Civ VI | Unique Improvement Tier List

[@Pickle-man-spider]

Golf courses should be higher. +2 amenities is nothing to scoff at, especially when you're playing as Scotland.

[@ianleather5699]

Yeah, golf courses being lower than ziggurauts is crazy. They're at least E tier, potentially D just because that +2 amenities could mean +10% science, +10% production, and other amenity bonuses.

[@DimaErmakov97]

@@Pickle-man-spider 2 amenities per city is amazing. But its still D imo because reformed church is terrible

[@Pickle-man-spider]

@@DimaErmakov97 I agree. When I said it should be higher, I meant higher than F. D or E is a fair place to put golf courses.

[@jyakulis1]

Yeah, not sure how this isn't rated better lol. The yields on it stink. Why would you even want to spam it. It's for the amenities.

[@abcdefghijlkmn1794]

You basicly get a free government policy slot because you dont run the amenity ones and 30 city ecstatic emires are posible as well

[@dqaupop]

Kampungs are absolutely busted and deserve their own tier above S. You focused too much on the yields and ignored their primary draw: housing. Mass Production is easy to beeline if you're doing a naval game, at which point they become basically the same as Seasteads, a Future Era improvement, except you actually unlock them early enough to get use out of them. Being able to turn any free water tile into +2 housing (not to mention the decent yields) means there's a lot of bottlenecks you can just skip past. Forced to settle on fresh water? Nah, just settle near sea resources and build Kampungs. Forced to build granaries and sewers? Nah, just build more Kampungs instead. Forced to sacrifice your highest appeal hexes for neighborhoods? BUILD MORE KAMPUNGS. On top of that, being able to get decent yields from water tiles means you can settle tiny islands or peninsulas other civs won't bother with, and use every single land tile for districts. Kampungs are the best improvement in the game and are criminally underrated in your tier list.

[@Zondagskind.Gaming]

Fair enough, I might focus on working or not working tiles a bit too much. Still I wouldn't place them above Missions or Great Walls.

[@Angel_Flash]

this man hates housing

[@Zondagskind.Gaming]

@@Angel_Flash true

[@Platypusb1ll]

Terrace farms in B is outrageous. Criminal. BLASPHEMOUS. In all seriousness, my perception is admittedly colored by the fact that I typically reroll starts 3-5 times . Not just to get a good start, but to get a start that is fun and synergistic for the civ I am playing. Like, if I were playing the Inca and got the most busted coastal lands ever and a bunch of first-meet city states/goody huts, I would still discard it if I had very few good TF tiles. In any case, even a 1 mountain adjacency + fresh water TF is +2 food/+1 prod/+1 housing. That's two farms plus a mine in terms of return on investment in the early game. They don't scale as well, but because they are instantly available and produce unbelievable yields with good land, they can snowball the Inca harder than almost any other civ ability in the game. I don't understand the notion that the Inca don't take advantage of population or production. Production is the single biggest bottleneck through most of the game, and the terrace farms themselves have at least 1, often 2 or 3 prod.

[@basvriese1934]

Imagine if polders were actually proper polders, like they turn the water into actual land with bonus yields and you can put districts on it

[@cinnanyan]

I can't agree with nubian pyramid, it turns basically useless tiles into above average ones.

[@DerikDeKlerk-de5cs]

I literally gasped when you didn’t put kampungs in S tier 😶‍🌫️🧑‍🦲

[@ness6099]

Terrace Farms are S tier. Every other civ in the game from turn 1 until water mills/lumber mills are limited to getting 1 food or 1 prod and 1/2 housing from a tile improvement, but the Terrace farm gets you at least 1 food, reasonably 1-2 more, and up to 6 more (albeit in very niche situations) and 1 prod on a river, 2 prod if next to an aqueduct which is much more controllable. The fact that you can get a builder to create three 2+ food/ 3 prod or 3+ food/2 prod tiles so early is ludicrous. Those terrace farms are Deer/woods/hills levels of yields, and you can control them to an extent. I’m just imagining a civ with no bonus, but they get one of these tile improvements. It depends on the map, but if I know it’s not a naval map then I’d say you’d be best off with the terrace farm.

[@enKageKagen]

"Every other civ in the game from turn 1 until water mills/lumber mills are limited to getting 1 food or 1 prod and 1/2 housing from a tile improvement," Have you ever played Cree and used Mekewaps? Basically everytime minimum +1food+1hammer per charge, very common +1food+1hammer+1gold, uncommon +2food+1hammer+1gold, with a full housing on top, soon boosted with another hammer, and another housing and bonus gold. Latemidgame - doubles its bonus food. And Mekewap works every city, not only mountains and Mekewaps do not block best campus / HS tiles. If Terrace farm is S tier (and would be if not competing with campuses), then Mekewap is S++ Terrace farm will not make flat tundra a good place to settle - Mekewap can do this.

[@sai63836]

You can also place incan terrace farms on volcanic soil, any volcanic soil, even if its flat land, and this can make them insanely over powered sometimes, ive gotten these things to become 9 6 tiles before

[@Gayoinion]

Don’t agree w all of it but always love a civ tier list

[@metalj]

I really want to like Ziggurats, being able to spam an improvement that gives science would give Sumeria some fun potential as a hidden science civ that rewards having large territories, but having to sacrifice population growth (farms) is an especially viscous cycle with how important large populations are when it comes to late game science victories.

[@DimaErmakov97]

Mekewap is S imo. 2 housing is a beast and turns cree into a tall empire with necessary yields along with gold. While I think stepwells are bad, ziggurat is worse imo. Stepwell is D, ziggurat is F.

[@KentzHodiono]

I have such a soft spot for Ziggurats. If only they give one extra food yield...

[@Anolaana]

Mekewaps are Cree-ating value.

[@exposedshadow9641]

Nubian Pyramids deserve B. Flat desert tiles are amazing with them.

[@Zondagskind.Gaming]

Sorry, but that's the same level as Terrace Farms and Kampungs. That's a no from me.

[@exposedshadow9641]

@Zondagskind.Gaming terrace farms are fantastic: the only thing holding them back is district adjacencies

[@koronius4975]

Puur voor de lage plaatsing van de super ultra geweldige groot-nederlandse polder op zo een lage plaats: 3 jaar cel ;)

[@Zondagskind.Gaming]

Dank voor deze milde straf, mijnheer!

[@THERATLOVER23]

Ain’t no way, when I just was wondering when he’d do improvements

[@DaybitSV]

Mekewap over Terrace Farms?

[@Zondagskind.Gaming]

Yes.

[@THERATLOVER23]

@@Zondagskind.Gamingyes.

[@enKageKagen]

easily

[@WombleWarlord]

“Food is only as good as the next tile you work.” … and all the next districts you can build … and each pop directly gives science and culture … and can be district specialists. Serious under-appreciation of the importance of food. Food and prod are king and queen no ifs or buts.

[@Zondagskind.Gaming]

OK, fair enough. What improvement would you swap it with into a higher tier?

[@VPM-z5r]

Chemamull should be higher since Mapuche have a mountain spawn bias and in my games at least also end up near coast so they get some really nice early appeal and culture

[@Zondagskind.Gaming]

Maybe it's just my luck of the draw...

[@enKageKagen]

I entered to check where Mekewap is. Available at the very first tech, granting basically +1hammer+1food (as you always have 2 bonuses nearby, this is a mine and farm combined with a possible gold on top). Turning plain hill into 2f3h tile after 1st tech is huge. +1 housing means you don't care about fresh water from the very beginning. Mekewap is also the only UI, that allow you to settle strong tundra / arctic cities and is the only one to give production to cities founded on complete flatland. Around turn 60/70 you get another hammer and housing. After Astronomy - massive gold. And somehow Mekewap is not in its own S+++ tier?

[@CasperTheGhost64]

Let's go 🙂 more !

[@jamsteroffthewheel4731]

Chateaus r my fav so much culture and gold plus the housing

[@Zondagskind.Gaming]

Châteaux do not provide housing in unmodded Civ VI.

[@slav_animov7969]

Bruh, i really like watching your videos, but man this tier list is garbage. I mean Scotland, Nubia such underrated while Spain or Persia are on top is an xD from me

[@Zondagskind.Gaming]

Scotland as a civ is good, but the improvement isn't great.

[@jyakulis1]

D tier for the open air? lol Only 10 tourism from a tile improvement. But you'd rather spam great walls with 0 production all through your empire...okay. B tier for terrace farms LOL. Do you even play this game?

[@Zondagskind.Gaming]

Well, yeah dude, I can easily get 24+ tourism per city from Great Walls. I don't need to settle in snow tiles to do it. And they also give gold. If you're trying to say I made a mistake, you chose the wrong piece of evidence. 😂

[@jyakulis1]

@ with 6 build charges min not including harvests, countless tile purchase because they need to be at the edge of borders, and 0 production to make anything or food surplus.