Caesar Production

Production chains

Every building that makes something: what it takes in and what it puts out. Read out of the original executable, as the Gaius project has disassembled it, and the manual's chapter on how the model works, rather than timed in play. Caesar measures a workshop by a production level, not a rate, and the note below says how.

How a Caesar workshop is measured

There is no progress bar. A workshop has a production level from 0 to 7, drawn as the jars beside it, and the game recomputes it every month as the sum of several terms: how well the province suits that industry (a table of the fifty provinces by the eight goods, which the Industrial Advisor's report reads out as Terrible, Poor, Average, Good or Excellent); the population units within three tiles of it, divided by sixteen, less four; the province's prospects for expansion; its sales; two levels when a Heavy Industry stands within three tiles; a term from the industrial tax pressure, which low rates build into one or two extra levels and high rates build into as many as seven lost; and one level off for each of more than one, three and five workshops of the same goods. The sum is clamped to 0 through 7. The year's industrial tax is each workshop's level times 64, summed, times the industrial tax rate, over 25.

So this table has no rate, full or difficulty column: the source holds no figure that means any of them. It has no worker count either, since output follows the people living nearby rather than a staff, and no stock of raw materials, since the heavy industry is a bonus for being near rather than a store that runs out. The Industrial Advisor's overall rating is the average level of the active workshops, graded: 1 or less Terrible, 3 or less Poor, 5 or less Average, 6 Good, 7 Excellent. How well each of the fifty provinces suits each of the eight goods, and how the year's accounts use the levels, are on the industry and taxes page.

Gaius findings, sections 19.4, 20.6, 25.3 and 36.3 ↗ Caesar manual, pp. 49-51 and 56 ↗

Raw materials

Building	Takes	Makes	Size
Heavy Industry `command 26 / tile 0xF3`	—	Raw materials	4×4

Workshops

Building	Takes	Makes	Size
Copper Workshop `command 28 / goods 3 / tile 0xF5`	Raw materials	Copper	3×3
Glass Workshop `command 28 / goods 0 / tile 0xF5`	Raw materials	Glass	3×3
Ivory Workshop `command 28 / goods 5 / tile 0xF6`	Raw materials	Ivory	3×3
Pottery Workshop `command 28 / goods 2 / tile 0xF5`	Raw materials	Pottery	3×3
Spices Workshop `command 28 / goods 7 / tile 0xF6`	Raw materials	Spices	3×3
Tin Workshop `command 28 / goods 1 / tile 0xF5`	Raw materials	Tin	3×3
Wheat Workshop `command 28 / goods 6 / tile 0xF6`	Raw materials	Wheat	3×3
Wine Workshop `command 28 / goods 4 / tile 0xF6`	Raw materials	Wine	3×3