Expeditions

A view of the World's Map, dotted with Golden Pins that hold icons, seen to the North and South of the Town, signifying the availability of Expedition opportunities.

Expeditions are an integral part of Anno 1800's gameplay and are unlocked by reaching the Artisan population tier. The first of these leads to the crucial discovery of New World and more become available afterwards. The majority of expeditions are meant to acquire useful items - such as exotic an​​​​​imals for zoos, artifacts for museums and various specialists.

Expeditions are launched by sending a single one of your ships on an unseen journey to distant lands. Expeditions are risky and to ensure the ship survives, a careful selection of additional cargo and/or passengers should be loaded aboard to aid the vessel and its crew. This risk comes in the form of challenges.

When a challenge crops up, the player will be informed by text and will need to make a choice on how the expedition should proceed. Challenges require skill to overcome and rations to maintain morale. When successful, challenges are resolved, might even yield rewards of their own, and the expedition is free to continue towards the destination's award. Failure on the other hand, can lead to the loss of additional morale, passengers, items or even the entire ship and expedition with it.

Types of expeditions

The Expedition Menu, showing the Expedition Type, Rewards and the recommended skills that the Expedition should bring along.

Each expedition is associated with a different award type. Their difficulty is designated by the amount of stars. Harder expeditions last longer, have more challenges and carry greater rewards.

• Region Expedition – Unlock a new Region to develop
• Archeological Expedition – Artifacts for Museums
• Zoological Expedition – Animals for Zoos
• Rescue Missions – Specialists
• Pirate Hunt – Various Rewards

Preparation, Skills and Challenge Choice

When the expedition encounters a challenge, players are given a choice on how to surmount it. These choices are usually associated with a specific skill.

As an example: A violent storm may challenge your expedition. You are then given a choice between usingFaith to weather the storm, or using Navigation to sail through it. Both Faith and Navigation are skills.

At the start of the expedition, The Captain will hand you his best estimation of the most important skills required to overcome the majority of the expedition's challenges. Aside from Extra Rations, which are nearly always recommended on long journeys, the categories of skill are as follows:

In this example, a challenge offers the player a choice between using the expedition's Faith or Navigation skills to overcome it. The Bosun Specialist in this example, adds additional change to beat the challenge through Navigation.

• Crafting
• Diplomacy
• Faith
• Force
• Hunting
• Medicine
• Navigation
• Naval Power

To supply the expedition with these skills, nearly all of Anno 1800's items, specialists and common resources come with a skill rating when put on board. Brought along, these give your expedition a bonus % chance to overcome challenges. Skill bonuses are additive and with proper preparation and some luck, most challenges should offer at least one choice that plays on the expedition's pool of skills.

As examples: A distiller specialist who would usually be slotted into your Trade Union to enhance liquor production, will give a +10 bonus to the Diplomacy skill when put onto your expedition's ship. Wood and Cannon, used mostly in construction and ship building, give bonuses to Crafting and Naval Power when sent along. The sword displayed in your museum or the bear in your zoo, might give Force. It is worth experimenting.

Also worth noting, is that since all ships have a finite amount of cargo space, bigger ships and careful curation of what is loaded on board, is important for expeditions. For a complete list of what ordinary resources can do for your expedition when taken along as supplies, see the table below the "Expedition Supplies" section of this page.

Morale and Supplies

During expeditions, morale serves as your ship's hitpoints and ranges from 0 morale to 100. The amount of starting morale can be raised by loading the ship with additional passengers and cargo.

Failing a challenge when the expedition is underway might lead to extra morale losses, but even when successfully overcome there is a standard -10 moral decrease after all challenges, likely because of the crew's homesickness. Upon reaching 0 morale, the expedition fails and the ship - including everything on board - is lost.

To mitigate the standard morale loss, the player is given a choice at the end of every challenge. These choices are:

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After every challenge, the player decides how to deal with the normal loss of moral, or if it's better to return the ship home and abandon the mission.

• Continue (-10 morale)
• Provide Extra Rations and Continue (At the cost of Extra Rations, decreases moral drop)
• Return Home (Ship returns safely with everything that was on board at the time of the decision to return home)

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While all common resources add to the ship's pool of supplies, only supplies that are labeled as "Extra Rations" can be used to mitigate the loss of morale. They are all edibles. Extra Rations can come with incidental bonuses to your expedition's skills to meet challenges, but they are of their own class of supplies - as can be seen in the "Expedition Supplies" table below. After all, while both Worker Clothes and Schnapps are listed as "Medicine Goods" and award +20 Medicine skill to your expedition, your crew can only drink one of these and only Schnapps is also considered an "Extra Ration".

At the start of an expedition, the extra morale awarded by loading the ship with extra passengers and cargo, is based on the person, or item's Base Morale and Skill Bonus statistics - as can be seen in the "Expedition Supplies" table below. Only the edible Extra Rations have a base morale value, but when they also possess an additional skill bonus alongside it, extra morale is awarded. This makes extra rations with bonus skills particularly useful to bring along.

Expedition Supplies

Extra Rations

	Extra Rations Goods	Base Morale	Skill Bonus per 50t	Combined Morale per 50t
	Beef	20	-	20
	Beer	20	+10 Diplomacy	40
	Canned Food	40	-	40
	Champagne	20	+30 Diplomacy	80
	Chocolate	50	-	50
	Cigars	10	+15 Diplomacy	40
	Corn	15	-	15
	Fish	15	-	15
	Flour	0	+5 Hunting	0
	Fried Plantains	10	-	10
	Goulash	25	-	25
	Grain	5	-	5
	Grapes	10	-	10
	Pigs	15	-	15
	Plantains	10	-	10
	Potatoes	10	-	10
	Red Peppers	10	-	10
	Rum	30	+15 Medicine	60
	Sausages	20	-	20
	Schnapps	15	+20 Medicine	55
	Tortillas	15	-	15

Crafting Goods

	Crafting Goods	Base Morale	Skill Bonus per 50t	Combined Morale per 50t
	Alpaca Wool	-	10	10
	Brass	-	15	15
	Caoutchouc	-	30	30
	Cement	-	20	20
	Copper	-	15	15
	Sails	-	20	20
	Sewing Machines	-	30	30
	Steel Beams	-	15	15
	Timber	-	20	20
	Wood	-	10	10
	Wool	-	10	10

Diplomacy Goods

	Diplomacy Goods	Base Morale	Skill Bonus per 50t	Combined Morale per 50t
	Beer	20	10	40
	Champagne	20	30	80
	Cigars	10	15	40
	Phonographs	0	20	20
	Jewelry	-	25	25

Faith Goods

	Faith Goods	Base Morale	Skill Bonus per 50t	Combined Morale per 50t
	Bread	10	5	20
	Light Bulbs	-	5	5

Hunting Goods

	Hunting Goods	Base Morale	Skill Bonus per 50t	Combined Morale per 50t
	Clay	-	10	10
	Coal	-	15	15
	Flour	-	5	5
	Fur	-	5	5
	Fur Coats	-	20	20
	Glass	-	10	10

Medicine Goods

	Medicine Goods	Base Morale	Skill Bonus per 50t	Combined Morale per 50t
	Cocoa	-	10	10
	Cotton	-	10	10
	Cotton Fabric	-	15	15
	Fish Oil	-	10	10
	Potatoes	10	5	20
	Rum	30	15	60
	Schnapps	15	20	55
	Soap	-	15	15
	Sugar	-	5	5
	Tobacco	-	10	10
	Work Clothes	-	20	20

Naval Power Goods

	Might Goods	Base Morale	Skill Bonus per 50t	Combined Morale per 50t
	Advanced Weapons	-	30	30
	Dynamite	-	20	20
	Weapons	-	15	15

Navigation Goods

	Navigation Goods	Base Morale	Skill Bonus per 50t	Combined Morale per 50t
	Pocket Watches	-	10	10
	Steam Motors	-	30	30