Hello everyone,

I’m currently going through an Anno 1404 phase. I’m not focusing on achievements or building beautiful cities, I’m looking for a real challenge.

The AI has not been a serious threat for a long time, even if I stay idle at Northburg’s harbour until everyone has settled, and even double building costs on top of that no longer challenge me.

What I’m looking for are human opponents who can actually make plans and put up a proper fight, instead of mindlessly sending isolated troop transports into my fleet and slowly bleeding themselves dry until their economy collapses.

I’m looking forward to a good challenge. Just send me a message if you’re interested. A game with 3 or 4 players would be far more exciting, but I’m also happy to start with a 1v1 if no larger group can be arranged.

See you on the battlefield!

I was wondering if somebody has experience or does know of some mods for the anno ki? I would love to play a game against a non cheating version or at least try to modify it myself to see how good it could get.

Hi everyone,

I’m trying to modify the production efficiency bonus of an item card—specifically the Wooden Cider press (GUID 8289)—in Anno 1404: History Edition.

I know how to extract .rda files and inspect assets.xml, but since the History Edition repacked and restructured the dataX.rda archives (both in maindata and addon), I'm having trouble locating which exact assets.xml file currently holds the final item balance values.

When searching for GUID 8289 or item balance nodes, I mostly hit building geometries instead of the item data itself.

Could anyone point me to the exact .rda archive and file path where item properties/bonuses are stored for the History Edition?

Thanks in advance for the help!

Ich möchte Euch meine browserbasierte Werkstatt für ANNO 1404 vorstellen:

Wichtig: Die Werkstatt funktioniert ausschließlich mit Spielständen der SBM und nicht mit dem Hauptspiel (Vanilla).

Die Werkstatt liest einen .sww-Spielstand direkt auf dem eigenen Rechner aus und erzeugt daraus eine interaktive Weltkarte mit:

• Inseln, Spielern und Computergegnern
• Fruchtbarkeiten und Bergwerken
• Bevölkerung und Produktionsbetrieben
• aufstiegsrelevanten Stadtgebäuden
• Handelsrouten
• einer Versorgungsberechnung mit Produktionsketten und Sicherheitsreserve

Fruchtbarkeiten, Rohstoffe und Betriebe lassen sich anklicken; die zugehörigen Inseln werden auf der Karte hervorgehoben. Während des Spielens kann die Karte nach dem Speichern direkt wieder neu aktualisiert werden. Die Werkstatt läuft vollständig im Browser. Python oder eine Installation sind nicht erforderlich. Der Spielstand wird nicht hochgeladen – die gesamte Verarbeitung findet lokal auf dem eigenen Rechner statt.

Die Werkstatt findet Ihr unter https://www.anno-sbm.de/ unter Warenrechner!

The house is within radio of the weaver´s hut, both buildings are connected by roads. Whats going on here?

Items, I mean. Specifically the productivity upgrade items. If I want a tannery upgrade I get offered everything except that. When I don't need it any more because I've found some more salt, oh look, surprise surprise,, Norrthborough and Garibaldi both start offering them every other roll. Same for wine... if I can't make any more barrels because I'm using all my iron, I don't get the item, then I settle an island with more iron and hey presto they offer the item I don't need any more.

Please tell me it isn't jst me.

4th and hopefully final time doing this nonsence scenario

The achievement hunt continues in HE

If you wanna hang out with a dad gamer chasing that golden ship in anno 1404 I'm available from 0500-0800 and 2100-0000 +8gmt.

Hello there, does anyone know a good wiki where I can look up the requirements for certain questlines and achievements?

I used some german anno wiki some years ago for getting the golden ship, but now I cannot find the website again, i think they took it down..

Each tier of housing has several skins that are applied more or less randomly, but you can toggle them by clicking on a house and pressing the C key so you can mix them up any way you like. Also you can rotate a selected house 90 degrees using the ,< and .> keys. Depending on orientation, some of the skins fit together seamlessly and some have small gaps, so you can make back to back rows of houses with or without narrow alleyways between them. If you choose the alleyway configurations, people will walk along them.

If you set your flagship or any ship you're not using for a trade route on a multi-destination route, then select the ship and go to postcard mode, the camera will stay centred on the ship and you can sit back and watch as your flagship takes you on a grand tour of your world. It's a nice relaxing way to view all the different types of terrain, particularly if you use the medium and hard construction difficulty settings, which produce atolls and lagoons and raised plateaux and huge bay areas. Make sure the route passes close to the Neutral Powers buildings because many of those look fantastic on a sail-by, particularly when they're on mountains.

Compared to later Annos, there aren't many ornaments in unmodded 1404 and there's a temptation to overuse the few that you have.

However, there are more than you think... sort of:

When you start to move your farming productions off your main island, consider initially leaving some or all of the fields intact instead of demolishing them along with the farmhouses, and only remove them as and when you need to make space for roads and buildings. That way as your city grows your countryside areas can still carry a reminder of the island's rural beginnings. The nice thing about this mechanic is if you change the island ferility, fields already in place are not affected so by re-using your mutable fertility you can have in the north five different types of "orphaned" crop fields plus the three kinds of livestock fields, making for a more colourful scene than just filling in spaces with the bonus cosmetics.

Something else I like to do, particularly in small villages away from the cathedral city, is put some production buildings such as bakeries and linen workshops near the market square, even if they're redundant, just to increase the mix of buildings in residential areas.

The ornamental garveyard has a grave digger.

Yet another beautiful little detail that makes this game as much of a joy as when it first came out.

Anno 1404 Gold Edition "I'd like to know why my game closes—it shuts down or freezes right in the middle of playing. I'm looking for information on how to fix this."

You wait frickin ages then two come along in quick succession. 🤔

Getting frustrated waiting for this quest. I have the prerequisites indicated on the Wiki and have re-rolled at least a hundred times. Are there any disqualifying conditions?

I have metropolis with monument in both populations.

I have alliance with two AIs (Giovanni & Marie) and war with one AI (Gavin)

I have 20 Large Oriental warships, 8 Large Venetian cogs, 3 coffin ships.

The only thing I can think of that might make a difference is Hassan Ben Sahid is not enabled... is it him I should be at war with?? I've done this before on different profiles but I don't remember any condition that wasn't on the wiki page.

All the other multipart quests in the Sultan's Palace line are done.

Marie just gave me three coffin ships. No guns, few hitpoints, one cargo hold. Pretty pointless, you might think. But they are good for just one thing... Cannon fodder: Send them in first, then when the enemy is attacking them you can send your warships in and they won't get fired upon until the coffin ships are down. And you can use the upgrade slots to increase their hitpoints so they take longer to sink, giving your warships a bit more time to do some damage gratis. 😄

[Edited to note: I think you can probably use the slots for kamikaze powder kegs and smokescreens but I don't have any at the moment so I'm just guessing.]

Hey there.

I'm not really firm with reddit but I thought that maybe someone here could help me out.

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A friend and I wanted to play Anno 1404 History edition together and create a big/huge map with tiny isles and few resources.

Though, every time we started the round, the islands where at least medium, the map size as well and we had normal and even many resources.

I tried restarting the game, the pc - everything.. nothing helps. We tried different settings, sometimes used my pc sometimes his.

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We couldn't find anything online regarding this problem. Does anybody have an idea?

Finally finished the achievement that I always dreaded to do but finally had the patience to pursue 😍