aw materials are resources which can be processed into something more valuable. You can export the raw material itself if you have an appropriate trade route open for it, but the raw material is not worth as much as the product that can be made from it.

Every industry has two steps: obtaining the raw materials, and processing them. Workers in raw materials plants produce large quantities of their resource. Turning raw materials into finished products is done at workshops, and is more labor-intensive. Each raw material facility produces enough to keep two workshops busy.

Each raw material can be processed into a product as follows:

No province can mine or generate all these raw materials, but all have some. Sometimes you will be able to import a raw material even if you cannot generate it within the province . Wherever you have access to a raw material, you will also be able to build the appropriate workshop to convert it into a product.

When a raw material facility has generated one cart load of material, it sends a worker with the cart to an appropriate workshop, if one exists, and if not, to the nearest operating warehouse with space.