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No Minimum City Tile Yield

In the default game, cities will give its tile additional yields such that it will have at least 2 Food and 1 Production, helpful for settling on Desert, but that means you lose value when settling on tiles with Food or Production. This mod ties the 2 Food and 1 Production to an invisible building each city will get for free when founded, and removes the minimum yield mechanic, giving you greater yields when settling on Grassland, Plains or Hills. Settling on Grassland now accelerates your early game population growth by a lot, so if you don't like that then this mod is not for you.

As demonstrated in the screenshots, where both cities were founded on plains and the single citizen working on the tile with Deer, the default game has a net yield of 2 Food (4 from Tiles, 2 Eaten) and 5 Production (3 from Palace, 2 from Tiles) while the modded game has a net yield of 3 Food (2 from Invisible Building, 3 from Tiles, 2 Eaten) and 6 Production (3 from Palace, 1 from Invisible Building, 2 from Tiles). In other words, the 'lost yields' of the Plains tile where the city was founded are now able to be used.

Does not require any DLC. Works with my other mods.