Settler Building Question

[drsparnum]

I understand that when you are building a settler your population is not growing. However, is a settler actually built with food or hammers? For example, will a city with alot of excess food or a city with alot of excess hammers build alot of settlers faster?


I was dedicating some of my cities to the task of being a "worker/settler factory" and I was doing this in towns that had alot of farms around them. Now, I'm wondering if I'd be better off dedicating a city with alot of hammers to the job, because settlers are actually built with hammers. Which is it?

[Urban Ranger]

Re: Settler Building Question

Originally posted by drsparnum
I understand that when you are building a settler your population is growing.

Stops growing.

Originally posted by drsparnum
However, is a settler actually built with food or hammers? For example, will a city with alot of excess food or a city with alot of excess hammers build alot of settlers faster?

Both. You can verify by changing the production of your city to see which way is faster.

[drsparnum]

Thanks, urban ranger. I changed it to "not" growing, which is what I meant.


Do they have a set cost? Like 20 hammers and 20 food? Or is it dynamic? Like you could buy one with 30 hammers and 10 food? Or 40 food?

[Urban Ranger]

Originally posted by drsparnum
Do they have a set cost? Like 20 hammers and 20 food? Or is it dynamic? Like you could buy one with 30 hammers and 10 food? Or 40 food?

I am not sure. It should be in the docs somewhere.

[Enigma_Nova]

100 of either food or hammer, and either can be used.
1 point of food is equivalent to 1 production.
I've had cities producing Settlers that had a grand total of 1 production in the queue, and I had my Pop-stagnated Capital producing Settlers entirely out of Hammers.

[MoonWolf]

Are you sure 1 food euqals 1 hammer? I think I've seen something like "x food = y hammers" when I chech the status by clicking the city bar in the main map.

[baboon]

Originally posted by MoonWolf
Are you sure 1 food euqals 1 hammer? I think I've seen something like "x food = y hammers" when I chech the status by clicking the city bar in the main map.

I think it's the same, I never noticed that I could speed up a settler by changing food to hammers.

[Enigma_Nova]

Test it yourself. If you have a Plains Forest and a Grass Forest in your first city's radius, you can work either for the same turns to settler.

[Diadem]

When you build a settler or worker your city just turns your surplus food into hammers. I t hink modifiers like forges even work over them.

It clearly says so in the city screen. The bar that normally shows 5 hammers will then show for example 5 hammers and 3 food.

[grutz]

You got it Diadem. Figured this out when I got a capital with five floodplains available to it. I decided to play around with my city while making a settler...

[Datajack Franit]

isn't it funny that we still can't answer such an easy question after 2 months of 12 hours-a-day of civ4?

[Enigma_Nova]

We can answer the question.
Not all of us can, however, and that's why you make a thread on the forum so you can get answers.

[Blake]

What about deficit food?
I think it should make the settler build faster and the city foodbox deplete but I havn't got around to testing it...