Civilization · Terrain
Grassland
2 food · move 1 · def +0%
The bread of every empire. Shield and plain grassland alternate in a diagonal step pattern — road the shieldgrass first, it feeds and builds at once.
What it does
Yields 2 food (shield-pattern grasslands add 1 shield). Irrigation adds 1 food (5 turns, cancelled out under Despotism), mining converts to Forest (10 turns), a road adds 1 trade.
Key details
- Yield
- 2 food, 0 shields, 0 trade
- Movement cost
- 1
- Defense bonus
- +0%
- Special resource
- Shield — adds 1 shield
About terrain in Civilization
Every map square is one of twelve terrain types, each with a yield of food, shields and trade, a movement cost, and a defense bonus. Settlers improve tiles with irrigation, mines and roads — and some improvements transform the terrain itself (clearing Forest to Plains, draining Swamp to Grassland). Special resources like Coal, Gems or Fish appear in fixed cluster patterns and dramatically boost a tile's yield.
Strategy — Cities live on food: settle on Rivers or beside Grassland and Plains. Under Despotism any tile producing 3+ of a resource is penalized one — so don't waste early Settler turns irrigating grassland; road the shield-grassland first.
