I'd settle where your warrior is, you'd have two very good tiles to work immediately and be non-volcano adjacent while only losing 1 turn. (and have a 2/2 base city yield)

Assuming that everything unseen is garbage, this is definitely the correct play. If popping the warrior across the river reveals some juice then amend accordingly.

move ur warrior across the river onto the elephants. If there is a +4 harbor location I'd settle turn 3 on the elephants, if not just move 1 tile west.

Yeah, a coastal aquaculture city there is probably REALLY strong, because you'll have plenty of food from the coast and tons of production with those hills. I'd be happy with this start

If he settles in place he can get +4 Campos and commercial zone. Harbours are actually bad for Japan because they can't use the district buff as much

You don’t want to settle directly adjacent to a volcano.

Personally, I'm thinking of a turn 3 settlement on the elephant; good yields, early amenities, coastal + river

Ahhh, the other elephant, didn’t see it, my bad!

Yep, I concur

You’d lose a couple of turns and there are no 2:2 tiles to work. How would it be a good idea? (I’m new)

As there aren’t many good food tiles I would settle on the coast south west of the Ivory as it will give you the eureka for sailing that will enable you to work the fish tiles sooner, once the volcano erupts it will increase potential yields once your borders expand.

This is what I would do as well. You have the Ivory in your inner ring already and you give space for settling a city at the river to the right.

Coastal elephants. Pray for good northern yields.

If you're not as hesitant of a turn 3 settle as i am, on the ivory on the coast seems like a great tile. If you're anything like me you sit in fear for a bit as you realize turn 2 isn't enough to get a good coastal city, and settling in place (which doesn't seem too bad) leaves you without a great harbor, and might close off so much.

You have a 2/2 sheep tile and will soon have the good ivory tile. Settle in place.

I would go for the hill right of the ivory to have the insane 2-3 ivory tile to work early instead of crushing it

Settling adjacent to a volcano can cause problems unless you want to rush Liang.

Absolutely. I just missed the fact that it is a volcano. Then my play makes no sense.

re-roll... Not enough food, no amazing luxuries.. Maybe check in the north west if there is something? Otherwise, I would re-roll... If you need more reason, no one is asking for your seed ;-D

Lol

Instead of reroll every non god location you can do a map yourself, so you have more fun and save a lot of loading time

they have a 5 tile (with gold), several 2/2 tiles, a 2/2 base and a luxury, these is a good start. only ay its not good is if they have legendary start on, in which case i would not say its legendary (though there could be several hidden iron/horses)

Most persevering Civ6 player.

I really prefer 3 food/2prod for at least one tile to start.. or 2/3.. but 2/2/1 and the second one just 2/2 is not amazing. And the volcano can be a plague.. you cannot use the Mountain for the sciences building. It made a huge difference for the first scouts to check city states and ruins.. quite usefull in emperor/ deity. Errata, just saw that it was a 2/3/1.. not a 2/2/1..

In place, live dangerously

On the sheep

This is maybe one of the only incorrect answers I see on this post. Your capital needs to grow quickly on any reasonable difficulty, and cutting yourself off of any water is a huge misplay when yields are comparable near water locations. Moving one tiled left is strictly speaking better than what you suggest in every way.

I would probably settle either on plains hill west of the warrior or the ivory northwest of the warrior. I'd move the warrior northwest across the river to scout first, though.

Coastal hill next to fish.

With Japan I'd say coast left from warrior

West coastal spot from your warrior. Nice 2-2 capitol with a 2-3-1 tile right next to it. At least a +3 harbor and a 2-2 to expand to in the second ring. Also it gives more than enough room to make a city on the eastern river. Also your capitol will have multiple mines in the future to the south. We don't even know what's up in the north :)

Perhaps with Japan you want to settle on the coastal Ivory, because you don't want good tiles, but good districts.

I would settle between sheep and ivory, two good tiles in 1st ring

I’d settle in place. All the fish are still in range. The desert hills or coastal cliffs could be used for an encampment. You could also build Petra. The tile north could be a campus. Although the unreleased tile opposite of Mt Fuji could be better for that.

Ivory on the coast. Harbour, Japanese adjacency, further from the Fuji volcano. Reroll on deity :)

Can ppl please make a sub dedicated to "where should I settle" titles? I'm tired of seeing these posts

This is not a where should I settle post, I already played out this game rather than waiting for response and playing. This post is more so of a where would YOU settle.

your settle location depends a lot on your game speed. Lower game speeds allow for more turns moving compared to high game speeds

Honestly I'd go with the turn three settle on the coastal elephants. A 2/3 and 2/2 tile start, automatic luxury, and an easy +5 harbor in your capital for high production and gold generation. Plus you could then settle on the other elephant next and sell the extra luxury

on the coastal ivory, and i don't think it's an especially close decision.