Bricks are an advanced building material and together with Roof Tiles they mark the industrial era of a Banished town. Modern buildings like schools or hospitals but also wealthy houses with the best conditions require this material. Bricks are made from clay in special furnaces and the burning process consumes a lot of fuel. Fortunately, the Nordic brickmakers have found a way to achieve those high temperatures with firewood.
Category: Bricks
Produced by: Brickyard
Output: 3 – 4 from 3 Clay and 3 Firewood
Used as building material
Trade value: 12 – 16
Used storage: 18 (16 per tile)
Related resources: Ashlar, Roof Tiles
Tip: Since bricks are a late game resource, it reaches your town quite slowly. To rush for bricks, you should build more trading docks and order them from Hanseatic merchants.
Last edited on 4 December 2020
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Brick production is fun, but it seems to me like bricks should be more valuable. Same output as pottery with triple the input materials, lower trade value, higher weight and harder to acquire tech.
Brickmaking also seems to be a very poor source of income compared to other higher tier production chains, e.g. glassmaking.
To make matters worse, there is the fact that clay is finite compared to sand being infinite. This means brickmaking is also quite environmentally destructive with multiple clay pits needed over time.
I would suggest a significant increase in trade value for bricks and roof tiles with also perhaps an increase in the capacity of clay pits. This would make brickmaking actually able to compete with other higher tier industries and would allow it to not ruin the environment quite as fast.