Any use out of Arctic tiles?

[Germnoble]

Can you get ANY use out of snow/tundra tiles? Like at all? Anything?

I absolutely HATE starting near tundra/snow tiles. I really need something to do with them.

 

[Ajuga]

Tundra can get faith by a religious pantheon but I don't believe snow tiles can ever get a yield unless you use a great person to settle something like an university.

 

[Browd]

Hill snow tiles can be terrace farmed by the Inca, and mined by all civs. So, if you settle a snow tile on the coast, surrounded by hills and sea resources, you can make a viable city, particularly as the Inca. Unlikely to thrive, but viable, and perhaps there are useful strategics under those snowy hills.

 

[Gucumatz]

In a tilted axis map there tends to be a lot of snow. There are tend to be some snowy mountain ranges as well that only the Inca can really habitat. If you go honor you can have snowy northern outposts for some extra barbarian culture from honor (There are tons of barbarian camps in the north on a tilted axis map) and you suffer little risk of being discovered by other AI or competition in the frozen wastelands from the AI

 

[Seabastian Civ]

Nope. They're useless.

This is why so many people have suggested snow-centric civs as an expasion or DLC. Inuits, Iceland, or Sibir could all add some viability to starting up in the snow, but until then, you're out of luck.

 

[sufficiency]

Very little. Sometimes you can find Strategic Resources on Snow, but they do not have yields without being improved.

The best use IMO is when an AI settles on snow :3

 

[filli_noctus]

I believe you can farm river/lakeside snow tiles in addition to improving hills and resource tiles mentioned above. Other than that... they're great tiles to build GP improvements on.

 

[steveg700]

If a snow hill has access to fresh water, you can put a farm on it, and it's just as good as every other hill farm. Between snow hills and fish tiles, you can make a go of it. Of course, there ought to be a compelling reason, like a key resource, or perhaps to prevent a rival from encroaching (with nigh-unlimited happiness, the AI has nothing to lose by settling rubbish lands).