Tile improvement (CivBE)

Civilization: Beyond Earth

Tile improvements are created by Workers on most terrain types. All improvements except Roads and Magrails can only be built on terrain owned by the player's colony.

A given tile may have only 1 tile improvement; any attempt to build another one on the same tile will result in the previous tile improvement being replaced.

Note that most tile improvements only improve the tile yield, and thus have effect only if the relevant tile is being worked by a Citizen from a nearby city. Strategic resource improvements, however, also add the number of the relevant strategic resource to your total (regardless of the tile being worked, or not), while transportation improvements work at all times.

Standard improvements[]

These improvements can be built anywhere there is suitable terrain.

Tile imp	Tech required	Built on	Yield	Maint
Academy	Cognition	Any^[1]	+3 +1 with Protogenetics +1 with Learning Centers	-2
Array	Communications	Flatland	+1, +1, +1 Orbital coverage +1 with Orbital Automation	-
Biowell	Bionics	Any^[1]	+2, +1 +1 with Alien Genetics	-2
Dome	Biology	Any^[1]	+2 +10 City Hitpoints +1 with Biospheres	-2
Farm		Grassland, Plains or Desert without Forest or Marsh Hills or Tundra with Fresh Water Ocean and Coasts	+1 +1 with Industrial Ecology +1 with Artificial Evolution +1, +1 with Vertical Farming	-
Generator		Any^[1]	+2 +1 with Organics +1 with Planetary Engineering +1 with Biometallurgy	-
Manufactory	Robotics	Any land	+3 +1 with Nanorobotics +2 with Social Investment	-2 -2
Mine		Hills Copper, Gold, Silica or Titanium	+2 +1 on Copper +1 on Copper with Network +1 on Gold +1 on Silica +1 on Silica with Optical Surgery +3 on Titanium +2 on Titanium with Alloy Foundry +1 with Biometallurgy	-
Node	Autonomous Systems	Any^[1]	+2, heal adjacent friendly units for 20 HP per turn +1 with Hypercomputing	-
Terrascape	Terraforming	Any land without Miasma	No yield from terrain +2, +2, +2 +1, +1, +1 with Ecoscaping	-6 -5 in Rising Tide

Resource improvements[]

These improvements can only be built on an appropriate resource. In addition to what is listed, some can produce additional resources.

Tile imp	Tech req	Built on	Yield	Maint
Bed		Shell, Eggs	+1 Culture from Shell +1 Production from Eggs +1 with Biology	-
Firaxite Mine	Robotics	Firaxite	+3 +1 with Holosuite +1 with Observatory +1 with Neurolab	-2
Fishery		Plankton, Chelonia	+1 Energy from Plankton +1 Science from Chelonia +1 with Swarm Robotics	-
Floatstone Quarry	Terraforming	Floatstone	+3	-
Geothermal Well	Geophysics	Geothermal	+3 +1 with Power Systems	-
Paddock		Chitin or Resilin	+1 on Chitin +1 on Resilin +1 on Resilin with Bionics Lab +1 with Alien Lifeforms	-
Petroleum Well	Chemistry	Petroleum	+2, +1 +1, +1 with Petrochemical Plant	-2 -1
Plantation		Fiber, Fruit, Fungus or Tubers	+1 on Fiber +1 on Fruit +1 on Fungus +1 on Fungus with Growlab +2 on Tubers +1 with Photosystems	-
Quarry		Basalt	+1 on Basalt +1 with Power Systems	-
Sea Well		Vents	+1 Energy +1 Science +2 with Mobile LEV	-
Work Barge	Planetary Survey	Algae or Coral	+1 on Algae in Base BE +1 on Algae in Rising Tide +1, +1 on Coral +1, +1 with Water Refinery +1 with Tissue Engineering	-
Xenomass Well	Alien Sciences	Xenomass	+3 +1 with Alien Genetics +1 with Alien Domestication +1 with Xenofuel Plant +1 with Cloning Plant	-2

Transportation improvements[]

These improvements can be built on any passable land tile. They can be built alongside any other improvement.

	Tile improvement	Tech required	Maintenance
	Roads	-	1 Energy
	Magrails	Fabrication	2 Energy

Notes[]

↑ ^1.0 ^1.1 ^1.2 ^1.3 ^1.4 Does not include terrain that workers can not travel on such as canyons. Also, this improvement can not be built on coast or ocean without the Rising Tide expansion.

Introduced in the Rising Tide expansion pack.

See also[]

Tile improvement in other games

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[TravelRestrictions-1] 1.0 ^1.1 ^1.2 ^1.3 ^1.4 Does not include terrain that workers can not travel on such as canyons. Also, this improvement can not be built on coast or ocean without the Rising Tide expansion.

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