I play Anno 1404 on easy difficulty, as if it were a city-building simulator. And I have a question: how do you usually organize the delivery of resources for construction (stone, wood, tools, mosaic, glass)? I have three islands for the extraction of these resources, then these resources are brought to the main islands of Oriental and Occidental, where the population is located. From the main islands, I launch two large ships that go around all the other islands in turn and drop materials if necessary. In general, I am happy with how it works, but sometimes I get the feeling that I am using resources as inefficiently as possible. With large volumes of construction on different islands, the main island quickly runs out of materials. How do you manage the delivery of building materials?

Can you play the game with 12 players?

For example 4 teams with 3 players each?

Hi all. I've been playing this for a few days now and starting to love it. I am playing History edition if that matters.

I have come up against an issue though, and would appreciate some help. Apologies if this is covered elsewhere and I've missed it, but I have read the wiki which suggests things should work as I want them to, but not as they actually are.

I'll use beer production as an example. There are two islands close to my home base. One is fertile for herbs (Island A), the other for wheat (Island B). So I set up herb gardens on Island A: and wheat farms and a brewery on Island B. I ship herbs from Island A to Island B. I was expecting that the herbs would then be transferred from the Island B warehouse to the breweries so that beer can be produced. But that isn't happening. The herbs are just piling up in the Island B warehouse and no beer is being made.

Is there something I have done wrong here? Or is it the case that stuff you ship to a warehouse on an island is never used in production chains carried out on that island? surely not...

Any guidance much appreciated

EDIT: pics added as requested. Apologies for the terrible quality.

ISLAND A

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ISLAND B

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So basically I am playing Anno 1404 on my steam deck. As long as I'm online, steam seems to skip the launcher.

But when I'm offline, im prompted to type in user name and password, but the login button doesn't work. It just resets my username and asks again.

Is there any way to deal with this?

"Oh cool! It'll be interesting seeing how efficient and minimalist I gotta be with my stuff..."

Some hours later: *So much fucking money from the absolute hike in sale prices*

Excuse me? It's almost easier than a regular game. And you only want 1404 nobleman with this? Who marked this scenario as hard?

Bummer.

I even moved stuff like coals and plantations to use any spot without norias to reduce that but it's just so annoying.

Im new to anno 1404

Do I need to wait those long times to take over enemies marketplace/market house or can I somehow just destroy them?

I've been trying to build an island with a contiguous road system, i.e. everything is connected, and had to abandon the idea - actually forgot why I stopped doing it ages ago - because when you give the market carts a choice, they always collect goods from as far away as possible, even if there's another warehouse closer to the target building, and they always take the longest possible route.

In the screenshot below, I've had to delete roads to prevent the cart for the bakery warehouse going to the linen shops, another to prevent the cart for the cider farms going to the trapper's lodge and vice versa, and even had to break a ring road to prevent the cart going all the way round to reach a hemp farm that's right next to the warehouse!

I can only conclude that whoever coded that particular mechanic had a really spiteful sense of humour?

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This lagoon or atoll or whatever you want to call it may look like several islands but as far as the game is concerned it's one island. It makes the 'teleport' aspect of the game really obvious because you look at it and think "Hang on, that island has no port, how does it transport goods?" Yes I can put HM offices on some of them to make it a bit more realistic, but one of them has no beach so it's just going to look silly when I build mines there.

Bridges, even if they were purely cosmetic, would make the whole thing look more plausible. And let's face it, this is the Venice addon and real-life Venice is all about bridges.

(Oh, and in case you were wondering, the ones without a harbour are buildable because they are within market building influence range of each other so it's just the same way you expand territory on land.)

Thoughts anyone?

Maybe they have underwater tunnels?

Anyone knows any methods to increase the limit of 8 selling/buying slots in harbour?

If you're planning on creating maximum population density, something you can do right at the start is figure out where your first Cathedral will be, put in the roads, then build around the site in such a way that when the cathedral is built there will be no need for extensive re-modelling, just demolish the superfluous service buildings and fill in the gaps with houses. (Remember to leave a space on one side of the marketplace because it takes up the area of nearly-but-not-quite 4 houses.)

Unfortunately there's no blueprint mode in 1404, so in order to plan this you need to know that the Cathedral building area is 18x11 tiles, and its influence range is 27 tiles from the short side and 30 tiles from the long side.

(I don't bother to do this with the Sultan's Mosque because 'moving' the Envoys once it's built is relatively easy, but if you want to do it, the only difference is the size of the building itself... 15x10)

Housing around future cathedral site

If it helps you to visualize, you can make fake blueprints like this:

18x11

15x10

Venice History Edition using UAP Combined Patch:

In late game I've been getting a catastrophic volcano eruption...

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It never stops and slows the game down to the point where it's unplayable.

I backed up and removed my saves and profile, reinstalled the game, ran verification, and started again. Thought it was solved but as soon as I started mining the volcano island it happened again.

I have reloaded the unmodded patch and installed the mods from the combined patch minus the infinite resources mod.

I'm a hundred hours in using my backed up profile and it has not (yet?) recurred, so it looks like the mod could be interfering with the volcano mechanic - maybe some confusion arising from the fact that volcano resources are already infinite?

I haven't tested my old saves to see whether they just ignore the now-absent mod, because if there is a bug and it's embedded in the save files I don't want to have to go through the whole reloading procedure again.

If anyone else has had this issue and can either confirm or refute my suggested cause, please let me know. Cheers.

I don't remember where but I once read on the internet that when you need many aristocrats (like in the master builder scenario) that it is beneficial to grow a second town on another island and then you can basically erase all the citizen and patrician buildings on your first island and only have aristocrats there. This is supposed to save resources.

Does anybody know what I mean? How exactly does that work?

I’m on chapter 5 “a storm breaks out and I just finished the first quest where I give grand vizier al zahir 8 letter jerkins but the game is not giving me any more quests after that. Plz help

Seems like I dont need to connect my graphs (if you know graph theory) of production layouts to my graphs of houses at all right satisfy the need of resources. So my question is, is there at all any benefit from doing so?

if you are interested just send me DM, Im average player.

I expect many of you already know about this, but I only just discovered it so thought I'd share it for those who don't know about it yet:

The Large Warship has only one upgrade slot. All three in the screenshot below have the same Captain "Rasul the Dreadful" item socketed and the one highlighted has another Rasul in the cargo hold. The three ships started together and only socketed items should be effective, but as you can see the ship with the additional unsocketed item is faster. I presume it has also doubled up on the other properties of the item although I can't say for certain because it hasn't been in a battle since I noticed this effect.

Since the ship has two cargo holds I'm going to put another Captain on and see if it triples the powers! I'll let you know.

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Incidentally this is Venice History Edition with UAP, no mods. I'd be interested to know if this is a version specific feature or happens generally.

Edit: OK there seems to be a bug... the ship with the additional item reads firepower 20 and its companions are at 18. However, I have several other ships with the same item and some of them show 20 and some show 18 even though they all have just the one socketed item and no unsocketed items. The ones that read 20 firepower are faster, and after a fight they repair themselves more quickly too. It looks like some ships are behaving as if they have two socketed items regardless of how many items they actually have on board. Maybe putting that item in cargo on one ship has somehow overpowered not only itself but random other ships too?

This is actually detrimental to my battle tactics because when I send a group of ships to a fight I want them to stay together so they all arrive at the same time, but now if there's a faster ship it arrives early and has to fight alone until its mates get there, so I have to stop it short now and wait for the others to catch up before engaging the enemy.

So I'm replaying anno 1404 HE venice scenarios. I'm now playing the di mercante case or what it's called but I have a problem with the unknown cargo side quest. Every time i start the scenario I get the quest a couple minutes after starting the scenario. I go and pick up the first crate and Garibaldi says I should keep the secret to me. Then Mercante talks to me again and gives me a second mission to get a create floating in the ocean. If I hover over the quest it tells me to collect the cargo and highlights the port of mercante but if I go there with my ship and try to fulfill the quest nothing ever happens - anyone knows what's broken or is this normal? (sry for my bad English :) )

It keeps building Large Trading Ships without my ordering one.

Has anyone experienced this?

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I've settled an Oriental Island and I have a boulder in my way for Dates. Is there anyway to get rid of it? I remember in Dawn of Discovery that there was a way to do it.

Thanks!

Bought this on summer sale, played it as a kid and playing again now.

Already 9 hours in lol, is 1800 worth a try?

Can't believe I've only just noticed this feature, but for anyone else who doesn't already know, you can make your ships avoid dangerous areas by moving the little pin symbol on the trading route.

In the screenshot below, I have set the waypoint tight to the coast of an intermediate island on the ship's route. Normally it would take the middle of the channel which would bring it in blast range of the volcano, but by placing the waypoint where I have, the ship stays close to the other island, just out of the volcano's range. Saves me the bother of sending it the long way round via an extra stop on the route, which is what I used to do. When playing against opponents you can use this tool to avoid enemy territory.

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Original anno 1404, not gold, not history. on steam. version 1.03.3650.

Played the first 3 chapters of the story and I'm not getting any honour for running tournaments, is this locked behind progression in the story? or is this a bug ?

Any advice on a work around or fix ?

update:
I installed history edition and played through quick, it has the same bug :/
I Noticed that in the first level when you can buy tools from Lord Richard Northburgh, before you have a ship, that also fails so I suspect its something to do with his script not firing correctly but I'm not sure how I would approach debugging that.

I'm tired of having to place multiple churches, marketplaces etc on one island and would much rather prefer just placing one of each instead. Does anyone now of a way where we can change the building radius to whatever we want by editing the base files? Any help would be much appreciated.

I have been playing anno 1404 for a long time and always search for seeds if anyone has put any good ones.

By good ones I mean, huge map and largest islands possible.

Starting this thread in hopes to find some good seeds.

Here is what I found.

Seed: 12421
Image:

12421