
Then socket the item in the island warehouse and activate it. To add a new fertility you must purchase the appropriate seeds from either Northburgh or Al Zahir. A question mark will be listed in the fertilities display to indicate this. In this sense, it’s much more like a natural resource, although it’s considered a fertility since it can be produced anywhere on an island that has the appropriate fertility and not bound to a specific resource deposit.Ĭertain islands can have new fertilities for specific goods added to them. (See special note below about clay.)Ĭlay is a unique product that is listed as a fertility although it doesn’t require fertile ground.

Grassland are always 100% fertile, and can grow all the universal fertility goods plus the goods that each northern island has the specific fertility for.ĭesert only occurs on southern islands which are mostly desert.


Grassland only occur on northern islands which are entirely this type of ground. Fertility is the concept of whether or not certain types of ground can grow certain types of goods. These goods require adequate fertility in order to be grown.

Many goods in Anno 1404 are produced from the ground.
