Caesar Buildings

Buildings

Every building and structure the toolbar can place, with its footprint in tiles, its price in denarii and the command and tile numbers that name it in the executable. Read out of the original executable as the Gaius project has disassembled it, cross-checked against the manual, so the sizes and prices are the ones the game actually uses.

About these numbers

Caesar has no engine to read, so these come from the original executable itself, as the Gaius project has disassembled it, and from the manual. The prices are the executable's own cost table, read by command number; each equals the price the manual prints, with one exception named on the Imperial Highway's card. A building has no worker count: the Tribune of the Plebs assigns plebs to duties by how much has been built, and a workshop's output follows the people living near it, so that column is empty by design.

Size is the footprint when the building is placed. A Temple grows from 1×1 to 3×2, Bath Houses from 1×1 to 2×2, and a house through sixteen grades (the Housing page); the Forum comes in eight grades of three sizes, which its card lists. Where a price is a range it is by Forum grade or, for the province commands, by terrain, cheapest to dearest. The constants are command numbers and tile ids, because the executable carries no symbol names. Clear Area is a tool, not a building, and is not listed; it costs 1 denarius in the city and 15 to 60 on the province map. How a building's reach works is on the mechanics page.

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27 buildings

Market 2×2
Distribution Where workshop goods are sold. Houses within 6 tiles count it as their market; land value +1 within 1 tile, capped at 16. 20 Dn command 27 / tile 0xF4
School 2×2
Education Land value +1 within 3 tiles; houses within 4 tiles count it for their school-or-hospital need. Counts toward Culture. 60 Dn command 16 / tile 0xEC
Coliseum 3×2
Entertainment Land value +1 within 4 tiles; houses within 6 count it as their entertainment. Counts toward Culture. 200 Dn command 21 / tile 0xF1
Hippodrome 4×2
Entertainment Land value +1 within 5 tiles; houses within 7 count it as their entertainment. Counts toward Culture. 300 Dn command 22 / tile 0xF2
Theater 2×1
Entertainment Land value +1 within 3 tiles; houses within 4 count it as their entertainment. Counts toward Culture. 100 Dn command 20 / tile 0xF0
Forum 2×2
Government Eight grades, chosen as it is built: Aventine 2×2 (60), Caelian 2×2 (100), Esquiline 2×2 (140), Janiculan 3×3 (200), Regia 3×3 (250), Pincian 3×3 (300), Palatine 3×3 (350), Romanum 4×4 (500). Taxes are collected from houses and workshops within 6, 8, 10 or 12 tiles by pair of grades; land value +1 within 2 to 5. At most thirty. 60 – 500 Dn command 12 / tiles 0xE0-0xE7
Bath Houses 1×1
Health Needs water. Grows into the 2×2 Grand Baths when land value passes 12 and the city holds 160 people. Housing within 3 tiles counts it as its baths; land value +1 within 2 tiles. 40 Dn command 14 / tiles 0xE8, 0xEA
Hospital 2×2
Health Land value +1 within 3 tiles; houses within 4 tiles count it for their school-or-hospital need. Counts toward Culture. 60 Dn command 15 / tile 0xED
Housing 1×1
Housing Places the first of sixteen grades. It then climbs or falls on its own, growing to a pair, 2×2 and finally 3×3; see the Housing page. 2 Dn command 11 / tile 0xC8
Heavy Industry 4×4
Industry The raw materials a workshop within three tiles of it needs. Land value +1 within 4 tiles but capped at 2 there, the lowest limit any building sets. 300 Dn command 26 / tile 0xF3
Fountain 1×1
Infrastructure Water for 6 tiles once piped to a reservoir, and land value +1 within 2 tiles. Placed dry (0xBA); too many fountains in a row on one pipe run dry in turn, flipping between working and dry. 10 Dn command 10 / tiles 0xB9-0xBD
Imperial Highway 1×1
Infrastructure Province level. Joins the capital to the Imperial Highway junction at the province's edge. The executable's price word is 50 (so 50 to 200 by terrain); the manual prints "from 60 Denarii to 240 Denarii". The two disagree and no capture of a charge settles it. 50 – 200 Dn command 42 / tiles 0x6D-0x78
Plaza 1×1
Infrastructure Paves an existing road piece; it cannot be laid on bare ground. Raises land value. 10 Dn command 23
Prefecture 1×1
Infrastructure Taxes collected within 4 tiles, unrest −2 within 3, land value +1 within 2 but capped at 8 there. 25 Dn command 25 / tile 0xEE
Provincial Road 1×1
Infrastructure Province level, dragged like a road. Joins the capital to a town, which then grows and raises the Empire rating. Barbarians can march along it. 30 – 120 Dn command 36 / tiles 0x36-0x41
Reservoir / pipe 1×1
Infrastructure One command builds both: a reservoir where the drag starts in water, pipe everywhere else. Water reaches 3 tiles from a reservoir. Pipes cannot cross each other or branch. The executable spells it "Resevoir\pipe". 3 Dn command 5 / tile 0xA4
Road 1×1
Infrastructure Dragged cell by cell; each piece is chosen from its neighbours. Right-click during the drag takes the whole stretch back. Intersections raise land value slightly. Gates form where a wall crosses it. 3 Dn command 4 / tiles 0x36-0x43
Well 1×1
Infrastructure Water for 1 tile around it. Needs no pipe. 5 Dn command 9 / tile 0xB8
Barracks 3×3
Military Sends soldiers out to patrol. Unrest −3 within 5 tiles; land value +1 within 3 but capped at 5. 80 Dn command 24 / tile 0xEF
Fort 1×1
Military Province level, one cell on the province map. Founds a Cohort; at most ten, counting the Prima Cohors you start with. The price is never shifted by terrain. 500 Dn command 29 / tile 0x4D
Great Tower 1×1
Military Province level. Only on an existing Great Wall piece, never a three- or four-way junction. 90 – 360 Dn command 41 / tiles 0x62-0x67
Great Wall 1×1
Military Province level, dragged like a road. Gates form where it crosses a road or highway: Cohorts pass, barbarians cannot, but a gate is weaker. It slowly decays unless plebs are assigned to province duty. 40 – 160 Dn command 37 / tiles 0x42-0x49, 0x62-0x6C
Tower 1×1
Military Only on an existing wall piece, never a three- or four-way junction. Cuts the chance a barbarian breaks through nearby. 10 Dn command 8 / tile 0x9E
Wall 1×1
Military Dragged like a road. Becomes a gate where it crosses one; gates are weaker than wall, garrisoned, and cap land value nearby. 5 Dn command 7
Oracle 2×1
Religion Does not grow. Land value +2 within 8 tiles, and unrest −2 within 5. Counts toward Culture. 200 Dn command 17 / tile 0xEB
Temple 1×1
Religion Grows like a house, with land value and population: 1×1, then 1×2, 2×2 and 3×2. Raises land value (+1, within 2 tiles, then 3) and lowers unrest. Counts toward Culture. 20 Dn command 13 / tiles 0xD8-0xDF
Workshop 3×3
Workshops One of eight industries, chosen as it is built (glass, tin, pottery and copper are tile 0xF5; wine, ivory, wheat and spices 0xF6). Land value +1 within 3 tiles but capped at 3. At most thirty. See the Production page. 50 Dn command 28 / tiles 0xF5-0xF6