Culture Bomb (Civ6)

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Poland can trigger a Culture Bomb by building a Fort here, allowing them to steal two tiles from Greece.

Culture Bomb is a special effect in Civilization VI which instantly expands a civilization's territory into nearby neutral, or even foreign-owned territory. Culture bombing is the only way of taking non-neutral territory in the game, barring military conquest or diplomatic negotiations involving switching cities.

Mechanics

The Culture Bomb is triggered on a specific tile (usually by building a tile improvement or district). The result is the immediate annexation of the six tiles surrounding the trigger tile, without districts or wonders and falling within 3 hexes of one of the owner's City Centers. Tiles in which wonders or districts are being constructed are still flipped under the effect of a Culture Bomb, wiping out any unfinished construction in the process.

A Culture Bomb may be triggered by a number of special sources within the game. Typically, it is the case of civilization-specific abilities, such as:

• Poland's ability Golden Liberty (by building Encampments or Forts),
• Australia's ability Land Down Under (by building Pastures),
• the Dutch ability Grote Rivieren (by building Harbors),
• the Māori ability Mana (by building Fishing Boats),
• the Gallic ability Hallstatt Culture (by building Mines, although they only claim unowned tiles), and
• Jayavarman VII's leader ability Monasteries of the King (by building Holy Sites).

Non-civilization-specific Culture Bombs can be unlocked via other means. Notably:

• the Preserve district (in the Vietnam & Kublai Khan Pack) initiates a Culture Bomb upon completion (but only claims adjacent unowned tiles),
• the Enhancer Belief Burial Grounds (vanilla and Rise and Fall only) lets any civilization Culture Bomb by building a Holy Site,
• the Follower Belief Warrior Monks (Gathering Storm only) lets any civilization Culture Bomb by building a Holy Site,
• the Great Engineer Mimar Sinan grants it (with Rise and Fall) when building an Industrial Zone, and
• the World Congress resolution Border Control Treaty will trigger a Culture Bomb upon the completion of any district for whoever wins it.

Related achievements

You Are A Terrible Person Playing as Poland, destroy another civilization’s incomplete wonder by initiating a Culture Bomb. The player has wasted the other civilization's resources by destroying their wonder.

Wood for Sheep Playing as Australia, build a Pasture over Sheep and steal an adjacent player's Lumbermill Refers to common actions in Settlers of Catan.