The Copper Refinery is a type of copper mining chain building in Fall of the Samurai.
Description[]
There is wisdom in foreigners: the copper-bottomed guarantee for a start!
This province contains enough copper deposits to be worth mining. With further investment and time, these will become even more profitable, and enable ships to be constructed with copper bottoms.
Copper mining and, more particularly, refining and smelting the metal, are unpleasant and polluting businesses. This is outweighed, though, by the benefits of having industrial amounts of copper available. Many early telegraph cables, including undersea ones, were made from copper wire as the metal has low resistance to electric currents. However, its uses in shipbuilding were more relevant to anyone warlike: plating the bottom of a ship with copper sheets stopped all kinds of marine worms, and prevented barnacles and weeds from getting a hold on the hull. Ships lasted longer, were cheaper to maintain because they needed fewer repairs, and could achieve a better top speed for much of their service life.
General Information[]
Requires Open-pit Copper Mine, 3800 koku, 4 turns. Can be upgraded to Anode Furnace or Smelting Mill.
- -10% to the cost of modern units in this province
- +20 tonnes of high quality copper
- +2 to town growth from trade within this province
- +200 wealth generated by mines within this province
Copper buildings generate copper, a profitable resource. Modern units (all units enabled by the modern military chain) trained in provinces with a copper specialty have discounted training costs. This makes copper specialty regions good regions to train armies from, particularly for poor factions. Wealthy factions, however, may find buildings with a smithing specialty more useful instead, as these buildings have direct benefits for units in combat. The final tier of copper buildings reduces modern unit costs for all provinces, however, so capturing as many copper specialty provinces as possible can save a good deal of money.
Copper provides no discounts for artillery; instead, provinces with iron reduce costs of artillery. Traditional units receive discounts from the holy site buildings instead.
Provinces with copper include (from east to west): Bungo, Iyo, Kai, and Hitachi.