Silk (Civ5)

Silk
Luxury resource
Introduced in Civilization V
Found on:
Forest
Forest
Resource value
2
2
Improvements
Plantation available with  Calendar +1 (w/Fertilizer) +1

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Game Info

Luxury resource.

• Base yield:
  • 2 Gold Gold
• Modifiers:
  • +1 Gold Gold from Plantation improvement

Strategy

Silk is found on a variety of terrains, but usually in forests. These need to be cut down, so that a Plantation can be constructed to access the resource.

Civilopedia entry

Silk is a fiber which is made from the cocoons of silkworms. Silk fabric was first developed in ancient China, according to legend by the empress Lei Zu. Originally reserved for the Chinese nobility, over time it spread throughout China, and via the famous Silk Road of antiquity, into Europe and across the planet. (The earliest record of silk in Europe dates to Egypt in approximately 1000 BC.)