Anno 1800 Needs Calculators Overview

A quick overview over the need calculators floating around on the web. See also Needs.

Best calculators
	DuxVitae	Schwubbe	Suhrmann
Recommended for	Advanced players - strategic planning	Beginners - apply basic modifications	Beginners - simple and limited
Input	Pop. / Houses Existing Buildings, Items, Effects (optional)	Pop. Material, Workforce (per chain)	Pop. / Houses
Output	Buildings t/min Workforce	Chains t/min Construction Costs (per chain)	Chains t/min Construction Costs, Workforce (per chain)
Language	All	All	en
DLC	All	No Tourist Season	No Palace, Bright Harvest, Docklands, or Tourist Season
Chains Overview	Yes (required buildings)	Yes (full chains, construction cost)	Yes (full chains, construction cost)
Construction Material	Yes	No	Yes
Boosts	Yes	Yes	No
Silos, tractor barns	Yes	No	No
Filter/Grouping	Product Category	Custom Categories	Luxury Goods
Multi Islands	Yes	No	No
Export	Yes	No	No
Lock Needs	Yes	No	No
Consumption Reduction	Newspaper, Sets, Items	Newspaper	-
Replace Inputs	Yes	No	No
Select Producer	Yes	No	Coal and Veneers
Extra Goods	Yes	No	No
Exclusive Features	Extract statistics from the running game Customize displayed information Palace effects Trade contracts to exchange goods (docklands)

	Plan 1800 (Auipga)	Anno 1800 Assistant	A9C
Recommended for	Advanced players - fine grained planning No longer maintained	Advanced players - orverview for many islands	Beginners - good transfer between two islands
Input	Houses Existing Buildings (mandatory) Island Resources Items Culture-Sets	Pop. / Houses Existing Buildings (optional)	Pop. / Houses
Output	t/min (Over- / Under-production)	Chains t/min Population	Chains t/min
Language	de, en	en	de, en
DLC	No Docklands or Tourist Season; Palace and Land of Lions in beta state	No Palace, Docklands or Tourist Season	No Palace, Bright Harvest, Docklands or Tourist Season
Chains Overview	No (just highlights on mouse over)	Yes (required buildings)	Yes (required buildings, utilized capacity)
Construction Material	Yes	No	No
Boosts	Yes	Yes	Yes
Silos, tractor barns	No (WIP)	Yes	No
Filter/Grouping	Product Category, manual	Island, Population Level	Luxury Goods
Multi Islands	Yes (mandatory)	Yes	Yes
Export	Yes	Yes	Yes
Lock Needs	Yes	No	No
Consumption Reduction	Sets, Items (WIP: Newspaper)	-	-
Replace Inputs	Yes	No	No
Select Producer	Yes	No	No
Extra Goods	Yes	No	No
Exclusive Features	Coop (multiple players can interact at the same time) Townhall / Lodge items: Bonus Supply Provided Needs Productivity Items Festival and culture set boosts (some)	Trade balance management	Two islands shown next to each other Toggle selection of population tiers

Outdated Calculators

Properties of Calculators
Calculator	Input	Output	Platform	Boosts	Construction Materials	DLC	Multi Islands	Export	Extras
Glkwhr	Pop. / Houses	Buildings t/min Workforce	Web	Yes	No	No	No	No
Robert Linsener	Pop. / Houses	Chains Buildings t/min Workforce Maintenance Construction Costs	Mobile App	Only Electricity	No	Until Arctic	No	No	Search function
Unbyte	Pop.	Chains Construction Costs	Mobile App	No	Yes	No	No	No
Deathwings	Pop. / Houses	Chains Buildings Workforce	Web + Desktop	Yes	Yes	No	Yes	Yes
DudeLvl1	Pop. / Houses Existing Buildings (optional)	Buildings t/min Workforce	Spreadsheet	Yes	Yes	No	No	Yes	Chain modifiers Banned goods Extra goods Workforce modifiers
Almighty	Pop.	Buildings	Spreadsheet	Only Electricity	No	No	No	Yes	Tile amount computation for custom farm configurations

Extract Statistics: Download and run AnnoCalculatorServer → open the statistics menu in Anno → the calculator automatically updates population, boosts, and existing buildings when the statistics menu is open
Boosts: Productivity of factories can be modified (e.g. to reflect working conditions, items, ...).
Construction Materials: Production chains for construction materials included.
DLC: Effects from the specified DLCs can be incorporated.
Multi islands: Create individual islands with separate production chains and population.
Export: Save and switch between multiple savegames.
Pop.: Population, i.e. enter number of inhabitants.
Chains: Display number of chains and (optionally) number of buildings within each chain.
Buildings: Display total number of buildings per factory.
t/min: Display production in tons per minute.
Workforce: Display required workforce of each tier.
Replace Inputs: Apply items that change the input of a factory (e.g grain instead of flour).
Consumption Reduction: Consider effects that reduce the consumption (e.g. newspaper, zoo sets, ...).
Locked Needs: Set the consumption of some good to zero or apply items that have the same effect.
Extra goods: Apply items that generate goods other than the normal factory output.
Select Producer: In case several factories produce the same good, select which one should be used for calculation.