Production chains

Below is the most efficient production setup for production chains. See Production and consumption rates for determining how many of each chain is needed for your population size.

Peasants

Cost: 100 • {{{cost}}}

Maintenance: 15

Fish

Cost: 50 • {{{cost}}}

Maintenance: 5

Wood

Cost: 100 • {{{cost}}}

Maintenance: 15

Cider

Citizens

Cost: 800 • {{{cost}}}

Maintenance: 65

Linen garments

Cost: 400 • {{{cost}}}

Maintenance: 20

Stone

Cost: 1750 • {{{cost}}}

Maintenance: 50

Iron

Cost: 2750 • {{{cost}}}

Maintenance: 110

Tools

Cost: 900 • {{{cost}}}

Maintenance: 60

Ropes

Patricians

Cost: 1900 • {{{cost}}}

Maintenance: 70

Bread

Cost: 3250 • {{{cost}}}

Maintenance: 80

Weapons

Cost: 1000 • {{{cost}}}

Maintenance: 145

Beer

Cost: 3900 • {{{cost}}}

Maintenance: 110

Glass

Cost: 1950 • {{{cost}}}

Maintenance: 55

Salt

Cost: 4950 • {{{cost}}}

Maintenance: 155

Leather jerkins

Cost: 6800 • {{{cost}}}

Maintenance: 240

Books

Noblemen

Cost: 6350 • {{{cost}}}

Maintenance: 255

Meat

Cost: 4900 • {{{cost}}}

Maintenance: 190

War machines

Cost: 9450 • {{{cost}}}

Maintenance: 415

Fur coats

Cost: 7850 • {{{cost}}}

Maintenance: 160

Cannons

Cost: 12250 • {{{cost}}}

Maintenance: 370

Wine

Cost: 8600 • {{{cost}}}

Maintenance: 260

Brass

Cost: 18800 • {{{cost}}}

Maintenance: 480

Glasses

Cost: 32600 • {{{cost}}}

Maintenance: 1040

Candlestick

Cost: 6950 • {{{cost}}}

Maintenance: 200

Brocade robes

Nomads

Cost: 200 • {{{cost}}}

Maintenance: 45

Dates

Cost: 200 • {{{cost}}}

Maintenance: 20

Milk

Cost: 500 • {{{cost}}}

Maintenance: 30

Spices

Cost: 1150 • {{{cost}}}

Maintenance: 105

Carpets

Cost: 3600 • {{{cost}}}

Maintenance: 80

Mosaic

Envoys

Cost: 2100 • {{{cost}}}

Maintenance: 85

Coffee

Cost: 3000 • {{{cost}}}

Maintenance: 110

Pearl necklaces

Cost: 5200 • {{{cost}}}

Maintenance: 150

Perfume

Cost: 4900 • {{{cost}}}

Maintenance: 240

Marzipan

Tips & Tricks

• When playing Venice, the Bailiwick's "Reeve's Book" function is absolutely essential for maintaining proper ratios. You can even create a toolbar button for the "Reeve's Book." Open this screen often and compare your building counts to the ratios on this page. Make sure all your ratios are correct.
• Often, you will have slight imbalances in your materials, sometimes due to starting up parts of the chain and sometimes due to production differences. You can capitalize on these by using the excess resources when you need to make more chains in the future. Examples:
  • If an island has built up an excess of herbs, then the next time you need more beer, make a wheat field and a brewery first... and don't build a matching herb garden until the excess is about gone.
  • Maybe you want more beer, but have extra wheat and herbs. Just make a brewery first, and lay in wheat and herbs when the excess is used up.
  • Coal and quartz can seem to pile up over time due to slight differences over long periods. No problem... when you start making glasses, send all that stockpiled quartz to it until it's used up. Then kick in a new quartz stream.
• Keep in mind - when planning production chains - the location you would like the production chain to end, considering; if the chain isn't on your main island (where your city is built), should the final product be produced on the production island itself or on your main island? There are advantages and disadvantages for both strategies, displayed in the table below, where: product = product consumed by inhabitants, resources = items needed to create product, production island = island other than island with city, main'''' island = island with city for which production chain is created.

Production Island		Main Island
Advantages	Disadvantages	Advantages	Disadvantages
No queue for resources	Product stocks up without consumption	Product available for consumption	Product creation uses (valuable) space
Upon (re)quest resources + product always available	Player may be too busy to deal with full stock up, stopping the whole production chain	Product may stock up automatically (when using trading routes)	1 or more resources need to be transported by ship
Product always present upon miscalculated shortage in city	Ships may hold too few holds for trading route	Player able to prevent full stock up due to consumption rate	Ships may hold too few holds for trading route
Ship only needs to transport product, not any resources	When ships are attacked, product may not be delivered in city	Production chain divided into 2 chains, resources always available for (re)quest on production island
		Player able to divide resources for multiple products equally on production island

See also

• Building layout strategies
• Production and consumption rates