| “ | Villagers can drop off Gold and Stone at this building. Houses technologies to improve mining and military units. | ” |
| —Age of Empires IV description | ||
The Forge is a unique building of the Japanese and Sengoku Daimyo in Age of Empires IV: The Sultans Ascend available starting in the Dark Age. It replaces the Mining Camp and Blacksmith, containing both mining, weapon, and armor upgrades, and acting as a drop-off for stone and gold.
The Forge contains the unique Japanese melee damage upgrade line. This line functions the same as the standard Bloomery line, providing +1 melee attack per upgrade, but differs in that it has a fourth upgrade available in the Dark Age, and all technologies in this line cost gold and stone, not gold and wood.
Tactics[]
There is no need to think about the placement of the Forge, as it is basically a Mining Camp in terms of placement (the placement of research buildings does not matter). Not only does one save wood by not having to build a separate Blacksmith, it is possible to have multiple "Blacksmiths", since it is very common to have two or three "Mining Camps". This helps a player research their technologies from multiple buildings, enhancing their strength of producing multiple unit types.
Available technologies[]
Technologies in the same line are chained. For the effect of these technologies, see their respective pages, or the Mining Camp and Blacksmith pages.
Further statistics[]
| Technologies | |
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 Hit points
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 Court Architects (+30%)
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| Line of Sight |  Gion Festival (+2 tiles,  Japanese)
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| Aura and ability enhancements | |
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| Line of Sight |  Yorishiro Bonus (+2 tiles, Japanese)
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| Other | Yorishiro Bonus (Generates 50 gold per minute, Japanese)
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