Accepts and distributes goods from, and to your production buildings.
Warehouse is an Infrastructure building, available in all regions, used by carts of various buildings in order to load goods from and to the island's storage. It can also act as a building that can provide connection to the 
Trading Post for other buildings.
Loading/unloading goods[]
For more information, see: Building to building transport.
Every warehouse has a few loading ramps which allow it to exchange goods between island's storage and buildings' carts. During the loading process, a cart occupies a loading ramp for a specific amount of time (20 seconds in case of horse carts, 2 seconds in case of trucks). The number of loading ramps determines how many carts can use the warehouse at the same time, small warehouse provides two loading ramps, upgrading a warehouse increases the number of available ramps. While all ramps are occupied, any additional carts arriving to a warehouse form a queue, waiting until one of the ramps is freed.
It is important to note that warehouses do not have their own carts, the buildings which need or produce goods may possess carts and warehouses act only as the place which carts can use to deposit their goods to, or to fetch goods from. To allow a building's carts to interact with a warehouse, the building and the warehouse need to be connected together by a road, and the warehouse needs to be within the distance of the building's range.
Trading Post connection[]
In order to function and provide the loading ramps, a warehouse requires a road connection to the Trading Post. A warehouse that is already connected, can serve as a source of connection for other buildings as well. It means that it is possible to establish chains of warehouses by connecting a warehouse to the trading post, and then connecting one warehouse to the other. Any building connected to one of the warehouses from such a chain would function in the same way as if it was connected directly to the trading post.
Upgrades[]
Small warehouses can be upgraded three times in the Old World (and Cape Trelawney), and twice in the New World, The Arctic and Enbesa. Each upgrade has its unlock condition and requires construction materials. When upgraded a warehouse provides additional loading ramps in exchange for higher maintanance costs.
| Level | Properties | Construction/upgrade cost, maintenance cost and unlock condition | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Old World | New World | The Arctic | Enbesa | ||
| Small | 2 loading ramps | 500 10 
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500 10
|
500 5
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500 5 
|
-20
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-10
|
-20
|
-10
| ||
| Medium | +1 loading ramp | 2500 20 20 
|
2500 20 20
|
2500 20
|
2500 20
10 |
| -50
|
-15
|
-50
|
-15
| ||
1  Workers
|
1  Obreros
|
500  Explorers
|
1  Elders
| ||
| Large | +1 loading ramp | 10000 30 30 20  20 
|
10000 30 30 20
|
10000 30
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10000 30
15 |
| -100
|
-20
|
-100
|
-100
| ||
1  Artisans
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1500 Obreros
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100  Technicians
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600 Elders
| ||
| Grand | +2 loading ramps | 100000 75 75 50 50 15 
|
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| -500
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1  Engineers
|
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Profitability of upgrading warehouses[]
The increase of the maintenance cost which occurs with each upgrade of the warehouses can be more expensive than constructing new small warehouses instead. In case of the Old World and The Arctic, small warehouses have the lowest maintenance cost per loading ramp, upgrading warehouses in these regions always costs more coins than building a new warehouse. In the New World all warehouses have the same maintenance cost per loading ramp so upgrading warehouses does not bring any additional costs beyond the one-time upgrade cost. In Enbesa both the small and the medium warehouses have equally low maintenance per loading ramp, while the large warehouse has much higher maintenance cost. Therefore in Enbesa it is profitable to upgrade warehouses but only once, leaving them at the medium level.
Especially during earlier stages of the game it might be more difficult to earn enough coins to sustain the expansion. Additionally, construction materials might be better spent on other things than upgrading warehouses. In result, when in need of more loading ramps it is important to consider building new warehouses, even though it is less space-efficient. Of course, if coins are not a problem, upgrading warehouses is always a better choice in the end as it saves up space.
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