Colonization · Terrain
Hills
2 food · ore 4 · def +100%
Where tools and muskets come from. Four ore a tile is the second-richest mining in the game, and a colony built on hills is twice as hard to take.
What it does
Yields 2 food and 4 ore, with a +100% defense bonus and a movement cost of 2. The Ore deposit resource raises the yield further.
Key details
- Food
- 2
- Movement cost
- 2
- Defense bonus
- +100%
- Commodities
- Ore 4
- Bonus resource
- Ore deposit
About terrain in Colonization
Every square grows food and, usually, exactly one raw commodity — tobacco, cotton, sugar, furs, lumber, ore or silver. A colonist assigned to a tile harvests one of them, an expert in that trade doubles the take, and rivers, plowing and roads add more on top. Forest tiles hide open ground beneath them: a Pioneer's plow clears the trees permanently and leaves the terrain listed on each entry.
Strategy — Read a colony site by what it can specialise in, not by its food alone. You want one strong food tile to grow on and a cluster of squares yielding the same commodity — three prairie tiles of cotton beat six tiles of three different crops, because only concentrated output is worth a master planter, a weaver and a warehouse.
