Anno 1800 Needs Calculators Overview

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

Calculators under each section support the content up to that season. Those that support the most game content are listed first.

Season 4

	DuxVitae	Acidello
Recommended for	Advanced players - strategic planning	Advanced players - very detailed customization
Input	Pop. / Houses Public Buildings, Iron Lady (optional) Existing Factories, Items, Effects (optional)	Houses Production buildings (mandatory) Public Buildings, Iron Tower Items (optional) Cultural Sets, Festivals (optional)
Output	Buildings tons/min Workforce	Houses/Prod. Buildings/Piers Workforce (OW/CT commuter piers) tons/min Income/Influence/R.P. Balance Happiness Attractiveness
Language	All	en
DLC	All	All except DLC 11 "Empire of the Skies"
Chains Overview	Yes (required buildings)	No
Construction Material	Yes	Yes
Boosts	Yes	Yes
Silos, tractor barns	Yes	Yes
Filter/Grouping	Product Category	Region & workforce type
Multi Islands	Yes	Yes
Export	Yes	Spreadsheet
Lock Needs	Yes	Yes
Consumption Reduction	Newspaper, Sets, Items, Recipes & Iron Tower	Newspaper, Sets, Items, Palace, Hacienda, Recipes & Iron Tower
Replace Inputs	Yes	Yes
Select Producer	Yes	Yes
Extra Goods	Yes	Yes
Exclusive Features	Clipped buildings Extract statistics from the running game Customize displayed information Commuter pier	Clipped buildings Restock Rates and Game Progression Level for NPC traders Consumption from World's Fair Exhibits Research Institute workforce management Influence & Influence Bonuses Ship management Addition of custom (modded) items

Season 2

	Plan 1800 (Auipga)	Schwubbe	Suhrmann	Anno 1800 Assistant	A9C
Recommended for	Advanced players - fine grained planning	Beginners - apply basic modifications	Beginners - simple and limited	Advanced players - orverview for many islands	Beginners - good transfer between two islands
Input	Houses Existing Buildings (mandatory) Island Resources Items Culture-Sets	Pop. Material, Workforce (per chain)	Pop. / Houses	Pop. / Houses Existing Buildings (optional)	Pop. / Houses
Output	t/min (Over- / Under-production)	Chains t/min Construction Costs (per chain)	Chains t/min Construction Costs, Workforce (per chain)	Chains t/min Population	Chains t/min
Language	de, en	All	en	en	de, en
DLC	All	No Palace, Bright Harvest	No Palace, Bright Harvest	No Palace	No Palace, Bright Harvest
Chains Overview	No (just highlights on mouse over)	Yes (full chains, construction cost)	Yes (full chains, construction cost)	Yes (required buildings)	Yes (required buildings, utilized capacity)
Construction Material	Yes	No	Yes	No	No
Boosts	Yes	Yes	No	Yes	Yes
Silos, tractor barns	Yes	No	No	Yes	No
Filter/Grouping	Product Category, manual	Custom Categories	Luxury Goods	Island, Population Level	Luxury Goods
Multi Islands	Yes (mandatory)	No	No	Yes	Yes
Export	Yes	No	No	Yes	Yes
Lock Needs	Yes	No	No	No	No
Consumption Reduction	Sets, Items	Newspaper	-	-	-
Replace Inputs	Yes	No	No	No	No
Select Producer	Yes	No	Coal and Veneers	No	No
Extra Goods	Yes	No	No	No	No
Exclusive Features	Coop (multiple players can interact at the same time) Town Hall / 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

Season 1

Properties of Calculators

Calculator	Input	Output	Platform	Boosts	Construction Materials	DLC	Multi Islands	Export	Extras
Lord Alderaan	Houses / Prod. Buildings	Buildings t/min	Spreadsheet	Yes	No	No	Yes (up to 4)	No
DudeLvl1	Pop. / Houses Existing Buildings (optional)	Buildings t/min Workforce	Spreadsheet	Yes	Yes	No	No	Yes	Chain modifiers Banned goods Extra goods Workforce modifiers

Legend

• 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.