Unique Factories

Unique Factories were added by the Industries expansion DLC, and being unique buildings, only one of each may be built in a city. While unique, these factories are not a part of the Unique Buildings category.

All Unique Factories produce Luxury Goods from Special Goods which cannot be imported – you must use Processing Buildings to manufacture them within your city. The only material used in Unique Factories that is able to imported are Crops.

Special goods are made by the Industry Area processing buildings.

There is one Unique Factory for each industry type that can be built without having any other industry type. All other Unique Factories require at least two industries to function.

Factory Stats

	Building	Level Unlocked	Cost (₡)	Upkeep (₡/week)	Pollution	Noise Pollution	Water (m3/week)	Electricity (kW/week)	Size (cells)	Production (Units/week)	Production (Units/₡)
	Furniture Factory	Forestry 2	22,000	320	15	15	480	1,600	8x16	2,400	7.5
	Bakery	Farming 2	20,000	288	5	10	640	1,200	9x7	3,840	13.3333
	Industrial Steel Plant	Mining 2	75,000	800	25	50	640	3,200	14x34	6,400	8
	Household Plastic Factory	Drilling 2	50,000	480	20	20	400	1,600	10x12	3,200	6.6667
	Toy Factory	Drilling 3	100,000	880	20	25	480	1,600	14x8	6,400	7.2727
	Printing Press	Forestry 3	52,000	560	20	20	640	2,400	10x12	3,840	6.8571
	Lemonade Factory	Farming 3	50,000	480	5	10	3,200	1,600	16x32	3,200	6.6667
	Electronics Factory	Mining 3	150,000	1,280	20	20	320	320	16x32	6,720	5.25
	Clothing Factory	Farming 4	100,000	880	15	20	800	2,240	10x24	6,400	7.2727
	Petroleum Refinery	Drilling 4	175,000	1,360	70	70	480	2,720	19x28	8,000	5.8824
	Soft Paper Factory	Forestry 4	100,000	960	30	50	2,880	2,800	24x32*	7,680	8
	Car Factory	Mining 4	300,000	2,400	25	25	560	4,000	30x36	8,320	3.4667
	Food Factory	Farming 5	200,000	1,200	20	25	1,600	2,400	32x8	9,600	8
	Sneaker Factory	Drilling 5	250,000	1,920	20	20	560	1,440	8x23	11,200	5.8333
	Modular House Factory	Forestry 5	180,000	1,360	20	30	640	3,200	16x40	10,880	8
	Shipyard	Mining 5	550,000	3,200	40	30	480	4,800	12x?	12,800	4

*The Soft Paper Factory has an 8x16 cutout on the road side of the building. It only requires 16 cells by the road.

Special Goods Requirements

In addition to the various Special Goods required, note that some of the Unique Factories also use "Crops", a Raw Resource.

Building	Planed Timber	Paper	Crops	Animal Products	Flour	Metal	Glass	Petroleum	Plastic
Furniture Factory
Bakery
Industrial Steel Plant
Household Plastic Factory
Toy Factory
Printing Press
Lemonade Factory
Electronics Factory
Clothing Factory
Petroleum Refinery
Soft Paper Factory
Car Factory
Food Factory
Sneaker Factory
Modular House Factory
Shipyard

Production Rate and Economics

The production rate of every unique factory is affected by a slider that goes from 50% to 150%. The production rate is then multiplied by the Industry Budget based on the equation of budget efficiency. The upkeep of the unique factories are also affected by the production slider and Industry Budget but it is not affected by the budget efficiency.

Using the Furniture Factory as an example at 150% production rate and 150% industry budget:

$Production=2,400*1.5*1.25=4,500$

$Upkeep=320*1.5*1.5=720$

1,000 units / 1 ton of Luxury Goods can be exported or sold to commercial shops for ₡1,000. This means that running the industry budget at 150% can greatly increase your profits if most of your income comes from Unique Factories as the income gained from selling the goods greatly exceed the increase in upkeep. If you have the Campus DLC, constructing a School of Science in a University Campus Area will further increase the amount of money gained from selling Luxury Goods by a large amount.

The Shipyard

The Shipyard has a unique mechanic among the Unique Factories. It only creates cruise ships that logically cannot be sold to commercial shops as it is too big to fit in one and is too expensive for the average person to buy. Instead; when the Luxury Goods storage of the shipyard becomes full, the cruise ship will immediately be exported without needing trucks or vans to ship it.