Sid Meier's Civilization VI

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A collection of mods I use to play Civ VI.
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AI Builder Booster
Created by R.E.D
This is for Emperor or higher difficulty. This is not a fix for issue in Corporation and Monopolies pack (AI issue avoiding to develop luxury resource), but it can help with luxury resources before currency and catch up when AI gets (Currency) if you have ...
AI Experience (XP) Booster
Created by R.E.D
As the AI is really bad at keeping its units alive causing the current promotion system to extremely favor the player. This mod aims to counter this by boosting the AI(s) Experience gain in 2 ways, per turn and per battle. Battle Bonus XP. Each Battle allo...
AI Slight Food Boost
Created by R.E.D
This mod adds bonus food to AI based on difficulty Level, +1 per level prince and up. The bonus kicks in when the AI discovers Castle. ...
All Firearm Units are Ranged
Created by Dazz Aephiex
Makes sure that all units that carry guns or mounted with guns, missiles, rockets, or other things that apparently to be ranged weapon to have a ranged attack. Don't worry, their ranged strength are lower than their melee strength and they may still perfor...
Alliances Expanded
Created by JNR
Alliances Expanded bring you four new alliance types and generally overhauled alliance levelling. Invest actively in your alliance progression to become everone's darling and reap great benefits. Diplomacy Compatibility Patch probably needed to avoid issue...
Appeal, Loyalty and Prestige (Diplo VP) Font Icons
Created by Leugi
Adds Font Icons for Appeal and Loyalty. The Loyalty one is based on the Loyalty Icon by Firaxis, while the Appeal icon is made by me. This mod also renames Diplomatic Victory Points to Prestige and gives them their own Font Icon as well. For those that don...
ARS - Improved Promotions v1.4
Created by Arstahd
Reworks and clarifies the unit promotion trees with the goal of making all options useful and effective. In my experience, the vanilla promotion trees were both unbalanced and uninteresting. Some skills were very strong, while others were all but useless. ...
Bear's Governor Overhaul
Created by MarshmallowBear
Hey you! Before you head on! I wanted to announce I now have a KoFi! Not only will it help me focus on making more delicious looking mods, but I hope to use it as a way to fund my upcoming civ-like game! So if you enjoy my mods head over to BearSpace Games...
Bear's Wonders Overhaul
Created by MarshmallowBear
Hey you! Before you head on! I wanted to announce I now have a KoFi! Not only will it help me focus on making more delicious looking mods, but I hope to use it as a way to fund my upcoming civ-like game! So if you enjoy my mods head over to BearSpace Games...
Bonus Resource Improvements
Created by JNR
Bonus Resources live up to their name: This mod adds a unique bonus to every bonus resource which it provides to any city having a tile with it. These bonuses include a total of 5 new improvements as well as major mechanical changes to how you will plan yo...
Boom's City Center+
Created by boom
This mod expands and rebalances the buildings in the City Center, allowing more variety in the very early game as well as opening up choices to certain flatland or coastal spawns. After a lot of testing I can confidently say that my PC does not crash or ex...
Build on Reef - For Coastal Districts and Wonders
Annoyed that an otherwise perfect plan is destroyed just because you cannot build on Reef? Say no more. This mod allows you to build Districts and Wonders on Reefs. They are not removed and still provide adjacency bonuses. Requires Rise & Fall or GS since ...
Builder / Military Engineer Lag Fix
Created by Adriaman
Toggle the lag fix in-game with the default key "J" when a builder or military engineer is selected. The fix is NOT active by default. Compatible with all game versions and does not affect save files. The game checks all requirements of all mods when selec...
Building Expansion (Light Edition)
Created by JNR
This mod makes basic district buildings more interesting by adding a unique twist on how they grant their yield, but without adding new building choices like the "full" District Expansions. Some buildings will give yield based on population, others a perce...
Capture Unique Improvements
Created by Sejick
No Longer Maintained This mod has not been updated since 9/16/2019. It may or may not still function correctly. Anyone who wishes may feel free to create a fork of this mod and modify it however you like. Capture Unique Improvements Unique improvements can...
City Canal Rework
Created by Rdner
Removes the canal graphic in directly coastal cities. Coastal city centers often show a canal graphic where it's sometimes undesirable and out of place. This mod removes the graphic and only shows it when necessary. Occasionally the canal graphic can be a ...
Civilizations Expanded Lite
Created by p0kiehl
Overview Is the original mod Civilizations Expanded too much for you? Now introducing Civilizations Expanded: Lite Version, a much lighter rebalancing mod that preserves the spirit of most of the developers' original design elements, but still introduces b...
CIVITAS City-States Expanded
Created by thecrazyscotsman
City-States Expanded adds 4 new city-state types and over 40 new city-states. Updates and balance changes to existing city-states are also included. Incompatible with Better City-States UI. OVERVIEW New City-State Types: Agricultural, Consular, Entertainme...
CIVITAS Resources
Created by p0kiehl
Adds new resources to the game. Also, this mod will be continually updated with more resources! FULLY COMPATIBLE WITH GATHERING STORM, CORPORATIONS & MONOPOLIES MODE, AND ALL RESOURCE MODS! Camp Penguins (Luxury): +1 Science Mine Opal (Luxury): +3 Gold Pla...
Climate Balance - Complete Pack
Created by JNR
Climate Balance is an overhaul mod which tweaks various aspects of the climate system introduced with the Gathering Storm expansion. Climate change is no longer something that happens quickly and goes by without notable damages. Instead, it will take more ...
Community Patch
Created by JNR
This mod is an attempt to fix bugs overlooked by Firaxis and is occasionally updated to include new fixes and remove those included in official patches. If you know about a bug that you want fixed, mention it in the respective discussion thread below. No g...
Customization VI
Created by Zegangani
Do you also feel that Civilization VI lacks some customization options for Gameplay stuff ? especially when choosing different map Sizes, Game Speed and Number of Players, or if you want to remove certain Things from The Game, like Espionage/Spys or World ...
Detailed Map Tacks
Created by wltk
https://i.imgur.com/arBYwRN.png Introduction Are you tired of calculating adjacency bonuses for your districts? This mod can help you plan the placement of your districts by calculating the potential yields and adjacency bonuses on your behalf. Simply add ...
District Expansion: Aqueduct
Created by JNR
New buildings for the Aqueduct, which is renamed to "Cistern" (The Roman Bath is now named "Aqueduct" instead). Adds a total of 3 new buildings as well as the Sewer, which is reworked, stretching over 2 tiers. The new bonuses provide each city with a multi...
District Expansion: Goverment (Tier 4)
Created by JNR
This mod adds Tier 4 buildings to the Government Plaza. These provide legacy policy cards for the future era governments but also have powerful bonuses on their own. Further bonuses added to the district itself. Alternative download from Civ Fanatics. http...
District Expansion: Suburbs
Created by JNR
New specialist-focused building choices for the Neighborhood. Three slots with two choices each, buildable in any order. Boost all specialists in the city and give bonuses per Neighborhood. Did I say "final district expansion" before? Well, oops. I hope yo...
Endgame Map Replay
Created by Technoluddite
Relive the rise, or maybe the fall, of your civilization and see how the rest of the world evolved over the course of the game. Updated 2021-11-27 New: Bugfixes for Hotseat games End Game Replay A new tab, 'The World', is added to the End Game screen. When...
Enhanced Camera
Created by DahakaMVl
Increases camera zoom ranges and adjust tilt and fog curves. Changes Significantly increases zoom ranges at min and max Adjusts tilt curves to have a more perpendicular camera angle in the middle and flatter at the most zoomed in for screenshots Adjusts fo...
Enlightenment Governments (Project 6T)
Created by JNR
Adds a new set of governments between medieval and modern tiers and makes older governments more viable to keep by changing Wildcard slot progression. While the new governments from JFD's Rule with Faith do the job fine, many people have reported issues si...
Epithet - Dynamic Leader Titles
Created by SeelingCat
Alexander the Great, Ivan the Terrible, Suleiman the Magnificent, Bloody Mary, and Aethelred the Unready: all figures from history whose names are inextricably linked to an Epithet, a word that sums up - at least to some - these leaders' lives and accompli...
EpsTweak for Adaptation
Created by Eps
EpsTweak is a series of small mods that tweak the balance of Civ 6. Rather than put all of them into one hefty package, I've split them into small fragments to allow you to make your own custom rulesets. How many times have you found yourself in this situa...
EpsTweak for Catch-Up
Created by Eps
EpsTweak is a series of small mods that tweak the balance of Civ 6. Rather than put all of them into one hefty package, I've split them into small fragments to allow you to make your own custom rulesets. Civilization games have always had this slight desig...
EpsTweak for Starting Settlers
Created by Eps
EpsTweak is a series of small mods that tweak the balance of Civ 6. Rather than put all of them into one hefty package, I've split them into small fragments to allow you to make your own custom rulesets. How many times have you had starting settle regret?....
EpsTweak for Support Units
Created by Eps
EpsTweak is a series of small mods that tweak the balance of Civ 6. Rather than put all of them into one hefty package, I've split them into small fragments to allow you to make your own custom rulesets. The Support Unit mechanic of the base game feels lac...
EpsTweak for Tall Play
Created by Eps
EpsTweak is a series of small mods that tweak the balance of Civ 6. Rather than put all of them into one hefty package, I've split them into small fragments to allow you to make your own custom rulesets. Out of all mod types, a tall play mod is by far the ...
Floodplains Don't Lower Appeal
Created by Sailor Cat
With the release of Gathering Storm, floodplains have become much more common, which results in less overall appeal and housing. This mod changes the floodplains appeal modifier to 0, where it would otherwise be -1....
Free City States [Revived]
Created by Zegangani
Do you also wonder why Barbarian Clans can turn into City-States (with Barbarian Clans Mode Active) but Free Cities cannot? Well, here is your Answer: With this Mode, Free Cities have a chance to turn into a City-State durring a Game (not tied to Barbrian ...
Fresh Water Infrastructure
Created by JNR
All water works districts (Aqueducts, Dams, Canals) provide fresh water if they are adjacent to the city center and have access to fresh water themselves. Aqueducts provide extra housing based on Appeal (just like Neighborhoods) when you have the Urbanizat...
Grand Eras (Project 6T Core)
Created by JNR
The modding scene for Civ VI is very modular, with many buildings, wonders, units, etc. being released here and there in bits. Now it is time for: The Thing That Ties Them Together! I present: Project 6T - starting with my 60th mod "Grand Eras". This is th...
Greatest Cities
Created by Technoluddite
The World's Greatest Cities now, and at the end of each era Updated 2021-10-02 New: Translations (see all changes) Earlier Civ games had a list of the worlds top cities and world wonders, which added a nice bit of flavour, and an interesting way of seeing ...
Improved Recon Units!
Created by Thyme
Tired of Recon units being mostly useless past the Medieval Era? Do you enjoy fast movement, hit and run tactics, stealth, and other options the Recon Class provides? This mod seeks to balance Recon units, giving them an edge in combat, and also other util...
Key Loyalties
Created by Red Key
This mod has two goals - add more depth to the loyalty system and introduce a wide penalty to Civ6. It does this by making max loyalty dynamic based on number of cities and other factors instead of an always static "100". Recent updates In anticipation of ...
Latin American Resources
Created by Leugi
Adds six new resources representative of Latin America: Potatoes, Capybaras, Coca, Llamas, Quinoa and Yerba Mate. https://i.imgur.com/PUbKg6u.png Farm Potatoes (Bonus): +1 Food Quinoa (Luxury): +1 Culture, +1 Food Camp Capybaras (Luxury): +2 Food Plantatio...
Leugi's Garden District
Created by Leugi
Adds a new district: The Garden an alternative Appeal-based district to the Preserve to Gathering Storm. Recommended to play alongside my Preserve rework. Concept On the Preserve Rework I refocused the Preserve as a hybrid of Faith and Science, with a touc...
Leugi's Preserve Rework
Created by Leugi
Reworks the Preserve District to focus it as a hybrid between Science and Faith unlocked at the Civics tree. Requires the "Kublai Khan & Vietnam" New Frontier Pass. Concept The Preserve is an interesting district in terms of the idea of focusing a district...
Loyal Capitals
Created by totalslacker
Loyalty in the capital never changes. Affects all players. Activate in a new game with the advanced setup menu option (Disabled by default) Requires Rise and Fall or Gathering Storm...
Luxury Resource Variety
Created by p0kiehl
THIS MOD REQUIRES YOU TO HAVE EITHER: RESOURCEFUL 2 OR BOTH SUKRITACT'S RESOURCES AND CIVITAS RESOURCES Bored of only seeing a few different luxury resources on each map? Want more luxury variety on land and in the water? Luxury Resource Variety increases ...
Magnum Opus - Great Person Adjustments
Created by SeelingCat
Magnum Opus reorganizes the Great People in the game to be more correct in their particular eras. For example, Van Gogh is no longer an Atomic Era Great Artist, but an Industrial Era one. Magnum Opus also adds over 50 new Great People to help fill in the b...
Make Them Count
Created by vonMort
Why? Because I haven't found a currently working experience modification for barbarians you can find my own here. What? Are you also annoyed by barbarians who ravage your lands but just don't give a proper reward when you win a battle? Would you like to fi...
Monochrome Era Background Art (Project 6T)
Created by JNR
Adds a unique background image to every era in the tech and civics tree, giving them more flavor than the minimalist and rather lifeless line drawings of city centers. Additionally, each era now has different images in the tech and civics tree, respectivel...
Monopoly++: Celebrities
Created by Leugi
Part of the Monopoly++ Collection. Changes Rock Bands into Celebrities for additional flavour, as well as all texts that referenced Rock Bands. Makes some adjustments to how Celebrities are unlocked and adds some effects to Wonders that apply to Celebritie...
Monopoly++: Product and Corporation Adjustments
Created by Leugi
Part of the Monopoly++ Collection. Includes several adjustments to enhance the experience of playing with Monopoly mode, particularly to Products and Corporations. https://i.imgur.com/zpYS77L.png https://i.imgur.com/yqiqL0K.png Product & Corporation adjust...
Monopoly++: Resource Requirement Setup
Created by Leugi
Part of the Monopoly++ Collection. Adds a setup option to adjust the required percentage of a given resource to start a Monopoly with the Alternate Economy Mode. https://i.imgur.com/zpYS77L.png This mod adds a simple option to change the percentage of reso...
Monopoly++: Tycoons and Investors
Created by Leugi
Part of the Monopoly++ Collection. Adds two new units, Tycoons and Investors, as the units that create Industries and Corporations instead of Builders and Great Merchants. Also provides them with some additional improvements to enhance Trade Routes and Cor...
More Maritime: Seaside Sectors
Created by Albro
More Maritime: Seaside Sectors This mod aims to expand the infrastructure available for your coastal cities by introducing 2 new Districts and 5 new Buildings! https://i.imgur.com/T4aRB2c.png For a full design breakdown of the effects in this mod, see the ...
Movable Districts
Created by wltk
https://i.imgur.com/arBYwRN.png Allow spending gold to move district with all its buildings. Gold required to move is 2 times the original production cost. For example, if the district costed 50 production, the gold required to move it will be 100. Open a ...
National Projects: Satellites
Created by JNR
Your civilization can into space but there's nothing interesting? Launch satellites that do more than just advance the science victory! This mod adds eight new projects in the Spaceport which offer a broad variety of empire-wide bonuses. Spy on your enemie...
Nomina - Dynamic Civ and Leader Names
Created by SeelingCat
Feel like all the governments in the game feel the same? Well, here's a bit of an immersion boost for you: Introducing Nomina, adding over 80 different Civilization and Leader titles based on your government, size, policies, dominant religion, and other fa...
Nyguita's More Great People
Created by Nyguita
Adds 88 more great people to the game (11 of each except Great Prophet) from all eras. Added GPs include Hippocrates, Auguste Piccard, Michiel de Ruyter and Ulvi Cemal Erkin for example. Character models and Great Works of Art are finally here ! Still didn...
p0kiehl's Better Pantheons
Created by p0kiehl
This mod buffs all of the pantheons in the game (except Earth Goddess) to make for more exciting game play choices. These buffs have been designed with the goal of having the AI make better pantheon choices, as described by Infixo in the Real Balanced Pant...
Passable Ice
Created by Sailor Cat
Units at sea can now navigate ice. Each ice tile costs an extra 3 movement to pass. Submarines ignore this cost. ...
Persuade Defectors Project
Created by Sailor Cat
https://i.imgur.com/aZsG4kd.png Persuade Defectors Project Enables the Persuade Defectors project for the Diplomatic Quarter, which spawns 1–3 random unique units from civilizations you've met. Will spawn units for which either you or the civilization have...
Phantagonist's District Reconstruction
Created by Phantagonist
This mod adds a project to reconstruct districts in cities. District Reconstruction After researching the Civil Engineering civic, all cities gain access to the District Reconstruction project. When completed, all districts in the city are removed, except ...
Policy Pack: Corporations
Created by JNR
Adds 7 new policies for the Monopolies game mode, including one Military, one Economic, one Diplomatic, and one Wildcard policy in general and one additional Economic policy for each of the tier 3 governments. These policies are meant to provide some more ...
Policy Pack: Environment
Created by JNR
Adds 11 new environmentalism-themed policies, including one Military, seven Economic, and three Diplomatic policies. These policies are meant to provide some more late-game political tools to combat climate change, preserve your environment, and shift away...
Policy Pack: Future Governments
Created by JNR
Grants the final tier of governments (information/future era) added by Gathering Storm the unique policies which were previously only available in certain tier 3 governments. Losing access to these policies discouraged upgrading to the final level of gover...
Progressive Power Consumption
Created by JNR
Power Up! - Progressive Power Consumption overhauls everything around Power. Providing electricity to your cities will be a lot more important, but the rewards will be bigger as well. Power requirements start slightly lower than usual but increase as you p...
Random Meteor Bonuses
Created by p0kiehl
Overview Random Meteor Bonuses makes the Meteor Shower disaster more exciting! Originally, moving a unit over a meteor only granted a heavy cavalry unit. This mod makes Meteors give random bonuses, kind of like Goody Huts! Bonuses The potential bonuses are...
Real Fixes
Created by infixo
New version 230503 - few new fixes. Several fixes for various bugs and glitches I've gathered for the last 5 years. Mostly technical. Some of them are minor, some are not :) Look into the sql files for details, there is really a lot of things. This mod doe...
Reduced Mountain Clumping
Created by p0kiehl
REDUCED MOUNTAIN CLUMPING Reduces the excessive mountain clumping introduced in Gathering Storm. Mountains will generate at their pre-GS levels. Volcanoes are unaffected. Details Maps in Gathering Storm have many more mountains than in the base game or Ris...
Religion Expanded
Created by p0kiehl
Summary Religion Expanded raises the founded-religions-per-game cap to a maximum of 16, introduces more than 40 new beliefs, and adds new, fully-customized religious buildings. In short, religion becomes more dynamic and personalized. Additionally, the tex...
Rihla - Global Rankings
Created by SeelingCat
Provides updates on your relative standing among the Civilizations and Cities of the world! Inspired by the feature from Civilization 5, Rihla adds over 40 ranking types, letting you see who's leading in categories from Gold Production to Great People Recr...
Sailor Cat's Earlier Spies
Created by Sailor Cat
Spies first unlock upon constructing a Diplomatic Quarter. Adds the Extended Network policy card upon unlocking the Diplomatic Quarter (default Mathematics). Diplomatic slot card with the following benefit: +3 sight range for Spies, and Spies can see throu...
Sailor Cat's Relics Plus
Created by Sailor Cat
Get your relics yesterday! Keeps relics rare while adding more reliability to their acquisition. Unexplored Ruins Like goody huts but much harder to come by. Delve into the depths of these ruins to discover a free relic, or a large sum of gold if you have ...
Sailor Cat's Watchtower Improvement
Created by Sailor Cat
Introducing the watchtower improvement, which can be built by recon units, such as the scout, to help your civilization better explore and monitor. Occupying units have +2 Sight and can see through woods and jungles. +1 Sight for units occupying adjacent E...
Sappers (Project 6T)
Created by JNR
Military Engineers provide the bonuses of Battering Rams and Siege Towers once Siege Tactics are researched. Siege Towers now upgrade to Military Engineers but only after Siege Tactics is unlocked. Ever since Battering Rams upgrade to Siege Towers and Sieg...
Specialist Progression
Created by JNR
All district buildings now upgrade Specialist yields, making their value progress more smoothly throughout the game. Specialist slots and yields are also added to specialty districts which did not have any before. Specialists also consume only half the Foo...
Sukritact's Oceans
Created by sukritact
https://i.imgur.com/1UAbU2D.png May not be compatible with Yet Not Another Map Pack. Your mileage will vary. https://i.imgur.com/Nlx9yDp.png Oceans is a brand new Game Mode that will breathe new life into the world's coasts, with new resources, new feature...
Sukritact's Resources
Created by sukritact
https://i.imgur.com/1UAbU2D.png Adds a number of extra resources to the game. This mod currently adds: Pasture: Cheese (Luxury), +1 Food, +1 Culture. Camels (Bonus), +1 Gold, +1 Production Quarry: Obsidian (Luxury), +1 Science. Mine: Gold (Luxury), +2 Gold...
Sukritact's Simple UI Adjustments
Created by sukritact
https://i.imgur.com/1UAbU2D.png Please do not integrate/borrow the UI and code from this mod without prior permission. This mod makes simple QoL changes to the UI. It does not aim to be a complete UI overhaul a la CQUI, but rather to make basic adjustments...
Sukritact's Tourism Overview Screen
Created by sukritact
https://i.imgur.com/1UAbU2D.png Does anyone understand how Tourism works? I certainly didn't. This aims to fix that. The Tourism Overview screen allows you to better understand and keep track of your progress (and only YOUR progress, at least for now), tow...
Truly Abundant Resources
Created by p0kiehl
UPDATED FOR NEW FRONTIER PASS This mod creates two new resource settings in map options called "Plentiful" and "Truly Abundant." It also adds optimizations to the game's resource placement that apply to all Resource options, not just Plentiful and Truly Ab...
Unit Expansion: Aircraft (Project 6T)
Created by JNR
Adds 2 new air units to the Fighter and Bomber promotion classes, giving each class an additional stealth aircraft upgrade close to the Future era. The main purpose of the Unit Expansion series is to act as sort of a light version of Warfare Expanded for P...
Unit Expansion: Artillery (Project 6T)
Created by JNR
Adds 2 new artillery units to the Siege promotion class, giving it almost the same density of units as the Melee class. The main purpose of the Unit Expansion series is to act as sort of a light version of Warfare Expanded for Project 6T, with a much lower...
Unit Expansion: Cavalry (Project 6T)
Created by JNR
Adds 6 new cavalry units to the Light Cavalry and Heavy Cavalry promotion classes, giving each class the same density of units as the Melee class. The main purpose of the Unit Expansion series is to act as sort of a light version of Warfare Expanded for Pr...
Unit Expansion: Infantry (Project 6T)
Created by JNR
Adds 7 new infantry units to the Melee, Anti-Cavalry, and Ranged promotion classes, giving each class the same density of units as the Melee class. The main purpose of the Unit Expansion series is to act as sort of a light version of Warfare Expanded for P...
Unit Expansion: Naval (Project 6T)
Created by JNR
Adds 6 new naval units to the Naval Melee, Ranged, and Raider promotion classes, giving each class almost the same density of units as the land Melee class. The main purpose of the Unit Expansion series is to act as sort of a light version of Warfare Expan...
Upgradable Barbarian Horsemen
Created by brendinos
Annoyingly barbarian horsemen and barbarian horse archers have no upgrade path, meaning if you happen to acquire one through converting barbarians, or by purchasing one from a camp in barbarian clans mode, you'll be soon left with an outdated unit that can...
Wetlands
Created by JNR
Wetlands are among the world's most productive ecosystems. Throughout history, many people have relied on them to provide for their needs - food, construction material, and fuel. In Civilization VI, however, they are barely represented, and only with very ...
YD's Better Starting Units
Created by Yand_Durinul
YD Starting Units BE ADVISED I have uploaded a finished version that can be added mid game, hopefully this will work for you guys, if not, I'm sorry that your game has been F***ed. I won't be changing this in any major way from now on and have condensed it...
Zegangani's: Real Allies
Created by Zegangani
Have you had enough of your Allied Players constantly attacking your suzerained City-States? Yeah, me too! We've waited too long to get a Fix for this Annoyance, but worry no more, because (Finally!) I have the Solution for you! Support: Buy me a Coffee if...
[GS] A Mountain Is Fine Too
Created by Zur13
Mountain overhaul mod. You'll love the new mountain tiles! Allows to work and build improvements on mountain tiles. Adds new mountain features and allows resources to spawn on mountain tiles. Mountain tiles remain impassable but city pops can work on them....