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Before you make a business you need a Building Permit, you can get these from the master builder when you have a 100% trading record, to make this increase quickly, give the max to Church and give the max for soldiers or cannons and if you want, do a bit of trading.
[edit] Building
Before you build, you need houses, it's about 60 people per house so remember to get enough houses, try to avoid products that need a colonial good because you are stuck if the transport convoys fail. You may need to ship workers from another town to get the businesses working. If you do need to ship workers, go to Govenor's towns first, they get transport convoys with workers going to them and they usually have a higher wealth level so you are more likely to find work there.
You should now click on your storehouse and get that to automatically sell the product (or if you have one, set up a trade route but take from the warehouse). If you are buying, set up a trade route or set the warehouse to buy (expensive usually).
[edit] Types of Buildings
[edit] Essential goods
| Name
| Wood & Bricks
| Cost
| Time
| Avg. production price
| Produces
| Consumes
|
| Wheat Farm
| 30 , 30
| 10,000 
| 15 Days
| 80
|
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| Fruit Farm
| 30 , 30
| 10,000
| 15 Days
| 80
|
|
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| Sawmill
| 30 , 30
| 10,000
| 15 Days
| 80
|
|
|
| Brickworks
| 30 , 30
| 10,000
| 15 Days
| 80
|
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|
[edit] Raw Materials
| Name
| Wood & Bricks
| Cost
| Time
| Avg. production price
| Produces
| Consumes
|
| Corn Farm
| 30 , 30
| 10,000
| 15 Days
| 100
|
|
|
| Sugar Cane Farm
| 30 , 30
| 10,000
| 15 Days
| 100
|
|
|
| Cotton Farm
| 30 , 30
| 10,000
| 15 Days
| 100
|
|
|
| Hemp Plantation
| 30 , 30
| 10,000
| 15 Days
| 100
|
|
|
[edit] Finished Goods
| Name
| Wood & Bricks
| Cost
| Time
| Avg. production price
| Produces
| Consumes
|
| Cattle Farm
| 60 , 60
| 20,000
| 30 Days
| 300
|
|
|
| Weaving Mill
| 60 , 60
| 20,000
| 30 Days
| 300
|
|
|
| Ropery
| 60 , 60
| 20,000
| 30 Days
| 300
|
|
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| Rum Distillery
| 60 , 60
| 20,000
| 30 Days
| 300
|
|
|
[edit] Colonial Goods
| Name
| Wood & Bricks
| Cost
| Time
| Avg. production price
| Produces
| Consumes
|
| Coffee Plantation
| 30 , 30
| 10,000
| 15 Days
| 150
|
|
|
| Cocoa Plantation
| 30 , 30
| 10,000
| 15 Days
| 150
|
|
|
| Dye Plantation
| 30 , 30
| 10,000
| 15 Days
| 150
|
|
|
| Tobacco Plantation
| 30 , 30
| 10,000
| 15 Days
| 150
|
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|
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