Irrigation

[dellchili]

I cannot find any reference to irrigation in the rules, or the civopedia..

Yet...irrigation seems to help some tiles...

How do I irrigate??

 

[FuRRie]

hit the "I" button?

 

[Sam_Yeager]

You don't irrigate directly in the sense of there being a command to irrigate. Farms by the river are irrigated. If a farm is not by the river then it will not be irrigated until you research Biology.

However it is possible to create an irrigation chain by building a number of farms in a line from the river up to the farm you want to be irrigated. At least that is how I understand it. If I'm wrong then I'm sure someone will correct me soon.

 

[Khalid]

You don't irrigate directly in the sense of there being a command to irrigate. Farms by the river are irrigated. If a farm is not by the river then it will not be irrigated until you research Biology.

However it is possible to create an irrigation chain by building a number of farms in a line from the river up to the farm you want to be irrigated. At least that is how I understand it. If I'm wrong then I'm sure someone will correct me soon.

that's true. The only thing is that it works only after discovery of civil service. It says "farms spreads irrigation".

In the beginning, you can only build a farm on an irrigated tile (with fresh water) - next to a river or lake or on resources like corn, rice and wheat. With civil service, you can start building farms next to the irrigated tiles and build chains with irrigation. After biology, you can build farms everywhere.

 

[svv]

I think the others didn't mention this because they thought it obvious, but just in case, you need a worker on the tile to farm (irrigate it) - and you also need the agriculture tech.

... and the squares in the chain can be diagonal. However, if you have a farm that you were allowed to build because it was on a food special, but was not next to fresh water, then you can't chain any others on to it (unless it later gets chained up to one next to fresh water).

 

[wioneo]

You can't irrigate hills, and cities(that aren't on hills) spread irrigation just like a farm would. You also can NOT irrigate tundra unless the tundra tile is directly on a river, which makes non-river / hill / forest tundra completely useless, unless it has a resource(usually oil, silver, deer, beavers/fur, or uranium).

 

[Beamup]

After biology, you can build farms everywhere.

Though it should be mentioned that even then it's better to irrigate them, because then they produce +2 food instead of +1.