Wheel (Civ6)

Wheel is an Ancient Era technology in Civilization VI. It can be hurried by building a Mine on a resource.
== Strategy ==
There is history before the wheel and then there is history after the wheel. It is indeed difficult to describe how important this technological invention is for human history, but suffice it to say that the wheel makes possible the entire concept of a machine, which is personified in the earliest battle machine: the Heavy Chariot.
Along with Heavy Chariots (which are the strongest melee attackers in the Ancient Era), discovering Wheel unlocks the Water Mill, which can range from being immensely helpful to not accessible at all! This should help you decide exactly when to research this tech: if your starting location is on a River, close to , , and/or , and you don't have other considerations (such as founding a religion, or having to go for Irrigation due to the specific type of Luxuries nearby) you may go for it right after Mining. In other cases, especially if your first city isn't on a River, you won't have immediate use for Wheel and should research more useful techs such as Bronze Working and Sailing first.
Note that the for Wheel triggers only if you build a Mine on a resource - a Mine built on a Hill without anything won't do.
== Civilopedia entry ==
== See also ==
* Wheel in other games