# Inventive Spirit (Artificer Intelligence)

**Entity Type:** Skill

**German Name:** Erfindergeist

## Properties

| Field | Value |
|-------|-------|
| Category | Civic |
| Type | Discovery |

## Description

Artificer Intelligence (Erfindergeist) is a Civic category Discovery skill in Anno 117. Civic skills offer many upgrades for city administration, ranging from powerful attribute area effects to improvements for Medici, Vigiles, and Custodes. Civic skills make managing your cities significantly easier.

As a Discovery type skill, it makes up the majority of skills in the Anno 117 skill tree. To research them, you must first reach them via a research path. Some discoveries require fulfilling additional conditions before they can be unlocked - for example, hosting a specific population type in Albion.

## Effects

- **Siege Workshop: Knowledge area effect +2**
  - Buildings near a Siege Workshop will produce Knowledge

## Unlock Requirements

- **Knowledge Required:** 5,900 Knowledge
- **Special Condition:** Choose the Roman path in Albion and host Mercators in your realm

## Related Skills

Other Civic category skills include:
- Aleatoria
- Alliance Treaties
- Headhunting
- Asclepian Codices
- Market Forces
- Snuffing Sedition
- Well
- Cerere et Baccho
- The Art of Gift-Giving
- Empyrean Research
- Cult of Epona
- Epona's Hoofbeat
- Conservation Ordinance
- Cognoscentic Research
- Fabulae Togatae
- Voluntary Vigilance
- Hospitality
- Hazard Fighters
- Seasoned to Taste
- Shrine Staffing
- Large Loans
- Metropolitan Research
- Warmer Hospitality
- Officialdom
- Hippocratic Corps
- Imperial Parades
- Recruitment Drive
- Concordance Research
- Cult of Minerva
- Cult of Cernunnos
- Cult of Mercury-Lugus
- Latrines
- Lingua Romana
- Marble Roads
- Night Watch
- Villa Novation
- Public Funding
- Aesthetic Aedificator
- Pax Amicitia
- Fenixwrights
- Portitores
- Gubernatorial Research
- Praetorian Pumps
- Cohabitive Collaboration
- Quartermastery
- Quinquiremes
- Right to Repair
- Sanitary Measures
- Sacral Spaces
- Legally Enshrined
- Solutio Ad Hominem
- Funeral Games of Tailteann
- Municipal Research
- Day Watch
- Trireme
- Devotional Research
- Via Tributum
- Villa Visitation
- Populist Research
- Watchtowers

## Source

Data from [anno.land](https://anno.land/en/anno-117-skills/erfindergeist/)