WELL

well provides access to the freshwater deep underground, which allows people to collect water much closer to their homes, thus avoiding the long journey to the river or lake. Wells thus please citizens enough to allow some small improvement to housing very nearby. Unfortunately, wells still involve quite a bit of hard work, hauling pails of water up from the bottom, so inhabitants of modest housing or better will not put up with just a well.

The advantages to wells are that they may be built anywhere, and they are quite cheap. If you are creating a housing area purely to provide nearby labor for a farming or industrial outpost, well water is a generous gesture. It can also be a useful temporary measure where labor is short.

Wells have a small negative effect on the desirability of the area around them.