Colonization

With new lands discovered, the next step is establishing colonies. Through the Colonization Tab in the Geopolitics Page, you can review all potential colonial charters available to your nation. Any uncolonized territory within your colonial range can be targeted for settlement, provided you have the ducats to start the colonial charter and ducats to maintain it. Colonial charters are done on a provincial level, with a colonial charter completing when every location is fully colonized in any given province.

Available Colonial Charters for Portugal in 1509, each new colonial charter will cost 200 ducats to start and have a monthly maintenance cost depending on how many colonial charters are active.

Colonization, however, is no simple undertaking. It is a process that is both costly and time-consuming, demanding that pops from your homeland uproot their lives and migrate to distant frontiers. When setting up a colonial charter, you choose which province these new settlers will come from.

Pops from Portugal leave to find new opportunities in the colonies. Those fools….

The difficulty of colonization varies greatly depending on the land itself. Regions with dense native populations will require far more time and investment to claim compared to sparsely inhabited areas. Similarly, location modifiers such as harsh climates, limited arable land, or the presence of diseases like malaria, will slow colonial progress and increase the risks for settlers.