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Earlier Canals
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Type: Mod
Mod: Gathering Storm, Districts, Game Balance, Technologies
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12 Jan, 2022 @ 6:33pm
28 Sep, 2022 @ 9:15pm
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Sid Meier's Civilization® VI: Gathering Storm
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Earlier Canals

Description
Canals have existed for thousands of years. The earlisest usage was the irrigation canals in Mesopotamia. The oldest extant canal, in the district sense, is the Grand Canal of China (as represented by their UA.) But other contemporary civilizations also used canals for movement. But apparently Firaxis thinks the Panama Canal is clearly the oldest canal and the word Suez is the name of a childrens book author or something.

This mod moves canals to the construction tech to more closely align with reality. Requires gathering storm as it adds the canal.

Thanks to Austin001 for being smarter than me and knowing how to update load order.

If the issue is not fixed, or you find another issue, let me know. I might not be very active, but I do get notified for every comment.
39 Comments
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Grêy  [author] 27 Sep, 2024 @ 5:38pm 
yeah by all means. take it, change it, rebuild it. do whatever you want.
Yūro Akiba 8 Sep, 2024 @ 12:42pm 
i figured it out by myself and modified it. hope you're ok with it, grey
Yūro Akiba 8 Sep, 2024 @ 11:57am 
how do i change it to be unlocked at buttress?
Potatoes and Tomatoes 2 Sep, 2024 @ 5:36am 
thanks @hook TUAH
Renouf 17 Apr, 2024 @ 5:46pm 
Just to confirm you still have to go under the hood for 6T Grand Eras compatibility - at some point 6T moved canals to the Civic tree so with this mod you need BOTH the 'Construction' tech and 'Civil Engineering' (lategame) civic to build a canal.

I removed 6T's canal PrereqCivic line and changed its canal PrereqTech=NULL to PrereqTech='TECH_CONSTRUCTION' (but in theory shouldn't need the second part)

Steam\steamapps\workshop\content\289070\2769967307\Data\Unlocks\6T_Unlock_Districts
Jev 28 May, 2023 @ 8:38am 
Nice mod!
I always found the canals mechanics to be unrealistic. Plus, by the time you reach the steam age, much of the land we could have used to build canals is taken by districts.
This solves that problem and gives us more to do earlier in the game.
Thank you for putting in the time to keep this alive.
Tomer1145 21 Sep, 2022 @ 11:57am 
Is this mod works with Grand Eras now or do I stiil need to alter files for it? great mod btw :)
=[NK]= Col. Jack O'Neil 1 Jul, 2022 @ 11:04pm 
Thanks Austin
Austin001 1 Jul, 2022 @ 11:02pm 
Got it to work by editing your update database line to
<UpdateDatabase id="NewAction">
<Properties>
<LoadOrder>997999</LoadOrder>
</Properties>
<File>EarlierCanals.sql</File>
</UpdateDatabase>
Useful if you wanna play with 6t with your friends(not having them edit the local files) and still want the earlier canal. I set the load order really high, probably didnt need to be that high but I didnt want to test it after I got it to work
DaniAngione 14 Jun, 2022 @ 10:45pm 
I can confirm your post works and still works after the update (that file was not changed) :)