Environment Information

Victory Conditions

Terra Nova games can be won in four ways, each requiring different strategic approaches:

Scoring System

Terra Nova's reward function favors population growth, city settling, land ownership, wonders built, technologies discovered, and more. This score reflects overall civilization development but does not correlate direcly to achieving any one victory type. This would be similar to giving a chess-playing agent points for developing pieces: generally a good thing to do, but not related directly to achieving checkmate.

Maps

Maps are procedurally generated by the Terra Nova game engine. The generation process closely matches the map generation process used in LekMod. The maps are designed to be balanced (in terms of resource distribution) across six equally-sized sections. Each section is given a "regional resource", which is a luxury resource (see the "Resources" section for more information on luxuries). Each section's regional resource is spawned many times within the section, and rarely in other sections. In theory, this gives each player a monopoly over their regional resource, which can be advantageous in trade agreements. In addition to the regional resource, each section is populated with many other resources to create a large variety of fruitful city-settling locations. We note that an agent is not restricted to setting within their region.

Terrain

Map tiles can be plains, grassland, tundra, snow, or desert terrain. A tile's terrain type can affect what types of resources can spawn in that tile, as well as affect the yield output of the tile. Tiles can also be flatland, hills, or impassible mountains. A tile's elevation type affects how units can move through the tile.

Features

Tiles can contain forests, jungles, oases, floodplains, marshes, or no feature. Similar to terrain, a tile's features affect resources, yields, and unit movement. However, unlike terrain, an agent can change a tile's feature. For example, an agent can use a worker unit to chop down a forest or clear a marsh.

Water

Maps in Terra Nova always contain many river systems, lakes, and a surrounding ocean. River systems and lakes create fertile land (i.e., they tend to be high on food yields). Oceans contain many types of resources that can only spawn in oceans (e.g., whales, pearls, etc).

Natural Wonders

Every map will contain four natural wonders. These are modeled after real-world natural wonders (e.g., Lake Victoria, Mt. Fuji), and often provide large yields if worked. For unit movement, they are treated as impassible mountains. This makes settling near them advantageous for both resource output and defense.

Yields

In Terra Nova, there are eight main yields, all with unique purposes. We first describe them briefly:

• Food is used to grow cities.
• Production is used to build things within cities.
• Gold is used to fund an empire's buildings and units and can be used in trade deals with other agents.
• Faith is used to develop a religion.
• Culture is used to unlock social policies.
• Science is used to discover new technologies.
• Tourism is used to place cultural pressure on other agents.
• Happiness is used to keep your empire happy.

After every turn, food is stockpiled in each city. If a certain threshold is met, a city grows an additional population. This threshold scales with the current population in the city. Each citizen in a city costs two food to maintain, and a city can starve and lose a population is the reserves go negative. Food is gained from tile yields, buildings, religion, social policies, and trade routes between cities.

Production is also stockpiled after each turn on a per-city basis. Buildings and units cost an amount of production to complete. Production is gained from tiles, buildings, religion, social policies, and trade routes.

Gold is stockpiled empire-wide, but spent on a per-city basis. Having negative gold across an empire causes penalties on science , reducing an agents ability to advance technologically. Gold is gained from tiles, buildings, religion, social policies, trade routes, and trade deals with other agents.

Faith is stockpiled empire-wide. When certain thresholds are met, an agent may spend their stockpiled faith to add tenets to their religion, which can lead to significant bonuses. Faith is gained from tiles, buildings, social policies, and religion.

Culture is stockpiled empire-wide. When certain thresholds are met, an agent may spend their stockpiled culture to add social policies to their empire, which can lead to significant bonuses. Culture is gained from tiles, buildings, social policies, and religion.

Science is stockpiled empire-wide. When certain thresholds are met, an agent may spend their stockpiled science to discover new technologies, which can unlock new buildings, units, resources, and more. Science is gained from tiles, buildings, social policies, and religion.

Tourism is produced in each city by buildings and Great Works. Tourism exerts cultural pressure on the empires of other agents. If an agent builds up enough tourism to become influential over all other agents in the game, they achieve a cultural victory.

Happiness is critical to running an empire. Settling and growing cities costs happiness to maintain. Having negative happiness causes penalties to all yields. Happiness is gained by improving unique luxuries, buildings, religious tenets, and more.

Resources

Maps in Terra Nova are populated with three types of resources: luxury, strategic, and bonus. Luxury resources are critical to empire growth, as they provide happiness when unique and improved, and can be traded with other players in the game. Strategic resources provide material to construct certain units and buildings. Bonus resources provide boosts to a tile's yield output when worked. Each resource has a terrain-type spawn-bias. For example, the banana bonus resource is more likely to spawn in jungle tiles than anywhere else.

The table below shows all 53 resources in Terra Nova: the icon in the game renderer, the name, the resource type, which technology is required for an agent to see the resource, and which technology is required for an agent to improve the resource. Empty cells indicate that a resource is seeable and improvable without technological advancement required.

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	Name	Type	See Tech	Improve Tech
	Dyes	Luxury		Calendar
	Copper	Luxury		Mining
	Deer	Bonus		Trapping
	Ivory	Luxury		Trapping
	Silver	Luxury		Mining
	Jewelry	Luxury		Mining
	Uranium	Strategic	Atomic Theory	Mining
	Lapis	Luxury		Mining
	Gems	Luxury		Mining
	Iron	Strategic	Mining	Mining
	Wine	Luxury		Calendar
	Cows	Bonus		Animal Husbandry
	Coconut	Luxury		Calendar
	Wheat	Bonus
	Oil	Strategic	Biology	Mining
	Marble	Luxury		Masonry
	Tobacco	Luxury		Calendar
	Maize	Bonus
	Whales	Luxury		Sailing
	Olives	Luxury		Calendar
	Truffles	Luxury		Trapping
	Bison	Bonus		Trapping
	Sugar	Luxury		Calendar
	Horses	Strategic	Animal Husbandry	Animal Husbandry
	Citrus	Luxury		Calendar
	Cotton	Luxury		Calendar
	Salt	Luxury		Mining
	Gold	Luxury		Mining
	Aluminium	Strategic	Electricity	Mining
	Incense	Luxury		Calendar
	Coffee	Luxury		Calendar
	Crabs	Luxury		Sailing
	Silk	Luxury		Calendar
	Perfume	Luxury		Calendar
	Glass	Luxury		Mining
	Spices	Luxury		Calendar
	Amber	Luxury		Mining
	Chocolate	Luxury		Calendar
	Rubber	Luxury		Calendar
	Coal	Strategic	Industrialization	Mining
	Sheep	Bonus		Animal Husbandry
	Coral	Luxury		Sailing
	Furs	Luxury		Tapping
	Porcelain	Luxury		Masonry
	Fish	Bonus		Sailing
	Tea	Luxury		Calendar
	Hardwood	Luxury		Bronze Working
	Obsidian	Luxury		Masonry
	Banana	Bonus		Calendar
	Jade	Luxury		Mining
	Pearls	Luxury		Sailing
	Stone	Bonus		Masonry

City States

City states are non-playable entities. They begin each game with a singular city and cannot settle more. Agent-controlled civilizations can exert influence over city states and receive bonuses. These bonuses depends on the city state type and level of influence. The two levels of influence are (1) friends and (2) allies. Agents become friends when their influence is 30 or more, and allies when their influece is 60 or more. Only one agent may be allies with a city state at a time. Influence over city state requires constant care, and will degrade by one point per turn. Influence can be increased by sending trade routes to city states or by completing the quests they give.

Below is a table of all city state types and the bonuses they give for each influence level:

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Type	Friend Bonus	Ally Bonus
Cultural	+2 culture in the capital	+2/+1 culture in the capital/other
Agricultural	+2 food in the capital	+2/+1 food in the capital/other cities
Militaristic	2.5% combat bonus to a random unit every turn	5% combat bonus to a random unit every turn
Mercantile	+3 happiness in the capital	+3/+1 happiness in the capital/other
Religious	+2 faith in the capital	+2/+1 faith in the capital/other
Scientific	+2 science in the capital	+2/+1 science in the capital/other

Quests

City states will occasionally give out quests to the agents. Being the winning agent of a quest grants that agent +30 influece over the city state that gave the quest. Below, we list all of the possible quests a city state may give. There is no bias between city state type and their selected quest.

• Whoever produces the most culture over the span of the quest.
• Whoever produces the most faith over the span of the quest.
• Whoever researches the most technologies over the span of the quest.
• Whoever maintains the most trade route turns over the span of the quest.
• Whoever's religion is the majority religion in the city state for the most turns over the span of the quest.
• Whoever has the most wonders constructed over the span of the quest.
• Whoever owns the most resources over the span of the quest.

Cities

Cities are the foundational building blocks of any game of Terra Nova, just as they are in Civilization V. They serve as the primary engines of growth, production, and progress, responsible for constructing buildings, training units, generating Great Works, and producing all major yields: Food, Production, Gold, Science, Culture, Faith, and more. At their core, cities are shaped by their population. A higher population allows more citizens to work tiles, directly increasing the city's output. However, growing cities comes at a cost: each additional citizen increases the empire’s Unhappiness. If a civilization expands faster than its Happiness can sustain, it suffers penalties across the board, including reduced growth, Gold, and Science, and eventually risks civil unrest. Balancing city development with empire-wide stability is central to long-term success.

Agents directly control many aspects of their empire's cities. They choose where to settle them, which tiles should be worked, and what buildings or units the city produces. Because cities are so valuable, they may become prime targets in a war. All cities except for capitals can be captured by other agents.

Buildings

Cities can allocate their production towards making buildings. There are effectively three "classes" of buildings: World Wonders, National Wonders, and standard buildings.

World Wonders

Only one instance of each World Wonder can exist within a game. This type of building grants the owner large bonuses, so agents should race to construct these if the bonuses synergize with the agent's strategy. All construction efforts towards a given World Wonder will cease once any agent completes that wonder, potentially resulting in many wasted turns if the construction race is lost. World Wonders come in many flavors. Some benefit an empire's religion, some accelerate science outputs, some provide powerful military bonuses, and more.

National Wonders

National Wonders can exist on a one-per-player basis. These types of buildings often provide bonuses that scale the outputs of the city within which it is built.

Standard Buildings

Standard buildings can exist on a one-per-city basis.

Buildings often have one or several prerequisites that an agent must meet before construction can begin. These prerequisites can be based on technology, social policies, owned resources, or even other buildings. Most buildings cost a certain amount of gold per turn to maintain. Some buildings cannot be constructed directly, but are earned through other avenues. For example, Mandirs can be purchased with faith if the appropriate religious tenet is owned by the agent. See the table below for more information on each building.

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Name	Cost	Maintenance	Bonus	Unlock Tech	Prereq Building	Prereq Resources	National Wonder?	World Wonder?
Courthouse	50	1	+2 happiness	Mathematics
Seaport	166	2	Sea resources: +1 , +1 ; +15% production to units	Navigation	Harbor
Stable	66	1	Horses/Sheep/Cattle: +1 ; Maize: +1 ; +15% production to mounted units	Horseback Riding		Horses, Sheep, Cow
Watermill	50	2	+2 , +1 to city	The Wheel
Circus	50	0	+2 happiness	Trapping		Horses, Ivory
Forge	80	1	Iron tiles: +1 ; +15% production to land units	Metal Casting		Iron
Windmill	166	2	+2 ; Lakes/Oasis: +1 ; +10% building production; +1 engineer specialist slot	Economics
Hydro Plant	280	3	River tiles: +1	Electricity		Aluminium
Solar Plant	333	3	+5 ; +15% production	Ecology	Factory
Mint	66	0	+2 ; Gold/Silver/Copper tiles: +2	Currency		Gold, Silver, Copper
Observatory	133	1	+4 ; Tundra: +1 ; Mountains: +4	Astronomy
Monastery	0	0	City: +2 , +2 ; Incense/Wine tiles: +1 , +1	Agriculture
Garden	80	1	+20% Great Person generation	Drama
Lighthouse	50	1	Ocean tiles: +1 ; Sea resources: +1 ; Fish: +1	Optics
Harbor	80	2	Connects to capital over water; Sea trade route range +50%; External trade: +1	Compass
Colosseum	66	1	+2 happiness	Construction
Stadium	333	2	+2 happiness	Refrigeration	Amphitheater
Monument	26	1	+2	Agriculture
Temple	66	2	+2	Philosophy	Shrine
Opera House	133	1	+2 ; +1 GW Music slot	Acoustics	Amphitheater
Museum	200	1	+2 ; +2 GW Art slots	Archaeology	Amphitheater
Broadcast Tower	333	3	+2 ; +1 GW Music slot; +15% culture	Radio	Opera House
Barracks	50	1	+15 XP to all units	Bronze Working
Armory	106	1	+15 XP to all units	Steel	Barracks
Military Academy	200	1	+15 XP to all units	Military Science	Armory
Arsenal	200	0	+900 Defense	Metallurgy	Castle
Walls	50	0	+500 Defense	Masonry
Castle	106	0	+700 Defense	Chivalry	Walls
Military Base	333	0	+1200 Defense	Replaceable Parts	Arsenal
Granary	40	1	City: +2 ; Wheat/Banana/Deer/Bison tiles: +1 ; Allows food trade	Pottery
Hospital	240	2	+5	Biology	Aqueduct
Medical Lab	333	3	+25% food carryover	Electronics	Hospital
Workshop	80	2	+2 ; +10% production; +1 engineer specialist slot; Can send production via trade	Metal Casting
Factory	240	3	+4 ; +10% production; +2 engineer specialist slots; Rubber tiles: +2	Industrialization	Workshop	Coal
Nuclear Plant	333	3	+5 ; +15% production	Nuclear Fission	Factory	Uranium
Spaceship Factory	240	3	+3 ; +50% production to spaceship parts	Robotics	Factory
Market	66	0	+1 ; +25% gold; +1 merchant specialist slot; Trade routes: +1 (owner & destination)	Currency
Bank	133	0	+2 ; +25% gold; +1 merchant specialist slot; Trade routes: +1 (owner & destination)	Banking	Market
Stock Exchange	240	0	+3 ; +25% gold; +2 merchant specialist slots	Electricity	Bank
Library	50	1	+50% science per population	Writing
University	106	2	+33% science; +2 scientist specialist slots; Jungle tiles: +2	Education	Library
Public School	200	3	+3 ; +50% science; +1 scientist specialist slot	Scientific Theory	University
Laboratory	333	3	+4 ; +50% science; +1 scientist specialist slot	Plastic	Public School
Palace	0	0	+3 , +3 , +3 , +1 ; +250 Defense	Agriculture			Yes
Heroic Epic	83	0	+1 ; +1 GW Writing slot; +15 XP to all non-air units	Iron Working	Barracks		Yes
National College	83	0	+3 , +1 ; +50% science	Philosophy			Yes
National Epic	83	0	+1 ; +1 GW Writing slot; +25% Great Person generation	Drama	Monument		Yes
Circus Maximus	83	0	+1 , +5	Horseback Riding	Circus		Yes
National Treasury	83	0	+4 ; +10% gold; +1 trade route; Trade routes: +4 (owner), +2 (destination)	Guilds	Market		Yes
Ironworks	83	0	+8	Machinery	Workshop		Yes
Oxford University	83	0	Free technology	Education			Yes
Hermitage	83	0	+2 ; +50% culture; +3 GW Art slots	Architecture	Opera House		Yes
Great Lighthouse	123	0	+1 ; Water tiles: +1 ; +1 Merchant GP point; Naval units: +1 movement, +1 sight	Optics				Yes
Stonehenge	123	0	+6 , +1 ; +1 Engineer GP point; −25% tile purchase costs empire-wide	Calendar				Yes
Great Library	123	0	+3 , +1 ; +2 GW Writing slots; +1 Scientist GP point; Free technology	Writing				Yes
Pyramid	123	0	+1 ; +1 Engineer GP point; Workers build improvements 25% faster; +2 free Workers	Masonry				Yes
Colossus	123	0	+5 , +1 ; +1 Merchant GP point; +1 trade route & free Cargo Ship; Trade routes: +2 (owner), +1 (destination)	Iron Working				Yes
Oracle	166	0	+3 ; +1 Scientist GP point; Free Social Policy	Philosophy				Yes
Hanging Garden	166	0	+6 , +1 ; Free Garden; +1 Engineer GP point	Mathematics				Yes
Great Wall	166	0	+1 ; +1 Engineer GP point; Free Walls in all cities	Engineering				Yes
Angkor Wat	266	0	+5 , +3 ; +1 Scientist GP point; Free University	Education				Yes
Hagia Sophia	200	0	+3 ; Free Great Prophet; Free Temple	Theology				Yes
Chichen Itza	200	0	+4 , +1 ; +1 Engineer GP point; +50% Golden Age length	Civil Service				Yes
Machu Pichu	200	0	+5 , +2 ; +1 Merchant GP point; +25% gold from city connections	Guilds				Yes
Notre Dame	266	0	+10 , +4 ; +1 Artist GP point	Physics				Yes
Porcelain Tower	416	0	+1 ; +2 Scientist GP points; Luxury tiles: +3 , +3	Architecture				Yes
Himeji Castle	333	0	+1 ; +2 Engineer GP points; +15% combat strength in friendly territory; Free Castle	Gunpowder				Yes
Sistine Chapel	333	0	+1 ; +25% culture in all cities; +2 GW Art slots	Acoustics				Yes
Kremlin	706	0	+1 ; +50% production for armored units	Railroad				Yes
Forbidden Palace	333	0	+1 ; +2 World Congress delegates; −10% citizen unhappiness in unoccupied cities	Banking				Yes
Taj Mahal	416	0	+1 ; +4 ; Starts Golden Age	Architecture				Yes
Big Ben	500	0	+4 , +1 ; −12% gold purchase costs	Industrialization				Yes
Louvre	500	0	+2 ; +4 GW Art slots; Free Great Artist	Archaeology				Yes
Brandenburg Gate	500	0	+1 ; +2 Scientist GP points; Free Great General; +15 XP to all units	Military Science				Yes
Statue Of Liberty	706	0	+6 , +1 ; +6 population; Free Social Policy	Replaceable Parts				Yes
Cristo Redentor	802	0	+5 ; −10% policy culture cost	Plastic				Yes
Eiffel Tower	706	0	+5 , +1 ; +12 ; +2 Merchant GP points	Radio				Yes
Pentagon	802	0	+1 ; +2 Merchant GP points; +15 unit XP	Combined Arms				Yes
Sydney Opera House	833	0	+50% culture; +2 GW Music slots (theming bonus condition noted); Free Social Policy	Ecology				Yes
Aqueduct	66	1	+40% food carryover	Engineering
Stone Works	50	1	City: +1 , +1 ; Marble/Obsidian/Stone tiles: +1	Calendar		Marble, Stone, Obsidian
Statue Zeus	123	0	+2 ; +15 combat strength to all units; +10% production to all military	Bronze Working				Yes
Temple Artemis	123	0	+3 , +3 , +3 ; +1 Engineer GP point; Ranged units: +15% production, +15 XP	Archery				Yes
Mausoleum Halicarnassus	123	0	+1 ; +1 Merchant GP point; +100 per Great Person expended; Marble/Obsidian/Stone tiles: +2	Masonry				Yes
Amphitheater	66	1	+2 ; +1 GW Writing slot	Drama	Monument
Shrine	26	1	+1	Pottery
Recycling Center	333	3	Aluminium tiles: +3	Ecology
Bomb Shelter	200	1	−75% nuke damage (large Defense boost)	Telecom
Constable	106	1	−25% spy steal rate	Banking
Police Station	200	1	−25% spy steal rate	Electricity	Constable
Intelligence Agency	83	0	+1 Spy; +1 spy level to all spies; −15% enemy spy effectiveness	Radio	Constable		Yes
Alhambra	266	0	+1 ; Units receive Drill I (non-air); +20% culture; Free Castle	Chivalry				Yes
Cn Tower	802	0	+1 population, +1 happiness; Free Broadcast Tower	Radar				Yes
Hubble	833	0	+10 ; +3 Scientist GP points; Free Recycling Center; +200% production to spaceship parts	Satellites				Yes
Leaning Tower	333	0	+1 ; +20% Great Person generation in all cities	Printing Press				Yes
Mosque Of Djenne	166	0	+6 , +3 , +3 ; +1 Engineer GP point; Missionaries from this city spread 3 times	Philosophy				Yes
Neuschwanstein	500	0	+6 , +4 , +2 ; +1 Merchant GP point	Rifling				Yes
Petra	166	0	+7 (includes +6 at Archaeology); Desert (not flood plains): +1 , +1 ; +1 trade route & free caravan; +1 Engineer GP point	Currency				Yes
Terracotta Army	166	0	+1 ; Copies each military unit (effect)	Construction				Yes
Great Firewall	833	0	−99.9% enemy spy effectiveness in city; −25% effectiveness of your other spies elsewhere; Negates Internet tourism bonus against you	Computers				Yes
Cathedral	0	0	+5 ; +1 GW Art slot	Agriculture
Mosque	0	0	City: +3 , +1 , +1	Agriculture
Pagoda	0	0	City: +2 , +1 , +1 ; +10% growth carryover	Agriculture
Grand Temple	83	0	+8 ; Double religious pressure from this city	Theology	Temple
Tourist Center	266	2	100% of culture from wonders/improvements added to tourism; 2× tourism from Great Works	Telecom			Yes
Writers Guild	66	1	+2 writer specialist slots	Drama			Yes
Artists Guild	100	1	+2 artist specialist slots	Guilds			Yes
Musicians Guild	133	1	+2 musician specialist slots	Acoustics			Yes
Hotel	200	0	Wonders/improvements: 50% culture converted to tourism; +50% GW tourism; Lakes/Oasis: +1	Refrigeration
Caravansary	60	0	+2 ; External land trade: +2 ; Land trade route range +50%	Horseback Riding
Airport	266	5	Wonders/improvements: 50% culture converted to tourism; +50% GW tourism; Increases air unit capacity	Radar
Uffizi	416	0	+2 ; +3 GW Art slots; Free Great Artist	Architecture				Yes
Globe Theater	333	0	+2 ; +2 GW Writing slots; +1 Writer GP point; Free Great Writer	Printing Press				Yes
Broadway	706	0	+2 ; +3 GW Music slots; Free Great Musician	Radio				Yes
Red Fort	416	0	+8 , +4 ; +1200 Defense; +1 Scientist GP point; +25% city defense empire-wide	Metallurgy				Yes
Prora Resort	706	0	+2 ; +1 happiness per two Social Policies; Free Social Policy	Flight				Yes
Borobudur	200	0	+5 ; +1 Engineer GP point; 3 free Missionaries; Free Garden	Theology				Yes
Parthenon	166	0	+4 ; +1 GW Art slot	Drama				Yes
International Space Station	0	0	+1 production from Scientists; +1 science from Engineers; +33% Great Scientist bulb yield; (collaborative project)	Agriculture				Yes
Gurdwara	0	0	Per religion present: +2 , +2	Agriculture
Synagogue	0	0	City: +2 , +1 , +1 ; +15% building production	Agriculture
Conservatory	0	0	+1 musician specialist slot; +1	Agriculture
Vihara	0	0	City: +1 , +1 ; +15% gold; +1 merchant specialist slot	Agriculture
Mandir	0	0	All luxury tiles owned: +1 , +1	Agriculture
Saint Peter's Basilica	200	0	+8 , +4	Education				Yes
Althing	200	0	+1 ; +1 Scientist GP point; Tundra tiles: +1 , +1	Metal Casting				Yes
Gemcutter	50	1	+2 ; Jade/Gems/Lapis/Amber tiles: +1	Machinery		Gems, Jade, Amber, Lapis
Textile	66	2	+1 ; Dyes/Furs/Silk/Cotton tiles: +2	Economics		Silk, Cotton, Dyes, Furs
Censer	50	1	+2 ; Incense/Tobacco/Perfume tiles: +1	Theology		Incense, Perfume, Tobacco
Brewery	66	0	+2 ; Wine/Coffee/Tea/Sugar/Salt tiles: +2	Guilds		Wine, Salt, Coffee, Tea, Sugar
Grocer	66	1	+1 ; Truffles/Citrus/Olives/Coconut/Chocolate/Spices tiles: +1	Banking		Chocolate, Spices, Truffles, Citrus, Olives, Coconut
Refinery	133	0	Oil tiles: +3 , +3	Biology		Oil
Panama	706	0	+3 , +1 ; +2 Merchant GP points; +8 from external sea trade; Free Great Merchant	Railroad				Yes
Artist House	0	0	+2 , +1 ; +1 artist specialist slot	Future Tech			Yes
Writer House	0	0	+1 , +3 ; +1 writer specialist slot	Future Tech			Yes
Music House	0	0	+2 , +2 ; +1 musician specialist slot	Future Tech			Yes
Huey Teocali	200	0	+4 ; +1 Engineer GP point; Lakes: +2 , +2	Civil Service				Yes
Apollo Program	1005	0		Rocketry		Aluminium		Yes
SS Booster 1	1005	0		Advanced Ballistics	Apollo Program	Aluminium	Yes
SS Booster 2	1005	0		Advanced Ballistics	Apollo Program	Aluminium	Yes
SS Booster 3	1005	0		Advanced Ballistics	Apollo Program	Aluminium	Yes
SS Engine	503	0		Particle Physics	Apollo Program	Aluminium	Yes
SS Cockpit	503	0		Satellites	Apollo Program	Aluminium	Yes
SS Stasis Chamber	503	0		Nanotechnology	Apollo Program	Aluminium	Yes
Gallery	0	0	+1 ; +1 artist specialist slot	Agriculture
Scriptorium	0	0	+1 ; +1 writer specialist slot	Agriculture
Conservatory	0	0	+1 ; +1 musician specialist slot	Agriculture

Units

Like buildings, cities can allocate production towards constructing units. Units are controlled by an agent as they move around and interact with the map. Units fall into two main categories: military and non-military. Non-military units include Settlers , which can settle cities, workers , which can improve tiles, and caravans , which can establish trade routes.

Military units can engage in combat against another agent's units or cities. Many factors alter the outcome of an attack, such as the unit type (e.g., mounted versus armored), terrain (e.g., hill versus flatland), and the unit's combat bonuses. Units may only engage in combat once war is declared, which can occur by either attacking another agent's units or city, or stepping into another agent's owned tiles. Agents can capture another agent's non-capital cities by bringing the city's health down to zero. If the agent does not have the capacity to own another city, the attacked city is instead razed.

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	Name	Cost	Combat	Unit Type	Unlock Tech	Obsolete Tech
	Settler	73	0	Civillian	Agriculture	N/A
	Warrior	40	8	Melee	Agriculture	Iron Working
	Worker	48	0	Civillian	Agriculture	N/A
	Archer	40	5	Ranged	Archery	Construction
	Caravan	75	0	Civillian	Animal Husbandry	N/A
	Chariot Archer	56	6	Mounted/Ranged	The Wheel	Chivalry
	Pikeman	90	16	Anti-mounted	Civil Service	Metallurgy
	Scout	25	5	Melee	Agriculture	Education
	Spearman	56	11	Anti-mounted	Bronze Working	Civil Service
	Catapult	75	7	Siege	Mathematics	Physics
	Composite Bowman	75	7	Ranged	Construction	Machinery
	Horseman	75	12	Mounted	Horseback Riding	Chivalry
	Swordsman	75	14	Melee	Iron Working	Steel
	Crossbowman	120	13	Ranged	Machinery	Industrialization
	Knight	120	20	Mounted	Chivalry	Military Science
	Longswordsman	120	21	Melee	Steel	Gunpowder
	Trebuchet	120	12	Siege	Physics	Chemistry
	Cannon	185	14	Siege	Chemistry	Dynamite
	Lancer	185	25	Mounted	Metallurgy	Railroad
	Musketman	150	24	Melee	Gunpowder	Rifling
	Airship	150	15	Melee	Steam Power	Computers
	Artillery	250	21	Siege	Dynamite	Rocketry
	Cavalry	225	34	Mounted	Military Science	Combustion
	Expeditionary Force	270	40	Melee	Biology	Penicilin
	Gatlinggun	225	30	Ranged	Industrialization	Ballistics
	Rifleman	225	34	Melee	Rifling	Replaceable Parts
	Anti Tank Rifle	300	30	Anti-armored	Railroad	Combined Arms
	Infantry	420	70	Melee	Electronics	Mobile Tactics
	Landship	390	60	Armored	Combustion	Combined Arms
	Machine Gun	390	50	Melee	Ballistics	Nuclear Fission
	Anti Tank Gun	360	50	Anti-armored	Combined Arms	N/A
	Bazooka	450	80	Ranged	Nuclear Fission	N/A
	Helicopter Gunship	510	70	Armored	Computers	N/A
	Marine	450	80	Melee	Penicilin	N/A
	Rocket Artillery	510	45	Ranged	Rocketry	N/A
	Tank	450	70	Armored	Combined Arms	N/A
	Xcom Squad	510	100	Melee	Nanotechnology	N/A

Technology

Agents allocate their generated science towards unlocking new technologies. Unlocking a new technology often leads to new options for constructing buildings and units, reveals new resources and improvements, and, of course, leads to new possible technological advancements. The technology pathway in Terra Nova is tree shaped, just like in Civilization V. This ultimately leads to massive opportunity costs: investing turns going down one path in the tree inevitably leads to a lack of progress in another direction.

Culture

Social policies are bonuses that complement particular strategies via unique benefits. For example, religion-centric strategies benefit from policies in the "Piety" social policy tree. Agents can pick new social policies once they reach a threshold of culture generated. Benefits from social policies apply empire-wide, do not spread to other agents, and multiple agents may select the same social policies. Similar to technologies, social policies are laid out in a tree, such that selecting some policies requires first selecting others. See below for a table of all social policies in Terra Nova.

Religion

Religion is a fluid mechanic in Terra Nova. Each agent manages their own religion that develops throughout the game. Agents can spend their faith accumulation to add tenets to their religion. The bonuses from these tenets apply on a per-city basis, and the majority religious population within a city determines which religion's bonuses that city receives. The religious population's makeup within a city is affected each turn by religious pressures eminating from cities and trade caravans. Some tenet combinations favor a playstyle that aggressively spreads a religion to as many foreign-empire cities as possible, while others favor a more insular approach.

Religious tenets fall into five categories, and no tenet can be selected twice or by more than one agent in the same game. The tenets are designed to provide bonuses that are helpful in specific scenarios. This means that an agent must understand their position in the game and the map to leverage their religion optimally. When a religion is founded, the agent must choose one Founder tenet and two Follower tenets. An agent's cities will always receive its own Founder tenet, and no other Founder tenet, even if another agent's religion is the majority religion.

1. Pantheons

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Name	Bonus
Altars Of Worship	+20% production towards Ancient, Classical, and Medieval wonders
Ancestor Worship	+2 culture from shrines
Dance Of The Aurora	+1 faith from tundra tiles
Desert Folklore	+1 faith from desert tiles
Divine Judgement	+2 faith from barracks and courthouses, +2 happiness from the palace
Earth Mother	+2 faith from iron, +1 faith from mines
God Of Craftsmen	+1 production in every city
God Of The Open Sky	+1 culture from pastures
God Of The Sea	+1 faith , +1 culture from fish, whales, crabs, pearls, coral, atolls
God Of War	+2 production from barracks
God King	+1 production , +1 food , +1 gold , +1 culture , +1 science , +1 happiness , +1 faith from the palace
Goddess Of Festivals	+1 production from sugar, wine, spices
Goddess Of Love	+1 happiness in cities with 3+ population
Goddess Of Protection	+1 faith , +1 culture from walls; +50% city-bombardment strength
Goddess Of The Fields	+2 faith from cotton, incense, tea, coffee
Goddess Of The Hunt	+1 food from camps
Harvest Festival	+1 food from wheat, maize
Messenger Of The Gods	+2 science , +1 faith in cities with a city connection
Mystic Rituals	+1 food , +1 culture from silk, dyes, perfume, tobacco
Oceans Bounty	+1 production from fishing boats and atolls
One With Nature	+5 faith from natural wonders
Oral Tradition	+1 culture from plantation improvements
Rain Dancing	+2 faith , +1 culture from lakes and oases
Religious Idols	+1 faith , +1 culture from copper, silver, gold
Religious Settlements	+1 food from cities; +25% border-expansion rate
Rite Of Spring	+1 culture from deer, bison
Ritual Sacrifice	+1 culture , +2 gold from ivory, furs, truffles
Sacred Path	+1 culture from jungles and forest; +1 culture from rubber, hardwood
Seafood Rituals	+1 food , +1 culture , +1 faith from fish
Spirit Animals	+1 faith from horses, deer, bison
Spirit Trees	+1 faith , +1 food from lumbermills
Starlight Guidance	+1 culture , +1 faith , +1 happiness from lighthouses
Stone Circles	+1 production , +1 faith from quarries; +1 faith from marble, obsidian
Sun God	+1 food from bananas, citrus, olives, coconuts, cocoa
Tears Of The Gods	+1 faith , +2 gold from gems, amber, lapis, jade
Vision Quests	+1 happiness , +1 gold from shrines
Works Spirituals	+1 faith from plantation luxuries and bananas

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