Buildings

Buildings go on tiles inside your borders (roads and bridges excepted). Most earn stars every turn, and every star per turn a city's buildings earn also lets that city support one more unit.

Building	Cost ★	Stars / turn	Where	Unlocked by	Notes
Farm	5	+1	flat land without forest, inside your borders	Agriculture
Lumber Mill	5	+1	forest tiles	Forestry
Mine	5	+1	tiles with ore (mountains)	Mining
Ranch Pasture	5	+1	tiles with animals (hills)	Animal Husbandry
Kelp Farm	5	+1	empty shallow water	Aquaculture
Fishing Dock	5	+1	tiles with fish (reefs)	Fishing Trade
Oil Rig	8	+2	tiles with oil (hilly water)	Drilling	The best-paying resource building.
Temple	15	+1	empty flat land	Spirituality	Temples are worth +500 score when built and +50 score every turn.
Hilled Temple	20	+1	empty hills	—	Counts as a temple (+500 score, +50 score per turn).
Mountain Temple	20	+1	empty mountains	Mountain Worship	Counts as a temple (+500 score, +50 score per turn).
Water Temple	20	+1	empty water (not reefs)	Sea Worship	Counts as a temple (+500 score, +50 score per turn).
Great Temple	30	+2	any land tile	Ascendance	Counts as a temple and pays 2 stars per turn.
Beacon	20	—	any tile	Trade	A tall landmark tower.
City Walls	15	—	your city tiles	Fortifications	Units defending a walled city take much less damage (defence x1.5).
Road	3	—	any land tile with your unit on it	Roads	Moving from one road tile onto another costs half the movement. Roads can be built outside your borders.
Bridge	5	—	narrow water	Engineering	A road across one water tile between two shores, so land units can walk over.

Rules

• Each tile holds one building plus one road or bridge.
• Only roads and City Walls can be built on a city tile.
• Masonry reduces building costs by 20%.
• Temples of every kind (Temple, Hilled Temple, Mountain Temple, Water Temple, Great Temple) give +500 score when built and +50 score every turn while you own them.