To add a new fertility you must purchase the appropriate seeds from either Northburgh or Al Zahir. A question mark will be listed in the fertilities display to indicate this. In this sense, it’s much more like a natural resource, although it’s considered a fertility since it can be produced anywhere on an island that has the appropriate fertility and not bound to a specific resource deposit.Ĭertain islands can have new fertilities for specific goods added to them.

(See special note below about clay.)Ĭlay is a unique product that is listed as a fertility although it doesn’t require fertile ground.

Clay: Harvested by clay pits to produce clay, which is used by mosaic workshops to produce mosaics, which are used to build many later oriental buildings.

The three livestock-based goods are listed below. This means they can be produced on northern or southern islands and there aren't any Seeds fertility items for them. This land is 100% fertile, and can grow all the universal fertility goods plus the goods that each southern island has the specific fertility for.Īll livestock-based goods can be produced wherever the ground is fertile and don’t need specific per-island fertilities. There are small tracts of land on southern islands that are green with palm trees growing on them. Multiple nearby norias can make desert lands super-fertile, see the noria exploit. This land ranges from about 66% fertile in the outer light green land ring to 100% fertile in the inner dark green land ring. Desert cannot grow anything on its own.ĭesert can be made fertile by building norias on it. Grassland are always 100% fertile, and can grow all the universal fertility goods plus the goods that each northern island has the specific fertility for.ĭesert only occurs on southern islands which are mostly desert. Grassland only occur on northern islands which are entirely this type of ground.

Fertility is the concept of whether or not certain types of ground can grow certain types of goods. These goods require adequate fertility in order to be grown. Many goods in Anno 1404 are produced from the ground.

Anno 1404 stone deposit