Lumberjack Hut Layout & Optimal Production Chains - Enjoy!

[Whims]

Hey everyone, I just wanted to share a quick Lumberjack Hut layout I worked on that can be found by clicking here[imgur.com] (imgur link) --> It provides 100% lumberjack production plus 2 sawmills and a warehouse. The size on Standard game mode is $90 (dirt road cost) each direction.

The reason there are 4 Lumberjack Huts and only 2 Sawmills is because I found 2 Sawmills to be more than enough Lumber production for myself and the additional logs get used up in later production chains. On a fresh game I'd start with 2 Lumberjack Huts & 2 Sawmills and the 1 warehouse and expand from there. By the time you reach end-game I predict needing probably 5-6 or maybe even as high as 8 Lumberjack Huts.

I do plan on creating a wide variety of layouts for the game, as are most people but I've also taken a bit of time to hash out the ratios of buildings which can be found here on pastebin[pastebin.com]

Example:

Potato Farm - Size: 23 x 23 - Output: 4
Schnapps Distillery - Input: 6 - Output: 4
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Potato Farm --> Schnapps Distillery = 3:2 Ratio

I've found that for optimal production (Standard Difficulty) you need 3 Potato Farms for every 2 Schnapps Distilleries.

Again keep in mind these ratios are all on Standard Difficulty and not sure if they'll change yet in live or on the hardest difficulty levels but I'll try to keep the pastebin up to date.

All this is still very much a work in progress though and is just a fun over-view for the time being.

[dimi]

I haven't been a hardcore anno player, but I think those rations are incorrect. I'm just going off the displayed production time of the buildings tho. For example I think all the tier 1 production lines have a 1:1 ratio, shnapps production included. But if there is a hidden variable, then nevermind.

[Whims]

Originally posted by dimi:

I haven't been a hardcore anno player, but I think those rations are incorrect. I'm just going off the displayed production time of the buildings tho. For example I think all the tier 1 production lines have a 1:1 ratio, shnapps production included. But if there is a hidden variable, then nevermind.

I didn't take into account production times, like I said this was just for fun for now, right now I just looked at input/output ratios which have served me very well doing so in previous anno games.