Fan-made Tools

Many players create their own tools for Anno 1800, including calculators, layout designers, autokey commands, and other useful tools. Here you can find a list of such tools created by Anno fans for other players. If you want to learn more about modding the game itself to add things such as new buildings, ornaments, or even make adjustments to game mechanics, check out the modding page.

## List of tools

### Calculators

Needs Calculators - programs or websites which let you calculate the needs of your population: how much they consume, how many production buildings you need to satisfy their needs etc. Be aware that this functionality is now in-game via the Production tab in the Statistics Screen as of Patch 6.0. Use Ctrl+Q to get there or select the Statistics button on any production building.

### Programs

* Anno Layouts (website) - a collection of layouts, production chains and resident consumption; calculates workforce, number of modules and output of individual production buildings
* Anno Stamps (website) - download and exchange stamps / blueprints
* Anno Designer - a program to design building layouts for Anno games
* Asset Viewer - a program to search for items using a lot of filters; to display item pools (expeditions, tourism, harbour)
* Anno 1800 Collection Tracker - A program that allows you to track your gained cultural items one has across several islands.
* Savegame Visualizer
	+ Create layout images for your stamps - with just a single click
	+ Turns islands from savegames into Anno Designer layouts or stamps; shows round trip times of trade routes and coverage of residence effects and malls
* UXEnhancer - a bundle of programs:
	+ Statistics Extractor: Automatically refresh values in the calculator
	+ Rerollbot: Automatically buy the items you want (more robust than Auto Clicker
	+ Asset Viewer (see above)
* Optimization Tools - finds the optimal solution to various problems:
	+ Find the best combination of level 4 and level 5 **skyscrapers** to maximize population + comparison tool to check that the built skyscrapers match the computed solution
	+ Maximize the number of **depots** in a harbour area
	+ Calculate how many residents you can supply by exploiting docklands (also known as **arbitrage** - for advanced users)
* Mod Manager - conveniently browse and install mods
* Map Editor - create custom map templates for new savegames (to use the map template, it must be installed as a mod - see modding page)
* Seed Finder and Visualizer - Goes through all 2147483648 possible seeds to find those with the highest scores (customizable, based on tiles by default) and visualizes the map with islands and NPCs.
* Save Game Patch - convert multiplayer/coop game to single player
* Add many items:
	+ Add all items and reduce research times in research institute by mod
	+ Mod Grand Gallery
	+ Use mod that adds a list of items at once (German tutorial)
	+ Manually create item list
	+ Remove one of each item when clicking Fuchs in the shipyard: https://filehorst.de/d/dIniotwB

### Reference material

* Anno Bibel (German): Compact collection of layouts
* Island outlines and optimal depot placement
* Ship transfer times and loading speed
* Profile levels
* Island cartography (tile and residence counts)
* Various layouts (islands, harbours, production, etc.) as screenshots
* Arbitrage guide
* Archive of the old forum (by Brumiros) - accomanying forum post
* Cart transport logistics
* German Strategy guides by Wuslwiz:
	+ Record building try 3.2 million: Part1 Part2
	+ Guide for Item Farming
	+ Advanced Logistics Guide

### Deprecated Programs

* Auto Clicker - a program to automatically accept visitors, handle the newspaper and buy required items from Nate and Eli (warning: only works for 1920x1080 resolution and when color settings are not changed; usage: install autohotkey and autoit from the zip, then open (not execute!) anno1800.au3 and read the instructions)
* Savegame Viewer - a program to show stats for items, buildings, and buffs (where allocated/build, how many, ...) of a stored savegame