Mill

In-game Description

"Generates energy for the colony."

General Information

Mills are the basic and primary producers of energy for the settlement. Mills have to be separated by at least 4 cells from other mills, including Advanced Mills. Mills can't be built next to most other buildings.

Mills can be upgraded to Advanced Mills, once the technology has been researched at a Foundry.

Strategy and Tips

  • It is most efficient to build Mills next to impassable terrain and other buildings that have empty space requirements.
  • Avoid building fields of diagonally parallel mills. It's difficult to place anything productive between them. Lines of houses will not benefit from bank and market and will make troop movement difficult, and farms will have field space wasted.
  • Mills are very cheap energy providers with low maintenance costs, but require unreasonable amount of space. Wood shortages are fairly rare, so it's better to eventually switch to Power Plants, and use mills as auxiliary power source whenever an empty spot appears.

Comparison of efficiency of different energy sources