Does settling on a bonus resource/luxury resource eliminate the resource?

[Richard I]

I looked it up online and the answer said no, it keeps the resource. But to specimens I settled on a luxury resource, a bonus resource, and a strategic resource. The resource icon disappeared and my yield stayed the same. Does it really stay and it just doesn’t show?

[Oaks]

You need one instance of a luxury resource for yourself, the rest you can sell.
If you have just one instance of a luxury and you sell it, you won't gain its benefits as long as you are selling it.

[Evrach]

Originally posted by Farmer Ted's:

I looked it up online and the answer said no, it keeps the resource. But to specimens I settled on a luxury resource, a bonus resource, and a strategic resource. The resource icon disappeared and my yield stayed the same. Does it really stay and it just doesn’t show?

Yes it stays, but the yield bonus is not always useful because settling set your city center at a minimum of 2/1.

[Ghiron]

Resources stay, but features like woods, marsh, rainforest are removed.

The best example to test for yourself is to look at a grassland hills with stone on it. Grassland hills produces 2 food 1 production. Stone adds +1 production for a total of 2 food, 2 production. If you settle on this tile you will still have 2 food, 2 production in that city center. A city center's base yield is 2 food, 1 production, so you can see the bonus resource is kept.

Other examples like settling on deer won't work out as well, because while the deer resource is kept, the woods are cleared (losing 1 production from the tile).

[Shiva]

When you settle on a luxury or strategics you'll retain the resource. For example you settle on a tile that has iron on it without having iron revealed as soon as you discover iron technology you'll earn 2 iron per round same as if you'd put a mine on it. Same for horses, oil etc.

When settling on a luxury you will have this luxury so it counts towards your amenities and you can sell it if you want.

A bonus ressource is different. They are only bonuses after all. Some bonus ressources are not worth settling as has been explained by others above. Some are well worth settling in some circumstances, such as rice, bananas and copper. For rice and bananas for example you'll get +1 food, for copper +1 gold.

[Richard I]

Originally posted by Oaks:

You need one instance of a luxury resource for yourself, the rest you can sell.
If you have just one instance of a luxury and you sell it, you won't gain its benefits as long as you are selling it.

From my understanding, each luxury resource improved amenities.

Do duplicate resources not stack in amenities? There’s no reason to hold on to 2 marble, because the 2nd doesn’t benefit you?

[Evrach]

Exactly, there's no reason to hold twice the same luxury. You can trade the 2nd one.

[grognardgary]

Originally posted by Farmer Ted's:

Originally posted by Oaks:

You need one instance of a luxury resource for yourself, the rest you can sell.
If you have just one instance of a luxury and you sell it, you won't gain its benefits as long as you are selling it.

From my understanding, each luxury resource improved amenities.

Do duplicate resources not stack in amenities? There’s no reason to hold on to 2 marble, because the 2nd doesn’t benefit you?

You can always trade extra amenities of one sort for another that you don't have.

[Ghiron]

Originally posted by grognardgary:

Originally posted by Farmer Ted's:

From my understanding, each luxury resource improved amenities.

Do duplicate resources not stack in amenities? There’s no reason to hold on to 2 marble, because the 2nd doesn’t benefit you?

You can always trade extra amenities of one sort for another that you don't have.

To add to this. Each continent will have only 4 different types of luxuries on it. To get others you need to explore other continents. This is where trading will usually come into play. Unless you are lucky enough to settle on the boundary between two continents, then you will have access to much more variety.

[Richard I]

That helps a lot guys, for both questions. So you can settle on a bonus resource and it stays, and I was wondering why my amenities suffer every game. I have plenty of luxury resources, it's just that I have duplicates.