Clay exploitation

The Clay Exploiter is a Building that becomes available upon researching the Knowledge Pottery.

It can harvest Clay from clay terrain tiles in its vicinity.

Clay is an important resource used in producing Pottery, constructing advanced Buildings and sustaining administrative buildings (e.g. Elders Council).

Buildings

Appearance	Building Level	Unlocked By	Build Cost	Base Efficiency	Tile Radius	Workers	Profession	Movable
	1	Pottery	2 Hammers	1.0	5	3	Miner
	2	Builders	3 Hammers 5 Wood	1.5	7	3	Miner
	3	Mining Tools	2 Axes 3 Planks	2.0	10	3	Miner
	Annex (3+)	Underground Mining	5 Shovels 3 Planks	-	Any	-	-
	4	Heavy quarrying	3 Saws 5 Planks	3.0	10	3	Miner

Gathering

Resource	Building Level	Need per Unit Gathered		Yield per Tile (approximate)
		Workforce	Clay
Clay	1	1.5	20 tiles*	0.05

* Gathering tiles does not consume them over time. However, obstructing a tile with a building or Claypit annex will prevent it from being harvested by any Clay Exploitations even if they are within range

Annexes

Once unlocked, Claypits greatly increase the yield per tile that can be achieved by Level 3+ Clay Exploitations. However, they can only be constructed on flat, uninterrupted regions of Clay that meet the space and buffer requirements.

Resource	Gathering Rate	Need per Active Annex			Yield Increase (tile equivalent)
		Workforce	Space	Buffer
Clay	2.0	1.1	3 x 3 tiles	2 tiles	+35 Clay tiles