Building an efficient city in Anno 1404: Venice requires balancing maximum house coverage with service accessibility. The most effective layouts are modular, allowing you to expand from a small village into a sprawling metropolis without constant rebuilding. 1. Core Residential Layouts
Tips for Building Your Own Venice
Placeholders: Use "dummy" buildings or placeholders to map out your canal streets before committing resources to actual housing. Efficiency vs. Aesthetics There are two main schools of thought for city design: The Optimizer Maximize population per Marketplace. anno 1404 venice city layout
Goal: Introducing advanced services (Carpenters, Church, Debtor’s Prison). Constraint: Patricians require "Faith" and "Security."
Venetian Marketplace: Place your Venetian Marketplace near the coastline. Its radius extends into the sea, dictating where you can place Venetian houses. Building an efficient city in Anno 1404: Venice
at crossroads to ensure they reach as many houses as possible while maintaining efficiency. The "Church" Anchor
Separate Occidental & Oriental Quarters
Occidental houses (Europeans) need churches, pubs, and prisons. Oriental houses (Nomads) need mosques, carpet workshops, and bathhouses. Build them on opposite sides of your island, with production zones in between. Core Residential Layouts Tips for Building Your Own
The 40x40 "Noble" Grid: A popular optimized layout fits roughly 90 Nobleman houses, service buildings, and an Alms house into a single 40x40 tile bounding box. This ensures full coverage for needs like the Surgery, Tavern, and Debtor’s Prison.