Canned Food in Anno 1800

This is Canned Food in Anno 1800. This is a consumer product that that is produced at the Cannery. Canned Food will require both Goulash that is produced by the Artisanal Kitchen and Iron from an Iron Mine. The Cannery will produce 0.67 tons per minute of Canned Food.


Who needs Canned Food

Canned Food is a basic need for a few classes in your population. These classes are Artisans, Engineers, Technicians and Scholars.

Tier1 ton suppliesExtra to ResidencesIncome
Artisans57 Residences or 1733 Artisans 4+7.5/+6.75/+6
Engineers65 Residences or 2617 Engineers12+20/+18/+16
Technicians43 Residences or 866 Technicians3+12.5/+11.25/+10
Scholars120 Residences or 2600 Scholars19

As we can see from the table above Canned Food will give a good amount of income. It will also increase your residence population.


Trading Canned food

In this section we will look at trading Canned Food in Anno 1800.

Trading TypeBuying/Selling RateWhere from
Passive Selling$450 Credits per tonTraders to your harbour
Passive Buying$1126 Credits per tonTraders to your harbour

When we look at this table we can see that when a trader comes to your harbour and purchases Canned Food from you they will pay you $450 Credits per ton. On the other hand when a trader comes to your harbour and sells you Canned Food you will have to pay $1126 Credits per ton.

How to set up trading

As we can see from the table above there are two options for trading Canned Food. These are both for passive 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.

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.


Taking Canned Food on Expeditions

Their are many items that you can take on expeditions. When you take these items on expeditions they will give you added benefits. If we take Canned Food on expeditions they will give you extra rations along with 40 bonus points to Morale per 50 tons taken.


How to make Canned Food

In this section we will look at how to make Canned Food in Anno 1800.

Canned food

This is the Canned Food Production Chain in Anno 1800.

Canned Food production in Anno 1800

This s the layout for the Canned Food Production Chain. As we an see form the layout we have both eight Cattle Farms and eight Red Pepper Farms that will go directly to the eight Artisanal Kitchens that you will need to build. The Goulash that the Artisanal Kitchen will make will go to the six Canneries. We can also see that we need to send Iron to the Cannery so that the final product is made. This layout will produce four tons of Canned Food per minute.