Can you get irrigation over a hill?

[ModernKnight]

There are a very few places where it could be desparately useful, to irrigate a lot more on the far side of the hill.

In the bigger picture,

Are there are any tricks to extending irrigation? the only 'trick' I can think of, is to be aware that cities can extend irrigation, too.

 

[Godel]

YOu can't irrigate over a hill. I am fairly certain that if the city is on a hill the city tile can never be part of an irrigation chain.

 

[ModernKnight]

Right - didn't mean to imply a city could extend irrigation over a hill, per se. Just saying, cities do extend irrigation, on flatland. A 'trick' in case somebody wasn't aware of it.

 

[JimT]

Right - didn't mean to imply a city could extend irrigation over a hill, per se. Just saying, cities do extend irrigation, on flatland. A 'trick' in case somebody wasn't aware of it.

Yes if the city is on FLAT LAND it will form part of the chain.

Good point to bring up as newbs might not know while those playing since Civ 1 know it as second nature.

 

[jerVL/kg]

Yes if the city is on grassland/plains it will form part of the chain.

You can also irrigate through a city built on desert or tundra -- quite a handy trick, to get irrigation to part of your empire that's cut off from fresh water. Presumably this also works on ice, but finding ice next to plains/grassland is shockingly rare.

You can't irrigate through hills, though. Not ever.

 

[JIM G]

You can also irrigate through a city built on desert or tundra ...

I never knew that - I've long had an aversion to building in deserts as I misread the description & for a long time thought the city buildings took +25% to build - it actually only ment terrain improvements

 

[ModernKnight]

Yes right, not only can cities extend irrigation through any flatland, but also they can work on the "angles" of e.g. the edge of a river. However, the headlands of a river (where it starts) won't do this. As long as the tile is flat and says "fresh water", or has an irrigated farm on any of the eight sides, a city or farm can extend irrigation.

Ok then, I wasn't missing anything re: hills. Such a shame to not bring some water to these crispy crops!

 

[ChicagoCubs]

Sort of along the same lines...

Does irrigation count from another civ?

Does Open Border Agreements impact this?

 

[KMadCandy]

one thing didn't click for me early on was that oasiseseses are fresh water sources. i think i was reading an ALC, where one of the factors in where to place a city was to put it so that the oasis and the rice/corn whatever it was were both touching the city, so that as soon as CS was learned, the crop was insta-irrigated, when the lightbulb went on over my head.

 

[ModernKnight]

Cubster, yes you can extend from other civs, and Border agreements don't matter. Steal away. P.S. Another season of Braves victories is nearly on us.

KMad, it always drives me crazy how Oases stop movement (early on).

 

[Aseon]

Can irrigation get cut off?

For example:
I have a tile two away from a river that cannot be farmed.
I build a farm next to the river then build a farm on the target tile.
Then I change the farm next to the river into a cottage.
What happens to the farm that is now cut off from the river?

 

[Welnic]

It is no longer irrigated. I've learned this the hard way. And it was a lot more than just one tile.

 

[Elrohir]

Sort of along the same lines...

Does irrigation count from another civ?

Does Open Border Agreements impact this?

Irrigation counts if your farms are connected to a neighbors farms. But if there are no cultural borders there, like if a city was there but was razed, then it doesn't count, even if the farm is right there.