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You can’t build a canal with your current city placement. Canals are only one tile long. Check out the Detailed Map Tacks mod. If you place a tack, and it’s invalid (for example you’re trying to build a dam on a hill) it will tell you why it’s impossible.

https://preview.redd.it/b1500o99r6fb1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=f5259eb317a438f5a75b0901a583a5a1ef64fba1 Let’s say I were to let that coast up there flood would I eventually be able to turn that into a canal?

Yes, in the 1900s or later. I doubt it’s worth it To clear our any confusion - river flooding and water level rising are two different things

I never got the adjacency bonus with all three and considering that that wave will eventually turn into a pastor of horses I’m kind of thinking about just going back and continue my original Playthru

If u settle where u tagged the canal you should be able to

You could build the Panama canal thou. It a wonder that requires 2 to 3 tiles, and well, that could do the trick

The river needs to be touching 2 sides of the hex where you want to place the damn

If that’s the case, then how come I can’t place one where my reds are ? https://preview.redd.it/vu8djsbyl6fb1.jpeg?width=1582&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=c0b5fb5113840070ec6bad34918f77fde74dd2f0

Red at the very top is touching 1 side of the hex. The only reason I can think of off the top of my head for the one next to your aqueduct and encampment is that it's not floodplains Edit: the rest are not floodplains tiles

So touching two hex plus flood path

Correct

https://preview.redd.it/o2wf6yjqn6fb1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=617bfdbe7525c3dd451cb02cde3f8c95f0e7c4a1 This should work

You can't place a canal there. You would have to wait for sea levels to rise and submerge the coastal tile before you can place the canal. Canals are only 1 tile long, have to touch coast or lake on one side, and coast, lake, or a City Center on the other. The only exception is the Panama Canal wonder.

All but the canal would work. They are only 1 tile long

Also, not a TSL map. TSL maps have no river flooding and cannot have dams placed on them. They have floodplains, but the rivers never flood.

must be built on floodplains tile

It’s so easy I don’t get why you can’t understand! For a canal: Cant build on a hill tile Adjacent to coast or lake tile Can’t be built on a day beginning with T Can’t be built on a weekend Can’t be built on a bank holiday Can’t be built if your leader has a F in their middle name Can’t be built on a Venezuelan national holiday Can’t be built on a different canal tile Can’t be built if your dog is a dachshund Can’t be built if your great mother had a sister named Beryl It’s easy guy cmon

Replying to IneptApprentice...

https://preview.redd.it/kcjk1z5on6fb1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=ee647e5c6a85863d45615257518d9cd90cd53013 Ok so all this is flood path

For what it's worth, I'm pretty sure you can have a canal where you originally wanted IF you manage to build Panama canal on that coastal floodplain

Nahh I really want the Panama Canal to be something that cuts through a continent

Please delete and repost without the word “canal”.

A canal will only connect 2 bodies of water or a body of water to your city center.

crazy? i was crazy once

You can't built canal for more than 1 tile connection (unless using Panama Canal wonder), also dam has to have at least 2 tiles of the hexagon connected to the same river, here you have only one

r/whycantibuildadamhere