City layouts

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Old World

Town Hall Grid - Intense Investors

114 Skyscraper's (60 Level 5 Investor and 54 Level 3 Engineer) all covered by Town Hall and Post Office. Other buildings would be built around the outside. The setup of the roads is very important as it ensures full coverage of electricity by a single Oil Power Plant as long as it's placed at the North or South Corners.

The Investor Skyscraper's all have Intense Panorama effect.

The Influence gain on HARD is 2 per Investor Skyscraper (120) and 1 per Engineer Skyscraper (54) for a total of 174. This value depends on your game settings.

The Level 3 Engineering Skyscraper's can be replaced with Level 4 Investor Skyscraper's for more Influence and Population if desired.

The layout can easily be scaled up if needed (see below).

Buildings: 60I 54E • 1 • 1
Construction costs: 381,000 • 4,620 • 2,310 • 6,120 • 3,810 • 2,310 • 1,824 Elevators
Maintenance: -377,325 • +174
Size: 40x44	Tiles: 1,760	Space Efficiency: 61%
Population: Investor: 43,800 | Engineer: 15,120
Author:  Lambs2Lions • Source:

Small (80-Residence) Farmer/Worker City

A small, modular 80-residence layout providing 100% coverage of all public services (minus police station). This is good for production islands (workers are all you need if you slot trade union items that substitute Artisan/Engineer productions to use Worker workforce) as the layout is easily repeatable, and is compact enough to fit into small spaces.

Buildings: 80 • 1 • 1 • 1 • 1 • 1
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Size: 36x36	Tiles:	Space Efficiency: 67%
Author:  Bagheera • Source:

World Exhibition Metropolis

A Tier V layout which contains 762 houses and is completely self-sustaining and modular with nearly full coverage of services.

Monotypes

Designed to be internally modular to fit desired class. Excellent coverage of all public buildings save for the fire houses, mind the gap. Squared to stack next to other cities, total pops. descend in class. I>E>A>W>F. Build along the outside edges then move to replace old public buildings for max pops. Made for medium to large islands.

Easy Engineers

So this city is a variant of the one Madaahk posted, it's a hybrid (Nature/Efficient) build mainly focused on reaching Engineers as soon as possible.

The city has full coverage of every service, it's not the most space effcient one (70%).

You should start by building the left half of the city, sustain it with the correct amount of farms (2). After you reached Workers on the inner square, you can start building the second half and upgrade them to Artisans.

This city won't make you alot of money.

Buildings: 886 • 4 • 4 • 2 • 2 • 2 • 2 • 1 • 1 • 1 • 1
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Size: 105x57	Tiles: 4044	Space Efficiency:
Author:  Losu Klipposu • Source:

Engineers/investor 100% Town hall

Based on CroquetteMaster layout this is a revamped 4 Modular house blocks for 100% coverage of town halls around your engineers and investor residences with nearly full coverage of services (full if you make use of the palace DLC), you can add services from lower tiers on the outskirts and delete them once they level up to engineers, also you can use a module/quarter of the layout for enbesa/new world to add workforce specialists/items and have full coverage of the town hall as well. Empty spots can be used for ornaments or more houses, but no town hall coverage on them

Buildings: 460 • 6 • 4 • 4 • 4 • 2 • 2 • 1 • 1 • 1
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Size: 88x80	Tiles:	Space Efficiency:
Author:  Ravell3184 • Source:

Superb City

A Tier V City layout which should fit on almost every big Island and is meant to be upgraded to 5940 Artisans (orange), 5120 Engineers (blue) and 11800 Investors (green) to be able to do the biggest Events in World's Fair. It has nearly complete coverage of all Services and Production Buildings can be placed next to the City-Streets to claim Power.

Note, that Marketplaces, (Police) and Pubs are no longer needed after upgrade and they should be replaced with Engineers.

(i) Numbers in Brackets are after complete Upgrade

Diamond City T5 with Worlds Fair

A symmetrical (to y-axis) T5 City Layout with complete coverage of all services for the different residents. It is possible to fit 6840 Artisans (yellow), 5040 Ingenieurs (purple) and 21800 Investors (green) in this city. The numbers in brackets are after complete upgrade (thx to YeeeehNo) of all buildings. If wanted, the Worlds Fair can be replaced by more Investors.

Veranika

A Tier V layout which which contains 346 houses and 2 Huge Parks. Without the Parks the city can fit 418 houses. I post Pictures of the City in the Comments. No Missunderstanding this time.

Tier 5 City with Worlds Fair

A Tier 5 city layout with World's Fair. All houses are covered with full public services including electricity if all roads are upgraded to paved roads, although houses in the middle north and south has a slightly lower coverage of Fire Station. This layout is appliable on most big flat islands and technically expandable in the middle towards north and south if the shape of the island allows. Free spaces in four corners are designed for beautifying use but can also be utilized as spare residence area and can be upgraded to tier 3 due to the lack of electricity coverage. The cost of paved roads, railway tiles, residences upgrade and World's Fair construction is not included in construction cost.

449 Investor Skyscrapers Covered by 4 Town Halls Modular Design

Each module contains 449 investor skyscrapers completely covered by 4 town halls. Town halls' influence circles are tangent to one another to maximize the space efficiency. Some skyscrapers are taken out to make space for shopping arcades and public buildings at the center of the layout. These modules center around 3 shopping arcades with the department store at the center. The department store does not cover about 15 skyscrapers on the edge. This means one can not not upgrade them past level 1. The other 2 shopping arcades have the similar issues. Post offices at the corners are optional. They would not allow post offices to be placed on the adjacent modules because their influence circles would overlap.

Buildings: 449 • 4 • 4 • 4 • 4 • 4 • 2 • 1 • 1 • 1 • 1 • 1 • 1 • 1
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Size: 80x82	Tiles: 6560	Space Efficiency: 74%
Author:  Matymatty • Source:

Farmers and Workers layout

Buildings: 220 • 2 • 2 • 1 • 1 • 1
Construction costs: • 480 • 50
Maintenance: -210
Size: 77x44	Tiles: 2178	Space Efficiency:
Author:  Teddy • Source: League of Ungentlemanly Warfare (YouTube)

Bright Sands original design

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Author:  Hentheden • Source:

City 01

Each residence in this layout is near enough to all dependent buildings to get maximum inhabitants.

Buildings: 272 • 1 • 1 • 1 • 1 • 1 • 2 • 2
Construction costs: 22000 • 640 • 90 • 36 • 40
Maintenance: -390
Size: 70x76	Tiles: 2724	Space Efficiency:
Population: 5440
Author:  Auipga • Source:

City 02

A Tier III layout which is completely self-sustaining and modular with nearly full coverage of services.
Population assumes all residences are upgraded to tier 3.

Buildings: 96 • 1 • 1 • 1 • 1 • 2 • 1 • 1 • 1 • 1
Construction costs: 19500 • 76 • 65 • 36 • 40
Maintenance: -340
Size: 41x41	Tiles: 1681	Space Efficiency:
Population: 2880
Author:  Madaahk • Source: Reddit

City 03

A Tier III layout which contains 478 houses (or 486, with 4 less fire stations). It requires 99x62 tiles in space.

Buildings: 478 • 2 • 2 • 2 • 2 • 4 • 8 • 1 • 1 • 1
Construction costs: 47500 • 1200 • 265 • 160 • 170
Maintenance: -1190 • -50
Size: 62x99	Tiles: 6138	Space Efficiency:
Population: 14340
Author:  MercuryLOL • Source: Reddit

Jubilee Diamond Shaped Artisan Town

A town made purely far Artisans, braided by parks and walkways. The yellow roads are pedestrian paths that run all around the town.

All buildings have Basic Needs and Luxury Needs fulfilled by the public buildings in the Town Centre, with good overlap from the 4 Town Halls.

The parks or the 3x3 residential blocks in the middle, can be replaced by more parks, or more residential blocks.

Buildings: 290 • 1 • 1 • 1 • 1 • 1 • 1 • 1 • 4
Construction costs: • 1 • 1
Maintenance: • 8700
Size: 98x85	Tiles:	Space Efficiency:
Population: 8700
Author:  Skirlasvoud • Source:

Empire Strikes City with ZOO Museum World Fair

City Design perfect for everybody :) If you are a starter it will easly help you to get to 10k of Investors (required for highest tier for World Fair exhibitions) It has designed space for ZOO, Museum and World Fair. You can expend ZOO and Museum more to south to fill empty space or palce Botanic Garden. Police Stations should be placed next to the Fire Stations in case of any Riots. :) And don't forget that it has Power plant in the center of the City that will Get electricity to your Citizens and also to the World's Fair :)

Video with layout:

https://youtu.be/eBJxIT26edY

Buildings: 572 • 1 • 1 • 4 • 4 • 4 • 1 • 1 • 1 • 1 • 1 • 1 • 1 • 1 • 1
Construction costs:
Maintenance: • 1581 • 1979 • 1260 • 12318
Size: 113x97	Tiles: 10961	Space Efficiency: 75
Population: 17138 (now) probably can get to 19k
Author:  pablo1713 • Source: https://youtu.be/eBJxIT26edY

Super Hardcore Influence City Farm

Hey whats up everybody! This is my second video about Influence City Farm and this time we gonna make SUPER HARDCORE version of Influence City Farm where we will not care about our Citizens about they needs and other stuff we just gonna treat them as a farm :D that we gonna use to get +282 Influence from them :) Link to video/tutorial: https://youtu.be/Z_Xj4i4hr_0

City Old 01

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Author:  finalmakerr • Source:

City Old 02

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Author:  finalmakerr • Source:

920InvestorsResidence

Hey!

Don't forget to build railway around this block.

The black lines indicate railway.

Buildings: 920 • 40 • 12 • 8 • 8 • 8 • 8 • 8 • 8 • 4 • 4 • 4 • 4 • 4 • 1
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Size: 130X126	Tiles: 11392	Space Efficiency: 70
Population: 46000
Author:  Santidapekino • Source:

240 Scholar with Research Institute

Black line represents railway.

Buildings: 240 • 14 • 10 • 4 • 4 • 4 • 2 • 2 • 1
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Size: 83x83	Tiles: 6889	Space Efficiency: 72
Population: 28800
Author:  Santidapekino • Source:

Cape Trelawney

Leiden Schaftlicht

Full layout of Crown Falls that I called Leiden Schaftlicht. Has 365 botanical modules and 50 museum modules to put all sets and give a maximum of attractiveness. All green tiles are trees or decorations that can be replaced by rails to add more oil powerplants if needed. White space is free for you to customize that layout. The palace can have up to 105 wings here, ensuring it can cover the whole island almost. Some public buildings like universities are kind of useless, except for aesthetics purpose. There are currently 99 decoration gardens from botanica DLC that are placed. Black lines are rail tracks. I didn't finished them to let you choose where to put the oil pier. I also didn't place the main warehouse for the same reason. I credit MaelstromByDesign for his incredible work on that crown falls borders map that I used. NOTE ABOUT GARDENS AND MUSEUMS : It is possible to put modules away from the main entrance by using the tiling from the entrance menu (icon on the left of the one to add modules). It will then act as if all modules were interconnected.

Buildings: 2 352 • 19 • 2 • 30 • 15 • 10 • 14 • 9 • 5 • 3 • 1 • 5 • 1 • 1
Construction costs: 8 986 500 • 74 090 • 27 148 • 21 644 • 16 533 • 300
Maintenance: • 4 230
Size: 416x434	Tiles: 180 544	Space Efficiency:
Population: Engineers : 94 080 / Investors : 117 600
Author:  Rockefeller157 • Source: CF borders : MaelstromByDesign

New Hope Mega Huge City for Cape Trelawney

This is Huge City Design for Cape Trelawney :) it will get you to almost 40k of Citizens it has everything and with new DLC you can build Your palace in the Center of Your City to get max boosts! :)

Video with Layout: https://youtu.be/BZ_wmRIOKvk

Where to start screenshot: https://drive.google.com/file/d/119PtWsMLowyO1nQ7UK2gMs4gz50qRhGJ/view?usp=sharing

Wiki pic: New_Hope_TOP_VIEW.jpg

https://anno1800.fandom.com/wiki/File:New_Hope_TOP_VIEW.jpg

Buildings: 1393 • 8 • 6 • 2 • 12 • 8 • 8 • 8 • 8 • 4 • 8 • 8 • 8 • 1
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Maintenance: • 5590 • 7480 • 2730 • 17210
Size: 257x245	Tiles: 31877	Space Efficiency: 60
Population: 33010 (now) probably can get to 40k (update 101,464 before lvl4 of skyscrapers)
Author:  pablo1713 • Source: https://youtu.be/BZ_wmRIOKvk

Late Game Mega Skyscraper City

A major end game layout designed for investor skyscrapers covered by extensive trade union and store/venue buildings. In several spots there is The Shoulders of our Ancestors' Fountain available if you bought Anno History Collection

Buildings: 1188 • 9 • 8 • 8 • 8 • 8 • 8 • 8 • 8 • 8 • 4 • 4 • 4 • 4 • 4 • 1 • 1
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Size: 138x128	Tiles: 17664	Space Efficiency: 81%
Author:  Lance Carr • Source:

New World

Obrero Jornalero Layout

Amounts given follow Obrero/Jonalero

New World 01

A simple variation of the corresponding Old World layout.

Buildings: 108 • 2 • 1 • 1 • 1 • 1 • 1 • 1
Construction costs: 22400 • 199 • 70
Maintenance: -380 • -20
Size: 41x41	Tiles: 1681	Space Efficiency:
Population: -
Author:  CraneH • Source:

City New 01

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Author:  finalmakerr • Source:

Obi-Wan Kenobi No more Workforce Problem

New World City - Obi-Wan Kenobi the City that will solve All workforce Problems in NW. Video with guide and explanation and also all needed production chains is available here: https://youtu.be/5VqegEoh_EI also Link to Obi-Wan Kenobi New World City Design: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1FkFwuUNwTCgyuOX-uMCZCL0hHMiFFTLD/view?usp=sharing

Buildings: 110 • 2 • 1 • 1 • 0 • 1 • 1 • 1
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Maintenance: • 1396 • 2868
Size: 48x39	Tiles: 1872	Space Efficiency:
Population: 1680
Author:  pablo1713 • Source:

The Arctic

Snowdin

Shown are two variations upon the same design.

Upper design is suitable for Explorers. The lower design has a post office added, making the entire design suitable for Technicians.

Player can choose whether to use the upper or lower placement of Arctic Lodges, regardless of population class. Placement of the twin Arctic Lodges on the lower design covers the most houses (54 out of 76, each covering 27), but the upper design places more house within the singular Arctic Lodge's Radius (41 out of 76).

Either way, the author doesn't consider the placement of Arctic Lodges as too crucial within this region's residential areas.

Buildings: 76 - 78 • 2 • 2 • 1 • 1 • 1
Construction costs: • 252 • 40
Maintenance: • -40 • -475
Size:	Tiles:	Space Efficiency: Maximum for public services, 54 out of 76 houses fall within Arctic Lodge Influence
Population: 1520
Author:  Skirlasvoud • Source:

King Williams Island

Full needs layout for the King William Island in the Arctic (The Passage DLC) with 153 houses with full production chain (except for Seal Skins). Only 4 Heaters and Charcoal Klins in total. 11 houses (light cyan) have Canteen need fulfilled with 85% (9/10 residents). The airship hangar requires 1 extra Heater (pink) during the construction process. Anno Designer files: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/16_-mabfz2F0rwamqDqAEKxsJyz8GmPA1

Buildings: 153 • 4 • 2 • 4 • 1 • 3 • 3 • 2 • 4 • 2 • 1 • 3 • 2 • 2
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Maintenance: 4200 • 665 • 410
Size:	Tiles: 19328	Space Efficiency:
Population: 2609
Author:  KaRolthas • Source: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/16_-mabfz2F0rwamqDqAEKxsJyz8GmPA1

Arctic Plateau on far west

75 shelters, 2 gas mines with 6 wells within the range of 1 heater only. Arctic Lodge must have Zappy Battery #2205 and Radiator. Building Airship Hangar requires extra Heater during construction. Unless you want to use all 4 gas mines, after building Airship Hangar reduce number of Technicians to 720 (45 Shelters, 16 Technicians per Shelter, Total workforce = 806) to disable need for Coffee and Husky Sleds. Anno Designer file (plateau1): https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/16_-mabfz2F0rwamqDqAEKxsJyz8GmPA1

Buildings: 75 • 1 • 4 • 3 • 2 • 4 • 1 • 1
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Maintenance: • 720
Size:	Tiles: 1992	Space Efficiency:
Population: 1500
Author:  KaRolthas • Source: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/16_-mabfz2F0rwamqDqAEKxsJyz8GmPA1

Arctic Plateau on middle west

75 shelters, 3 gas mines with 9 wells within the range of 1 heater only. Arctic Lodge must have Zappy Battery #2205 and Radiator. Building Airship Hangar requires extra Heater during construction. Unless you want to use all 4 gas mines, after building Airship Hangar reduce number of Technicians to 720 (45 Shelters, 16 Technicians per Shelter, Total workforce = 806) to disable need for Coffee and Husky Sleds. Anno Designer file (plateau2): https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/16_-mabfz2F0rwamqDqAEKxsJyz8GmPA1

Buildings: 75 • 1 • 2 • 3 • 2 • 3 • 1 • 1
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Maintenance: • 720
Size:	Tiles: 1857	Space Efficiency:
Population: 1500
Author:  KaRolthas • Source: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/16_-mabfz2F0rwamqDqAEKxsJyz8GmPA1

Arctic Plateau on middle east

75 shelters, 2 gas mines with 7 wells within the range of 1 heater only. Arctic Lodge must have Zappy Battery #2205 and Radiator. Building Airship Hangar requires extra Heater during construction. Unless you want to use all 4 gas mines, after building Airship Hangar reduce number of Technicians to 720 (45 Shelters, 16 Technicians per Shelter, Total workforce = 806) to disable need for Coffee and Husky Sleds. Anno Designer file (plateau3): https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/16_-mabfz2F0rwamqDqAEKxsJyz8GmPA1

Buildings: 75 • 1 • 2 • 1 • 2 • 4 • 1 • 1
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Maintenance: • 720
Size:	Tiles: 2220	Space Efficiency:
Population: 1500
Author:  KaRolthas • Source: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/16_-mabfz2F0rwamqDqAEKxsJyz8GmPA1

Arctic Plateau on far east

86 shelters, 3 gas mines with 10 wells within the range of 1 heater only. Arctic Lodge must have Zappy Battery #2205 and Radiator. Building Airship Hangar requires extra Heater during construction. Unless you want to use all 5 gas mines, after building Airship Hangar reduce number of Technicians to 720 (45 Shelters, 16 Technicians per Shelter, Total workforce = 806) to disable need for Coffee and Husky Sleds. Anno Designer file (plateau4): https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/16_-mabfz2F0rwamqDqAEKxsJyz8GmPA1

Buildings: 86 • 1 • 4 • 3 • 2 • 4 • 1 • 1
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Maintenance: • 720
Size:	Tiles: 2203	Space Efficiency:
Population: 1720
Author:  KaRolthas • Source: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/16_-mabfz2F0rwamqDqAEKxsJyz8GmPA1

Hoth

Hoth is a City design for Arctic with Triangle Offence tactic :) Main Idea is to fully cover the shoreline and expand in triangle tactic. You need some supplys from Old World but more about it in my video.

video with full design and tactic:

https://youtu.be/NNvAcRxslVA

Buildings: 73 • 1 • 0 • 1 • 3 • 1 • 6
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Maintenance: • 1010 • 840
Size: 43x43	Tiles: 1849	Space Efficiency: 60
Population: 1850
Author:  pablo1713 • Source: https://youtu.be/NNvAcRxslVA

Arctic Pokeball (Technicians)

Layout for 64 technician shelters around a single Arctic Lodge, providing 1280 Technicians (or 1472 using the Heater item in the Arctic Lodge).

The Ranger Station can be placed in most places around the edge.

The 2 heaters can be used for supplying heat to production placed on the top left and bottom right of this design.

Buildings: 64 • 4 • 2 • 2 • 1 • 1
Construction costs: • 489 • 35
Maintenance: • 20
Size: 44x40	Tiles: 1760	Space Efficiency: Maximum for public services, all houses within Arctic Lodge influence range
Population: 1280
Author:  User:Fffam • Source: