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Niter
Historical Context
Better known as saltpeter, niter is the mineral form of potassium nitrate. Although known for millennia, it didn’t become important until the Chinese figured out it could be combined with sulfur to make gunpowder in the mid-1st Century AD. And gunpowder is really good for making fireworks and blowing things up. Niter is also useful as a fertilizer and food preservative, but few people remember that.
PortraitSquare
icon_resource_niter

Traits

Strategic
+1 Food
+1 Production
Produces +2 Niter per turn when improved.

Requirements

Unlocked By
icon_tech_military_engineering
Military Engineering
Placement
icon_terrain_desert
Desert
icon_terrain_grass
Grassland
icon_feature_floodplains_grassland
Grassland Floodplains
icon_terrain_plains
Plains
icon_feature_floodplains_plains
Plains Floodplains
icon_terrain_tundra
Tundra

Usage

Improved By
icon_improvement_mine
Mine
Projects
PortraitSquare
icon_resource_niter
Historical Context
Better known as saltpeter, niter is the mineral form of potassium nitrate. Although known for millennia, it didn’t become important until the Chinese figured out it could be combined with sulfur to make gunpowder in the mid-1st Century AD. And gunpowder is really good for making fireworks and blowing things up. Niter is also useful as a fertilizer and food preservative, but few people remember that.

Traits

Strategic
+1 Food
+1 Production
Produces +2 Niter per turn when improved.

Requirements

Unlocked By
icon_tech_military_engineering
Military Engineering
Placement
icon_terrain_desert
Desert
icon_terrain_grass
Grassland
icon_feature_floodplains_grassland
Grassland Floodplains
icon_terrain_plains
Plains
icon_feature_floodplains_plains
Plains Floodplains
icon_terrain_tundra
Tundra

Usage

Improved By
icon_improvement_mine
Mine
Projects
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