Can't figure out how to build a dang farm!

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You need food for your town to grow, and you need farms (or some other building) to get food.  In my recent beta4 game, I have fertile land near me, and I could cheat by just buying it outright, but I can't do it the "right" way by actually going to the city and choosing to build a farm.

Is there a tech I need to research or something?  The farm isn't even an option in my building list.

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Reply #1 from Elemental Forums Top

Just click the farm (if it is in your influence) and choose build. It is not a cheat, it is working as intended as of BETA 3C i believe.

The farm will then provide its resource to the nearest city.

It was made so you dont have to snake your cities across a map to get resources.

Reply #2 from Elemental Forums Top

It's just a bit confusing that there is a build icon when you select the resource.

It should instead just show the available types of buildings you could build at it right away.

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Reply #3 from Elemental Forums Top

You only have one option of building for the resource.

Reply #4 from Elemental Forums Top

Hmm, I think that this needs to be addressed in some way (and I suspect it's already being looking into).  It's way too much of an exploit to be able to build a farm while simultaneously building something else beneficial for your town.

I expect this will be addressed, but until then I'm gonna just go ahead and "cheat" in order to enjoy the game :P  Maybe I'll just halt all other production in my city in order to ensure I'm still getting the right feel for the difficulty level of the game.

Reply #5 from Elemental Forums Top

As frogboy mentioned somewhere else already, the resource improvements will step out of the city improvements. In my opinion this is the right direction :-)