Gold (Civ5)

Gold
Luxury resource
Introduced in Civilization V
Found on:
Desert
Desert
Plains
Plains
Tundra
Tundra
Hills
Hills
Resource value
2
2
Improvements
Mine available with  Mining +1
Required for
Mint
Mint

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For the currency, see Gold (currency) (Civ5).

Game Info

Luxury resource.

• Base yield:
  • 2 Gold
• Modifiers:
  • +1 Production from Mine improvement
  • +2 Gold from Mint
  • +1 Culture and +1 Faith with Religious Idols Pantheon

Strategy

Gold is a "classical" luxury resource, a bit more common than Silver and found again mainly on hills. Accessed with a Mine, Gold boosts Production as well as Gold. But its main benefit lies in that it is one of the two resources, along with Silver, to allow building of the Mint bonus building, which grants an additional +2 Gold on the tile! This benefit is awesome when there's more than one source within reach of the city - in this case a single building boosts Gold production greatly.

Along with Silver, Gold also benefits from the Religious Idols belief, which grants additional Culture and Faith on the tile.

Civilopedia entry

Gold is a soft, shiny and malleable metal, and it has been prized by men and women throughout history. It is a rare metal, and its rarity greatly adds to its value. Although it has some industrial and medicinal purposes, gold is used primarily as coinage or for decorative purposes, adorning jewelry, cups, utensils and the commodes of the super-rich and powerful.