Terraforming

Terraforming allows you to control the type of resources that can be harvested around your City and the City Land.

You are able to control, to some extent the creation of specialized cities. The primary reason to doing this, is to reduce the number of Interior buildings required. If your city land has only one or two types of resources then you can save 15 levels of the relevant interior buildings. Cutting it down from 4-5 different types of buildings to 1-2. In the long run this means you could save thousands of Gold and Sand Stones. Also, if you have researched the relevant Interior Skills there is a chance of getting a Rich Ore (Sparkling) land. Such land has a 30% increased resource gain. This makes terraforming very valuable for your long term business.

1. Select the city map.
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2. Then click Terraforming and you'll see the relevant info to this process.
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3. Now, you can select one of the five Resource types to focus on during the terraforming process. Plains will yield Food, Lakes yield Sand Stone, Deserts yield Crystal, Woodland yield Wood and Mountains will yield Metal. You can also choose to spend Sky Points to increase the number of similar fields, or a greater chance at Rich Ore.
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4. Once you click Confirm the screen will turn grey and the terraforming process will have begun. You can still cancel it for the next 40 minutes, but if you've just used SkyPoints to start it, those will be lost.
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Important Notice
You are able to use terraforming on land that already contains Resource centers. If you choose to do so "all" resource centers will be destroyed. Pro tip: If you decide to Relocate your castle, do it early, and make sure you Terraform "before" building any resource centers in your new area.

Known Issues
Sometimes the terraforming action will bug and tell you "insufficient resources" even though you have obviously got plenty of all the required materials. If that happens just keep clicking on terraforming untill it works, or log out and back in, or switch to the street map and create and upgrade a civilian building. It is not certain what causes this issue.