Obstacles

General Information Edit

There are different forms of Obstacles in the game. The main ones are annoyances such as trees, rocks, and oil seeps. You cannot construct buildings on space occupied by Obstacles or move Buildings there. Some Obstacles, such as Ruins that have been investigated, can be moved.

When clearing Forests, you may find trees, rocks, or other beneficial Obstacles that you can clean up to receive Food, Gold, or other bonuses such as Metal or Crowns. Obstacles with rewards such as these include Locked Chests, Amphora, Ruins, and Gold Deposits. Obstacles take one citizen to clear, except for Gold Deposits, which take two.

Periodic Obstacle Growth

Between logins and loading screens, trees will grow in empty spaces. Also, once you build an Oil Refinery after reaching the Enlightenment Age, Oil will periodically seep out of the ground as time passes (you have to have an Oil Refinery and be in the Enlightenment Age for this to happen). Trees and oil seeps will only grow/seep up on the south eastern and south western borders of your town.

TreesEdit

Type		Clearing Cost	Time
	Small Tree	50	30s
	Tree 1	1,000	45s
?	Tree 2	10,000	?
?	Tree 3	?	?
	Large Tree	10,000	60s

RocksEdit

Type		Clearing Cost	Clearing Time
	Small Rock	50	30s
	Rock	1,000	45s
	Large Rock	10,000	1m

Oil Seeps Edit

Type		Gained	Clearing Time
	Oil Seep	~200	30s

AmphoraEdit

Like Locked Chests, but rewards with Food and Cider

Locked ChestsEdit

Type		Clearing Time	Reward
	Small Locked Chest	15s	~200 ?
	Medium Locked Chest	45s	~515 1-3
	Large Locked Chest	1m	6,000~23,000 1-?

Gold DepositsEdit

• Medium Gold Deposit: 2 citizen, "There's gold in them there rocks", can be mined 3 times, ~2000 gold reward (real rewards scene: 2,205, 1,967, 2,149), +100 technology bonus, 20 sec time per mining, 40% chance of getting metal bars (real rewards seen: 2 metal bars, 3 metal bars).
• Large Gold Deposit: 2 citizen, "There's gold in them there rocks", can be mined 3 times, ~10,000 gold reward (real rewards scene: 13,649, 12,058, 13,562), +2,500 technology bonus, 20 sec time per mining, 60% chance of getting metal bars (real rewards seen: 0 metal bars, 0 metal bars, 0 metal bars).

RuinsEdit

Investigate to get crowns. Then you can move it like a tree or gold mine for decoration. It can be permanently sold for an increasing number of .

TechnologyEdit

The Exploration Technology confers several bonuses to clearing tree and rocks:

• Chapter 2: -50% clearing cost of Obstacles.
• Chapter 3: 5% chance of finding an animal when clearing Obstacles(does not apply to oil seeps).
• Chapter 4: +10% chance of finding an animal when clearing Obstacles(does not apply to oil seeps).

The Drilling Technology confers the following bonus:

• Chapter 4: +20% Oil gained from oil seeps.