Silver (Civ5)

Silver
Luxury resource
Introduced in Civilization V
Found on
Tundra
Tundra
Desert
Desert
Hills
Hills
Resource value
2
2
Improvements
Mine +1 (Req.  Mining)
Required for
Mint
Mint

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Game Info

Luxury resource.

• Base yield:
  • 2 Gold
• Modifiers:
  • +1 Production from Mine improvement
  • +2 Gold from Mint
  • +1 Culture and +1 Faith with Religious Idols Pantheon

Strategy

Silver is a "classical" luxury resource, found in less productive terrain, and usually on Hills. Accessed with a Mine, Silver boosts Production and Gold. Its main benefit, however, is that it allows construction of the Mint, a bonus building which grants an additional +2 Gold on the tile! This benefit is awesome when there are multiple sources of Silver and/or Gold in the city's territory - in this case, a single building boosts Gold production greatly.

Silver is also one of the two resources which benefits from the Religious Idols belief, gaining additional Culture and Faith on the tile.

Civilopedia entry

Silver is a shiny, soft, malleable, precious metal. It is highly valued for its beauty and for centuries it has been used in ornaments, jewelry, utensils, and coinage in cultures around the world. Silver has excellent thermal and electrical conductivity properties as well, which make it quite useful in many electronic applications. Silver has been mined for at least 6,000 years, and perhaps much longer. In 1859 the "Comstock Lode" was discovered in Nevada, United States of America. This was a mighty deposit of silver which led to a huge boom in the local economy. The good times lasted some twenty-three years until the lower levels of the mine became flooded and silver extraction petered out, at which point most of the so-called "boom towns" simply dried up and died.

See also

• Silver in other games