County of Fortune traditional products: each culture has six slots, and from Renown level 2 onwards every new Renown level unlocks two further slots. You choose which products are traditional for each culture, and there is exactly one restriction: the culture must have been the largest producer of that product during the last 12 months.
County of Fortune traditional products: the slots and the rule
Each culture has six slots for Traditional Products. The panel shows locked slots until you unlock them, and the choice can be changed later, so you are not locked into your first picks.
The single restriction keeps traditional products honest: the culture must have been the largest producer of that product during the last 12 months. A product your county barely makes cannot be declared a cultural specialty. The cultures themselves spread and grow on their own terms, and cultures covers how that works.
Synergies are where the value is
The base production bonus of a Traditional Product is deliberately small. The real strength comes from synergies between pairs of Traditional Products created by Culture Traits, listed in the panel under "Current synergies".
- From Land to Home gives +20% to a pair consisting of an equipment product and a raw material used in its production chain. With logs as the raw material, a finished good such as a musical instrument or a piece of clothing picks up the trait bonus, and both sides of the pair are shown at +20%.
- Another trait type creates a synergy between products at the beginning and the end of the same production chain.
- Another creates a synergy between two products that are ingredients in the same recipe.
Which side of a chain a product sits on decides which of these it can pair with, and production chains covers where each product comes from.
The multiplier comes from population share
The strength scales with the culture's population share in the region. The panel's legend reads "≥ 0% 1x, ≥ 50% 1.5x, ≥ 75% 2x" — so at half of the region's population a culture's Traditional Product bonuses are multiplied by 1.5, and at three quarters they are multiplied by 2.
Choosing Traditional Products is therefore not only about picking the industries you want to support; it is about finding combinations that work together. Cultures covers how a culture spreads and how its slots unlock, and production chains covers the raw materials behind the pairs that synergise.