When heated to boiling, water produces steam. In Gathering Storm, Steam Power also unlocks three new pieces of infrastructure that facilitate transportation over land and water: Railroads, the Canal, and the Panama Canal. New, even faster transports are devised, and the era of modern sea vessel is at hand. The fact that this ship is able to ignore lack of wind quickly revolutionizes the entirety of sea travel. Thanks to the recently revealed Coal, a high-yield burning agent which is both abundant and inexpensive, steam engines soon permeate all technology, heralding the beginning of a new age.Īlthough steam and coal will have many uses in the future, their first benefit for you is the development of the first ship in the game which does not depend on wind power: the Ironclad. Or at least of its development stage, although a surprising number of machines use steam even today - the only difference is the fuel which provides the heat.īut at the heart of the Industrial Age, steam was like the wheel was to the ancients: a miracle worker, which enabled myriad new possibilities. The power of the steam is the basis of modern industry. It can be hurried by building 2 Shipyards. Steam Power is an Industrial Era technology in Civilization VI. – Winston Churchill "Science owes more to the steam engine than the steam engine owes to science." "It is arguable whether the human race have been gainers by the march of science beyond the steam engine."