This is Soap in Anno 180. Soap is a consumer product that is required for the advancement of your population. Soap is produced at the Soap Factory from the Tallow that comes from the Rendering Works that in turn gets its Pigs from a Pig Farm. The Soap Factory will produces two tons of Soap per minute.
Who needs it
In this section we will look at what population tiers requires Soap and for what purpose. Soap is a basic need of both the Workers and the Artisans. It is also a Lifestyle need of both Farmers and Engineers.
| Tier | 1 ton supplies | Extra to Residences | Income |
|---|---|---|---|
| Workers | 240 Residences or 4800 Workers | 2 | +5/+4.5/+4 |
| Artisans | 120 Residences or 3600 Artisans | 4 | +15/+13.5/+12 |
As we can see from this table supplying your Worker and Artisan residents with Soap will increase the no. of residents to each residences. It will also give a boost to your income depending on which tier we look at.
Next we will look at the Lifestyle Need for your Farmers and Engineers
| Tier | Extra to Residences | Income |
|---|---|---|
| Farmers | 1 | +1.875/+1.6875/+1.5 |
| Engineers | 2 | +7.5/+6.75/+6 |
As we can see from the table above it does not give a great amount of increase to your Residential properties. You will however get some extra income when you supply the Lifestyle need of these two tiers of your population.
Trading Soap
Lets now take a look at trading Soap in Anno 1800.
| Trade Type | Buying/Selling Rate | Where from |
|---|---|---|
| Passive Selling | $96 Credits per ton | Traders to your harbour |
| Passive Buying | $240 Credits per ton | Traders to your harbour |
| Active Selling | $384 Credits per ton | Eli Bleakworth |
When we look at this table we can see that when a trader comes to your harbour and purchases Soap from you they will pay you $96 Credits per ton. On the other hand when a trader comes to your harbour and sells you Soap it you will have to pay $240 Credits per ton. As you can see from the bottom row of the table you can sell to Eli Bleakworth for £384 Credits per ton.
How to set up trading
As we can see from the table above there are two options for trading Soap. 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 Soap on Expeditions
Their are many items that can be taken on expeditions in Anno 1800. When you take certain items on expeditions they will grant you certain benefits depending on what you take. Soap is one of those items that can be taken and will give you 15 bonus points to Medicine and 50 bonus points to Morale for every 50 tons taken.
How to make Soap
This is the Soap Production Chain in Anno 1800.
This is the Soap Production Chain. It is a very simple chain of buildings that you will have to build. As you can see you will require two Pig Farms that will transfer Pigs to the Rendering Works for the production of Tallow. This Tallow will then lead in to the Soap Factory for the production of Soap. This layout will produce two tons of Soap per minute.