Overview
The video provides a comprehensive guide to the best production chain combinations for the Anno 1800 Docklands DLC, focusing on maximizing exports, efficiency, and item use through optimal building setups and specialist combinations.
Harbor Production Chain Combo
- Build four additional Harbor Master offices for extra item slots, increasing export productivity and providing fish, tallow, and gold.
- Use productivity-boosting items like Captain Moby, Mother of Pearls, and Veteran Whaler to generate bonus goods.
- Export/import strategy tip: temporarily move items between export tiers to unlock higher export volumes.
Trade Union Production Chain - Soap and Dynamite
- Construct Trade Union buildings and assign specialists to boost productivity and unlock alternate recipes (e.g., using wood instead of tallow for soap).
- Angela boosts electricity and workforce reduction; performers and specialists add dynamite and alter inputs.
- Ensure sufficient wood input by boosting lumberjack hut output with more trade union bonuses.
Trade Union Chain - Spectacles and Pocket Watches
- Specialists can replace brass with wood as input in spectacle factories, allowing production with local resources.
- Use optometrist and other productivity-boosting items to increase output and generate extra goods.
Schnapps and Rum Production Chain
- Set up specialist-enhanced potato farms for potato and schnapps production.
- Use a secondary trade union for distilleries, enabling schnapps and rum export with high efficiency.
- Track ratios and adjust the number of potato farms to meet production demand.
Textile Production Chain
- Combine iron and wool production, then channel these into fur dealer buildings using specialists to swap typical inputs.
- Monitor supply and demand ratios, particularly ensuring enough iron and wool for continuous operation.
- Optional: expand with additional chains for beef and alpaca wool, depending on resource availability.
Sewing Machines and Advanced Goods
- Place trade union by sewing machine factories, using specialists to replace steel with iron and add bonus goods.
- Set up near iron deposits for steady raw material flow.
- Export advanced weapons, steam motors, pocket watches, and sewing machines.
Jewelry Production Chain
- Use limestone quarries with productivity and electricity specialists to generate gold ore and pearls.
- Manufacture jewelry with a trade union setup that substitutes pearls and gold for gold ore input and provides extra pocket watches.
- Export jewelry and related items for high trade value.
Gramophone and Mixed Goods Production
- Trade union boosts gramophone factory productivity, includes extra goods like glasses, steam carriages, and pocket watches.
- Requires brass input, which lacks shortcuts; consider workforce specialists to ease labor requirements.
Department and Policy Optimization
- Use palace departments to further increase productivity for coastal industries.
- Department of trade can boost productivity by 300%+.
- Department of culture supports item specialist collection and public mooring guest rates.
Specialist Item Acquisition Tips
- Most legendary (gold) specialists are researched at the Research Institute.
- Epic (purple) specialists can often be bought from Eli or Isabel traders.
Recommendations / Advice
- Regularly check production versus demand ratios to prevent bottlenecks.
- Research or acquire key specialists to unlock the highest value chains.
- Experiment with department policies to maximize building productivity on coastal and inland setups.
Action Items
- TBD – Viewer: Apply these production chain combos and tips in your Anno 1800 city to optimize exports.
- TBD – Player: Acquire key specialists via research or traders to enhance production chains.
- TBD – Player: Adjust import/export item tiers to unlock higher export volumes and improve trade efficiency.