Marble (Civ5)

Marble
Luxury resource
Introduced in Civilization V
Found on:
Desert
Desert
Plains
Plains
Tundra
Tundra
Hills
Hills
Grassland
Grassland
Resource value
2
2
Improvements
Quarry available with  Masonry +1 +1
Required for
Stone Works
Stone Works

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Game Info

Luxury resource. Adds 15% Production Production when building Ancient/Classical Era wonders (all wonders in vanilla Civilization V and Gods & Kings) in the city where it is worked.

• Base yield:
  • 2 Gold Gold
• Modifiers:
  • +1 Production Production and +1 Gold Gold from Quarry improvement
  • +1 Production Production from Stone Works

Strategy

Marble is a unique luxury resource in that besides its normal bonuses, it also provides a boost to wonder construction in the Ancient and Classical Era (or, prior to Brave New World, all eras). Its improvement, the Quarry, gives a hefty Production Production bonus and also enables the nearby city to build the useful bonus building Stone Works, which adds additional Production Production bonuses both to the city and the tile.

All this makes Marble a precious resource - try to access it ASAP by researching Masonry early on, then use its unique bonus to gain the upper hand in early game Wonder construction! Of course, you'll need quite some luck for that - if you don't have Marble near your starting location you may not be able to make use of it in time.

Civilopedia entry

Marble is a beautiful rock highly prized as a building material and by artists for sculpting. Marble comes in a variety of colors and shades, sometimes mono-colored and sometimes with veins and pockets of many different colors within. Many of the most beautiful structures in the world - including the Taj Mahal, for one - are constructed of marble, as are the greatest sculptures of antiquity.