Ore Processing Plants are a type of gold building in Fall of the Samurai.
Description[]
Wealth is never dishonourable.
There is gold in this province and it is easily worked thanks to surface deposits. However, by investing in bigger and deeper mines, it is possible to greatly increase the wealth generated by this province. Gold is, of course, always welcome to any warlord because all wise commanders know that wars cannot be fought, let alone won, without wealth.
Gold mining is a dirty and dangerous business for the miners and surface workers. Their lives are likely to be short and brutal, and woe betide anyone who even thinks about stealing the wealth lying all around!
General Information[]
Requires 14,000 koku, 10 turns, machines resource, Goldfields.
- +2000 wealth
- -2 to happiness from modernisation
Clan Effects
- +3 to modernisation
Ore processing plants give a very large boost to region wealth (the largest initial boost of any building), making regions with them valuable targets to capture or loot. As an investment option, however, they are a very expensive building type that doesn't increase wealth that much.
Ore processing plants are a better investment option than their traditional rivals, Mints. Assuming standard tax rates, mints pay for themselves in 122 turns, while ore processing plants pay for themselves in 90-115 turns depending on if the increased public order penalty ore processing plants come with require garrison troops to offset. In any case, both have a very slow return compared to most other economic buildings. The only advantages of mints lie in the fact that they do not require foreign machines (and therefore foreign trade to be established) in order to be built.
| Mint | Ore Processing Plant | |
|---|---|---|
| Wealth | +1700 | +2000 |
| Modernisation | 0 | +3 |
| Happiness | 0 | -2 |
Unlike some other resources, gold is not considered a resource for trade, and simply generates wealth. Regions with gold include (from east to west): Tsushima, Iwami, Sado, and Izu.