With the most recent Mercatorio update the trusty brickworks gets company. Located on a site with clay deposits (usually found on riverbanks or dried up rivers), the bricksworks extracts clay and burns it into bricks or tiles in an on-site kiln. With the introduction of the clay pit and the ceramic kiln this can now be done in a two-step process.
Production chain complexity
In Mercatorio there are often multiple ways to refine raw materials into the same finished products. Simpler production methods may be more obtainable and require fewer steps, like the brickworks directly producing bricks ready for use in construction projects.
The clay pit extracts clay-rich soil from the ground
More complex production methods require multiple steps to achieve the same result, but the more specialized buildings operate at a higher efficiency.
The ceramic kiln burns clay into bricks or cookware
More cookware too
In addition to more efficient production of bricks the new ceramic kiln can make cookware from clay, offering an alternative to cookware produced from copper at the coppersmith.
Burning cookware pots from clay
This new production method allows towns with clay deposits that lack copper to become self-sufficient with cookware, or even export it if they can produce it cheaply enough.
