The Proofing House is a type of silver building in Fall of the Samurai.
Description[]
Silver armour can stop any bullet.
Silver mining can be enormously profitable, and additional investment in this province will bring in extra, taxable income. Silver can be found as nuggets or, as it is reactive and unlike gold, as compounds with other elements. It is also a by-product of other kinds of mining, either from the tailings or because silver is often found in the same rock strata. This can make silver mining or recovery a hazardous business for the workers, as lead or arsenic poisoning are horrible ways to die.
Nevertheless, silver is an attractive metal, and has been long valued and used by people as coinage and jewellery. It has also had medical uses, both for instruments and as a treatment for a variety of complaints. Before the arrival of modern antibiotics, it was recognised that silver could treat some infections; this is because the metal is toxic to some microbes and fungi. The medical benefits, though, are entirely outweighed by its use as treasure.
General Information[]
Requires Silver Smelting Plant, 10 turns, 9,000 koku.
- +1500 to wealth generated by mines in this province
Silver is not a resource that can be traded; instead, it simply provides a large increase of wealth. Proofing houses add 700 wealth to their predecessors, requiring 70-84 turns to pay for themselves assuming default tax rate and depending on whether the unhappiness generated needs to be offset by garrison troops.
Silver vaults are the traditional upgrade from proofing houses, and compete with proofing houses for the final upgrade. Proofing houses pay for themselves more quickly, especially if the region has good public order, and then continue to generate more money per turn after they have paid for themselves. The only real advantages silver vaults have are that they do not require trade with Western powers to build, and that they do not increase modernisation.
| Silver Vault | Proofing House | |
|---|---|---|
| Wealth | +1500 | +1800 |
| Modernisation | 0 | +3 |
| Happiness | 0 | -2 |
Provinces with the silver specialty include (from east to west): Bingo and Omi.