This building plan can be used for bigger cities in Anno 1404 (but doesn't include Debtor's prison or Surgery).

• The problem with this layout is that not all houses get covered by chapels and taverns. You have to build them just outside the displayed layout for total coverage.
• Chapels can be replaced by churches since churches will "Very well satisfy" the need for faith. However, Patricians do desire a chapel as well as a church for 100% satisfaction, which generates the most tax revenue.
• This layout could be modified to have an imperial cathedral in the middle, which would remove about 9 houses in the middle, but gain over 20 houses since marketplaces, chapels, and taverns become unnecessary.

4 Marketplaces · 264 Houses · 4 Chapels · 1 Church · 5 Taverns · 5 Fire stations · 8 Carpenter's houses

For protection against sickness and plague and fire, additional houses must be demolished to make space for such facilities.

1 Marketplace · 87 houses · 4 chapels · 4 carpenter's house · 2 taverns · 1 debtor's prison · 1 church

1 Marketplace · 101 Houses · 1 Church · 1 Tavern · 1 Debtor's prison · 4 Carpenter's houses · 2 Surgeries · 1 Small market building

Beggers houses can be build instead of a house at the edge of the city

Advantages:

• Possible to build step by step
• The doctors and carpenters are placed near the crossroads
• The doctors and carpenters can't reach the other side of the city so they serve a smaller area but at a higher efficiency
• Long straight roads are easy for person finding quests
• Easy to fit between mountains and rivers on all large islands
• Minimum of public buildings

Disadvantage:

• Without an extra market building or place 4 houses in the corners can have no road connection

2 Marketplaces · 152 + 4 Houses · 1 Chapel · 1 Tavern · 4 Carpenter's house · 4 Surgeries · 1 Debtor's prison · 1 Church ·

1 Bazaar · 108 Houses · 1 Mosque · 1 Bath house

The small market building can almost completely keep up with production when using dirt roads, and keeps up without trouble if you upgrade to stone roads.

Uses 63 tiles per farm.

If you use this for spices and don't have (enough) irrigated land: you can either place noria's beside the blocks, or replace two fields (of different farms) with small norias and use the noria exploit.

You can build farms upto 5 fields If The farm doesn't need a road, you don't need to build the road (red).

In the middle you can build a market building with a small noria, a market building with a process building or 2 process buildings... The choise is yours.

If you build a spice farm you can leave 1 field (yellow) and build a large noria, market building, process buidling,... instead.

Large Noria's can also be set at the edge.

Uses 64 tiles per farm.

Four blocks are displayed, showing how multiple blocks can be combined without wasting space in between.

Note that since goat farms don't require any fertilities, you can build them on northern islands. If you're building goat farms on infertile land: you can either place noria's beside the blocks, or replace some fields (of different farms) with norias and use the noria exploit.

Uses 37 tiles per farm

For wheat adequate fertility is also necessary.

Keep in mind that wheat cannot grow on southern islands, and that all these facilities can be build on northern islands. This setup should only be used when you have no more building space left! Otherwise it would be a waste of money, because a noria exploit costs more money in maintenance than a regular farm.

Only usable on southern islands with use of noria exploit. 24 goat milk farms with 4 norias run on 100% efficiency.

Be aware that each milk ton produced does drain water from every noria which will noticeably up the cost of milk (due to its low value).

A layout for 22 Date / Indigo / Silk / Coffee / Sugar farms around 6 norias. All farms run at 100% efficiency (see noria exploit).

This layout is not suitable for grapes.^[1]

This layout is usable for grape, date, indigo, silk, coffee and sugar plantations on green soil.

Uses 76.25 tiles per farm.

Four blocks are displayed, showing how to combine multiple blocks while wasting only one tile per block.

This layout is usable for date, indigo, silk, coffee and sugar plantations on dry soil including norias. The warehouses on the end of the layout can be used for quarries or other production facilities. On strictly dry soil the farms produce at a reduced rate (91%).

Uses 82.25 tiles per farm. Where 69 is theoretical minimum. Does not use the noria exploit.

Four blocks are displayed, showing how to combine multiple blocks while wasting only 3 tiles between "columns".

Uses 63 tiles per herb farm, where 57 tiles is the absolute minimum.

Four blocks are displayed, showing how multiple blocks can be combined without wasting space in between.

Note that 3 fields are slightly off the monastery radius, but the efficiency is still 100% and you do not need to rebuild the monastery to build the fields.

Three blocks are displayed, showing how multiple blocks can be combined with minimal wasted space in between.

Upper layout uses 67.5 tiles per farm where 73 tiles is the absolute minimum without noria exploit. The lower layout uses 60 tiles per farm, but you have to use the field exploit (see below) which will result in higher building costs.

Both layouts work on southern and northern islands. Pig farms run at 100% with 3 norias or 2 norias on dry soil. They will run at 95% with 2 norias on fertile soil.

Cattle farms run at 100% with 3 norias.

There is also space to for other buildings, e.g. process plants.

Uses 100 tiles per cattle farm, where 89 tiles is the absolute minimum.

Cattle farms need five 4x4 fields; pig farms only need four 4x4 fields.

Works for any processing buildings.

Note: keep bakeries and mills well separated if you have many; otherwise they will be tempted to pick up goods directly and waste time taking long walks.

The extended road deadspaces allow some "give" on the corners of the layout... If you barely can't fit a tight corner (15 tiles, not 16), you can push in a set of beehives along an edge. And since it's symmetrical, you can do a "mirror image", if needed. The extended road spaces can also let you place factories or whatever at the edge of the configuration, although you may need stone roads or to enlarge the market building so it can keep up.

A block of 18 rose nurseries supplied by 7 small norias. All nurseries operate at 100% (see noria exploit).

You can place perfumeries along the road if you like.

A perfect 23x23 square of 18 rose nurseries supplied by 7 small norias and 2 market buildings. All nurseries operate at 100% on dry soil (see noria exploit).

This layout uses 29.38 tiles per farm where 21 is the absolute minimum with noria exploit and 81 without.

This layout is usable for rose nurseries on fertile soil, or with norias added around it.

Uses 90 tiles per nursery, where 81 tiles is the absolute minimum without using the noria exploit.

This alternative layout allows 1 marketplace to supply 6 rose nurseries in a perfect rectangle. May require market building upgrade.

Does not include norias so suitable for fertile soil or with norias added around it.

This layout is used for almonds on fertile soil or with norias around it.

Uses 100 tiles per almond plant, where 89 is the minimum without the noria exploit.

These are 24 almond farms supplied by 6 small norias. All farms operate at 100% (see noria exploit).

This scaleable layout used for 20 single-field grape plantations around 9 norias uses only 2 market buildings. All fields run at 100% capacity using the noria exploit. Uses 30.45 tiles per plantation where 21 is the minimum.

Bread loop, 2x Wheat Farm, 1x Mill and 1x Bakery. Can support 725 Patricians/1025 Noblemen^[2].If the last field is just out of reach, try temporarily placing a farm to build it, destroy the farm and then rebuild it like pictured.

As a small variation, you can swap the position of the mill and the wheat farm furthest from the road. This way, you don't have to destroy and rebuild. All buildings still operate at 100%.

Uses 140 tiles per brewery, where 123 is the theoretical minimum.

Optional: after advancing to Noblemen stage(when war machines are available to produce), add 1 hemp plantation next to each Ropeyard to make them constantly run at full capacity.

4 Linen + 8 farms use 512 tiles on 20х26 rectangle ( 97,7% efficiency )

One market place for just 2 wine presses is a little overkill and you could place just one market place in the middle that would be able to get the wine from 4 presses. However, the barrel cooperage would not have a market place in its reach then, so this is the most efficient layout I could come up with. (Wasted tiles are marked with trees.)

This layout is for the production of carpets. carpets are good to sell for extra money and needed for nomads to advance. uses noria exploit

This is better built by mirroring the farm/field layout on the left side of the image for the right. This helps to prevent any norias from neighbouring layouts contributing to these farms, wasting their water.

Four candle chains with 29/30 efficiency.

If you lack space, or need less than four candle chains, you can use half or quater of this layout.