The only advantage of these things I can think of is they can be built on non-flat lands (like hills) where you can't build watermills but that's pretty much it. It only gives 1 gold which the watermill doesn't give but not the extra production that a watermill gives. If built on a hill a mine is infinitely better imo.

so the question is, is there something about the lumbermill (and the fact that it comes so late in the game) that I'm missing out on? Seems quite pointless to me.

Forests give + 0,2 health each and also +1 happiness with environmentalism and the lumber mill doesn't remove the forest.

Lumbermills can only be built on forest squares. They always add +1 prod, another +1 prod with a railroad (that watermills don't get) and +1 gold if near a river.

They're specially good on tundra/forest squares where no other decent improvement is possible but you might want to use them to keep your forest alive for the health bonus (and happiness bonus with Environmentalism).

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Roman

If you reach enviromentalism within your game, there's no reason any of your citys should be unhappy, unless you completely neglected improvements.

Hi,

Forests give + 0,2 health each

Nit: As far as I know, It's +0.4 health per forest.

-Kylearan

Nit: As far as I know, It's +0.4 health per forest.


true :blush:

/me hugs all the trees!

Lumbermills turn grass/forests into 2food/2shield.. with rails, it's 2food/3shields.