The Cotton Weaving Shed is a type of industrial chain building in Fall of the Samurai.
Description[]
Tomorrow always comes in a stranger's garb.
A cotton weaving shed adds to the wealth of a province, and helps industry to grow. Cotton is not a native plant to Japan, so this building implies more contact with outsiders, making the process of modernising slightly easier. Access to cotton is required before the shed can be built.
Almost without exception, craft looms are powered by the craftsman, or craftswoman, making the cloth. The work is, as a result, physically quite hard. Power looms, first developed in England in the early 1700s were less tiring to use. They were first driven by waterwheels, and only later by coal-fired steam engines. The first mills built were all on hillsides in Northern England, precisely to take advantage of the force of water when it flows downhill. Japan, whatever else it may lack, does not suffer from a shortage of steep hillsides! Simple power looms are therefore easy to install.
General Information[]
Requires 3,900 koku, 6 turns, Cottage Industry, cotton resource. Can be upgraded to Factory.
- +1200 to wealth generated by industrial buildings in this province
- +3 per turn to town growth from industrial buildings within this province
- -2 to happiness from modernisation
Clan Effects
- +3 to modernisation (clan development)
Compared to the other upgrade choices of cottage industries, Craft Workshops and Silk Weaving Sheds, cotton weaving sheds produce more wealth over time, but grant less initial wealth, generate more unhappiness, and are more costly and time-consuming to build. They also provide the largest boost to modernisation.
Cotton weaving sheds pay for themselves in 26-28 turns, paying for themselves significantly more slowly than their counterparts. However, they provide the highest growth per turn, so they are the most profitable after they have returned their investment. Cotton weaving sheds are best built if factories are unavailable for a long time. However, if factories are immediately available, its competitors are better choices for their cheaper cost and faster build time.
| Craft Workshop | Silk Weaving Shed | Cotton Weaving Shed | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Required Resource | Silk | Cotton | |
| Construction Cost | 3500 | 3800 | 3900 |
| Construction Time | 5 | 4 | 6 |
| Wealth | +1250 | +1300 | +1200 |
| Growth | +1 | +1 | +3 |
| Modernisation | +2 | +1 | +3 |
| Happiness | -1 | -1 | -2 |