Welcome

Using it

• Pick a category on the left, then an entry, or type in the search box to find a page by name.
• Anything written in blue is a link. Click it to open that page. Rest the cursor on it for a quick preview.
• The arrows at the top step back and forward through the pages you have visited.
• Press F1 at any time to open or close the Crucipedia. Escape closes it too.
• New to the game? Controls and Shortcuts lists every key. The tutorial card offered at the start of a game explains each system the first time it matters. It can be switched on or off in Settings.

Game Concepts

• Cities: founding, working the land, growth, borders and capturing.
• Units and Orders: movement, stacks, vision, orders, upkeep and ships.
• Battle System: how fights are resolved, and what melee, ranged and siege units do.
• Trade System: trade goods, caravans and manufactured goods.
• Diplomacy: relations, integrity, denouncements, treaties and trade deals.
• City Happiness and City Sickness: what keeps a city content, healthy and growing.
• Governments and Policies: what each government allows and what changes cost.
• Religion: founding a faith, how it spreads, missionaries and state religion.
• Technology and Research: science, the research queue and the ages.
• Warlords and Barbarians: camps, raids, ruins and tribal villages.
• Public Works and Tile Improvements: improving, connecting and terraforming your land.
• Artifacts: relics, devices and Great People, and where to put them.
• Victory and the Scoreboard: how the game is won, and how the ratings are worked out.
• Roadmap: what comes after the demo, from ocean cities and space colonies to Generals and the endings still to come.