To check the victory conditions you chose for any savegame you will have to load it, quit to title and click 'Start a new game'. This also applies for multiplayer sessions. You don't necessarily have to set any conditions and play as long as you like. In Anno 1800, sandbox games offer multiple victory conditions which have to be met to win a game. Starting Ships and Starting Harbour settings can't be both set to none. Note: you have to start either with a ship, with a harbour or both. Starting Ships - none/flagship/trade fleet/war fleet.Select from four different settings which determine the beginning of the game: Trading Post Restocks - common/normal/rare.Map Type - random/archipelago/atoll/island arc/corners/snowflakeįeatures tab allows you to balance the in-game mechanics.Mineral Deposits - plenty/medium/sparse.sparse - Old World, Cape Trelawney, Enbesa: 2 fertilities New World: 4 fertilities Arctic: 4 fertilities (medium islands) and 3 fertilities (small islands).medium - Old World, Cape Trelawney, Enbesa: 3 fertilities New World: 5 fertilities Arctic: 4 fertilities.plenty - Old World, Cape Trelawney, Enbesa: 4 fertilities New World: 6 fertilities Arctic: 5 fertilities (medium islands) and 4 fertilities (small islands).Note: Crown Falls always has 4 fertilities Arctic: 1 fertility is always 'Forest', and King Williams Island always has 5 fertilities, cliff islands have no fertilities. Island Size - mainly large/mainly medium/mainly small.It is possible to check the seed number of an already existing game, it is displayed on the left side of the menu that allows to select which savegame from a profile to load. Using the same seed number while keeping all of the other important settings the same allows to create exactly the same game world. Random Seed - a number which determines how the maps of all the regions will be created.

Cape Trelawney always has 15 islands (Crown Falls included), the Arctic has 8 regular islands and 4 cliff islands, Enbesa always has 13 islands (Taborime included). DLC regions will always have the same amount of islands regardless of the settings, and in case of Enbesa and the Arctic there will also be the exact same island models, which can appear moved or rotated according to the seed number. You can alter different aspects of your game world, for example world size, island size and difficulty, and fertilities. Each NPC character will occupy one small island in the world: for the same seed and world settings the usable land space will be smaller, if one or more NPC characters are activated. While both pirates' difficulty can be changed independently, you can only turn traders on or off (Sir Archibald Blake is the only trader that is always present in the game world and can't be turned off). You can select up to three NPCs that have different personalities and difficulties.įactions are NPCs that are either neutral or hostile and are grouped as pirates and traders. You can choose from a variety of settings such as characters you compete with, factions customization, world settings, features, starting and victory conditions. Sandbox games can be customized to your liking. Additional portraits and logos can be purchased with Club Units as Club Rewards using the Uplay Launcher.Īnno 1800 features three preset difficulty settings ranging from Normal to Advanced to Expert. On the template page and its documentation page you can find further instructions.Starting a sandbox game requires choosing between a variety of playable portraits, a company logo, player name and a colour to differentiate you between your opponents. The favourite map seeds should be posted only here on this page, and only using the seed template. Once you added the image, you need to edit this page and add information about your seed using a designated template. Using a word 'seed' in the image's name is recommended, it makes the image easier to find later, if needed. You can change the name of the image there, it is important to remember it because it is required to include it on the page.

To add your favourite seed, first you need to upload the image/images of the maps of the regions, click here to do that. If you have any favourite map seeds which are not listed on this page, please add them! This allows players to share their favourite game worlds with each other by sharing the seed number along with specifying all relevant settings.īelow you can find favourite map seeds recommended by different players, divided into two sections depending on the game mode (sandbox or campaign). One of those settings is a number known as the seed. The regions within the game world in sandbox and campaign modes are generated based on several settings selected upon starting a new game.

Anno 1800 map types