Fertility

Plant Fertilities

Fertility defines which plants (such as Rice or Tea) can live on an island. Islands may have up to 4 fertilities and up to 1 free fertility slot (indicated by a question mark). An island's fertility can be seen directly below the island's name. Production buildings that depend on a certain fertility will not fuction unless that fertility is present on their island.

A red 'missing fertility' icon will be displayed over buildings when this happens, and then the related buildings should be relocated to an island with the required fertility or the missing fertility cultivated on their island!

Note: Fertilites are infinite, the production farms using them will remain active as long as the fertility exists on their island.

Required fertilities for the Needs of all 4 class Residences of each Faction:

Land Fertilities

Ecos	Tea	Rice	Vegetable	Fruit	Durum Wheat	Corn
Tycoons	Rice	Vegetable	Truffle	Grapes	Sugar
Techs	Coffee	Sugar	Corn*

* with Deep Ocean expansion

Underwater Fertilities

Ecos	Algae	Manganese	Diamond
Tycoons	Algae	Manganese	Diamond
Techs	Algae	Sponge*

* with Deep Ocean expansion

Cultivating new fertilities

Seed items in warehouse

To add a new fertility you must purchase the appropriate Seeds from NPC Arks or research engineered replicas in the Academy. Then socket the item in the desired island's warehouse and activate it. The island will now have this fertility until you remove the item from the socket, at which point the item is destroyed and any existing buildings using this fertility will become inactive.

Available seeds for Plant Fertilities:

Type	Quality	Icon	Name	Effect	Description	Costs
			Rice Seeds	: Rice	Small rice seedlings
			Sugar Beet Seeds	: Sugar Beet	A few beet seeds
			Tea seeds	: Tea	Green Tea and Peppermint.
			Vegetable Seeds	: Vegetable	Various vegetables
			Fruit Seeds	: Fruit	Rich in vitamins and tasty.
			Durum wheat seeds	: Durum Wheat	Valuable dietary fiber.
			Corn Seed	: Corn	Not only chicken like this.
			Coffee Seed	: Coffee	For a fresh roasted aroma.
			Grape Seed	: Grape	The noblest grapes.
			Truffle Seed	: Truffles	Finest fungal spores

Raw Material Deposits

An island's Raw Materials allow for collection of

The Resource bar

raw goods, such as Iron or Basalt. Every island has a set of native Raw materials, these can be viewed by opening the Resource bar using the small 'expand' arrow next to an island's Fertility display.

Each Raw material present is shown as small bars next to the resource icons. Materials non-native to and not present on the island are indicated by a hyphen (-). When resources are plenty, the bar is green. As the available quantities are depleted, the bar turns yellow and finally red when remaining supplies are almost gone. The total number of exploitable Mines is also displayed here.

Unlike plant fertilities, an island's Raw materials are finite and will run out eventually. The corresponding production buildings stop functioning when a Raw material type is exhausted, but they can be replaced by buying resource refill items from NPC Arks or researching them in the Laboratory. Once a probe is activated, it can't be unsocketed. It replenishes material over the time shown, and then disappears:

Type	Quality	Icon	Name	Effect	Description	Costs
			Basalt probe	: Granules : 2400 : 05:00	Reaches even the most inaccessible rock strata.
			Copper probe	: Copper : 1500 : 05:00	Distinguishes porphyry from copper every time.
			Iron ore probe	: Iron Ore : 2400 : 05:00	Improved yield through ferrite sensors.
			Coal probe	: Coal : 18,000 : 05:00	Follows the seams all the way down.
			Limestone probe	: Limestone : 1200 : 05:00	If there's Limestone here, we'll find it.
			Uranium probe	: Uranium : 600 : 05:00	Analyzes the Uranium content of the rubble.
			Oil probe	: Crude Oil : 2700 : 05:00	Expert AI for stratigraphy.
			Gold probe	: Gold Nuggets : 600 : 05:00	... does not fall for fool's gold.
			Sand probe	: Sand : 30000 : 05:00	... for new Sand basins
			Lobster pheromones	: Lobster : 9000 : 05:00	… irresistible to crustaceans.

Note: Only Raw material sources native to an island can be replenished. Resource refill items will not activate for resource types that were not present on an island at the start of the game.

Underwater Plateaus

Like islands, underwater plateaus feature up to 4 fertilities however no fertilities can be cultivated underwater.

Underwater fertilies include: Algae , Diamond , Manganese Nodule and Black Smoker . In the Deep Ocean expansion Black Smokers are no longer a fertility and a new fertility, Sponge cultures is present.

A unique feature to Underwater islands are Black Smokers. These cease activity up to 10 hours after starting a game. When they turn inactive you can mine Iron, Copper, Gold or Uranium (or Platinum in Deep Ocean) without using a deposit; and therefore without depleting resources. These infinite underwater supplies of Raw materials are valuable in long-term games, as they are exploitable infinitely wihout needing to refill them. It is also possible to manually stop the activity of a Black Smoker by developing technologies in the Academy under "Fertilities and Resources":

Please note that these items are not longer available in the Deep Ocean expansion.

Type	Quality	Icon	Name	Effect	Description	Costs
			Aurogenic Chemicals	: Gold Nuggets	... and down deep: the Gold!	8,500 · 250 · 20 · 25 · 3
			Uranogenic Chemicals	: Uranium	The Deposits are far from being exhausted!	8,500 · 250 · 20 · 25 · 3
			Cuprogenic Chemicals	: Copper	Demand for Copper continues!	8,500 · 250 · 20 · 25 · 3
			Ferrogenic Chemicals	: Iron Ore	The seabed is rich in Iron ore!	8,500 · 250 · 20 · 25 · 3
			Manganogenic Chemicals	: Manganese	There are many Deposits worth mining under the sea...	8,500 · 250 · 20 · 25 · 3
			Carbonogenic Chemicals	: Diamonds	Treasures from the bowels of the Earth.	8,500 · 250 · 20 · 25 · 3