5 EXPERT TIPS FOR YOUR TRADE ROUTES!! Anno 1800 

8:40 That is absolutly false and with the amount of time u have in this game u should know that. The cargo can not spill over to another cargo slot just becouse 1 slot becomes full. If a slot becomes full the ship will simply not pick up anything untill it can unload from the cargo slots and will just go around the route untill it can be unloaded somewhere. Each cargo slot can only pick up goods if its instructed to do so in the trade route screen and if half the slots are left blank those will never be filled up regardless if the cargo is getting unloaded or not.

I've played for approaching 300 hours and I'd never considered dropping off and picking up at the same time. I love how I can still learn new stuff.

Whenever I come back after months to this game. I can be assured that taka has just released a video with something I struggle with

Having recently become very addicted to Anno 1800, I am very grateful for your helpful videos!

I think the only solid point about Charter Routes is that you use them during war time so that your cargo ships don't get shot up. They're meant purely as an emergency.

Thanks for the tip to end a trade route at an NPC to sell the excess, I hadn't thought of that!

That trick with the neutral traders to prevent overflow is GENIUS. I've been struggling with this for hours and hours of gameplay, fixing it manuallly. Thanks!

Played the game for a long time and only today from watching your video realised about dumping all cargo onto an island and then using the min stock option to pick up the difference to take to the next island along with selling any excess at the end. This makes it so much easier so don't have to keep adjusting how much you think they will need plus gives a nice cash bonus for selling resources.

Just getting into Anno 1800 because a friend of mine recommended it and I will say I've been watching a bunch of your vids. As a new player this is so super helpful. Thank you for everything

Just start playing Anno 1800 recently and your guides are superb, thank you!

Thanks for this video. I never thought about selling the surplus at the end of the trade route. You learn something new every day. 😅

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This is very helpful! Thank you!

Good stuff. Clear presentation. thanks!

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Shout out to a few years back when Taka was thinking of giving up this channel as Anno 1800 had ended development. So glad Anno 1800 got a resurgence in players when it went on Steam, you deserve all the love and attention, Taka. Love your videos!

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Very well done Taka! Thanks. Even with 4000 hours of game play under my belt, I still learn from your videos! *hugs*

I would like to thank you for the video series you've made, I shall use this new knowledge to crush my friends spirits over the course of a several 5+ hour long anno sessions.

Thanks for the video! Thats some real great tips for taking your routes to the ”next level”. Been having a ships doing routes back and forth my islands, never thought to add a merchant island at the end.

Thanks for the tips, this really helped

Than,s for another great video Taka. Also glad you have such a cool discord to help me out

Love this video! I get to a certain point in game and then stop. I found this very helpful thank you!

Thx! very useful!

Just started playing this game a few days ago. You simplified it so much for me ! ❤

Thanx for your time

Learning this game from your videos ngl, been a huge help.

Great! Immediately linked this in the steam forums to spread the word.

I didn’t know about the timers, thanks Taka!

A little side note. As much as I like hearing you say that clippers are enough for most routes and that clippers are enough for most routes, you didnt mention that steam ships are unaffected by wind. The big plus in using steam ships is that your turnaround time is exactly the same no matter where the wind comes from. This is not the case for sailing ships and can lead to up to four times turnaround time worst case. Like 5 minutes turnaround time when both directions had tailwind and 20 minutes when both directions had bad luck and headwind.

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Thanks for the vid! So helpful! Do you have a video on production optimization? I’m struggling with that

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Great vid as usual

Thank you for sharing these informative videos. I just started playing 1800(vanilla) this month and after over a 1000 hours in 1404 and a combined hour between 2070 and 2205 I really like this game. I form trade rights with both pirates and use a schooner with a trade price reduction item. Buy 1 bay of weapons from Anne, another bay from Jean and then sell both to Isabel. At the point where trade rights with Jean happen money isn't needed but the passive income is nice. With how slow the schooner is and the length of the route, it stays active.

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Genius the multiple iland route tactic I never thought that. I used to cargo 1 to iland 1, cargo 2 to iland 2 and forward. Genius

Great video!

Very helpfull 👍🏻

i was waiting for your videos

I think one of the most important aspects is to keep your routes simple , even if it is at the cost of being not as effective. Helps when the game gets more complex to keep track of everything, atleast for me 😆

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Damn i need to watch this step by step tutorial to make comfort game experience 😂😂, thank you sir, it is great and clear 👍

wow amazing tips really even tohugh i consider myself is a experienced anno 1800 player, those tips are very useful and basic

You helped me out.. I'll do my part 😏👍

Mr. Taka thanks for a great content! Do you have an information about how many people can supply each production chain?

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Although I have to admit that I don't play this game anymore for a couple of years now because I am waiting for the next version of Anno but I can add some tips to this video although I have to do it from memory. First of all, keep it as simple and organized as possible. In the beginning your are perhaps using different cargo slots for different types of goods. You might use ships that go to different islands, etc. However when you get further into the game and you get hundreds of ships and hundreds of trade routes it gets confusing. So I set a few rules for myself to keep it organized: 1. always transport only one good per ship. 2. come up with a name convention for the ships as wel as the trade routes that include the name of the good that you transport as wel as the islands that it is sailing between. 3. Use groups that are the same as the product groups that you find in your harbor buildings. This way your trade routes can be found very easy. 4. Try to produce one main product per island and name your island after this product. This does not work for beauty building but it is great for efficiency building. So name an island e.g. "grain". 5. In general dump excessive cargo overboard at the destination. The reason is that some items that you can place in trade unions give you extra products. So if the warehouse is completly filled with the main products that you are producing then the production chain will stop, but that also means that the extra product is also no longer being produced. That can mean that you get a shortage of that product while your production capacity should be fine. 6. make one more group and one more trade route for building material and assign enough ships to that trade route. The destinations of that trade route is changed every time you start building on a new island. So once you settle on a new island you send that trade route to that island and that island gets filled with all the building materials like timber, bricks, windows, etc.

Great tips, thank you! And what do you think about replacing all ships with airships? They are faster, fly in straight lines, are piratesproof and can carry more cargo.

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At about 12:55 yes clippers are awesome in this game. I've found it better & fun to use 2 clippers on the same route vs 1 cargo ship. Yes you can better one over the other with items but until you have coin to burn they're a good ship. Excellent info/tip on charters. 👍

I really like that city you have in this video, very attractive!

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It would be super cool if they add a way to see if an island is getting enought supply based on how much the ship transports and the amount of time between each delivery. I know i can do the math pretty easily but it would be more practical to have the information already in the statistics screen.

I'd also look at the inter-region speed of ships. There are some ships / airships better for inter-region vs same region. Also you will find with more routes the more harbours you need so stop ships idling while waiting for a free harbour spot to load / unload.

All steam here, got rid of all none steam boats, best dicision ever.

For minimum stock, you can calculate how much you might need by doing math similar to what you described earlier for transport. See how much the source island needs per minute, see how often the outgoing ships are picking goods up, and multiply to make sure you have enough to cover the time in between pickups. For example, if I need 8 potatoes per minute (PPM) on my source island, and I've got a ship coming every 15 minutes to move it to another island, my minimum stock baseline is 8*15=120. This is especially useful on islands in the middle of a shipping route, like if you have a single line between old & new worlds, and then separate distributor lines moving goods around in each world. You'd use this math on that middle/warehousing island if it needs it. This is also useful if you have a production line that for any reason might have inconsistent output rates, like relying on incoming trade, or if your outgoing ships are extremely frequent.

Good guide, Taka. Can you make a comparison between airships and steam ships for late game transportation ? Also possibly a video on mail routes and best approach how to set them up and what ships to use?

For charter routes, i think the biggest benefit of them is their automation, meaning you can set and forget about it. If a pirate ship attack your charter ship, it get replaced by another automatically. This is crucial when you’re trying to expand and don’t have time to get everything in place efficiently yet. Believe me, i completed the world’s fair just by using charter routes. I laughed alot when you said don’t use charter routes for things like coffee or rum, because that’s exactly what i do. Just use 8 ships at once and you will be fine 😂. After you get everything in place, then you can slowly replace them with trade ships for better influence efficiency.

1:50 based on the chart on the right, it looks like the demand for fish is closer to 1.5 tons per minute and the game is rounding it down.

I still need help figuring out the best way to set up my postal air ships

I think you all undervalue the importance of charter routes! During times of war these ships will not be destroyed as they are delivered by a neutral third party... saving plenty of resources lost to building new ships, time to build new ships and money lost if your ships goods were essential to the profitability of one of your citizen classes. This is especisally true when playing expert difficulty and early on in the game before your income grows and you are at war with possibly everyone.

What if instead of adding final route to trader to sell excessive good, you just set sell treshold in trade post on final island? Will it have same efficiency?

Clippers are good but only in the same map area. They loose value pretty quick when you need to set up routes between maps. But what I do I normally make an Import Hub close to the edge of the map towards the new world, artic and embesa. That way whenever ships (usually expensive airships or metal hull ships) enter the region they spend less time in the map and lower the chance of being attacked. Wooden hull ships usually have 70-90% open sea speed. Airships and metal hull ships can have 100% to 180% open sea travel which is so much better especially if you combine them with cargo slowdown items.

I'm sorry this is not related to the topic. I'm having trouble with a the dlc empire of the sun not working in a new games works in old saves but not in new ones. Any help would be great thanks.

What is the best moment to put worlds fair? Last time i put it a bit too early and i had to hire or rehire 300 farmers and 500 artisans.

Hi, I’m playing on PS5. The min stock option is really useful. But it seems that the value changes by itself. For example, I set it to 20, after about 15 minutes it changes to 7. Any idea?

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Charter route can be useful when your enemy is controlling the sea route and attacks every your trade ship

Thank you for this! Extremely helpful, especially bit where excess sold to neutral trader. I have a diffrent question: I have all my islands in positive financial sutiation, but I have a lot of ships, what puts me in negative. I was in the state of war with one of the AI characters, but now war is over, and I use Ship-of-the-line for trade routes, as those are frequently attacked by pirats. So how can I compensate for constant negative balance? I do eaarn a lot on trade routes (I hope to earn more with your tips now), but my news paper says Im bancrupt! Please help. Thank you

Does anyone know if reloading goods (like drop 50, load 50, with minimum stock set), counts as 100 transfer (unload 50 on top of minimum stock, load 50 back in) even if it could calculate that it would reload (almost) all the goods? So how efficiënt is this when you do this with all you 6 slot trading ships, will it be very slow with loading/unloading?

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One very important mechanic that you forgot to mention when moving from sailing ships to motor ships is that motor ships are more consistent at traveling. Your ships won't rely on wind anymore when it comes to traveling which is why calculating trade routes goods/min can be confusing sometimes and you got to round it up or add a minute or two to your trades when you want to calculate how many goods you ships need to carry to fulfill your needs. And even when it comes to war, imagine having your fleet trying to sail away from a battle where the enemy is using motor ships, and the wind is against you.. Not only their guns will be better but you'll have 0 chance to escape as well.

Taka, please help me, trade routes cannot be grouped in my game. The drop-down menu button does not appear on the right, but there is a delete button right away. I've already tried clicking everywhere and looked through all the settings, tried different saves, but it doesn't help. How to fix it?

@4:45 you pronounce it correctly, nieuw = Dutch for new 🙂, on topic: why not unload 25 on each island? @9:00 I thought you dedicate slots in a ship and it will only use that slow to (un)load goods? I didn’t know the route will eventually use a slots of a ship @15:25 to unlock the achievements of reaching investors using only charter routes, but I never use them ever

I agree with the fact that you don't need to put a cargo ship on a route between two islands, though there is a huge BUT (no pun intended). The wind. An opposite wind absolutely cripples scooners and clippers meaning the times of goods delivered, as mentioned on the first part of the video, become so variable that it can create very radical fluctuations on your balance, especially early game when money is an issue. Maybe it's my own personal opinion, but the moment I reach engineers, I rush to establish a stable trading route using cargo ships since they don't rely on wind direction. I prefer the -500 to my balance in my mid-to-late game rather than a periodical -2K or more from an unstable and unreliable trade route. Again, my opionion, not necessarily the correct way.

Is there any way to make money by buying and selling goods between the bots? Specifically what is the purpose of offer and requests. doesnt seem like they adjust any prices accordingly

do charter routes get attacked by pirates? that could also be a reason to use them.

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I'm playing with mods, like one on stronger pirates with better ai (for example if pirates manage your trade route, they will sit on it and wait for your ship with goods to destroy it) and charter routs the most important thing you can do for me couse this mfkrs have stronger ships (even if they same type) and they making linkorns almost from the beginning so management become 30x times harder and more fun

someone can help me? I use a mod that gives all zoo,museum and botanica to grand gallery, but i dont want anymore. I already unnistal and everytime I start a newgame and call paloma, all the itens still there 😢

When at 3:20 you're saying it's "about 10 minutes", there is no route that is close to 10 minutes and I am confused in the rest of it.

I think chartered routes also don't get targeted by AI? never seen one attack my chartered routes....

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I just got no idea how you’re earning 17k with only 7k population. My population is 20k and my main island (ditchwater in campaign) is absolutely full. Never seem to be able to get a healthy balance or population/tiers without playing whackamole and now I’m running out of engineers - but I can’t upgrade any more residences because I need the industry from lower workers 🤯

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Where is the World Class Reefer D=

you need to be a rocket scientist to understand this game..

Oh, Nieuw is pronounced like nEEw.

I cannot understand anything about this whole trade route thing 😫 wtf??? Is it really complicated or am i just dumb?

Expert tips on how to break the game with a shere amount of cheat mods and "beauty" building, not being able to incorporate the palace to the city 😂

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As a console player, your videos have been very helpful but not always. You have to understand these dlcs don’t exist for a lot of new players. So some of your tips are kind of pointless to us

I use the frigiet for all my trade routes because I am always at war and need my ships to defends it self, is there a better solution?