#ANNO 1404 VS 1701 UPGRADE#
It's also recommended to slowly upgrade all your dirt roads around your houses to cobblestone streets.You always want to build cobblestone street to connect all your production buildings with market buildings (or warehouse) to allow for the fastest pickup of goods. Cobblestone street allows fast movement of market carts and inhabitants along the roads. Dirt roads allow normal speed movement of market carts and inhabitants along the roads.List of production and resource buildings that do or do not need a road. Since the market buildings act as warehouse hubs, the production building can send journeymen to the market building and retrieve resources harvested across the island and deposited in a different market building. If this is the case, make the production building so its range is within a market building. So therefore, it is only beneficial to connect resource buildings to market buildings when you either want to hoard resources, or the production building's range does not reach the resource building's (which happens often). In the above mentioned production chain, only the toolmaker's shop needs a road connection because all other steps are done by the shops themselves and only the final product is needed on the island warehouse.Ĭonnecting the ore mine, smelter, and/or charcoal hut to the market building with a road would result in the market building taking any excess components (if any) that were not used by toolmaker's shop. However, Market Buildings DO require roads to send market carts out. Journeymen do NOT need roads to retrieve goods. If a tool maker's shop is then made so that it's area of effect encompasses the iron smelter, the tool maker's shop will send journeymen to retrieve the iron bars. Anything that goes into a market building anywhere on that island will be available in every market building on that island.įor production buildings, the highlighted area is the area that your journeymen will be able to walk to collect resources from.įor example, an iron smelter that has an ore mine and charcoal hut within its area of effect, the iron smelter will send journeymen to retrieve iron ore. Market Buildings act as hubs to the island warehouse and do NOT have to be connected to the sea by road. When to use roads for production buildings The game allows all goods to be shared between even without any physical connection. Note that roads are not required to connect your warehouse to any market buildings, marketplaces, or bazaars.
To connect production buildings to Market buildings or Warehouses.To connect houses to a Marketplace or Bazaar.Roads are a critical part of any settlement and serve two main purposes: 3 When to use roads for production buildings.