Urbek City Builder: Desert Biome Guide
Once you've won a game on the Temperate map in Urbek City Builder, more advanced biomes begin to unlock. The first of these is the Desert, where food is scarce and construction can be impeded by large stone formations. To build a prosperous city here, you'll need to create a water grid from the river and use modern irrigation techniques to grow enough food.
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The Desert map plays very differently from the Temperate biome, so if you find yourself getting lost in the sand this guide will help you get started. Soon enough you'll have a city to rival Las Vegas or Dubai!
The most important difference between the Desert map and the others is the need for water. All agriculture in this biome requires a source of water, as do all but the most basic residences. At the start of the game, your only source of water are simple Wells, which provide just enough hydration to survive in a six-tile radius. Place Wells as densely as you can in your starting neighborhood to ensure that all of your Housing and Farms have access to water.
Wells can eventually be upgraded to Deep Wells, which provide the three units of water required to bring your Desert Housing onto the usual advanced upgrade track. What you really need to make your city successful, though, are Water Pumps and Water Towers. Once you have access to Steel and Highly Skilled Work, you can build a Water Pump adjacent to the map's river. The pump and the necessary Steel industry to maintain your water network require a large amount of power, so you'll probably need to invest in Coal Plants to get sufficient electricity early on.
Water Towers deliver all the water your city could ever need to a seven-tile radius, but need to be
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