The salt mine is the smallest and cheapest of all the mines. Mines all produce a fairly small, but steady trickle of income. You can only build mines in provinces which have deposits of these natural resources in them. Acumen, droughts, corrupt governors, taxation levels all have no effect on mine income. Mine income is very stable and is not affected by any other factor. Ports will generate a small amount of income if a foreign power is selling goods to your province, however this income is tiny normally 5-15 florin. If there are trade goods in the province ports are needed for those goods to be sold abroad. Your armies can move from one port to another, provided you have a string of ships between the two ports, and there are no hostile ships in the way. Agents can jump from a province with a port to any other province with a port.

Requirements: Province must be on sea coast.

Border Forts give your population an even greater sense of security and thus a larger boost to happiness (+30 boost). They also act like you have a spy in your province enemy spies and assassins can be caught while they are in a province with border forts.

Requirements: Watch Tower (replaces Watch Tower)īorder Forts have the same ability to see into neighboring provinces as Watch Towers do.

Watch towers let you see into neighboring provinces, letting you examine in detail the troops and buildings located there. They give your population an increased sense of security and increases happiness (+20 boost). Watch towers are a basic, cheap building which should be placed in every province.

Medieval total war building tree