Fishing Quays and improved Treasure Resource tiles in Distant Lands are needed to spawn Treasure Fleets in Civilization VII (Civ 7). Here's a step-by-step guide on how to use Treasure Resources and spawn Treasure Fleets!

How to Spawn Treasure Fleets

1. Begin Exploration Age
2. Research Cartography
3. Research Shipbuilding Technology
4. Send Settlers to the Distant Land
5. Improve a Treasure Resource Tile
6. Build a Fishing Quay
7. Check Resources Tab For Countdown

Begin Exploration Age

Treasure Resources and Treasure Fleets are only available during the Exploration Age. This includes the Technologies that will be needed to reach the Distant Lands and the Economic Legacy Path that will utilize this mechanic.

New Ages Explained

Research Cartography

The first step in spawning Treasure Fleets is researching Cartography to gain access to Ocean tiles and allow units to cross the open ocean to the Distant Lands. However, units traversing Ocean tiles will still take damage and suffer movement penalty with only Cartography unlocked.

Research Shipbuilding Technology

It will be difficult to move Treasure Fleets if they can only move one Ocean tile per turn and it's highly likely that they will get destroyed before they reach the Homeland.

The solution to these penalties is to research Shipbuilding to allow all Naval units to cross safely and at normal speed. You can also follow up with the Shipbuilding Mastery to give the same effects to all your embarked Land units.

Technologies and Tech Tree

Send Settlers to the Distant Land

Now that you can cross the ocean safely, you can start sending Settlers to the Distant Lands with Treasure Resources! When you find Treasure Resources, try to settle on a tile next to it that is also adjacent to a Coastal tile.

Settling next to a Treasure Resource tile allows you to improve it immediately into a Rural Tile and take the Resource for your empire while settling next to a Coastal tile lets you build a Fishing Quay right away, as Urban Districts need to be adjacent to another Urban District or a Wonder before they can be placed.

Distant Lands Guide

List of Treasure Resources

Resource	Effects Per Age
Tea	Antiquity: Resource is not available in this Age Exploration: Creates Treasure Fleets when connected to a coastal Settlement Modern: Factory Resource. +3% Science.
Sugar	Antiquity: Resource is not available in this Age Exploration: Creates Treasure Fleets when connected to a coastal Settlement Modern: +6 Food
Spices	Antiquity: Resource is not available in this Age Exploration: Creates Treasure Fleets when connected to a coastal Settlement Modern: +4 Food, +4 Happiness

Sugar, Spices, and Tea are the only Treasure Resources available in the game. When looking for a tile to settle, make sure to prioritize these resources over standard ones.

How to Get and Use Treasure Resources

Improve a Treasure Resource Tile

You will get a Growth Event right after establishing a settlement. Use this to claim a nearby Treasure Resource.

Progressing the Economic Legacy Path requires five Treasure Resource tiles to be improved, so feel free to send more Settlers to this area to build additional towns and reach the five-resource minimum in the Legacy path.

List of All Resources

Build a Fishing Quay

If you're rushing the Economic Legacy Path, you'd want to build a Fishing Quay immediately in the new settlement. Take note that the Coastal tile where you build the Fishing Quay should have a path to the open ocean. Placing the Fishing Quay in an enclosed lake will still spawn Treasure Fleets but they won't be able to leave!

Buildings and Improvements

Check Resources Screen for Countdown

You should now see which towns can export Treasure Resources to the Homeland in the Resource Screen, along with a countdown for when the Treasure Fleet is ready to spawn in the Fishing Quay.

List of All Resources

How to Use Treasure Fleets

Unload Cargo in Homeland Borders

Unlike the Merchant caravans that can send imported Resources directly to your empire, Treasure Fleets must be moved manually to the Homeland before they can unload the Treasure Resources. They can do this within the borders of any of your Homeland settlements.

Unloading the cargo will award Treasure Fleet points based on the number of Treasure Resources the origin settlement has. This process also consumes the Treasure Fleet and you will have to wait a few turns until another Treasure Fleet spawns.

Songhai Unique Civic Spawns Treasure Fleet in Homeland

If you're playing as Songhai in the Exploration Age, you can also spawn Treasure Fleets on Homeland settlements placed on Navigable Rivers by unlocking their Kanta Civic. Since they spawn in the Homeland, you can immediately use their unload cargo ability to gain one TF point.

Songhai Civilization Guide

Protect Them When Needed

Treasure Fleets are considered Civilian units and will need an escort should an active battle or a hostile Independent Power be present near their route. Ensure their safety with a Naval Commander and other naval units.

Civilization VII (Civ 7) Related Guides

Beginner Tips and Tricks

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Recommended Guides
How to Play Civ 7	Early Game Strategy Guide
The New Ages	Diplomacy Guide
Best Science Mementos	Best Military Mementos
Best Culture Mementos	Ground Combat Guide
Naval Exploration and Combat Guide	What Does Happiness Do
How to Win Wars	-
Leader and Civ Guides
Best Leaders and Civilizations Tier Lists	Best Science Leaders
Best Military Leaders	Best Culture Leaders
Best Economic Leaders and Civs	Best Science Civs
Best Culture Civs	Best Culture Civs
List Pages
List of Mementos	List of All Governments
List of Policies	List of Pantheons
All Unique Units	-

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Gameplay Mechanics
Adjacency Bonuses	Army Commanders
Ageless Buildings	Building Roads
Celebrations	Codex (Codices)
Crisis	Dark Age Legacies
Districts	Factory Resources
Healing Units	Independent People
Legacy Paths	Migrants
Overbuilding	Persistent Buildings
Quarters	Repairing Buildings
Rural and Urban Districts	Settlement Cap
Specialists	Towns
Trade Range	Trade Routes and Merchants
Treasure Fleets	Treasure Resources
Upgrading Units	Warehouse Buildings and Bonuses
How to Navigate Rivers	How to Get More Railroad Tycoon Points
Other Tips and Tricks
Where to Settle	Where to Spend Gold
When to Build More Settlements	What to Do Before and After Age Change
Best Settings	Map Types Explained
Best Build Order	Morse Code Event
Should I Accept Alliance?	How to Change City Name
Should You Convert a Town Into a City?	Can You Capture Settlers?
Where to Spend Influence?	When to Incorporate City-States?
Can Scouts Auto Explore?	Best Pantheon
Should You Rush Age Change?	How to Incite Raid
How to Get Relics	How to Get Artifacts
Fresh Water Tiles	Why Can't You Build a Factory?
Distant Lands	Revolutions
How to Get More Resource Slots	Attribute Trees Guide
How to Get Tile Max Yield	How to Found Religion and List of Beliefs
What is X Per Age?	How to Defend and Conquer Cities
What is War Weariness and War Support?	Zone of Control
How to Change the Capital	Resource Map
Should You Melt or Construct Relic?	Game Speed
Floods	Natural Disasters
Best Map Seeds	How to Force End Turn
Papyrus Problems	Best Tech Research Order