Papyrus Exploitation

Levels at a glance

	Level	Cost	Build time	Minimum settlement	Upgrades to		Level	Cost	Build time	Minimum settlement	Upgrades to
	Small Papyrus Plantation (Rural)	1,500	2	town	Papyrus Maker (Rural)		Papyrus Maker (Rural)	2,500	3	large town	Papyrus Press (Rural)
	Papyrus Press (Rural)	4,000	5	city	Papyrus Supply (Rural)		Papyrus Supply (Rural)	15,000	10	large city	—

Costs in denarii, build time in turns.

Small Papyrus Plantation (Rural)

A modest papyrus maker, supplying essential writing material for local needs.

The pen is mightier than the sword... but only if you have something to write on.

This small papyrus workshop provides the material needed for writing and record-keeping.

While not as glamorous as statues or temples, papyrus ensures that the deeds of rulers and the wealth of cities are recorded for future generations, or until someone loses the scrolls (or burns it to the ground like in Alexandria).

A humble place, yet essential for writing all those complaints and declarations.

Requirements: all of these must hold before this level can be built.

• The region has Papyrus
• Only one rural industry building allowed
• Government Building (Dependency, Indirect Rule, Direct Rule or Homeland)

What it does

• +1 trade income

Papyrus Maker (Rural)

A significant papyrus maker, supplying vital materials for the growing bureaucratic demands of the region.

Words may fade, but papyrus makes sure they stick around a little longer.

This larger papyrus workshop produces more of this essential material, feeding the growing demand for written records, trade contracts, and maybe the odd love letter.

With so much papyrus flowing, knowledge, and bureaucracy, spread faster than ever, supplying enough material to keep bureaucrats busy and poets romantic.

Requirements: all of these must hold before this level can be built.

• The region has Papyrus
• Government Building (Dependency, Indirect Rule, Direct Rule or Homeland)

What it does

• +1 trade income
• +1 public order (law)

Papyrus Press (Rural)

A massive papyrus operation, ensuring the flow of knowledge and paperwork across the region.

Scrolls, scrolls everywhere, there’s no such thing as too much bureaucracy!

This vast papyrus production site is thriving, and with it, the world’s thirst for knowledge and governance.

Bureaucrats, poets, and merchants alike rely on your papyrus, ensuring that laws are written, poetry is sung, and taxes are recorded.

Civilization marches forward on rolls of papyrus! Surely, this is where papyrus flows like wine, and scrolls multiply faster than rabbits.

Requirements: all of these must hold before this level can be built.

• The region has Papyrus
• Government Building (Dependency, Indirect Rule, Direct Rule or Homeland)

What it does

• +2 trade income
• +2 public order (law)

Papyrus Supply (Rural)

Papyrus is being exported on a large scale, supporting the spread of knowledge and governance across the region.

The gift of papyrus is the gift of civilization itself.

Your papyrus are now being exported far and wide, its uses for education and burocracy give a law bonus in all your regions, supporting the writing needs of cities, libraries, and courts across the known world.

In every scroll, there’s a bit of your empire, and with every shipment, wealth flows back to the homeland. Paper may be light, but its impact is heavy, and with this, we are shipping the seeds of knowledge far and wide, one scroll at a time.

Requirements: all of these must hold before this level can be built.

• Large Forum or a higher level is built here
• The region has Papyrus
• No Papyrus Supply (Rural) is built anywhere in your empire
• Any Government except Dependency (Indirect Rule, Direct Rule or Homeland)

What it does

• +3 trade income
• +2 public order (law)
• (Faction) Additional law bonus for law courts (tier 2-3) and Academies (tier 2-3)(does not stack with parchment bonus)

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