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This article is about the technology in Age of Empires IV. For the technology in Age of Empires II, see Incendiaries (Age of Empires II).

Incendiaries is a naval technology in Age of Empires IV: Anniversary Edition available at the Dock starting in the Castle Age. It increases the explosion range of all incendiary ships by 20%. It is not available to the Byzantines, whose comparable technology is Liquid Explosives.

Civilization bonuses[]

  • Abbasid Dynasty AoE4 Abbasid Dynasty: Research speeds are +15%/+20% faster while Golden Age tiers 2/3 are active. If Preservation of Knowledge has been researched, this technology costs -20%.
  • Ayyubids AoE4 Ayyubids: Research speeds are 25% faster while Golden Age tier 2 is active.
  • Chinese AoE4 Chinese and Zhu Xis Legacy AoE4 Zhu Xi's Legacy: Docks work 10% faster
  • Delhi Sultanate AoE4 Delhi Sultanate: The technology is free, but takes 7.5x as long to research (150 seconds instead of 20 seconds). Research speed can be further increased by 20% for each garrisoned Scholar.
  • House of Lancaster AoE4 House of Lancaster: This technology is 15% cheaper if King's College has been constructed.
  • Japanese AoE4 Japanese: Research speeds are 125% faster at Docks with garrisoned Yorishiro
  • Malians AoE4 Malians: Technologies take less time to research based on how much gold has been obtained through trade.

Changelog[]

  • Originally, Incendiaries cost 100 food, 250 gold and researched in 30 seconds. With update 15.1.6970, it costs 75 food, 125 gold and researches in 20 seconds.
Technologies in Age of Empires IV
Economic technologies
WoodAoE4 Forestry Forestry ยท AoE4 DoubleBroadax Double Broadax ยท AoE4 LumberPreservation Lumber Preservation ยท AoE4 CrosscutSaw Crosscut Saw
FoodAoE4 Horticulture Horticulture ยท AoE4 Fertilization Fertilization ยท AoE4 PrecisionCrossBreeding Precision Cross-Breeding
Gold/StoneAoE4 SpecializedPick Specialized Pick ยท AoE4 ShaftMining Shaft Mining ยท AoE4 Cupellation Cupellation
HuntingAoE4 ProfessionalScouts Professional Scouts ยท AoE4 SurvivalTechniques Survival Techniques
FishingAoE4 ExtendedLines Extended Lines ยท AoE4 DriftNets Drift Nets
VillagerAoE4 Wheelbarrow Wheelbarrow ยท AoE4 Textiles Textiles
RelicAoE4 TitheBarns Tithe Barns
Military technologies
Melee damageAoE4 Bloomery Bloomery ยท AoE4 Decarbonization Decarbonization ยท AoE4 DamascusSteel Damascus Steel
Ranged damageAoE4 SteeledArrow Steeled Arrow ยท AoE4 BalancedProjectiles Balanced Projectiles ยท AoE4 PlatecutterPoint Platecutter Point
Melee armorAoE4 FittedLeatherwork Fitted Leatherwork ยท AoE4 InsulatedHelm Insulated Helm ยท AoE4 MasterSmiths Master Smiths
Ranged armorAoE4 IronUndermesh Iron Undermesh ยท AoE4 WedgeRivets Wedge Rivets ยท AoE4 AngledSurfaces Angled Surfaces
Ship (General)AoE4 ArmoredHull Armored Hull ยท AoE4 Shipwrights Shipwrights
Archer shipAoE4 ExtraHammocks Extra Hammocks ยท AoE4 HeatedShot Heated Shot
Incendiary shipAoE4 AdditionalTorches Incendiaries ยท AoE4 Explosives Explosives
Springald shipAoE4 SpringaldEmplacement Springald Crews ยท AoE4 SwivelCannon Swivel Cannon ยท AoE4 MountedGuns Mounted Guns
Siege (General)AoE4 SiegeEngineering Siege Engineering ยท AoE4 GreasedAxles Greased Axles ยท AoE4 SiegeWorks Siege Works
Siege (Specific)AoE4 Geometry Geometry ยท AoE4 AdjustableCrossbars Adjustable Crossbars ยท AoE4 RollerShutterTriggers Roller Shutter Triggers ยท AoE4 LightweightBeams Lightweight Beams
MiscellaneousAoE4 NavigatorLookout Spyglass ยท AoE4 Biology Biology ยท AoE4 EliteArmyTactics Elite Army Tactics ยท AoE4 IncendiaryArrows Incendiary Arrows ยท AoE4 Chemistry Chemistry ยท AoE4 SerpentinePowder Serpentine Powder ยท AoE4 SilkBowstrings Silk Bowstrings
Religious unitsAoE4 Piety Piety ยท AoE4 HerbalMedicine Herbal Medicine
Building-specific technologies
EmplacementsAoE4 Arrowslits Arrowslits ยท AoE4 Arrowslits Naval Arrowslits ยท AoE4 SpringaldEmplacement Springald Emplacement ยท AoE4 CannonEmplacement Cannon Emplacement ยท AoE4 FortifyOutpost Fortify Outpost
MiscellaneousAoE4 BoilingOil Boiling Oil ยท AoE4 CourtArchitects Court Architects ยท AoE4 MilitaryAcademy Military Academy
Removed technologies
Season Three UpdateAoE4 AdditionalSails Additional Sails ยท AoE4 NavigatorLookout Navigator Lookout ยท AoE4 SpringaldEmplacement Extra Ballista ยท AoE4 CannonEmplacement Chaser Cannons