Wheat (Civ5)

Wheat
Bonus resource
Introduced in Civilization V
Found on:
Plains
Plains
Flood Plains
Flood Plains
Desert
Desert
Resource value
1
1
Improvements
Farm available with  Agriculture +1

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Game Info

Bonus resource.

• Base yield:
  • 1 Food
• Modifiers:
  • +1 Food from Granary
  • +1 Food with Sun God Religious belief

Strategy

Wheat is found in Plains and Desert regions, making it very important for Arabia and Morocco (both of which are native to deserts). It is the only bonus resource which can be improved right from the start of the game, because its improvement is the Farm, which is available without any need of technology research. Its only downside is that it won't yield a whole lot when found on a Desert tile, because these tiles have no natural yield of any kind. Still, it's something.

Use a Granary (which adds 1 Food to the tile) to unlock the full potential of Wheat. Also, the Sun God religious belief adds another point of Food.

Civilopedia entry

Originally cultivated in the Fertile Crescent of the Middle East, wheat is one of the most important grains in the human diet. A remarkably versatile grain, wheat can be turned into flour and made into bread, pasta, cereal or cake, and it can be fermented and made into a variety of alcoholic beverages.

See also

• Wheat in other games