how to tell raw material output?

[dresoccer4]

How can you know in-game how many factories a single raw material building can support?

For example 1 clay pit can support 2 brick factories. How do you know this? Is there a number shown in-game that tells you this?

[Tankfriend]

Just look at the tooltips in the build menu. They tell you how long a building needs to finish a production cycle. From there, it's just a matter of comparing the timings and doing some simple maths.

[Hundinger]

In your example: clay pits take 30 seconds, brick factories one minute for 1t of output. That's how you calculate how many of each you need. Later in game, when items boost industries it's often not that easy to calculate, but that's where the production screen of the statistics menu comes into play. Ctrl Q is your best friend in this game.

[dresoccer4]

Originally posted by Hundinger:

In your example: clay pits take 30 seconds, brick factories one minute for 1t of output. That's how you calculate how many of each you need. Later in game, when items boost industries it's often not that easy to calculate, but that's where the production screen of the statistics menu comes into play. Ctrl Q is your best friend in this game.

thanks, that makes more sense now.

question: so for grain field it's 1 min. but flour mill is 30 seconds. so does that mean it takes 2 grain fields for 1 flower mill? (basically the opposite of the clay pit?)

[1Erik1]

Originally posted by dresoccer4:

Originally posted by Hundinger:

In your example: clay pits take 30 seconds, brick factories one minute for 1t of output. That's how you calculate how many of each you need. Later in game, when items boost industries it's often not that easy to calculate, but that's where the production screen of the statistics menu comes into play. Ctrl Q is your best friend in this game.

thanks, that makes more sense now.

question: so for grain field it's 1 min. but flour mill is 30 seconds. so does that mean it takes 2 grain fields for 1 flower mill? (basically the opposite of the clay pit?)

Yes

[dresoccer4]

Originally posted by 1Erik1:

Originally posted by dresoccer4:

thanks, that makes more sense now.

question: so for grain field it's 1 min. but flour mill is 30 seconds. so does that mean it takes 2 grain fields for 1 flower mill? (basically the opposite of the clay pit?)

Yes

great thanks i understand it now

[Hundinger]

Originally posted by Very Bad:

Here are all possible production chains https://anno1800.fandom.com/wiki/Production_chains
Here is calculator how many buildings you need depending on population https://nihoel.github.io/Anno1800Calculator/

Not really needed anymore thanks to the statistics screen.