Ultimate Potato farm guide: producing Potatoes in Anno 1800

This is the Potato farm in Anno 1800. This is the start of the Schnapps production chain.

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Description

The Potato Farm in Anno 1800 is one of the very first production buildings you’ll rely on, and it quickly becomes essential in the early game. Once it’s up and running, the farm produces one ton of potatoes every 30 seconds, which you can then route either to a Schnapps distillery or directly to a Warehouse for storage. As you plan your layout, remember that the Potato Farm itself occupies a 3×3 footprint; however, to reach full efficiency, you’ll also need to leave enough surrounding space to place all 72 required fields. This makes early planning especially important, since efficient placement helps keep your production smooth from the very beginning.

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What is produced

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Improvements

To improve the Potato farm in Anno 1800 is simply the way that you can ensure that maximum production is reached. The placement of the farm is essential in achieving this. In the first section we will look at the placement to ensure maximum productivity. In the second section we will look at the Trade union in which you can add items to.

Placement

When planning the placement of a Potato Farm in Anno 1800, it’s essential to choose an area with enough open land to accommodate all 72 fields. Since the fields occupy far more space than the building itself, you’ll need to look for a location that gives you plenty of room to expand. Once you’ve identified a suitable spot, it helps to think about layout efficiency. In particular, using a square arrangement is a smart approach, as it keeps the farm compact and easy to manage. As a result, you’ll find it much simpler to move, copy, and paste the farm later in the game, especially as your production network grows.

Here is a single potato farm that has been placed down. It has a 9×9 layout including the fields as well.

Trade union

The Trade union is a building that you can place items into. When placing items into the Trade union you will notice that they have different properties. These are some of the items that can assist the productivity of the potato farm in Anno 1800.

Item name	Effect	Rarity/Notes
Ploughman	+10% productivity	Common
Grower	-75% maintenance cost	Uncommon Expedition bonus – +20 crafting
Happy homesteader	+50% productivity, +25% increase in fields	Rare Expedition bonus – +30 crafting
Alexander Hancock	+80% Productivity, +35% increase in fields	Rare Expedition bonus – +25 faith +20 medicine
Hybrid Potato Sprouts	+25% productivity, Potato fertility provided	Epic
Yvonne the Yoewoman	+40% productivity	Epic Expedition bonus – +40 crafting +20 faith
Cosmo Castell – Argronomic Trailblazer	+70 productivity, -80% workforce needed, +35% increase in fields	Legendary Expedition bonus – +50 crafting +30 diplomacy

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Layout

These are some layouts for the Potato farm in Anno 1800. Remember when placing farms it easier to create them as squares as they can be copied much easier. Lets have a look at some layouts using the potato farm.

Option 1

In this layout we have a very simple one farm layout. This farm leads directly in to the Schnapps distillery and then into a Warehouse.

Here we can see the very simple layout. In this layout the production is one ton of potatoes every 30 seconds or two tons per minute.

Option 2

In this layout we can see that we now have four farms. These are laid out again so that they can be moved and copies easier. Here we can see it paired with the Warehouse so that we can collect the potatoes in an efficient manor.

In this layout the potato farms will produce four tons of potatoes every 30 seconds or eight tons every minute. In this layout we have also place down the Schnapps distillery to process the potatoes.

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