When do City States build their first worker?

What turn?

Just had one show up on turn 25. But on another game I was waiting longer (turn 35) and it really set me back after a Tradition start.

People say don't build a worker, use the hammers on a shrine/granary/archer, but waiting til t26 seems a bit silly when I could build a scout, not bother with the monument because Tradition and go straight to worker, optimising citizen management and getting it faster than t25.

This doesn't even factor in that I then I have to waste 1 turn to grab the worker, then move him with my escort usually at least another 5 turns, meaning I only start improvements t32 or later.

At deity they show much faster than any other levels. Check if a cs is starting on a hill and/or with some early hammer tiles that they ''might'' work. Place your unit on a food tile to force him to work a hammer tile sooner so he can get out a worker faster.

On King it tends to be mid/late thirties.

It seems they pop up when a city state has 4 population.

if the CS has sea lux, they sometimes make a boat before a worker. be aware of that

dragonxxx said:

if the CS has sea lux, they sometimes make a boat before a worker. be aware of that

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Yeah I always check what luxes they are before I start queuing up my unit to take their worker.