Chopping Resources will Change The Way You Play Civilization - Tutorial (2025)

[@VanBradley]

Hey friends! It was lovely to be back creating a standard ol' Civilization tutorial! I wish you many blessed chops in future Civ games 🎉

[@rabbles9122]

Lovely tutorial! Watching your videos has really helped improve at the game :) However it would be useful to clarify the wonder bonus situation: if you miss building a wonder but later conquer it from other player, you will get the passive bonus but not the upon-completion bonus. In the case of the Pyramids you get the +1 builder charge applied to all builders you produce afterwards, but not the free builder upon completing the wonder! The upon-completion bonus is granted only to the player who initially builds the wonder.

[@tim6310]

I think one of the most important things to mention with chopping is to remember that Lianh gives an extra builder charge, so does building the Pyramid wonderl, and having the Feudalism card gives builders 2 extra charges. With all that in place, you can get builders with 7 charges. And if you get an early Golden Age and select the Monumentality that allows you to buy builders with Faith & Gold at a reduced cost you can get a bunch of builders with extra chips. Another thing you can do is put builders in the production queue but don't finish them until you have your builder bonuses in place and ready to use. I'll place Ilkum card and have a few cuties building builders, but stop the build before it's done. After I have Feudalism card in, I'll finish production on those builders and get 3-5 beefed up builders within a turn or two from production, then I'll buy 2 more in the city where Liang is assigned and suddenly have something like 30 build charges available and it makes it real easy to get a bunch of good tiles working at the same time

[@benhardacre588]

Brilliant video VB. Can’t wait for your C7 content. CAN NOT WAIT!!!

[@SixEyeSassquatch]

Im brand new to civ, so i been watching a few content creators to learn from in hopes i can keep up with my veteran friends in multiplayer... i just watched your old video from a few years ago last night. What are the odds you made a new one next day. I'll be watching this as well! Lol.

[@VanBradley]

I sincerely hope the production quality is better in this one

[@rainbowcrash6990]

Awesome video, I’ve been playing for a while but I always pick up new stuff from tutorial videos!

[@MaxHardcore-p7t]

Wow! A tutorial 2025? Nice!!!

[@Best-SiLenZ]

Can't believe I got here in 1st minute! Cannot believe there's still another chop tutorial again in 2025

[@VanBradley]

My old chop tutorial is surging in views recently but is fairly low quality. My short on chopping resources has also been really popular so I thought it might be time for a tutorial refresh

[@Best-SiLenZ]

@VanBradley I'm all for any tutorials anyway

[@ericglover7773]

Fantastic as always! Thanks VB!

[@jontinkler9119]

Super helpful tutorial - thank you :)

[@thenapoleonlover113]

RIP to chopping in Civ7. Pure stuoidity from the devs to remove builders, which removes chopping from the game. This was a core mechanic on how to get a wonder or generally start a snowball

[@benhardacre588]

+ builder scouts … sometimes worth their weight in gold 50 times over (with 1 build charge left of course)

[@brianherman503]

Great video!

[@pyroxx462]

This map is so cursed. The plains rice, plains marsh, and woods dwelling horses lol.

[@VanBradley]

I was COOKING when I made chop city

[@lucascampos4131]

Because of that, I think Brazil is stronger than it looks (also Vietnam I guess?), I like put Magnus on capital, chop all the rainforests and get things online very fast (the appeal thing of rainforests doesn't matter much really, you rarely can get Sacred Paths, and by the point you get Conservation, you can just plant woods if going for tourism). PS: Always fun to watch a VB game and Eleanor shows up lol

[@rocklee_emil]

Good job!

[@EvilClapTrap]

RIP to Chop strat in civ 7

[@dukelornek]

I'm curious how many times you have sung the song of the chopping

[@annaltd]

take that back about Eleanor that's my girl

[@VanBradley]

Currently taking it back. I'm very sorry!

[@emmanuelchoudhary9959]

Idk why but i dont get governor’s

[@alonilin]

I don't watch the video. I just saw horses with forest in one tile. Just here to say it is unnatural. Good bye