Steel (Civ6)

Steel is a Modern Era technology in Civilization VI. It can be hurried by building a Coal Mine and an Ironclad.
== Strategy ==
There aren't that many new construction materials invented during the ages - straw, wood, stone, marble, steel - but this last one proves more useful for a wider range of things than any of the others, seeing how little by little it turns into the basis of modern-day construction of everything from ships to buildings.
Thanks to steel, two new very important units become available: the Artillery on land, and the Battleship in the sea, which is truly the first modern ship. Steel also immediately finds its way into civilian construction, and improves the workings of the Lumber Mill. Finally, it reveals in vanilla Civilization VI and Rise and Fall, which is necessary to build the Tanks and Aircraft Carriers that become available soon afterward.
If you're going for a Cultural Victory, you may want to postpone researching Steel until you've constructed advanced Walls in your cities. The Urban Defenses that Steel provides will prevent you from building new Walls, and you'll miss out on the they provide after discovering Conservation.
In the February 2019 Update Steel was changed so that it now unlocks the Oil Well, which used to be unlocked with Combustion.
== Civilopedia entry ==
== See also ==
* Steel in other games