Ley Line (Civ6)

Ley Line
Special resource
Introduced in Ethiopia Pack
Game mode	Secret Societies
Resource value	N/A
Frequency	10
Found on
Terrain	Grassland  Grassland (Hills)  Plains  Plains (Hills)  Desert  Desert (Hills)  Tundra  Tundra (Hills)

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A Ley Line is a special resource in Civilization VI, exclusive to the Secret Societies game mode, introduced in the Ethiopia Pack. It appears on any tile except Snow, and only members of the Hermetic Order secret society can see it.

• Yields depend on the types and number of Great People earned:
  • +1 Science for each Great General, Great Admiral, Great Scientist, and Comandante General
  • +1 Culture for each Great Writer, Great Artist, and Great Musician
  • +1 Faith for each Great Prophet
  • +1 Production for each Great Engineer
  • +1 Gold for each Great Merchant
• Major adjacency bonuses to all Districts (except the Seowon)

Strategy

Ley Lines are one of the two major bonuses from the Hermetic Order, the other being the Alchemical Society. When revealed, they grant major adjacency bonuses to all Districts except Korea's Seowon, so plan your Districts around them for maximum benefit. When players reach the Industrial Era, Ley Lines also grant bonus yields, so it will be beneficial to settle cities near them as often as possible. Notably, civilizations like Scotland, Brazil, and Sweden who have unique bonuses towards Great People can use Ley Lines to even greater effect, as Ley Line yields increase whenever one is earned.

Similar to Strategic Resources, where Ley Lines can spawn is decided during game setup, and is revealed to you when you join the Hermetic Order. They are coded to only spawn on any open terrain tiles (except Snow) without any features.

Civilopedia entry

It is a geometrical truth that between two points exist a straight line. This, plus a map of the English countryside, gave rise to the notion of ley lines crisscrossing England in the 19th and early 20th centuries. A British antiquarian, Alfred Watkins, proposed that dead-straight ancient highways linking sacred sites in the British countryside could be found if one looked hard enough. While his theory was dismissed by archaeologists, who noted that true ancient highways were often rambling, it was taken up again by New Age devotees in the 1960s. Instead of ancient highways, these “ley lines” that linked sacred sites were veins in which the Earth’s mystical energies flowed. Where lines crossed would be sites of great spiritual and chthonic power, places that, if harnessed, could unleash the potential in the landscape and in the individual. There was never any evidence for ley lines’ reality, either as an archaeological feature or as a mystical energy source, and the theory slowly died out as new trends in New Age and mystical belief took over.

Gallery

Ley Line in game