Amenities (Civ6)

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Amenities are a mechanic in Civilization VI that represents the contentment of a city's population, similar to the Happiness mechanic in Civilization V. Amenities are determined on a per-city basis (similar to health in Civilization IV and Local Happiness in Civilization V), rather than globally (an example of which would be Global Happiness in Civilization V, which has no counterpart within the Amenities system in VI).

Amenities Mechanics

Lack of Amenities has spawned hostile units

Each city in your empire enjoys a certain number of Amenities, which affect its Citizens. These can be positive (increasing the population's happiness) or negative (decreasing it); however, the presence of negative Amenities is quite rare, as shown below (a much more common situation is that your cities simply do not have enough Amenities to meet their quota). Regardless, the sum of positive and negative Amenities gives the current Amenities level of each city, which is then compared to the current level needed to keep its citizens happy.

Each individual city requires certain number of Amenities, determined by the city's Population. The first 2 Citizens of any given city do not require any Amenities. The third Citizen will require 1 Amenity, and beyond this point every additional 2 Citizens increase the number of Amenities required for the city to be content by 1. For example, a city with a Population of 5 or 6 will require 2 Amenities to be Content, while a city with a Population of 11 or 12 will require 5. The general formula to be content is $Amenities = \lceil (Population/2 - 1) \rceil$(the end result is rounded up).

In Gathering Storm, cities no longer start with a free Amenity (except the Capital), meaning the first two Citizens still require an Amenity. Therefore, a city with a Population of 5 or 6 will require 3 Amenities to be Content, while a city with a Population of 11 or 12 will require 6. The general formula to be content is $Amenities = \lceil Population/2 \rceil$(the end result is rounded up).

The balance between Amenities required and Amenities available determines the current level of satisfaction for this city, as detailed in the table below.

Satisfaction Levels and Effects by Ruleset

Satisfaction level	Vanilla and Rise and Fall	Gathering Storm
Ecstatic	At least 3 more Amenities than required. All non- Food yields increase by 10%, and Population growth increases by 20%.	At least 5 more Amenities than required. All yields increase by 20%.
Happy	1-2 Amenities more than required. All non- Food yields increase by 5%, and Population growth increases by 10%.	3-4 Amenities more than required. All yields increase by 10%.
Content	Exact number of Amenities required. No bonuses or penalties apply.	0-2 Amenities more than required. No bonuses or penalties apply.
Displeased	1-2 Amenities less than required. All non- Food yields decrease by 5%, and Population growth decreases by 15%.	1-2 Amenities less than required. All non- Food yields decrease by 10%, and Population growth decreases by 15%.
Unhappy	3-4 Amenities less than required. All non- Food yields decrease by 10%, and Population growth decreases by 30%.	3-4 Amenities less than required. All non- Food yields decrease by 20%, and Population growth decreases by 30%.
Unrest	5-6 Amenities less than required. All non- Food yields decrease by 30%, and Rebel units occasionally appear in the city's territory.	5-6 Amenities less than required. All non- Food yields decrease by 30%, and Rebel units occasionally appear in the city's territory.
Revolt	At least 7 fewer Amenities than required. All non- Food yields decrease by 60%, and Rebel units appear in the city's territory more frequently and in greater numbers.	At least 7 fewer Amenities than required. All non- Food yields decrease by 40%, and Rebel units appear in the city's territory more frequently and in greater numbers.

Positive Sources of Amenities

Luxury Resources

As in all Civilization games, Luxury Resources are one of the main sources of contentment for your people. However, the system has been reworked substantially in Civilization VI, and Luxury Resources no longer affect your entire empire. Each unique Luxury Resource now provides +1 Amenity to up to 4 cities (or 6, in some special cases). Multiple copies of any given Luxury Resource do not affect more cities, so feel free to trade away extra Luxuries for other ones your civilization does not have access to. Note that the Suzerain bonus of Buenos Aires allows your Bonus Resources to provide Amenities as if they were Luxury Resources.

Luxury Resource	Amenities	Source
Amber	4	Mine or Fishing Boats
Cinnamon	6	Zanzibar (City-State)
Citrus	4	Plantation
Cloves	6	Zanzibar (City-State)
Cocoa	4	Plantation
Coffee	4	Plantation
Cosmetics	4	Helena Rubinstein (Great Merchant)
Cotton	4	Plantation
Diamonds	4	Mine
Dyes	4	Plantation
Furs	4	Camp
Gypsum	4	Quarry
Honey	4	Camp
Incense	4	Plantation
Ivory	4	Camp
Jade	4	Mine
Jeans	4	Levi Strauss (Great Merchant)
Marble	4	Quarry
Mercury	4	Mine
Olives	4	Plantation
Pearls	4	Fishing Boats
Perfume	6	Estée Lauder (Great Merchant)
Salt	4	Mine
Silk	4	Plantation
Silver	4	Mine
Spices	4	Plantation
Sugar	4	Plantation
Tea	4	Plantation
Tobacco	4	Plantation
Toys	4	John Spilsbury (Great Merchant)
Truffles	4	Camp
Turtles	4	Fishing Boats
Whales	4	Fishing Boats
Wine	4	Plantation

Added in the Rise and Fall expansion pack.

Entertainment

One of the more important sources of Amenities is Entertainment, made possible by the Entertainment Complex (and the Water Park as of Rise and Fall) and its buildings. Note that for basic buildings, the effect is merely local (i.e., will supply Amenities only to its parent city), while the more advanced buildings will spread their effect to all cities whose City Centers are located up to 6 tiles (9 tiles for Water Park buildings) from the district. The mechanics are similar to the regional effects of advanced Industrial Zone buildings, so you can use the same logic here.

The Entertainment Complex and the Water Park provide an initial +1 Amenity each, while their buildings, the Arena, Zoo, and Stadium for the Entertainment Complex, and the Ferris Wheel, Aquarium, and Aquatics Center for the Water Park, provide +2, +1, and +1 Amenities respectively. Brazil's unique Street Carnival and Copacabana both provide +2 Amenities, and Byzantium's unique Hippodrome provides +3 Amenities.

Rise and Fall also introduces the Shopping Mall, which can be built in a Neighborhood and provides +1 Amenity. Note that a Shopping Mall cannot be built in a city that has a Neighborhood with a Food Market, and there is a limit of one Shopping Mall per city (even if it has multiple Neighborhoods).

In Gathering Storm, Dams provide +1 Amenity, Aqueducts provide +1 Amenity if adjacent to a Geothermal Fissure, and Liang's Water Works title causes Canals and Dams in the city in which she is established to provide an additional +1 Amenity.

Building	Unlocked with	Bonuses
Palace	N/A	+1  Amenity +2 Amenities
Arena	Games and Recreation	+2 Amenities
Zoo	Natural History	+1  Amenity to each City Center within 6 tiles
Stadium	Professional Sports	+2  Amenities to each City Center within 6 tiles (boosted by Sports Media Policy Card) +1  Amenity to each City Center within 6 tiles (boosted by Sports Media Policy Card)  +1  Amenity to each City Center within 6 tiles (boosted by Sports Media Policy Card); +2  Amenities additionally when  Powered
Ferris Wheel	Natural History	+2  Amenity
Aquarium	Natural History	+1  Amenity to each City Center within 9 tiles
Aquatics Center	Professional Sports	+2  Amenities to each City Center within 9 tiles  +1  Amenity to each City Center within 9 tiles; +2  Amenities additionally when  Powered
Audience Chamber	Tier 1 Government	+2  Amenities in cities with established Governors.
Shopping Mall	Capitalism	+1  Amenity +1  Amenity; +1  Amenity additionally when  Powered

Wonders

Some wonders also supply Amenities.

Wonder	Unlocked with	Bonuses
Alhambra	Castles	+2 Amenities
Colosseum	Games and Recreation	+3 Amenities to all cities within 6 tiles +2 Amenities to all cities within 6 tiles
Estádio do Maracanã	Professional Sports	+2 Amenities to all cities in your civilization
Golden Gate Bridge	Combustion	+3 Amenities from entertainment
Great Bath	Pottery	+1 Amenity from entertainment
Huey Teocalli	Military Tactics	+1 Amenity for each adjacent Lake tile
Temple of Artemis	Archery	+1 Amenity for each Camp, Pasture, and Plantation within 4 tiles

Added in the Rise and Fall expansion pack.

Added in the Gathering Storm expansion pack.

Civics

Another frequent source of positive Amenities is your government...or more accurately, the policy cards you currently have slotted in it. Most of these apply only to bigger cities — that is, those which have more than a certain number of Districts.

Name of policy	Effect	Notes
Retainers	+1 Amenity in cities with a garrisoned unit.	Obsolete with Mass Media.
Civil Prestige	+1 Amenity and +2 Housing in cities with established Governors with 2+ promotions.
Liberalism	+1 Amenity in cities with 2+ specialty districts.	Obsolete with Suffrage.
New Deal	+2 Amenities, +4 Housing, -8 Gold in all cities with 3+ specialty districts. +2 Amenities and +4 Housing in all cities with 3+ specialty districts.	In Gathering Storm, can only be adopted with Democracy active.
Sports Media	+100% Theater Square adjacency bonuses, and Stadiums generate +1 Amenity.

Great People

Although there isn't a specific type of Great Person dedicated to providing Amenities, some specific Great People can be retired to permanently increase Amenities in a city, while others create unique Luxury Resources instead.

• Jane Drew
• John Roebling
• Joseph Paxton
• Ibn Khaldun
• John Spilsbury
• Helena Rubinstein
• Levi Strauss
• Estée Lauder
• Mimar Sinan (Vanilla only)

Civilization and leader abilities

There are many civilizations and leaders which provide their citizens with additional Amenities:

• Indian cities gain 1 Amenity for each religion with 1 follower in them.
• Indonesian Entertainment Complexes built next to a Coast or Lake tile gain +1 Amenity.
• Khmer Aqueducts provide +1 Amenity.
• Mayan cities gain +1 Amenity for every luxury resource next to the City Center.
• Cities conquered by the Ottomans gain +1 Amenity.
• Alexander's Macedon does not lose Amenities for war weariness.
• Kupe grants the Palace +1 Amenity.
• Luxury resources improved by Montezuma provide Amenities to 2 extra cities.
• Under rulesets that don't use the Loyalty mechanic, Abraham Lincoln receives +2 Amenities in a city with an Industrial Zone.

Religion

There are many Religious Beliefs which provide Amenities to the cities who follow their Religion. Note that they will only act if the city is actually following the Religion at the moment.

National Parks

National Parks are a special type of late-game improvement whose secondary effect increases Amenities. When established by Naturalists, they will provide +2 Amenities to the city whose territory they are in, and +1 Amenity to the four closest cities besides this one.

Improvements

Rise and Fall and Gathering Storm introduce improvements that generate Amenities:

Improvement	Unlocked with	Restrictions	Bonuses
Cahokia Mounds	Suzerain of Cahokia City-State		+1 Amenity from the first Cahokia Mounds in the city. +1  Amenity from the second Cahokia Mounds in the city (with Natural History)
City Park	Liang's Parks and Recreation title.	Cannot be built next to another City Park	+1 Amenity if adjacent to a River, Lake, or Coast
Golf Course	Reformed Church (while playing as Scotland)	One per city, cannot be built on Desert tiles	+1 Amenity ( +2 Amenities)
Ice Hockey Rink	Colonialism (while playing as Canada)	One per city, must be built on Tundra or Snow (or their respective Hills)	+1 Amenity
Ski Resort	Professional Sports	Must be built on Mountains, and cannot be removed. Cannot be built next to another Ski Resort	+1 Amenity

Added in the Rise and Fall expansion pack.

Added in the Gathering Storm expansion pack.

Negative Sources of Amenities

War weariness

Main article: War weariness (Civ6)

When your civilization has been at war for too long, your citizens become tired of your warmongering (just like other civs' leaders). This is manifested as certain amount of negative  Amenities that will affect your cities, preferably cities that are not founded by you and ones that near the battlefront. Alexander's Macedon does not suffer from this, and civilizations fighting the peaceable Gandhi are doubly affected by this.

Bankruptcy

Whenever your treasury reaches 0, and you have a negative Gold flow, your citizens will become discontented. This again manifests as a certain amount of negative Amenities - specifically, 1 per each 10 Gold negative flow you have.

Civics

Name of policy	Effect	Notes
Police State	-2 Spy operation level in your lands. -1 Amenity in all cities.	Removed in Gathering Storm.
Music Censorship	Other civs' Rock Bands cannot enter your territory. -1 Amenity in all cities.	Exclusive to Gathering Storm.
Robber Barons	+50% Gold in cities with a Stock Exchange. +25% Production in cities with a Factory. BUT: -2 Amenities in all cities.	Dark Age exclusive, from the Industrial Era to the Atomic Era.
Automated Workforce	+20% Production towards city projects. BUT: -1 Amenity and -5 Loyalty in all cities.	Dark Age exclusive, from the Information Era to the Future Era.

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