HELP! Food is being used as hammers

[Tsavo]

Apologies if this is another newbie question.

I've just switched to BTS and early on the cities don't grow since the extra food is being used for production (shows 3 hammers and 1 food in the production bar).

Later it uses it as food but then switches it back to production again - all seemingly random and not under my control.

I can't see a way to take control of this - I've tried everything I can think of and looked in the Civilopedia and online. Nothing.

Is it a bug? Or am I missing something obvious?

Didn't see it do this is in plain vanlla Civ4 so presumably it's something new in the expansion.

Thanks in advance.

[Gooblah]

When you build a Worker or a Settler the city stops growing and all worked food is converted into hammers. Once the Worker/Settler is done, food goes to growth and hammers to production.

[Tsavo]

duplicate of post below - delete

[Tsavo]

Thanks Gooblah I think that's what it was.

I had read that the growth stopped when making settlers but I hadn't realised the food went to production like that. And I didn't know it applied to workers too.

RTFM a bit better I suppose

Thanks again.

[Bleys]

If you read these forums a lot, you may see the terms "worker/settler pump city". That generally means a city with REALLY high food that you use to build workers and settlers, like those 5-seafood + Corn capitols you get sometimes.

[Joshua368]

Also it works exactly the same as in Vanilla so I'm not sure why you didn't notice this before.