Amber (Civ6)

Amber
Luxury resource
Introduced in Rise and Fall
Resource value	+1
Primary Improvement
Improvement	Mine
Available with	Mining
Mine value	+1 Production +1 Production (Req. Apprenticeship) +1 Production (Req. Industrialization)
Secondary Improvement
Improvement	Fishing Boats
Available with	Sailing
Fishing Boats yields	+1 Food +0.5 Housing +1 Gold (Req. Cartography) +1 Food (Req. Plastics)
Found on
Terrain	Woods  Rainforest  Coast  Lake

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Amber is a luxury resource in Civilization VI: Rise and Fall. It is found on Woods, Rainforest, Coast, and Lake tiles.

• +1 Culture
• +1 Science if found in a water tile with an Aquarium
• +1 Production if found in a water tile with a Stave Church
• +4 Amenities (+1 Amenity to up to 4 cities)

Strategy

Amber is a unique luxury resource, appearing on both forested land (where it is improved with a Mine) and in the water (where it is improved with Fishing Boats). Either way, it provides Culture and the standard Amenities bonus of luxury resources, as well as the Mine's bonuses to Production or the Fishing Boats' bonuses to Food and Gold.

Notably, water-based sources of Amber may appear on any Coast or Lake tile on the map, whereas land-based sources will appear only on a single continent (as one of that continent's four unique luxury resources).

Civilopedia entry

Amber has been prized for its decorative value since the Neolithic era, and also figured prominently in religious practices. Not just shiny stones, the scent of amber made it imminently tradable by European Catholics during the Reformation period, who considered it a blessing from God.

Related achievements

What Could Possibly Go Wrong? Have an improved Amber resource in a city with a Zoo and an Archaeological Museum at the start of the turn. A reference to the Jurassic Park franchise, where dinosaurs are brought back from the dead through the extraction of dinosaur DNA from fossilized mosquitos in amber and put in a 'zoo' of sorts.