Ultimate Pig farm guide: producing Pigs in Anno 1800

This is the Pig farm in Anno 1800. It is used for the production of pigs.

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Description

This is the Pig Farm in Anno 1800, and it plays a key role in both the Sausage and Soap production chains. When placing it, you need to plan ahead because each farm requires five styes. To reach 100% efficiency, you must place all five, each taking up a 2×3 area, so make sure you choose a location with plenty of open space.

As soon as you reach the Worker tier, the Pig Farm in Anno 1800 becomes available and quickly turns into an essential part of your supply network. Because it doesn’t require fertility, you can build it on any island, giving you flexibility in your layout.

Once built, the Pig Farm in Anno 1800 produces one ton of pigs per minute, feeding directly into the production chains you’ll rely on throughout the game.

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What is produced

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Improvements

Lets now take a look at the improvements that you can make to the Pig farm in Anno 1800. When dealing with the improvements for the Pig farm one of the most important things that you can do is plan transport links. It is essential that the pigs can be transported easily to the factories that need them. The next thing that can be done is adding items to the trade union.

Placement

The placement of your Pig Farm is one of the most important improvements you can make. To begin with, it’s best to place at least two Pig Farms at a time, since this makes copying and moving layouts much easier later on. From there, you can focus on refining the layout. Let’s start by looking at a basic single farm setup so you can build a clean, efficient foundation.

This is the simplest layout and you can easily just place a road along the one end of it and then a warehouse and you are ready to go.

Trade union

The next thing that can improve the Pig farm is by placing items into the Trade union. Here are some of the items that can be placed into the Trade union to benefit the pig farm.

Item name	Effect	Rarity/Notes
Water Distiller	+25% productivity +20% workforce needed	Uncommon
Fine Feed Yard	+ 70% productivity +35% maintenance	Rare
Livestock Farmer	+30 % productivity -60% workforce needed	Rare Expedition bonus – +30 hunting +10 medicine
Veterinary Antibiotics	+30% productivity	Rare Expedition bonus – +25 medicine
A Remedy	+40% productivity	Epic Expedition bonus – +40 medicine
Angelic Anthrax Vaccine	+40% productivity	Epic Expedition bonus – +35 medicine
Fabulous Feed Yard	+70% productivity +20% maintenance costs	Epic
Rodrigo the Rancher	-80% maintenance	Epic Expedition bonus – +40 hunting +20 navigation

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Layout

Let’s take a look at some layouts that can help you organise your Pig Farms in Anno 1800 effectively. To begin with, your layouts should always be designed so they can be copied easily as your demand for pigs increases. By planning this way, you save time later and keep your production lines consistent.

With that in mind, let’s explore a few layout options that make expansion simple and efficient.

Option 1

This is the first layout that we will look at. Here we have placed down two pig farms. As you can see they are interlocking to make a rectangle for easy copying or moving.

This layout will produce two tons of pigs per minute.

Option 2

In this layout, you’re now working with a four farm setup. As you can see, the design keeps a simple square or rectangular shape, which makes it easy to copy and expand later. In addition, the layout leaves open space around the farms, giving you room to add other buildings depending on the production chains you want to support in this area.

This layout will produce four tons of pigs every minute,

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