List of improvements in Civ7

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The following is a list of tile improvements in Civilization VII and its expansions.

Antiquity Age

Standard improvements

Improvement	Placement
Clay Pit	Wet
Expedition Base	Natural Wonders
Farm	Flat
Woodcutter	Vegetated
Fishing Boat	Coastal and Navigable River Tiles with Dyes, Fish, and Pearls.
Mine	Rough Tiles with Gold, Iron, Salt, and Silver.
Camp	Tiles with Ivory, Camels, and Hides.
Pasture	Tiles with Horses and Wool.
Plantation	Tiles with Cotton, Dates, Incense, Silk, and Wine.
Quarry	Tiles with Gypsum, Jade, Kaolin, and Marble.

Civilization unique improvements

Improvement	Unique to	Unlocked by	Provides	Placement
Baray	Khmer	Mousong	+3 Food. +1 Food on all Floodplains in this Settlement. Improvements, Buildings and Districts in this Settlement do not get pillaged by floods.	Must be built on a Flat tile. One per Settlement.
Great Wall	Han	Zhi	Counts as a Fortification. +2 Culture. +1 Happiness for adjacent Great Wall segments. Increased Combat Strength for any units defending on this tile.	Can only be built in a line.
Hawilt	Aksumite	Periplus of the Erythraean Sea	+2 Gold. +1 Culture for each adjacent Wonder or Hawilt.	Must be built on a Flat tile.
Pairidaeza	Persian	Satrapies	+1 Culture and Gold. +1 Happiness for adjacent Quarters.	Cannot be adjacent to another Pairidaeza.
Potkop	Mississippian	Earthworks	+1 Gold. +1 Food for each adjacent Resource.	Must be built on a Flat tile.

City-state unique improvements

Improvement	City-State Type	Effects	Placement
Emporium	Economic	+2 Gold. +2 Gold in Cities if they have at least one Resource assigned to them.	Cannot be adjacent to another Emporium.
Hillfort	Militaristic	+2 Production. +1 Sight and +5 HP healing per turn to Military Units on this tile. +6 Combat Strength when defending.	Rough terrain.
Megalith	Cultural	+2 Culture. +1 Food for every adjacent Rural tile.	Flat terrain.
Step Pyramid	Scientific	+2 Science. +1 Happiness for every adjacent River tile.	Tiles with a natural Happiness yield.

Exploration Age

Standard improvements

Improvement	Placement
Clay Pit	Wet
Expedition Base	Natural Wonders Mountainous (Inca only)
Farm	Flat
Woodcutter	Vegetated Tiles with Cocoa and Spices.
Fishing Boat	Coastal and Navigable River Tiles with Dyes, Fish, Pearls, and Whales.
Mine	Rough Tiles with Gold, Iron, Silver, and Niter.
Camp	Tiles with Camels, Furs, Ivory, and Truffles.
Pasture	Tiles with Horses.
Plantation	Tiles with Cotton, Dates, Incense, Silk, Sugar, Tea and Wine.
Quarry	Tiles with Gypsum, Jade, Kaolin, and Marble.

Civilization unique improvements

Improvement	Unique to	Unlocked by	Provides	Placement
Caravanserai	Songhai	Ships of the Desert	+5 Gold. +1 Gold when adjacent to Navigable Rivers and Resources.	Must be built on a Desert or Plains tile.
Hidden Fortress	Bulgarian		+4 Production. +3 Combat Strength and Stealth for units on this tile. Counts as Fortification.	Must be built on Rough terrain not adjacent to another Hidden Fortress.
Lo'i Kalo	Hawaiian	Ohana	+3 Food and +2 Production. Adjacent Farms receive +1 Culture.	Must be built on a Grassland or Tropical tile.
Mawaskawe Skote	Shawnee	Wiyehi Simekofi	+4 Food. +1 Gold for each adjacent Resource.	Must be built on a Vegetated tile not adjacent to another Mawaskawe Skote.
Ming Great Wall	Ming	Nine Garrisons	Counts as a Fortification. +5 Culture. +1 Gold for adjacent Fortifications.	Can only be built in a line.
Örtöö	Mongolian	Ulus	+5 Gold. When a military unit moves on to this tile, its Movement is restored.	Cannot be built on Rough, River, or a tile with a Feature.
Terrace Farm	Incan	Mit'a	+4 Food. +1 Gold for each adjacent Building.	Can only be built on a Rough tile without a River or Feature.

City-state unique improvements

Improvement	City-State Type	Effects	Placement
Company Post	Economic	+4 Gold. +1 Food and +1 Production in Distant Lands. +2 Gold if there is at least one Resource assigned to this Settlement.	Cannot be adjacent to another Company Post.
Kasbah	Militaristic	+1 Culture, Gold and Science. +6 Combat Strength when defending.	Desert tiles.
Monastery	Scientific	+4 Science. +3 Happiness if this Settlement follows your Religion.	Cannot be adjacent to a District.
Stone Head	Cultural	+4 Culture. +1 Culture for every adjacent Stone Head.	Tiles with a natural Happiness yield.

Modern Age

Standard improvements

Improvement	Placement
Clay Pit	Wet
Expedition Base	Natural Wonders Mountainous
Farm	Flat
Woodcutter	Vegetated Tiles with Cocoa, Quinine, Rubber, and Spices.
Fishing Boat	Coastal and Navigable River Tiles with Fish, Pearls, and Whales.
Mine	Rough Tiles with Coal, Gold, Iron, Niter, and Silver.
Camp	Tiles with Furs, Ivory and Truffles.
Oil Rig	Tiles with Oil.
Pasture	Tiles with Horses.
Plantation	Tiles with Citrus, Coffee, Cotton, Silk, Sugar, Tea, Tobacco, and Wine.
Quarry	Tiles with Jade, Kaolin, and Marble.

Civilization unique improvements

Improvement	Unique to	Unlocked by	Provides	Placement
Bang	Siamese	Nine Gems	+3 Culture and Happiness.	Must be built on a Navigable River.
Highland Power Station	Nepalese		+3 Production. +3 Culture.	Can only be built on Mountainous terrain by a Sherpa using its Claim Mountain special ability.
Kabaka's Lake	Bugandan	'Nnalubaale	+3 Happiness. Receives Lake (Civ7) yield bonuses, including yields for all Buganda's abilities and the Muzibu Azaala Mpanga Wonder.	Must be built on Flat terrain. One per Settlement.
Obshchina	Russian	Serfdom	+2 Food on all Farms in this Settlement. +2 Culture if built on a Tundra tile. Does not remove Warehouse bonuses on a tile.	Must be built on an existing Tile Improvement not adjacent to another Obshchina.
Staatseisenbahn	Prussian		+2 Gold and Production on Rural tiles with a Staatseisenbahn in your territory.	Automatically built via normal Railroad rules when a Rail Station is constructed in two connected Cities.
Stepwell	Mughal	Zabt	+2 Gold. +2 Food from adjacent Farms.	Must be built on a Flat tile not adjacent to another Stepwell.

City-state unique improvements

Improvement	City-State Type	Effects	Placement
Entrepôt	Economic	+5 Gold. +1 Gold on every Navigable River tile in this Settlement.	Must be built on a Navigable River tile not adjacent to another Entrepôt.
Institute	Scientific	+5 Science. +2 Science on adjacent Wet or Vegetated terrain.	Cannot be adjacent to another Institute.
Open-Air Museum	Cultural	+5 Culture. +2 Science for each adjacent Tropical tile. +2 Culture for each adjacent Tundra tile. +2 Gold for each adjacent Desert tile.	One per Settlement.
Shore Battery	Militaristic	+5 Production. +3 Ranged Strength and +1 Range to ranged and siege units in this tile. +5 HP healing per turn to military units on this tile.	Adjacent to Coast.

See also

• List of improvements in other games

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