The acme of modern architecture. On top, its restaurant is said to be the finest in the land!
The Iron Tower is a Monument and a Food & Drink Venue building which can fulfill the basic need of 
Tourists and can provide buffs to residences within the circular radius of the tower. It also increases the island's attractiveness by +250 
. It requires 
Tourist Season DLC and can be built only in the Old World (and Cape Trelawney), only one iron tower can be built per island. It requires 
electricity, access to enough tourist customers and must be provided with appropriate goods. Like other monuments it is built over several stages, with each stage taking time to complete and requiring specific resources and workforce during every construction phase.
Construction[]
The construction of The Iron Tower is divided into three stages. The first stage requires placing the foundation, which is unlocked after reaching 850 Tourists. The next two stages are built over time and require large amounts of construction materials and workforce, to be unlocked they also require reaching specific number of tourists or completing a specific quest in the main questline of the DLC. Materials need to be delivered to the construction site so the iron tower has to be connected to a warehouse or trading post.
When there is not enough free workforce available, the construction can still be continued but at a slower pace, requiring more time to complete the current phase. Workforce can be mobilised to focus on the monument construction, thus shifting the lack of workforce to other buildings that utilise the same workforce type, resulting in lower productivity of those buildings.
Phase 1/3: Foundations (preparation)[]
The Iron Tower: Foundations
- Unlock condition: 850
Tourists - 100000 coins
- 50 timber
- 40 bricks
- 30 steel beams
- 30 windows
Phase 2/3: Foundations (construction)[]
The Iron Tower: Foundations
- Unlock condition: 1500 Tourists
- 60 timber
- 30 cement
- 300 worker workforce
- 30:00 Minutes
Phase 3/3: Superstructure[]
The Iron Tower: Superstructure
- Unlock condition: enough progress in The Queen's questline or 4000 Tourists (if the main questline was declined)
- 60 reinforced concrete
- 150 steel beams
- 500 artisan workforce
- 30:00 Minutes
Need fulfilment and effect on residences[]
Tourists' basic need for The Iron Tower can be satisfied only via the bus network. Both the tower and a hotel have to be in the circular range of bus stops. The fulfilment level of the need is not determined by the distance between the bus stops, the tower and hotels can be located anywhere on the island as long as they are connected to the bus network.
When 
Hotels are connected to The Iron Tower, each hotel gains 80 inhabitants and generates more income depending on game settings:
- high income: +843.75 coins per minute per hotel
- medium income: +759.375 coins per minute per hotel
- low income: +675 coins per minute per hotel
The maximum fulfilment of the tourists' need for The Iron Tower can be limited if tourists are unhappy about island's attractiveness, hotspots, newspaper or lack of peace. For more information, see: Tourists Needs.
When residences are within the circular radius of the tower, they are affected by the bonus provided by the active recipe. Each bonus increases the maximum residents amount and reduces consumption of specific goods. Initial radius of the tower is 30 tiles but it can be increased by assigning more tourist customers. Up to 5000 extra tourists can be assigned, increasing the radius linearly up to 105 tiles at 5000 extra customers. Other food & drink venues have priority over The Iron Tower so if extra customers are assigned to the tower but there is a lack of tourists, the effective radius of the tower gets decreased. Available tourists are first assigned to the restaurants, cafés and bars, and only the excess can be then assigned to the tower - the effective radius is based on the excess amount.
Production requirements[]
The Iron Tower fulfills the population's needs and provides all its bonuses only if a few conditions are met:
- Electricity is provided
- Tourist customers are available
- The building is provided with necessary goods
- The building is connected to the bus network
It requires four different input goods and it takes 60 seconds to process 1 ton of every input good so the consumption rate is 1 ton of every input good per minute. Because the tower needs an input, it requires a 
Warehouse or 
Trading Post to be located within its range in order to send out carts to transport goods. Alternatively, the tower can be within range of specific production buildings which could deliver required goods they produce directly to the venue.
Recipes[]
Culinary excellence set atop engineering excellence: the pinnacle of the Empire's legacy. Table reservations run months long, and dishes comprise some of the most exotic ingredients known to humankind.
The Iron Tower can work based on five different recipes, three of them are available without additional DLCs, one requires 
The Passage DLC and another one requires 
Land of Lions DLC. Each recipe needs different ingredients, while providing different bonuses to nearby residences - increase of maximum residents and reduction of consumption of particular goods. Choice of the recipe has no impact on the fulfilment of the Iron Tower need of Tourists. Each tower can use a different recipe.
Brioche Royale[]
Fluffy, buttery brioche on both top and bottom can scarcely contain the West Atlantic strips of meat within. Is it fine dining? Well, it's a statement, that's for sure — and that can count for a lot at the high end.
Unlock condition:
- If an Iron Tower crowns your city for some time, a cook may create this to mark the occasion!
Brioche Royale
The Iron Tower Recipe
Affects All Old World Residences except Scholar Residences:
• Max Residents: +10%
• Bonus Residents +1: Residences gain bonus residents from:
• 
• 
• 
• 
• 
• 
• 
• 
• Consumption reduction: -10% • -10% • 
-10%
-2150
-100
-150
-125
-200
-200 242
39600
60
65
12
10
10
The Iron Tower: Brioche Royale
1 @ 100%
Trifle Tower[]
With a wobble intended to convey the quaking majesty of empire, this charming blob of a pudding represents all that is right and yet so dreadfully wrong about its island home. A showstopper, surely, for even the grandest of banquets.
Unlock condition:
- Organise a grand, royal inauguration to unlock.
- or
- Keep Restaurant 'La Reine' open and accessible to your Hotels long enough, and you'll uncage this towering dessert...
Trifle Tower
The Iron Tower Recipe
Affects All Old World Residences except Scholar Residences:
• Max Residents: +10%
• Bonus Residents +1: Residences gain bonus residents from: • • • • • • • •
• Consumption reduction: -10% • -20% • -10%
-1110 -50 -50
-60 -50 -200 250
22500 56 10
The Iron Tower: Trifle Tower
1 @ 100%
Lady Marmelade[]
A cabaret cocktail, this drink is a statement burlesque. It takes bottle to order one of these, and it ain't for everyone. But for those who can own it, this boudoir sip, jam-packed with colour and fantabulousness, is the night incarnate.
Unlock condition:
- Progress through the Tourist's questlines to unlock
- or
- Once the Iron Tower has crowned your city, build three new Variety Theatres and produce lemonade to discover sweet success!
Lady Marmelade
The Iron Tower Recipe
Affects All Old World Residences except Scholar Residences:
• Max Residents: +10%
• Bonus Residents +1: Residences gain bonus residents from: • • • • • • • •
• Consumption reduction: -10% • -20% • -10%
-2285 -55 -25
-250 -85 -200 250
63000 74 55 24 15 15
The Iron Tower: Lady Marmelade
1 @ 100%
Age of Exploration[]
A conceptual dish whose inventor intended to celebrate hundreds of years of ocean-going exploration. The elements are gathered from the four points of the compass, deconstructed and then reconstructed to represent 'the journey' above all else.
Unlock condition:
- Discover the fate of the lost Captain in the Passage, and their harrowing tale may inspire an experimental gastronomic retelling
- or
- Introduce all the arctic animals to your residents, and inspire an icy and explorative dish!
Age of Exploration
The Iron Tower Recipe
Affects All Old World Residences except Scholar Residences:
• Max Residents: +10%
• Bonus Residents +1: Residences gain bonus residents from: • • • • • • • •
• Consumption reduction: -15% • -15% • -15%
-2820 -80
-500 -200 250
44100 96 50
The Iron Tower: Age of Exploration
1 @ 100%
Homard Lit de Terroir[]
In an attempt to reconciliate with Sir Archibald Blake in strident mood, the cream of Enbesan chefs created this provocative marriage of surf and turf to represent the powers at play. Time will tell if these two elements can ever sit in harmony on the tongue.
Unlock condition:
- Complete the main story in Land of Lions, and you may learn the best-kept secrets of his courtly chefs...
- or
- If you hire a lobsterman in one of your Enbesan Harbour Offices, he may concoct a rather refined dish!
Homard Lit de Terroir
The Iron Tower Recipe
Affects All Old World Residences:
• Max Residents: +10%
• Bonus Residents +1: Residences gain bonus residents from: • • • • • • • • • 
+10
• Consumption reduction: -20% • 
-20% • -10%
-595 -20
-70 -200 250
6350 2
26
8
The Iron Tower: Homard Lit de Terroir
1 @ 100%
Items[]
Some items when equipped in town halls can have an impact on The Iron Tower.
Items specific for The Iron Tower[]
 A Note From the QueenRare DLC Required
Tourist Season | ||
|---|---|---|
| The opening note in the Queen's delicate hand reads, "The fare is unremarkable, but the confectionery is exceptional." | ||
 Equipped in Town HallAffects All Iron Tower Restaurants  The Iron Tower |
Effects Maintenance Cost: -15% Attractiveness: +75 |
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| Available from Tourist quest: A Delicious Idea: Goulash Deluxe
| ||
| A Dithyrambic Note From the Queen Epic DLC Required
Tourist Season | ||
|---|---|---|
| The opening note in the Queen's delicate hand reads, "Would that the palace chefs were as exceptional in their culinary and confectionary prowess!" | ||
| Equipped in Town Hall Affects All Iron Tower Restaurants The Iron Tower |
Effects Maintenance Cost: -25% Attractiveness: +150 |
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| Available from Tourist quest: A Delicious Idea: Goulash Deluxe
| ||
Trivia[]
- The Iron Tower was inspired by the Eiffel Tower, though its exact design might also have been inspired by Watkin's Tower.
