Matterhorn (Civ6)

Matterhorn
Introduced in Rise and Fall
Size	1 tile
Tile type	Mountain
Stats
Movement cost	Impassable
Movement cost	Impassable
Appeal	+2
Appeal	+2
Yields
Adjacent tile bonus	+1 Culture
Adjacent tile bonus	+1 Culture
Found on
Terrain	Grassland  Plains
Notes
Land combat units who move next to the Matterhorn ignore Hills for the rest of the game and gain +3 ​​ Combat Strength when fighting in hills

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 "Let me ask leave, then, to pay a tribute of respect and admiration to the once desired Matterhorn, before his head has lost the last rays of a sun departing to gild loftier and more distant ranges."
– F. Crauford Grove

The Matterhorn is a single-tile impassable natural wonder in Civilization VI: Rise and Fall. The Matterhorn occupies a Grassland or Plains tile, and provides +1 Culture and +2 Appeal to each adjacent tile. Although it is considered a Mountain in-game, it does not provide an adjacency bonus to Districts.

A land combat unit (except a Warrior Monk) that moves adjacent to the Matterhorn receives the Alpine Training ability, which grants it a permanent, one-time bonus of +3 Combat Strength when fighting on Hills tiles and allows it to traverse Hills without Movement penalties.

Discovering the Matterhorn grants +1 Era Score, or +3 Score if the player is the first to do so.

Strategy

Like other impassable wonders, the Matterhorn's tile offers no benefits, and cannot be developed or improved. However, the Matterhorn provides +1 Culture to up to six adjacent tiles; these yields are cumulatively worth more than the dead tile early in the game. It is typically worth incorporating single-tile natural wonders within city borders to maximize their yields.

The Appeal bonus of the Matterhorn is also ideal for building Neighborhoods, and is useful when founding National Parks.

Civilopedia entry

The jagged precipice of the Matterhorn stands alone amongst the Alps. Its giant spire reaches nearly 15,000 feet, dominating the landscape of valleys surrounding it. As with most tall mountains, people saw the Matterhorn and decided to climb it.

Mountaineers long considered the Matterhorn a worthy opponent. One 19th Century mountaineer famously declared it unclimbable, but this claim was proven false when Edward Whymper and a party of ten other climbers began their ascent on July 14th, 1865. Though the Matterhorn claimed the lives of four companions, Whymper’s party was the first to conquer the mountain. (The mountaineer who declared it “unclimbable” was Whymper himself, who had tried and failed multiple times before.)

Trivia

• The Matterhorn can be found in its real-life location on the standard Europe map.

Gallery

The Matterhorn intro cinematic

The Matterhorn, as seen in-game

A civilization discovers the Matterhorn