Production (Civ5)

Production is a game concept in Civilization V. It displays how much your city produces per turn,improvements such as mines and certain buildings such as a factory can improve your production. If your civilization is unhappy it will lower the production in each of your cities.

Sources of production:

• Natural wonders
• Certain buildings
• Certain wonders
• Certain social policies
• Certain terrain improvements
• Some technologies improve production

Buildings that provide production

Era	Building	Production	Note
Ancient	Stone works	+1	City must have improved marble/stone nearby, city cannot be on plains
Ancient	Water mill	+1	City must be built next to a river
Classical	Stable	+15% when building mounted units, +1 on each horse, cow, and sheep	must have one of the previous resources near the city
Medieval	Forge	+15% when building land units, +1 production on improved iron	City must have improved iron nearby
Medieval	Workshop	+2, +10%
Medieval	Harbor	+1 on sea resources worked by city, +15% when building naval units
Medieval	Loundhouse	+2, +1 from each worked forest	replaces workshop, Iroquois building
Renaissance	Seaport	+1 on sea resources worked by city
Renaissance	Windmill	+2, +10% when building buildings
Industrial	Factory	+4, +10%	requires 1 coal
Modern	Hydro plant	+1 in all tiles beside rivers	requires 1 aluminum , must be built next to a river
Modern	Nuclear plant	+5, +15%	requires 1 uranium, no solar plant in the city
Modern	Solar plant	+5, +15%	must be built on or next to desert, no nuclear plant in the city
Modern	Spaceship Factory	+50% when building spaceship parts	requires 1 aluminum

Wonders that provide production

Wonder	Production	Requirement
Ironworks	+8	requires a workshop in all cities

Social policies that provide production

Policy	Branch	Era	Requirements	Effect
Aristocracy	Tradition	none	none	+15 production when building wonders
Collective Rule	Liberty	none	none	Settler production doubled in capital
Republic	Liberty	none	Collective Rule	+1 Production in every City and +5% Production in cities when constructing buildings
Warrior Code	Honor	none	none	+15% when training melee units
Communism	Order	Industrial	Socialism	+2 Production per City and +10% Production when constructing Buildings
Total War	Autocratcy	Industrial	Police State, Fascism	+15% Production when building Military Units
Merchant Navy	Commerce	Medieval	Naval Tradition	+3 Production in all coastal Cities

Notes:

• Adopting Piety reduces the time to build Culture buildings by 15%
• Adopting all Policies in the Order tree will grant +1 Production per city

Terrain features that boost production

Feature	Bonus
Mine	+1, +2 with Chemistry
Lumber mill	+1, +2 with Scientific Theory
Manufactory	+5, +6 with Chemistry

Natural Resources that boost production

Resource	Bonus
horses	+1, +1 with pasture
Cattle	+1 with pasture
Stone	+1, +2 with quarry
Coal	+1, +2 with mine
Marble	+2 with quarry
Iron	+1, +2 with mine
Oil	+1, +3 with Oil well or Offshore platform
Uranium	+1, +2 with mine
Aluminum	+1, +2 with mine