Caesar III Production

Production chains

Every building that makes something: what it takes in, what it puts out, how many labourers it wants, and — where the source states it in a shape this page can stand behind — the rate the engine steps its progress bar with. Read out of Julius's own building source rather than timed in play.

How to read the rate

A building adds its rate to a progress counter each step, and finishes one load when that counter reaches full. The brickworks is the clearest case: 20 per step against 400, so twenty steps a load. The two columns only mean something together — a rate of 100 against 200 is five times quicker than 20 against 400, though the bigger number belongs to the slower building. Difficulty is the percentage of that rate actually applied, and it is the same five-value shape as building cost: full speed on the gentlest setting, half on the hardest.

A dash means the source does not state that field — some buildings take their timing from engine defaults rather than from their own file, and inventing a number for them would be worse than the gap.

Full is real here — MAX_PROGRESS_RAW and MAX_PROGRESS_WORKSHOP are literal constants in Julius's own source, 200 and 400, not a value c3_model.txt can move. Rate is the gap: the engine adds a building's current worker count to its progress every day, not a fixed number, so the true rate changes with how fully staffed a building happens to be at the cap c3_model.txt sets for it — a real quantity, just not one this page can state as a single figure. The marble quarry is the one outlier worth naming directly: it accrues progress at half that rate, a genuine special case in the source rather than a rounding choice, so it reaches the same 200 threshold roughly twice as slowly as every other raw producer at equal staffing.

Julius's own building source ↗

Raw materials

Building	Takes	Makes	Size	Workers	Rate	Full	Difficulty %
Clay Pit `BUILDING_CLAY_PIT`	—	Clay	2×2	—	—	200	—
Fruit Farm `BUILDING_FRUIT_FARM`	—	Fruit	3×3	—	—	200	—
Iron Mine `BUILDING_IRON_MINE`	—	Iron	2×2	—	—	200	—
Marble Quarry `BUILDING_MARBLE_QUARRY`	—	Marble	2×2	—	—	200	—
Olive Farm `BUILDING_OLIVE_FARM`	—	Olives	3×3	—	—	200	—
Pig Farm `BUILDING_PIG_FARM`	—	Meat	3×3	—	—	200	—
Timber Yard `BUILDING_TIMBER_YARD`	—	Timber	2×2	—	—	200	—
Vegetable Farm `BUILDING_VEGETABLE_FARM`	—	Vegetables	3×3	—	—	200	—
Vines Farm `BUILDING_VINES_FARM`	—	Vines	3×3	—	—	200	—
Wheat Farm `BUILDING_WHEAT_FARM`	—	Wheat	3×3	—	—	200	—

Workshops

Building	Takes	Makes	Size	Workers	Rate	Full	Difficulty %
Furniture Workshop `BUILDING_FURNITURE_WORKSHOP`	Timber	Furniture	2×2	—	—	400	—
Oil Workshop `BUILDING_OIL_WORKSHOP`	Olives	Oil	2×2	—	—	400	—
Pottery Workshop `BUILDING_POTTERY_WORKSHOP`	Clay	Pottery	2×2	—	—	400	—
Weapons Workshop `BUILDING_WEAPONS_WORKSHOP`	Iron	Weapons	2×2	—	—	400	—
Wine Workshop `BUILDING_WINE_WORKSHOP`	Vines	Wine	2×2	—	—	400	—