ports allow you to construct shipyards. If there are trade goods in the province ports are needed for those goods to be sold abroad. Ports will generate a small amount of income if a foreign power is selling goods to your province, however this income is tiny; normally 5-15 florin.

Mines
Mine income very stable and not effected by any other factor. Acumen, droughts, currupt govenors, taxation levels all have no effect on mine income. You can only build mines in provinces which have deposits of these natural resources in them. Mines all produce a fairly small, but steady trickle of income.

Salt Mine

 * Requirements: Salt in province
 * Cost: 250
 * Time to Build: 2 years

The salt mine is the smallest and cheapest of all the mines. It produces a very small ammount of income (50 florins) but is very cheap to build. A salt mine will pay for itself in 7 years.

Salt Mine Complex

 * Requirements: Salt Mine (replaces Salt Mine)
 * Cost: 400
 * Time to Build: 4 years

The salt mine complex is an upgrade of the basic salt mine and produces double the income (100 florins). A salt mine complex upgrade will pay for itself in 12 years.

Copper Mine

 * Requirements: Copper in province
 * Cost: 500
 * Time to Build: 2 years

The salt mine is the second smallest and second cheapest of all the mines. It produces a modest ammount of income (100 florins) but is rather inexpensive to build. A copper mine will pay for itself in 7 years.

Copper Mine Complex

 * Requirements: Copper Mine (replaces Copper Mine)
 * Cost: 900
 * Time to Build: 4 years

The copper mine complex is an upgrade of the basic copper mine and produces double the income (200 florins). At 900 florins, this mine represents requires a substancial investment. A copper mine complex upgrade will pay for itself in 12 years.

Silver Mine

 * Requirements: Silver in province
 * Cost: 750
 * Time to Build: 2 years

The silver mine is a fairly expensive but lucrative mine to build. It produces a decent ammount of income (150 florins) for a fairly moderate sized investment. A silver mine will pay for itself in 7 years.

Silver Mine Complex

 * Requirements: Silver Mine (replaces Silver Mine)
 * Cost: 1400
 * Time to Build: 4 years

The silver mine complex is an upgrade of the basic silver mine and produces double the income (300 florins). The 1400 florin investment to build this mine is quite substancial and this complex should be built only if there is money to spare. A silver mine complex upgrade will pay for itself in 12 years.

Gold Mine

 * Requirements: Gold in province
 * Cost: 1000
 * Time to Build: 2 years

The gold mine a large and expensive mines. It produces a very respectable ammount of income (200 florins) but it takes a substancial investment to build. A gold mine will pay for itself in 7 years.

Gold Mine Complex

 * Requirements: Gold Mine (replaces Gold Mine)
 * Cost: 1800
 * Time to Build: 4 years

The gold mine complex is the most expensive and richest of all the mines. It produces double the income of a basic gold mine (400 florins) but its high price means it should only be built by rich and large empires. A gold mine complex upgrade will pay for itself in 12 years.

Farmland
Farming is the most basic of all provincial income. Every province has at least some farm income, no matter what buildings are available. This income is effected by the acumen of the provincial govenor and of the faction leader. The amount of income produced is also a function of the tax level of the province.

Building improved farmland will increase the income from the province up to +80%, this can be bring in a quite substancial amount of money in richer provinces.

Whenever improved farmlands are built, there is a chance that your faction leader, princes, or provincial govenors could aquire the stewart trait. The stewart trait is perhaps one of the best economic virtue a leader or govenor could have since it boosts farm income even further.

Improved Farmland I

 * Requirements: None
 * Cost: 600
 * Time to Build: 2 years

This is the most basic of all farm upgrades, boosting farm income to 20% above the basic level. Most provinces, even the ones with very little farm income, should have this level of improvement done, if nothing else to for the chance your faction leader could get a stewart trait.

Improved Farmland II

 * Requirements: Improved Farmland I (replaces Improved Farmland I)
 * Cost: 1000
 * Time to Build: 4 years

The second level of farm improvements, boosting farm income from 20% above the basic level to 40% above. Most average provinces should eventually get this improvement but because of the expense it is not normally considered worthwhile to upgrade the poorer provinces.

Improved Farmland III

 * Requirements: Improved Farmland II (replaces Improved Farmland II)
 * Cost: 1500
 * Time to Build: 6 years

The third level of farm improvements, boosting farm income from 40% above the basic level to 60% above. This upgrade really turns your richer provinces into cash cows. A province which started generating 500 florins now will generate 800. Naturally, because of the great expense this upgrade should only be given to provinces with rich farmland.

Improved Farmland IV

 * Requirements: Improved Farmland III (replaces Improved Farmland III)
 * Cost: 2500
 * Time to Build: 8 years

The last and most expensive level of farm improvements, boosting farm income from 60% above the basic level to 80% above. A province which started off producing 500 florins per year will now produce 900. The cost of this upgrade is quite substancial, so it should only be given to the richest of provinces and only when the treasury can afford it.

Inn

 * Requirements: None
 * Cost: 400
 * Time to Build: 2 years

The Inn is where mercenaries can be hired. Mercenaries will become available at random when and can be built instantly for a cost. Inns are most effective in provinces with few other buildings; forts and large castles scare mercenaries away.

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