Ancient Temple Improvement?

[clut]

Sorry if this has already been discussed, I seared but found no answer.

I've just started a new game, and can see 2 ancient temples close to my start location. I figured it would be great if I could get a city to grab both of them, so I looked up in the pedia what tech I need to research to build the required improvement, and it says that the ancient temple requires the never tech.

Does this mean that I can't use ancient temples??

 

[Sureshot]

I've always been able to build them right from the beginning of the game (though I typically start at Classical tech). Was it in your borders?

 

[Grillick]

Exploring an Ancient Temple requires the Sanitation tech, same as is required for clearing jungle.

 

[Azragaul]

Typically temples are in jungles. Jungles require Sanitation at this point. I think if I remember correctly even if they are not in the jungles you need Sanitation. I'm 90 percent sure on this. Someone else correct me if Im wrong.

 

[Sureshot]

Last game I played I didn't have sanitation and I built a temple on the temple (though it wasn't on jungle).

 

[clut]

Thanks for your responses guys. I saved the game, then jumped into worldbuilder and added a city near the temple, then added a couple of workers on the temple. Came out of world builder and couldn't do anything with the ancient temple.

went back into world builder, gave myself the exploration tech and still couldn't improve the temple. Finally went into WB again and gave myself sanitation. This allowed me to explore the ancient temple.

I'm not sure what was different for Sureshot. My ancient temple WAS in jungle (in fact they both were).

again, thanks for you help guys.
There really should be a FfH manual. I know there has been a massive amount of work put into the pedia entries and I really do appreciate that, but a manual with a more tutorial style approach would also be quite useful.

 

[Sureshot]

You say both yours were in jungles? Mine was on grasslands, no jungle. You only need sanitation to do it if its in a jungle since you need to clear the jungle to improve it.

My guess is there's no requirements for building an Ancient Temple on an Ancient Temple unless its on a jungle, at which point, yes you need Sanitation.

 

[Halancar]

The description of the sanitation tech says that you need it to explore temples, but I too have found that this is only true if they are on jungle (in which case you need the sanitation tech to clear the jungle).

 

[QES]

The description of the sanitation tech says that you need it to explore temples, but I too have found that this is only true if they are on jungle (in which case you need the sanitation tech to clear the jungle).

I think they're only supposed to appear in jungles, and any instances in which their not are either A) bugs, or B) strang occurances of topography changing.
-Qes

 

[BeefontheBone]

Anything which alters the terrain could generate them on grasslands quite easily though I believe - mana node effects, spells or more likely the start location normalisation algorithm which is applied at the beginning of the game.