Monument Building Tips & Troubleshooting
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(1) General Monument building
tips!
(2) The bricklayers are
waiting at the mastaba! Why aren't my bricks delivered?
(3) Why are my stone pullers
stuck at the side of the pyramid?
(4) Nothing is happening.
I have stone and brick in my storage yards, stonemasons, bricklayers and carpenters
guilds. What's wrong?
(5) All the monuments are
finished but my score doesn't reflect that. What's wrong?
(6) The grave goods are in the
storage yards. Why aren't they being delivered?
(7) What is a good ratio of
Stonemason Guilds to Work Camps for building the monuments?
(8) I need step-by-step
instructions!
(9) Trouble-Shooting
& Pyramid Causeway Problems
(10) My Mausoleum is
stuck at 99% completion!
(1) General Monument building tips!
Certain types of monuments (for example, the Obelisk and
Sun Temple) have a requirement for a minimum amount of stone before you can even start.
That means you must have enough stone in your storage yards before you can start the
monument. Usually it's 240 blocks, which means you need 8 storage yards accepting that
type of stone. In some missions you can quarry the stone yourself, in others you have to
import the stone. The initial blocks of stone will start the monument but you will have to
provide additional stone to finish. But stone haulers won't be needed to deliver the
initial stone to the monument, but you will need them for the balance of the stone.
Check the Strategy
Section of Pharaoh Heaven for details about what is required to build all of the
monuments.
(2) The bricklayers
are waiting at the mastaba! Why aren't my bricks delivered?
Be sure you have built work camps they train workers for
flood plain farms and monument building. Without work camps there is no one to deliver the
bricks. There has to be at least 400 bricks in a storage yard (the bricks all have to be
in the same storage yard) before they will be delivered. If you have flood plain farms,
workers go first to the farms then to build monuments. If you have enough unemployed
workers for the work camps, they will work on monuments all year round. Check that you
aren't stockpiling bricks. If you are they will not be delivered.
(3) Why are my stone pullers stuck at the side of the pyramid?
That usually means that either you don't have any
carpenters, they don't have wood to build ramps needed for the stone pullers or they
haven't finished the ramps. If you right click on the monument the construction supervisor
should tell you what is wrong.
(4) Nothing is happening. I have stone and brick in my storage
yards, stonemasons, bricklayers and carpenters guilds. What's wrong?
If none of the construction people have reported to the
pyramid you might have to delete the guilds and rebuild them. This has happened in a few
missions but be sure to wait a year before deleting the guilds. Be sure that they are
fully staffed and that you have unemployed people to work on the pyramid. It also helps to
build extra work camps near the monument you are trying to build. Check that the brown mat
that is the entrance to the monument is not blocked. And, be sure you have a supply of
wood in a storage yard close by the Carpenters Guild to build the scaffolds and/or ramps!
(5) All the monuments are finished but my score doesn't reflect that.
What's wrong?
Check your Monument Overseer to see if "grave
goods" are needed. To complete the monuments you need to stockpile and deliver grave
goods.
(6) The grave goods are in the storage yards. Why aren't they being
delivered?
You have to click on each grave good in the monument
advisor screen and select all to dispatch the grave goods. You don't have to dispatch the
grave goods all at one time. You can deliver the goods a little at time all the while the
monuments are being built.
(7) What is a good ratio of Stonemason Guilds to Work Camps for building
the monuments?
A good rule of thumb is 2 work camps per Stonemason Guild.
Allow extra work camps for the flood plain farming, as you can’t assign the
laborers a specific job.
(8) I need step-by-step instructions!
Nuthinenkamhen from Impressions:
Monument construction is probably the single most extensive
activity in the game, so this is where people run into a lot of problems. I've compiled
(and will continue to update) the following list. You've probably checked most of these,
but just to be thorough, here are the most common things to look if your monument
construction is not progressing:
Employment:
Make sure your guilds and work camps are fully staffed. If either of these are short on
labor, it will affect how fast your monument is built.
Materials: Check
your supply of building materials. Sometimes trade conditions will change during a game,
which can change how much you're allowed to import each year. If you are providing your
own building materials, make sure your industries are fully staffed. Wood is crucial to
most monuments - so always make sure your carpenters have enough. Without wooden
ramps/scaffolding to facilitate the workers and materials, construction will cease.
Storage: Make
sure you've got some yards to store the construction materials!
Stockpiling:
Make sure you're not stockpiling the materials you need to build the monument. If you are
(check your Overseer of Commerce screen), it puts a freeze on the material(s) in question,
stopping construction completely.
Proximity: Keeping your storage yards,
work camps, guilds, and construction site as close together as possible. Reducing
distances reduces travel time, which will speed up construction. Build the necessary
structures right across the street from your monument site if you can!
Season: If
you have floodplain farms in the particular mission you are playing, the season will
affect your monument. Laborers from work camps are diverted from construction to tend the
floodplain farms during harvest time. This pause in construction can be offset somewhat by
providing more (fully staffed) work camps.
Access: Make
sure all the guilds, work camps, and storage yards have roads access. The construction
site does not need to be connected to a road, but there must be a path (unobstructed by
buildings or terrain) from the road to the monument.
Grave Goods:
Some monuments require burial gifts. If construction seems complete, but you haven't
reached your monument rating, check your Overseer of Monuments screen to see if you need
to dispatch some grave goods.
(9) Trouble-Shooting & Pyramid Causeway Problems
That covers most basic problems with monument construction.
If none of the above applies, but construction on your monument has still ceased, here are
some workarounds you can try:
Deleting and undoing:
Try deleting (then immediately select 'undo' so they reappear) your guilds, work camps, or
even the monument itself. Some players have found that this 'jumpstarts' construction.
Causeway:
Some players have reported encountering a problem with the causeway in their pyramid
complexes. Specifically, the section where the causeway meets the water is not being
completed. In this case, placing gardens on the tiles from the end of the causeway to the
water should continue construction.
(10) My Mausoleum is stuck at 99%
completion!
Forum regular Maxenkhemet had the following
problem and worked this solution:
"With the Mausoleum stuck at 99%, I
noticed that there was a single square of the base that had been skipped by the laborers
(it was on the far side of the building, so I hadn't noticed it originally). Following
Baltic's tip, I figured that that particular square had been assigned to a laborer that
was stuck, lost or on holiday. So (the short story) I deleted all of the work camps,
rebuilt one and, voila! the new work camp spawned a laborer, who promptly went to the
mausoleum and finished it.
After several re-starts I tracked down the
offending work camp, but I never could find the specific laborer. Since the work camp was
on the far side of the river, I suspect that the ferry ride had something to do with it,
but I can't say for sure.
Conclusion: Once the game assigns a particular
worker to work on a particular part of a monument, it (the game) assumes that the worker
will complete the assignment. If the worker - for whatever reason - is unable to complete
the assignment, then the assignment is simply never completed. Hmmm... I wonder if a
time-out mechanism is in order? I would think that the same phenomenon is probably
responsible for a lot of the "frozen" monument construction that has been
reported by others in the forums.
The moral of the story: if monument
construction stops for no apparent reason, try deleting and rebuilding all of the
supporting industries - the construction guilds, work camps and any suppliers of
materials, if applicable. You might be able to get away with the ol' delete/undo routine,
to save some money. But be prepared to delete and rebuild. I hope this helps anyone
else who experiences this phenomenon. Good luck and may the gods smile upon you! -
Max"
 
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