What resources provide happiness?

[suckycivguy]

Is it only like gold, gems, spices?

Or do deer, sheep, etc count?

 

[King Patrick]

Check the civpedia (Help button, upper right on the main screen). Click on the resources tab. It lists luxuries, food, and strategic resources & tells you what improvements you need to work them. Generally, food tiles - fish, cows, sheep, wheat, bananas, deer - are not luxuries, but give your city bonus food, production, or gold. So they're worth developing but don't add happiness. Likewise, strategic resources - horses, iron, coal, etc. - don't add happiness but are crucial for building certain units or buildings. They don't get revealed on the map until you research the appropriate tech, though.

 

[Louis XXIV]

gold, gems, silver, spices, incense, whales, pearls, furs, ivory, wine. I think that's it.

 

[King Patrick]

gold, gems, silver, spices, incense, whales, pearls, furs, ivory, wine. I think that's it.

Cotton and silk, too.

 

[Louis XXIV]

Ah, right.

 

[suckycivguy]

thnks all


i have a question someone said you dont have to build roads to connect your resources but the game just indicated i should build a road to connect resources.... is that the casse?

 

[Louis XXIV]

Don't build roads to resources. Build roads to connect cities (including City-States if they ask) to your capitol. Just build improvements instead (like plantations for bananas).

 

[Rex_Mundi]

If a city has horses or elephants then it can build a circus, that gives two additional happiness.

 

[Liborio]

Cotton and silk, too.

Also Dyes.

 

[Keejus]

And don't forget sugar!

 

[Louis XXIV]

Note to self: Never try to go from memory.