Can't get builder to do anyting

[DCfangurl]

So the builder all he does is just be there doesn't give the option to build or to take the resources there is just no options to do it I'm so frustrated. So to set up the oracle district I just put it there ruining the resources there cuz the builder won't take anything how the heck do I utilize everything when half of the stuff don't even work??!!

[Exemplar]

Don't know. Not enough information. What is it you're trying to do, exactly, what manner of tile and what manner of resource?

[DCfangurl]

just any resource all the options are greyed out ive learned irrigation and mining and animal husbandry so that i can create camps but it is still greyed out

[DCfangurl]

and i can't seem to harvest coffee either i just don't understand how im supposed to take advantage of the abundance in resources if the game doesn't allow you to do it

[Exemplar]

ok. Is the tile inside your cultural border? Is there currently a climate effect going on as drought? Is there already an improvement which has been pillaged, necessitating using the wrench icon directly above the builder placard?

You can't harvest luxuries, only put appropriate tile improvements on them.

[DCfangurl]

so how do you get the luxuries then? im new to this game so wht does that mean cultural border? ig i should play the tutorial in order to better understand it.

[Prometheus]

Something is odd here. Could you post a screenshot, with the builder selected and the tiles you'd like to improve in center view?

[Exemplar]

Around your city is a colored line. For most leaders this is immediately around the tiles adjacent to the city center to form a 7 tile "circle". Over time, with culture income or other bonuses, that will expand by a tile, or you can buy tiles to add to your city. In your city screen you will see that a number of tiles can be appropriated according to your city population. If the city is size "3", you can "work" 3 tiles, and that is your city income. You can click these around as you see fit, possibly assigning to tiles with more food (green) for faster growth or more hammers (orange) for faster production.

So as your city grows, as you add more tiles into your realm, you can improve these tiles with improvements, which will add an according amount of food, production, gold, etc. To improve a tile (as you said have the appropriate technology) move your builder to the tile and click the option you'd like to use to improve that tile. The given options will be in a box to the left of the builder placard (the builder's placard is in the lower right of the screen, as any unit you select). The tile must be inside either your cultural border or inside the cultural border of a city state of which you are suzerain. Performing the action will use one builder charge, unless it is a repair which uses no builder charge.

[DCfangurl]

Ok now that makes more sense. I thought that once your builder was at that tile with the resources on it that he could just harvest it once you had researched it like irrigation mining etc.

[Exemplar]

ok, so you, maybe, bought the tile to be able to improve it? perhaps then, enter your city screen and shift your "worked" tiles around to gain the benefit of your newly improved tile.

Improved luxuries (the first of which, duplicates do not) add amenities (happiness) for your people. You do not need to "work" a tile to gain the amenity benefit of an improved luxury. If you have duplicates (2 improved coffee tiles) you can bargain with opponents to sell them for gold per turn, or other stuff, perhaps a luxury you don't have. Don't sell the last one of a given luxury, though, unless you're sure you can go without that amenity (and it's fine if you can, so you do, just keep it in mind)

[Exemplar]

Another thing to add, there is game vernacular difference between "improvement" and "harvest". You "improve" tiles with mines, farms, plantations, camps, etc. Tiles such as woods, jungle, marsh, and bonus resources (different from luxury or strategic resources) as copper, stone, rice, can be "harvested" but if you do so that tile feature disappears for a 1-time amount of income. So maybe be conscious you don't "harvest" unless you're positive you don't want to improve the tile. Often, people harvest to gain the quick income in the event they'd like to put a district in the tile.

[DCfangurl]

i tried that it won't let me post a screenshot for some odd reason.

[DCfangurl]

thank you exemplar that helps alot.

[Prometheus]

I think it is F12 with the Steam overlay, and it asks you to upload when you exit the game. Then in Steam, you click your own name, besides "community" and select activity. In the panel to the right, you have screenshots. Pick the one you want by clicking on it. On the top, you can see the link to the shot. Highlight that with the mouse, right-click, copy and then paste into whatever post you need it in. Steam automatically shows it in the thread.

[gimmethegepgun]

Also, as for Coffee, it's improved with a Plantation, which requires Irrigation.

[󰀈 McSpicy 󰀈]

Originally posted by DCfangurl:

and i can't seem to harvest coffee either i just don't understand how im supposed to take advantage of the abundance in resources if the game doesn't allow you to do it

There are 3 types of resources, namely Bonus, Strategic and Luxury resource. Coffee is a luxury resource. You can't "harvest" a luxury resource. It's there from the start, it will be there until the game ends. Take that into account when placing your districts and wonders because some wonders require specific conditions in order to be built. You can, however, place wonders or districts on top of strategic resources (I think). The only resource you can harvest are the bonus resources.