As several people have pointed out... 12 x 30 is 360. I'm laying blame on 4:00 a.m. and no coffee trying to make a video. 😁

I suspect once I get into it, it will make a bit more sense. To NOT have to bring in coffee, cigars or chocolate from the New World via standard trade routes is a godsend. Thanks for being Johnny-on-the-spot with the guide for this new mechanic. Now, stop working your people to death! ;-)

Love your videos man. Keep finding them helpful in my search for knowledge in this game. Just started playing and I’m very hooked!

Amazing video. I am finally able to find tune my Docklands trades now. Thank you.

Was watching your 1M/beauty build series when I first saw your docklands wharf! At first I was really confused, but then (almost too obvious) I found this gem of a video explaining Exactly what I needed to know! So again, thanks a lot for the super clear explanation, think I should buy another DLC :D Keep up the awesome work!!

Thanks, it is really a good basic but elemental tutorial that goes exactly to the point, (Which is something that i really love)

Really helped and was clear thnx man. 👍

I've been waiting for this guide so thank you, it seems and what I like about this new system is saves you from settling islands just for needs and balances out your raw material deficits or overproduction, I've been arranging my settlements with cutting supplies to investors like coffee, cigars or chocolates those require that new world settlements and resulted with more investor buildings with more consumption of other supplies like glasses, light bulbs, carriages. You see this arrangement ended up wonderful since I can trade my overproduction carriages, glasses or whatever can be traded for newworld goods now. You mentioned importing construction materials is limited so gas cant be imported either so I have to rely on steam turbines of trade union

Simply Amazing ....thank you

Thank you for help and teaching with subtitles

very helpful thank you!

This helps a lot! Thnx!

Thanks this is a great tip and thanks for sharing

I'm looking forward to trying it for myself!

great explanation and tips thanks

Extra points for the thumbnail. I did not expect this DLC to be so deep.

Great vídeo. Very clear.

From so many Anno channel.. yours is one of the most educative approach. With clear voice and tone too... Clearly a favourite!

Thank You!

Thank you very helpfull!!

Bought this DLC just now and was a litle confused. Great tutorial. thanks

Great video! Very well explained. Extremely helpful.

this system seems to be amazing from the looks of it. I can't wait to have some free time and play it myself

Very useful, cheers.

Great video. Thanks for this breakdown of this menu. I'm sure you saved me hours right here.

Brilliant, as always.

Video request: what are the top 10 best items to IMPORT instead of produce? (Assuming cannery will be pretty high up there)

Just got the DLC and started a new map. After a few hours, wanted to go back to my primary map and this should help immensely in redesigning my islands to account for an "import-from-void" mechanic.

Great information

Great explanation, thank you! Just wondering, I suppose how the system works every island will have a little bit different timing for the trade, correct? I setup not 30 but 25 as my magic number for trades and it seems it works as well, but m,y islands are mostly on the edge of the map (snowflake map)... And I found that you can produce a ton of fish and you can do it on every island as well. Trade then for anything you (f)wish for :) Seconndly as pointed below using legendary or epic specialist for "free" production can also work nicely for trades. This DLC is just awesome.

I used to have no clue how it works, but once I found out how it works, its pretty amazing. I used to run out of influence on 100k population just on trading boats, I was importing everything, I appreciated you can name "Trade groups" so thanks to this feature it was less chaos, but it was still chaos. Right now what I do is to rush first city to beer production then unlocking docklands import goods (heavily overproducing beer). When I reach investors, all my islands are producing Champange only ! nothing more (ofc for tourists and world's fair exhibitions I have something I call "support Island" where I produce some other goods such as pigs, red pepper etc). With items in trade unions, it is pretty easy to get to production 100 champagne per minute. And thats enough for island with 15k investors (no other tier except tourists). I import all other consumer goods. I find it kinda redundant to import brass to produce glasses. I rather import glasses, without worrying about spectacle factory production - at all. Numbers below are based on rough calculation (= 100champagne/min is a slightly more than I need). All importing consumer goods are set to 3100 (which is size of my storage on island with fully maxed docklands without other depots). I like to feel rich in this game so I want to have full storage on everything. But if you wanna play minimalistic and dont overproduce champagne like me (it really takes A LOT of artisans). MY TIP HOW TO FIND OUT HOW MUCH YOU ACTUALLY NEED TO IMPORT (without any math): 1) be at maximum capacity for goods you are trying to import (lets say coffee) 2) have enough exporting goods (lets say champagne) 3) after 2 Tobias trades, you can see in history how many was imported and thats your coffee consumption. For my current game it is: Population: 11.300 investors demand = 21coffee per minute 493 coffee imported 314 champagne exported which is 23,5min per trade (dockland is super close to edge of map from where Tobias is coming) - also faster loading speed DECREASING by a lot Tobias trading cycle Each Tobias visit I export 1.506t of champagne which is 64t champagne/min using this method I can easily see how many goods I really need (but with my strategy it doesnt matter, because I am always full). and it takes some time to reach your storage capacity for all consumer goods, but if you overproducing a bit you will get there (you can always bring champagne from other islands to boost your import speed) With docklands main wharf it is possible to reach investors with one island in The Old World (with enough oil) and one island in The New world (just to unlock rum, coffee production - my population there is 120 Jornaleros). Without any trading ships, without buying, just exchanging goods via docklands (you just need items for trade union). It makes game really easy !

Great video

Amazing breakthrough of this complex mechanism for newbies. I have had the game for around a month so learning a lot. One question, in your opinion does Anno 1800 has a "Staple Market" system? A staple market like for example Amsterdam used to be in the 17 century where they didn't produce anything but their import and export trade off margin made them unique and important for the trade in the region. The same can be said about New York, they had fur and timber but a lot of colonies had that but the location of it made it a staple market and super rich. I feel like the island of Anno1800 are not unique in that sense, all island evenly developed can be as valuable as the rest besides one having other resources.

Thanks for the video. Sorry if I missed it somewhere but how does the upgrading of specialities from common up to legendary work?

A lot to take in. Going to practice. Have to over produce some and import et reduce other. That;s not obvious when everything was on the edge.

It would be great if we could get an output of our production on a per island and per region basis that I could then use Excel to query and auto populate the cells for those productions and make calculated recommendations for import and export.

perfect explenation. i mean, i love the dlc. it helps me min max almost every bit of the game when it comes to the production chains. i mean, how far can you go? that is the question.

LOL, thanks. I could not figure out how to add modules. I was building stuff and it wasn't giving me credit. I didn't realize I had to hit the button in that UI to add different stuff.

I haven't got this far yet in my game and Carl just declared war and am going broke. It looks really interesting and a very mice addition to the game

Taka: That is why I like to be a "DUMMIE" because it give me the luxury to find an "AWESOME" teacher like you I know those videos are dated from 1 or more years but they are still very helpful anyways and I appreciate every minute of your videos THANK YOU SO MUCH ;)

Looking at this video years after it released, as I'm getting back into the game and all its DLC's after not having played since Land of Lions dropped. It kinda seems like Docklands trivializes the game a lot. There are a few production chains that I don't enjoy producing myself, and if I can trade something quite easy like Wine for them, then I'd love to be able to do so. Saves me manpower, space and pollution. It's quite easy to set up an island where 99% of the island is covered in Vineyards and Sand Mines. Trade unions should make it even more easy.

With docklands, the legendary Bruno Ironbright item is more broken than ever before. (produces extra steam motors and adv. weapons from sewing machine factories and bicycle factories). Have 10 bicycle factories with Dario the engineer and bruno along with feras and hook them up to a power plant, and watch your docklands stocks rise through the roof as you export adv. weapons, steam motors. Dario the engineer eliminates the need for clockmakers and gramophone factories, especially if you are below 20k investors

First, great video, I have save this so that I watch if I get stuck on anything, secound, do you happen to know the map seed number for the map in the video?

Clear explanation, thanks! One thing I didn’t really understand, how were you able to tell how much steel you needed to (over)produce to meet the export/import ratio?

I have the enbessa DLC and have gone there and got an island with shepherds on but none of the embessa items are showing up in my export/import items?

My teacher in high school: - You'll never be able to grasp basic maths!! Me in 2021: Docklands is A W E S O M E ! !

Oh god. I never even considered trying to build Docklands on multiple islands. I just assumed it was a one off thing as it seems way to powerful for its cost to allow multiples of. The main reason to clicked this video was my confusion about how to get more export contracts to unlock goods because the numbers made no sense to me.

Hi @TakaUKposts I'm just curious, how do you know so accurately how many steel bars you need per minute. It drives me crazy that I just see that i need 1 carriage per minute and its 0.2 in reality. Thanks!

i made it through 9 minutes, then i got a headache, thanks for info lol

question is that the same math calculation you use for the export side also ? for example you used the 172 champaign export for the 340 brass import. 172/30 - 5.73 about 8 tons extra champaign per minute round up easy is this correct ?? so i dont run out of champaign either ??

I wonder whats the MOST efficient way to get trade goods/ whats the best item the mass produce and sell late game? Maybe something with gold as you have endless gold (with the Specialist Who produces gold at sand)? Any ideas?

I wish they involved export ratios to the statistic numbers. Obviously, I will have to keep an eye on the supply and the demand ratios by the time my city grows. Looks like dock lands is just an external source for the goods. But it’s ok, I loved the design. By the way, did this dlc reduced the need of expanding and settle new islands? Normally, I settle min of 5 islands in the old and new world, 3 islands in enbesa and arctic to sustain 30-50k global population without crown falls. I always got overwhelmed with the complex and messy trade routes so I used to start over from the beginning. I hope this dlc will solve the need for new islands and a bunch of trade routes?

I assume the import/export ships do not have to worry about pirates? If you already answered this, sorry - I missed it.

Is there a list of all goods ranked by export value?

Im still confused on how to increase volume. I can max have 3 contracts atm and i filled them up but im just stuck at 159 / 1000

I still don't understand the docklands thing because I don't have the DLC Purchased

I was just wondering if anyone else has had a problem with the Fisheries. I have found that after installing the Dockland DLC, and playing with Mods, I cannot build any fisheries. I get a " Construction area Blocked" when I try to build any.

Comment for the algorithm.

Docklands are awesome i just unlock Gold Ore.

Does not explain why goods can or can't be EXPORTED. I'm allowed only to export clay and I have no idea why. Any why can't I trade it for most goods?

Is it possible to import fur coats and rum without visiting the new world? Curious to see if it's possible to make it to investors without leaving the old world.

at 10:30 12 x 30 mins is 360 not 340 for your brass

This is getting on my nerves. I can’t import anything because they’re redundant items. The dock lands thinks I’m exporting them which I’m not because I have zero of the item I want. How do I get this to work. I’m trying to import soap but I can’t because I’ve got zero soap? It doesn’t make any sense

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I don't like how how this circumvents the core mechanics and game loops of the game. So I generally have it turned off. It does look great though and I'd love the buildings for cosmetics or just to have less OP functions. It's realistic I suppose. Economics tend to do better when they specialize in what they are good at rather than trying to do everything themselves. And trade was obviously huge. But it's still a building game and not really a full economics simulator.

How do you get so much storage?🤯

So can people realistically use this DLC to avoid ever going to the new world?

12x30 in my world = 360 every day. Am I missing something?

does the AI build the dock aswell?

In my game captain Tobias is stucked in the sea.. never comes to my island

Where are you getting 9.23 steel per minute from? You kind of lost me there.

This doesn't matter but it's going to drive me crazy, 12*30=360

I feel like i cheated the system lol. I have that legendary active that gives you free steam motors and advanced weapons for penny farthings and sewing machine factories (idk its name). That gives me 25 T/M advanced weapons per minut. That number is enough to import litteraly everything my scholars need, and coffee cigars and chocolate for my investors. As well as some raw materials such as iron and wool. This system + that legendary just elimates so much production chains for me its unreal.

I believe 12x30=360, not 340? New math maybe? Lol.