In Anno 1800 Potatoes are a Plant product and can only be produced in the Old World. Potatoes are a product that is needed in the early game for the production of Schnapps. You obtain Potatoes by placing down a Potato farm that will produce Potatoes of you. The Potato farm will produce 2 tons of Potatoes per minute. When getting Potatoes you will have to ensure tat the island that you place the Potato farm on has Potato fertility.
Trading Potatoes
In this section we will be looking at Trading Potatoes in your Anno 1800.
| Trading type | Buying/Selling | Where from |
|---|---|---|
| Passive Selling | $8 Credits per ton | Traders arrive at you island |
| Passive Buying | $20 Credits per ton | Traders arrive at your island |
| Active Selling | $32 Credits per ton | Sell to Eli Bleakworth |
When we look at this table we can see that when a trader comes to your harbour and purchases Potatoes from you they will pay you $8 Credits per ton. On the other hand when a trader comes to your harbour and sells you Potatoes it you will have to pay $20 Credits per ton. You can also set up an active trade to sell Potatoes to Eli Bleakworth. When you do this you will receive $32 Credits per ton.
How to set up trading
As we can see from the table above there are two options for trading Potatoes. These are passive trading and also active trading. You will notice that there are two options for passive trading and also one option for active trading. Lets take a look at these options now.
Passive trading
Passive trading is where a trader comes to your Trade post and trades with you. To allow passive trading to work you will first have to set it up. The first thing that you will need to do is to select your Trade post on your island and you will be faced with a screen where you can select the item for trading. Once you have selected the item a new menu will open up that will show a screen showing a menu with a slider on it. Move this slider to set the minimum amount of stock to hold on this island. You will also notice that there are four buttons on this screen for the type of trade to do.
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These are the buttons that you will be faced with on the trade type menu. They are No Trade, Buy and Sell, Sell or Buy. You can select these depending on what you wish to do for trade at this island. Once you have set these up traders will then trade with your island.
Active trading
As we can see the bottom two options on this table are for active trading. Active trading is where you will manually trade with NPC’s islands. There are two ways to carry out manual trading. The first one is to select one of your ships and then select the harbour that you wish it to go to. When the ship arrives you can then select the Trade post that you wish to trade with. Once you do this you will be faced with this screen.
Here we can see that on the left is our ship and on the right is Sir Archibald Blake’s island. To trade here all you have to do is select the goods on the right hand side and they will then go to the bottom centre section buying. The cost will also be displayed at the bottom. When the goods have been selected you can then trade them on to your ship. You can then send the ship back to one of your islands and transfer the goods from your ship.
The next way to active trade is to set up a trade route. Lets take a look at this now. When setting up a trade route you will first need to select a ship that you wish to go on to the trade route. When you select the ship you will need to locate the button that is two arrows in a circle. This will then open up the trade screen where you can select the islands that you wish your ship to move between. Once you have selected these you will then move on to the screen to set up the trade.
As we can see from the screenshot above we will load fifty tons of Steel Beams on to the ship whenever the ship arrives at High Clarence Hall. The ship will then move to Osthoven to unload. The ship will continue on this trade route until you cancel it.
Taking on Expeditions
Many items in Anno 1800 will give you benefits when you take them on expeditions. Expeditions are when you send your ships out of your current region and into another region. So for example an expedition could be that you have to go and find the New World. For these expeditions you will have the chance to take items with you on them. Different items will give you different benefits when taking them. Potatoes is one of those items that can be taken and will give you extra rations along with 5 bonus points to Medicine and 5 bonus points to Morale for every 50 tons taken.
Products that are made from Potatoes
In this section we will look at what products need Potatoes to be made.
Schnapps
This is the Schnapps Production Chain in Anno 1800
As we can see from this layout we will need to place one Potato farm and one Schnapps Distillery. This layout will produce two tons of Schnapps per minute.