Farms spread irrigation -- what?

[Alive]

I haven't figured this out yet. Once you get to civil service technology, it says that farms spread irrigation. What is the difference between the way it was before that technology? I thought that if you were next to a farm you could make another farm even though its not next to water?

 

[Badtz Maru]

I haven't figured this out yet. Once you get to civil service technology, it says that farms spread irrigation. What is the difference between the way it was before that technology? I thought that if you were next to a farm you could make another farm even though its not next to water?

Before Civil Service all farms have to be adjacent to fresh water.

 

[peppe1]

Cities also spread irrigation with civil service.

I believe Hills will always block irrigation no matter what improvement is built on them (including a city).

 

[Yared]

Without civil service you can only build farms next to rivers and lakes. With civil service you can stack farms next to each other - whether they are next to rivers/lakes or not.

And then with biology I think you can build farms pretty much wherever you want.

 

[bestsss]

And then with biology I think you can build farms pretty much wherever you want.

That's true but non-irrigated farms (wherever you want 'em) are just +1 food, if you bring water to them they get to +2. By the way the cities can also spread the irrigation but the rules are the same for farms, i.e. if you would have been able to build farm over the tile it'd spread.

 

[Willem]

Without civil service you can only build farms next to rivers and lakes.

And Oasis.

And then with biology I think you can build farms pretty much wherever you want.

But you don't get a +1 bonus if it's not connected to fresh water.

 

[Silu]

That's true but non-irrigated farms (wherever you want 'em) are just +1 food, if you bring water to them they get to +2. By the way the cities can also spread the irrigation but the rules are the same for farms, i.e. if you would have been able to build farm over the tile it'd spread.

Ha! Finally got a chance to "actually" you for a change and not the other way around

Actually if you settle on a non-hill desert tile it will spread irrigation even though you couldn't have built a farm there!!!11 (probably same for ice and tundra)

 

[bestsss]

Silu, I dont know... I was not so sure about that one, in a recent game it didn't spread. I tried a worldbuilder test; quite supporting my assertion... I could almost swear I have seen the opposite (i.e. cities spreading the irrigation when placed on top of a hill).

Spoiler :

The farm gets not irrigation.

Although the spreading was enabled, the selected units are the workers; the mouse over is the corn

 

[Silu]

Hill cities never spread irrigation. I tried to say that flatland desert cities do, even though you can't normally farm those tiles, so the "farmable tiles city spread" rule isn't universal.

 

[bestsss]

Ahh yes, that's true. Flatland (ice/tundra) does spread (although riverside tundra can have farms; riverside-ice/desert cannot unless has some food resource [even sheep works])