How To Get Aluminum In Civ 6

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Aluminum is an Atomic Era Strategic Resource in Civilization Half-dozen. Information technology is revealed with Radio.

Aluminum is found in Deserts, Desert Hills, Plains, and Rainforests.

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Strategy [ ]

Aluminum is required for most air units in the game, with the exception of the nearly bones i (the Biplane). The resource itself is fairly common. It provides a nice boost to Production (though not as large as Oil and Coal), but this is thanks to its improvement, not the resource itself. Aluminum's bonus yield is Science.

In the Gathering Storm expansion, Aluminum - as well existence used to build and maintain aircraft - is also indispensable for the reworked Scientific Victory, as it is used to build the Lagrange Laser Station.

The Future Era policy card Aerospace Contractors grants Aluminum for free! Sadly, it is unlocked very late, with Exodus Imperative, and it besides requires an expensive Spaceport. Consider it a backup option in all cases - if you need Aluminum for edifice airplanes (or Helicopters in Gathering Storm), chances are your war machine is strong plenty to "liberate" some.

Civilopedia entry [ ]

The Greeks and Romans used aluminum salts every bit astringents and bath powders. For centuries, that'south all aluminum was good for, until in 1825 AD the Danish chemist Hans Orsted managed to create a lump of aluminum metal. In the 1850s, pure aluminum was so hard to produce that bars of it were more valuable than golden and even exhibited equally a curiosity at the Exposition Universelle in 1855. Scientists, of course, merely had to discover uses for it, and now aluminum is institute in everything from spacecraft to skillets.

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