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Civilization 6 Science explained - how to earn Science and how it works

All the info you need to rake in the Science and plow through the Civ 6 Tech tree.

Science has always been our personal favourite of the win-condition resources, thanks to that oh-so-satisfying feeling of steaming through the Tech tree towards the late game, and the payoffs that come with it. Amassing Science in Civilization 6 is no different, and will also play a crucial role in any playthrough thanks to some integral technologies that are unlocked as you progress.

Just about any civilization can benefit from a strong Science income, regardless of your target victory condition, and so maintaining that income is one of the most important things you can do to secure yourself a healthy late game.

Here, we'll be focusing on explaining how exactly Science works for the newcomers and lapsed Civlization players, whilst also gathering up every single way to earn Science specifically into one all-consuming list. The goal, then, is to have this guide play a complementary role to our other, dedicated Science Victory guide, which contains our more in-depth advice for winning the game through technological advance.

If you're looking for more resource-focused Civ 6 guides, meanwhile, we also have pages on how to earn Gold , how to earn Faith , and how to earn Culture and Tourism in Civ 6 , too.

A quick note: we've refreshed out Civ 6 guides for the game's launch on Nintendo Switch, but just be aware that they contain information regarding the Rise and Fall DLC as well as the base game, which means some things only apply if you have that DLC! Otherwise... crack on!

What is Science and how does Science work in Civ 6?

Science is a per-turn income that dictates how quickly you progress through the Technology tree, which is the key to unlocking many of your civilization's most important features. Your military, resource yields, Cultural output, Tourism, Amenities, Housing and more are all affected by the Techs, Wonders, Buildings and more that are unlocked through amassing Science.

You can view the Technology Tree by clicking on the blue circle in the top left of the screen - there, you'll notice that not only are the various Techs listed out, but also their various Eureka moments - a new addition for Civ 6.

Eureka moments are the Tech Tree-specific boosts, which will do exactly that - boosting your progress towards the relative Tech - when triggered. We recommend spending some time going over these in-game, as learning the art of timing Eureka moments with your new Tech research will be a crucial skill, particularly in higher difficulties and online play.

A key point to remember is that, if you've already researched more than half-way through a Tech that then gets boosted, you've wasted however many extra turns of research that took you beyond the halfway point. So always look to either ideally boost before you research a Tech altogether, or at least do so before it reaches the halfway mark, to get the very most out of your precious Science-per-turn.

How to get Science - every method for earning Science in Civilization 6

• +5% Non-food yields (which includes Science) when the city is happy (has more Amenities than required).
• +0.7 Science per Citizen
• +2 Science in your Capital city.
• Military Research: Military Academies and Seaports generate +1 Science;
• Five-Year Plan: +100% Campus and Industrial Zone district adjacency bonuses;
• Market Economy: international Trade Routes provide +1 Gold, +2 Culture and +2 Science per Luxury and Strategic resource improved at the destination;
• Natural Philosophy: +100% Campus district adjacency bonuses;
• Rationalism: +100% Science from Campus district buildings;
• Trade Confederation: +1 Culture and +1 Science from international Trade Routes;
• International Space Agency: +10% Science per city-state you are the Suzerain of;
• Raj: +2 Science, Culture, Faith and Gold from each city-state you are a Suzerain of;
• Inspiration: +2 Great Scientist points per turn;
• Nobel Prize: +4 Great Scientist points per turn.
• Monasticism (Dark Age): Science doubled in cities with a Holy Site, but -25% Culture in all cities.

Great People

• All Great Scientists will provide you with a boost to scientific progress in some form or another, from unlocking Technologies to providing Tech Boosts, but the following will specifically boost your Science income:
• Albert Einstein; Charles Darwin; Galileo Galilei; Hildegard of Bingen; Hypatia; Isaac Newton; Janaki Ammal; Mary Leakey.

Religious and Pantheon Beliefs

• Divine Spark: +1 Great Person point from Holy Sites, Campuses, and Theatre Squares;
• Wat: allows construction of Wats (see buildings, below);
• Stewardship: each Campus or Commercial Hub district in a city following this religion provides +1 Science or +1 Gold respectively.
• Cross-Cultural Dialogue:+1 Science for every 5 followers of this Religion in other civs

• Mercury (+1);
• Aluminium (+1);
• Turtles (+1).
• Great Library: +2 Science, +1 Great Scientist point per turn, +2 Great Works of Writing slots;
• Oracle: patronage of Great People costs 25% less Faith, districts in this city provide +2 Great Person points per turn of their type;
• Oxford University: +20% Science in this city, awards 2 randomly-choses free technologies when completed, +3 Great Scientist points per turn, +2 Great Works of Writing slots;
• Campus Research Grants: district-based project which provides Science and Great Scientist points when completed.
• Trade Routes provide yields based on the destination city's districts. Trade with a city that has a Campus district to earn Science from that route.
• Routes that pass through Trading Posts (automatically set up in a location once a Trade Route there has successfully completed) grant bonus yields.

If your lust for Civilization 6 knowledge is still going strong, expansion owners should take a look at our Civ 6 Rise and Fall guide hub which takes you through the basics of everything new, whilst we have dedicated pages on Governors and Loyalty , along with how to earn Golden Ages, Era Points and Era Score through Historic Moments , and a full list of new Civs in Civ 6 Rise and Fall and other DLC. Otherwise, our Civilization 6 guide, tips and tricks covers the essentials before you master early game, mid-game and late-game strategies . We also have tips on the new Districts feature, a Leaders list with their Traits and Agendas , plus the best ways to get Gold , Science , and Faith , how to win by Religious Victory , and how to earn the elusive Science Victory and Military domination victory . Finally, here's the Culture Victory, Foreign Tourism, and Domestic Tourism explained in depth.

Campus district

• +1 Great Scientist point per turn; +1 Science from each adjacent Mountain; +1 Science from every 2 adjacent Rainforest tiles; +1 Science from every 2 adjacent district tiles; +2 Science per citizen working Campus tile; +1 food from domestic Trade Route destinations with a Campus; +1 Science from international Trade Route destinations with a Campus.
• Library: +2 Science, +1 Citizen slot on Campus tile, +1 Great Scientist point per turn;
• Madrasa (unique to Arabia, replaces University): +5 Science, bonus Faith equal to adjacency bonus of the Campus district, +1 Housing, +1 Citizen slot, +1 Great Scientist point per turn;
• University: +4 Science, +1 Housing, +1 Citizen slot, +1 Great Scientist Point per turn.
• Research Lab: +5 Science, +1 Citizen slot, +1 Great Scientist point per turn.
• Wat: +3 Faith, +2 Science, +1 Citizen slot for Holy Site district.

Diplomacy and City-States

• Geneva - 1 Envoy: +2 Science in your Capital; 2 Evoys: +2 Science in every Campus district; 6 Envoys: Additional +2 Science in every Campus district. Suzerain Bonus: Your cities earn +15% Science whenever you are not at war with any civilization.
• Hattusa - 1 Envoy: +2 Science in your Capital; 2 Evoys: +2 Science in every Campus district; 6 Envoys: Additional +2 Science in every Campus district. Suzerain Bonus: Provides you with 1 of each Strategic resource you have revealed but do not own.
• Seoul - 1 Envoy: +2 Science in your Capital; 2 Evoys: +2 Science in every Campus district; 6 Envoys: Additional +2 Science in every Campus district. Suzerain Bonus: When you enter an era, earn one random Eureka moment for that era.
• Stockholm - 1 Envoy: +2 Science in your Capital; 2 Evoys: +2 Science in every Campus district; +6 Envoys: Additional +2 Science in every Campus district. Suzerain Bonus: Your districts provide +1 Great Person of their type.

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Originally posted by Inquisitioner : You share research. As in, if one researches something the other one dose too. If you research same thing it goes faster as both doing it. So for example if you research one thing and the other guy too, it goes down from 4 turns to 2.

Originally posted by Tigris of Gaul : The science gained from this is usually very small UNLESS you get the rationalism policy and porcelain tower. This will more than double it.

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Research Agreements (vanilla)

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• Creation date Nov 6, 2011
• Tags vanilla
• Definitions
• Basics of Research Agreements
• First Wave - Chemistry
• Second Wave - Late Renaissance
• Diplomatic Victory
• Science Victory
• RA - Research Agreement
• Tech - Technology
• Bulb - A freely granted technology gained by either expending a great scientist, completing Oxford, the Great Library or the Scientific Revolution social policy.
• Education - 533 beakers
• Chivalry - 533 beakers
• Compass - 412 beakers
• Construction - 115 beakers
• Bronze Working - 60 beakers
• Classical - 200
• Medieval - 250
• Industrial - 300
• Modern - 350
• Metal Casting and Steel
• Engineering and Physics
• Gunpowder - Median shifts to between Navigation and Banking
• Banking and part of Chemistry - Median shifts to Navigation
• Chemistry and Machinery
• Scientific Theory
• Military Science and Archeology with cumulative overflow - Median shifts to between Steam Power and Fertilizer
• Fertilizer and most of Metallurgy - Median shifts to Steam Power
• Metallurgy and most of Steam Power
• Replaceable Parts and Metallurgy
• Flight and Rifling - Median shifts to Penicillin
• Dynamite and Railroad
• Combustion and a chunk of Mass Media
• Mass Media and most of Telegraph - Median shifts to Ecology
• Telegraph and Electronics
• Rifling and Dynamite
• Railroad - Median shifts to between Refrigeration and Electronics
• Replaceable Parts and most of Combustion
• Combustion and most of Flight - Median shifts to Electronics
• Flight and most of Mass Media
• Electronics - Median shifts to Computers

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Research Lab (Civ6)

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The Research Lab is an advanced scientific building in Civilization VI . It is built in the Campus district and requires a University (or one of its replacements).

• 1 Vanilla and Rise and Fall
• 2 Gathering Storm
• 4 Civilopedia entry

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A research lab is an institute devoted to the advanced study of a subject, which might be medicine, physics, chemistry, robotics, clean energy, or new products for TV infomercials. Such labs may be publicly funded or run by wealthy corporations looking for profits; research labs may be attached to universities or they may be independent of academic boundaries and ethics. It is pretty clear that “efficient” research labs are the future of research in every discipline. As civilization’s understanding of the world has advanced, the days of the dedicated scientist working alone in his or her basement and shouting “Eureka!” have all but passed. Whatever understanding we may gain of the natural world, whatever new tech toy may grab our attention, whatever improvement of our daily life may come, whatever horrors may be unleashed, it will likely come out of a research laboratory, whether large (CERN’s Large Hadron Collider) or small (computer simulation modelling).

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• Research Lab in other games
• Civilization
• 1 Civilizations (Civ6)
• 2 Leaders (Civ6)
• 3 Civilization VI

How Do Research Agreements Work In Civ 6

According to producer Dennis Shirk, the move to one unit per tile had a big influence on the game`s core systems. This forced the developers to develop a brand new AI system and caused later eras of the game to lose their importance. [28] The growing emphasis on new features in the game also meant that developers had to cut some of the systems that existed in previous civilization games. [29] The developers also lost critical team members and there was a lack of members working on the multiplayer aspects. [30] After about 3 years and 3 months of development,[27] the game was finally released on September 21, 2010. As in previous versions, cities remain the central pillar of civilization gameplay. A city can be created in a desired place by a unit of settlers produced in the same way as military units. The city will then develop in population; produce units and buildings; and to generate research, prosperity and culture. [11] The city will also expand its borders with one or more tiles at the same time, which is essential for the use of land and resources.

The game is based on a brand new game engine with hexagonal tiles instead of the square tiles from previous games in the series. [5] Many elements of Civilization IV and its expansion packs have been removed or modified, such as religion and espionage (although they were reintroduced in later expansions). . . .