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Ice is a terrain feature in Civilization VII and its expansions. It appears as frozen white chunks covering deep ocean tiles and is exclusively found at the northern and southern edges of the map, representing the polar regions.
Mechanics[]
Ice is the only feature that can appear on Open Ocean tiles. It spawns exclusively in the three outermost rows of the map, covering the majority of tiles in these rows. Like regular ocean tiles, ice cannot be improved, built upon, or worked by 
Citizen. However, unlike ocean, ice is completely impassable, serving as a natural boundary for the map.
In some cases, landmasses may border ice, making certain continents impossible to fully circumnavigate with naval units. This can create additional obstacles for exploration and navigation.
Bugs[]
Sometimes, naval units can be pushed onto ice tiles, leaving them permanently stuck since they cannot move in or out of these tiles. This bug occurs under the following conditions:
- You are at war with a civilization.
- You have naval units stationed inside their borders.
- Ice tiles are present adjacent to their borders.
- A peace deal is agreed upon, forcibly displacing your naval units — potentially onto an ice tile, where they become immobile.
Workaround[]
To prevent this bug, manually move your naval units out of enemy borders before accepting a peace agreement. If the bug occurs, simply reload your last autosave and adjust your unit positioning accordingly.
Civilopedia entry[]
As one approaches the extreme polar regions, life becomes more tenuous. With ground that remains frozen year-round, roots cannot dig too deeply, and plants become more and more scarce. Eventually, even the barest grasses cannot find purchase, and the landscape is one of barren rock and glaciers.
Such ice packs may rest on the sea, as in the Arctic, or on land, as in the Antarctic. They grow and shrink with the seasons, and contribute in a meaningful way to the warming and cooling of the earth owing to the albedo effect (the reflection of light back into space). And it is in the sea that life still finds hold in icy biomes – under the ice is a living world of crustaceans, fish, and marine mammals.
At present, the Arctic ice pack is steadily losing more ice than re-freezes in the winter, and scientists estimate the summers may be ice-free somewhere in the middle of this century.
Gallery[]
.png "Ice in-game (Civ7).png (1.26 MB)")
See also[]
- Ice in other games
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