Can't locate ressource

[sheap]

Hi,
i am puzzled because I am having oil ressource accumulating but I can't see where it came from.

According to my report I can locate the city originating from :
https://i.imgur.com/HqJLnCa.jpg
But when I look at the map it doesn't appear anywhere :
https://i.imgur.com/qp3R3VA.jpg

Could it be possible it's located under my city or a district, if so then is there anyway to be sure about it ?

Also I usually struggle to locate a new ressource when I gain access to it (Oil, Niter etc...)$
So I usually open the 2d map and hide all yields but I have to turn on/off the ressource icon to kinda highlight them, is there anyway to do a search on map to highlight all oilsite for exemple ?

[Lemurian1972]

It almost certainly popped under a tile you've already built on. If you really want to know where, mouse over each likely tile, the tooltip will show you.

[plaguepenguin]

Originally posted by sheap:

Also I usually struggle to locate a new ressource when I gain access to it (Oil, Niter etc...)$
So I usually open the 2d map and hide all yields but I have to turn on/off the ressource icon to kinda highlight them, is there anyway to do a search on map to highlight all oilsite for exemple ?

The game has always had an announcement appear at the beginning of the turn in which you discover the tech that reveals all locations of a new strategic resource anywhere on the map that you have already revealed. The announcements appear in a vertical row along the lower right of the screen. One of the important reasons to prioritize exploration pretty highly, is so that at discovery of strategic resources you will have already revealed more of the map, and therefore have a better idea of where they are.

In GS they added a handy map search function that lets you find anything you can name any time. You access it by pressing the Map Search button, which is in that row of buttons on top of the mini-map. The mini-map is at the bottom left corner of the map.

[sheap]

Thanks a lot to both of you, you were really helpful.

I have located the oil which is under my harbor, but I still don't get it :
You can see on my screenshot it requires plastic to be exploited :
https://i.imgur.com/pO97WlI.jpg

How can i exploit Oil if i don't have the tech to exploit it (neither inland or offshore since i revealed oil without the techtree), does that mean if you build a district or a city upon an oilfield you exploit it as soon as you reveal it even if you revealed it without the techtree ? (I don't remember exactly how I revealed oil, might be a late village discovery)

Also does this mean I can exploit oil without the needed tech if I build a district on it AFTER it has been revealed ?

[BlackSmokeDMax]

You can't build on a strategic after it has been revealed, only before.

[Lemurian1972]

Originally posted by gtomkins1:

that reveals all locations of a new strategic resource anywhere on the map that you have already revealed.

Not correct, the alerts only apply to tiles with the new resource within your borders.

When I get those alerts, I often use them to go from spot to spot and drop a map pin (another built in tool) so I can quickly find them if they're out of the way or I get distracted.

[plaguepenguin]

Originally posted by sheap:

Thanks a lot to both of you, you were really helpful.

I have located the oil which is under my harbor, but I still don't get it :
You can see on my screenshot it requires plastic to be exploited :
https://i.imgur.com/pO97WlI.jpg

How can i exploit Oil if i don't have the tech to exploit it (neither inland or offshore since i revealed oil without the techtree), does that mean if you build a district or a city upon an oilfield you exploit it as soon as you reveal it even if you revealed it without the techtree ? (I don't remember exactly how I revealed oil, might be a late village discovery)

Also does this mean I can exploit oil without the needed tech if I build a district on it AFTER it has been revealed ?

There is a tribal village gift that gives you a supply of a strategic resource.

I am also pretty sure that I have played a game in which either John Rockefeller (a great merchant) or James Young (great scientist) gave me oil before I had the technology you need to extract it. Civilopedia says that Rockefeller gives you 3+ oil, so if it was him that I had acquired, that explains that. Young is just described as revealing oil before you've discovered the tech needed to reveal it.

You can figure out what is behind your oil accumulation by mousing over the oil icon in that row of strategic resource icons at the tip of the screen. It breaks it down to "improvements" vs "city-states" vs "bonus sources". To confirm that it's your city on top of your oil that is the source, vs a tribal village or Rockefeller (I assume the last two would be bonus sources), go to the List of Reports button at the right of that row of buttons top right, and then go to the Resources button under your empire. This brings up a screen that lists all of your resources and what city's territory they come from. Strategic Resources are way at the bottom. See if Ahktahkakoop is yielding any oil, and if so if its yield accounts for all of your civ's yield.

If you are deriving oil from that city, I guess that answers the question of whether you get to do that by plopping a city on top of a strategic resource before you have the tech to exploit it. You can't do this with districts after a resource has been revealed, because the system doesn't let you build a district on top of revealed resources. You have to luck into that by chance before the resource is revealed. You can found cities on top of revealed resources, and that's something I've done, but I don't recall ever doing it after revealing techs but before exploiting techs were discovered, so please let me know what the resource report tells you about Ahktahkakoop producing oil or not.

[Turtle]

There's a search tab in the same lower left area as the lenses and the strategy view toggle. Type the resource you want to find and tab through the results until you find it. Most likely underneath one of your city centers/districs.