Production Rates

If you’ve read our article on consumption, you know how much food and goods each house needs per year. The next question that then arises is: how much does each farm and factory produce per year?

Production rates on this page assume that the buildings are fully staffed. Understaffed buildings produce substantially less goods per year.

Some god bonuses improve the production rate of some industries. Bonus levels depend on number of houses with cover for that god. For level 1, 20 houses need to have coverage, for level 2 it’s 40 houses, and for level 3 it’s 60 houses.

Farms

Two fields or pastures per farm were placed, since that is the optimal ratio for farm production quoted in the game manual, and also works best in practice. The yearly production depends highly on the distance the farmers need to travel to the fields and pastures: the longer the distance, the lower the production.

For farms and raw materials, we measured the production in two cases: when the building is as close to the resource as possible, and when the building is about 50 tiles away from the resource. The reported numbers are averages.

Good		Yearly production		With god bonus
		Close to field/pasture	Distance of about 50 tiles	Close to field/pasture	Distance of about 50 tiles	Bonus level
Food
	Grain	46	40	51	47	Ceres level 3
	Vegetables	46	40	51	47	Ceres level 3
	Meat	70	65	76	72	Ceres level 2
Farmed raw materials
	Wool	62	57	66	62	Ceres level 2
	Olives	38	33	40	35	Ceres level 1
	Grapes	38	33	40	35	Ceres level 1

Raw materials

Harvested raw materials work the same way as farms: production decreases when the distance between the resource camp and the resource increases.

Mercury is a valuable god for raw material production: he lets workers carry one extra load of goods in their carts, essentially doubling the production.

Timber trees regrow exactly four months after being cut down, so the total timber production depends on the number of trees available on your map. When the timber camp is close to trees, it will use about 12-16 trees in the area around the timber camp.

Good		Yearly production		With god bonus
		Close to resource	Distance of about 50 tiles	Close to resource	Distance of about 50 tiles	Bonus level
	Timber	44	32	–	–	–
	Sand	40	30	80	60	Mercury level 1
	Clay	40	30	80	60	Mercury level 1
	Iron	38	30	76	60	Mercury level 1
	Gold	38	30	76	60	Mercury level 1
	Marble	32	24	64	48	Mercury level 1

Manufactured Goods

Goods produced in factories have a fixed production rate as long as they are stocked with raw materials. The only other influences on the production rates of factories are blessings from the gods.

Good		Input	Yearly production	With god bonus
Basic goods
	Glass	1 sand	23.4	–
	Pottery	1 clay	23.4	–
	Clothing	1 wool	23.4	–
	Olive oil	1 olives	23.4	–
Luxury goods
	Jewelry	1 gold	17.8	–
	Utensils	1 iron	17.8	–
	Furniture	1 timber	17.8	–
	Wine	1 grapes	17.8	19.2 (Bacchus level 1)
Military goods
	Weapons	1 iron, 1 timber	16	17.8 (Mars level 1)
	Armor	1 iron, 1 wool	16	17.8 (Mars level 1)

Resource gatherer to factory ratio

Using the production numbers above, we can calculate the optimum ratio of farms/resource gatherers to factories. The table was calculated using the “50-tile distance” numbers for farms and resources, without Ceres bonuses for farms.

A star (*) means: if you have Mercury’s level 1 bonus, you can halve the number of resource camps for optimal production.

Finished good		Optimum ratio
Basic goods
	Glass	2-3 factories per 2 sand digging camps*
	Pottery	2-3 factories per 2 clay digging camps*
	Clothing	2 factories per sheep farm with two pastures
	Olive oil	3 factories per 2 olive farms (2 olive groves each)
Luxury goods
	Jewelry	3-4 factories per 2 gold camps*
	Utensils	3-4 factories per 2 iron camps*
	Furniture	3-4 factories per 2 timber camp
	Wine	2 factories per grape farm (2 vineyards)
Military goods
	Weapons	2 factories: 1 iron camp* and 1 timber camp
	Armor	4 factories: 2 iron camps* and 1 sheep farm