| “ | 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 in Age of Empires IV: The Sultans Ascend available starting in the Dark Age. It functions as and 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 Japanese player research their technologies from multiple buildings, enhancing their strength of producing multiple unit types.
Available technologies[]
Technologies in the same line are chained. The attack and armor technologies do not apply to siege engines. The armor technologies do not apply to ships. Additionally, gunpowder units do not benefit from regular attack upgrades either.
For the effect of these technologies, see the Mining Camp and Blacksmith pages.
Further statistics[]
| Hit points |  Court Architects (+30%)
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| Line of Sight |  Gion Festival (+2 tiles) Yorishiro Bonus (+2 tiles)
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| Other | Yorishiro Bonus (Generates 60 gold per minute)
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