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Resources have changed inCivilization 7. They’re now separated into different categories and these change between Ages. You’ll also need to manage your resources via the Resource Management screen. Resources are extremely powerful as they allow for a lot of town and city specialization, and this becomes more pressing as you enter into the Exploration Age and unlock Treasure Resources, and Factory Resources in the Modern Age.
This guide covers every Resource per era, as well as how to optimize your empire for resources, including extra slots, info about Treasure Fleets, and Factory specialization.
UPDATE: 2025-06-08 13:38 EST BY HARRY ALSTON
New section added on how to increase your resource slots in Civ 7.
We added a new section on how to increase your resource slots, with a list of wonders, civilizations, and leader bonuses.
Antiquity Age Resources
There are three types of resources in the Antiquity age:City Resources, Bonus Resources, and Empire Resources.
City Resources
City Resources can only be placed inside city slots in the resource management screen.
Bonus Resources
Bonus Resources can be placed in any town or city slot.
Empire Resources
Empire Resources are not slotted into a settlement, but have bonuses that apply to your entire empire.
Exploration Age Resources
The Exploration Age opens up several new resources, including Treasure Fleet resources that are only located on Distant Lands - that’s the islands between the two continents if you’re playing on the standard recommended Continents Plus map type.
Some other City and Bonus resources are also added in this age.
Treasure Fleet Resources
These resources only act as treasure fleet resources until the Modern Age.
Modern Age Resources
The Modern Age introduces Factory Resources. These can only be slotted inside a Factory slot within a city or town. Once you’ve built a factory, you can then place more of the same factory resource in the other available slots. Many of the existing resourcesalso change in the Modern Age.
Factory Resources can only be slotted into Factories. These are constructed by researching theIndustrializationtech. Once you’ve done this, you’ll need to build a factory. Once you’ve done so, slot one resource into the factory slot, which will allow you to fill the rest of the settlement with that resource.
This lets you do some fun stuff with city specialization - having a place ready to build wonders, units, generate science, and more.
How To Increase Resource Slots
Your resource slots are limited in cities and determined by a variety of factors. Camels are aneasy, early wayto expand your resource slots, whereas later in the game there are wonders, social polices, and research that can be used to expand your available slots.
Resources
Camels will increase your resource slots in the city if you slot them in. You gettwo extra slots per Camel.This bonus stacks, which means you can feasibly fit many, many resources into one single city.
When trading, check to see which Independent Powers and AI settlementshave Camels as an available resource. This should be your number one priority while trading, as more slots mean more bonuses.
Wonders
There are a few different Wonders that increase the potential resource slots in a city as long as you build the Wonder in the settlement.
You can also upgrade your resource capacity in cities by +1 by researchingCommerceand slotting theCommoditiespolicy.
Buildings
As well as wonders, you may build these buildings in your cities to increase resource capacity.
