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Abbasid Dynasty AoE4 Ayyubids AoE4 Byzantines AoE4 Chinese AoE4
Delhi Sultanate AoE4 English AoE4 French AoE4 HRE AoE4
Japanese AoE4 Jeanne d Arc AoE4 Malians AoE4 Mongols AoE4
Order of the Dragon AoE4 Ottomans AoE4 Rus AoE4 Zhu Xis Legacy AoE4

Landmarks are a special mechanic used to advance through Ages in Age of Empires IV. They are similar to minor gods in Age of Mythology in that every civilization (or major god) gets two choices per Age from which to choose. However, landmarks are buildings to be constructed (and protected), rather than a mere pop-up to be selected. Most civilizations are limited to choosing only one of their two landmark choices per age.

In addition to the following, the starting Town Center for every civilization is also considered a landmark. This is reflected in their superior all-round stats.

To achieve a Landmarks Victory, one must destroy all enemy landmarks (including the starting Town Center). A landmark, once destroyed, can be "rebuilt" (actually repaired). All landmarks cost only wood to repair. This makes Keep-type valuable since, unlike standard Keeps, they do not cost stone, a generally more scarce resource, to repair.

Abbasid Dynasty AoE4 Abbasid Dynasty[]

Rather than building different landmarks, the Abbasid Dynasty only has the singular House of Wisdom. The player is straightaway provided with a roster of four "wings". The House of Wisdom can be upgraded with different wings, one at a time, advancing in Age for every wing constructed (except for the fourth wing). Each wing has a set of three technologies, each of which has its own age requirement. The players can still research all 12 technologies in the end, and doing so unlocks the "All the World's Knowledge" Achievement. To make up for having fewer landmarks, the House of Wisdom increases in Hit Points every time a wing is constructed.

AoE4 CultureWing
Culture Wing
AoE4 EconomicWing
Economic Wing
AoE4 MilitaryWing
Military Wing
AoE4 TradeWing
Trade Wing
GameIcon-FeudalAgeAoE4 AoE4 PreservationOfKnowledge Preservation of Knowledge AoE4 FreshFoodstuffs Fresh Foodstuffs AoE4 BootCamp Boot Camp AoE4 GrandBazaar Grand Bazaar
GameIcon-CastleAgeAoE4 AoE4 MedicalCenters Medical Centers AoE4 Agriculture Agriculture AoE4 CamelRiderShields Camel Rider Shields AoE4 ArmoredCaravans Armored Caravans
GameIcon-ImperialAgeAoE4 AoE4 Proselytization Proselytization AoE4 ImprovedProcessing Improved Processing AoE4 CamelSupport Camel Support AoE4 SpiceRoads Spice Roads

Ayyubids AoE4 Ayyubids[]

Similar to the Abbasids, the Ayyubids have the House of Wisdom as their sole landmark. However, unlike their parent civilization, the player can further choose one of two branches to age up with for each wing, and each branch provides immediate benefits that scale up depending on which age it was built, rather than unlocking technologies to research. Furthermore picking a particular wing and branch does not unlock its benefits for all subsequent ages. Only those benefits from the age it was constructed can be obtained.

Byzantines AoE4 Byzantines[]

Dark Age[]

  • AoE4 GrandWinery Grand Winery - Acts as a Mill and Monastery. Provides a +60% Olive Oil production boost to farming Villagers within a 6.25 tile radius. Garrisoned Relics generate Olive Oil instead of Gold.
  • AoE4 ImperialHippodrome Imperial Hippodrome - Acts as a Stable. Produces "Supply Points" every 30 seconds, up to a maximum of 45. Supply Points can be spent to activate the unique Triumph ability for one second per point collected. Triumph boosts the move speed and damage of all cavalry, while also granting them regeneration.

Feudal Age[]

Castle Age[]

  • AoE4 ForeignEngineeringCompany Foreign Engineering Company - Allows the training of siege engines not normally available to the Byzantines by purchasing them with Olive Oil. Also provides unique upgrades to mercenaries from their original civilizations.
  • AoE4 PalatineSchool Palatine School - Has a 30% chance to generate an additional, free unit from the core Byzantine roster of unique units when they are trained elsewhere.

Chinese AoE4 Chinese[]

The Chinese are not restricted to build one landmark per age. Building the first landmark of a given age will advance the player's civilization as usual, and building the second one of the same age will unlock its respective Dynasty, unlocking unique units, buildings, and bonuses.

Dark Age[]

Feudal Age[]

Castle Age[]

  • AoE4 GreatWallGatehouse Great Wall Gatehouse - Acts as an improved Stone Wall Gate with extra hit points, and a Nest of Bees Emplacement already installed. Also provides all troops on any Stone Wall a +25% increase in ranged damage.
  • AoE4 SpiritWay Spirit Way - Upgrades Dynasty units two and a half times as fast and at a 50% discount. Whenever a Dynasty unit dies, nearby friendly units receive a 20% attack speed bonus for 10 seconds, and heal 20 health over 10 seconds.

Delhi Sultanate AoE4 Delhi Sultanate[]

Dark Age[]

Feudal Age[]

Castle Age[]

English AoE4 English[]

Dark Age[]

  • AoE4 AbbeyOfKings Abbey of Kings - Heals out-of-combat friendly units within a 7.5 tile radius at a rate of 6 hit points per second. Can also crown a King, a cavalry unit with a lesser version of the Abbey's aura.
  • AoE4 CouncilHall Council Hall - Acts as an Archery Range with a +100% production speed bonus.

Feudal Age[]

Castle Age[]

French AoE4 French and Jeanne d Arc AoE4 Jeanne d'Arc[]

Dark Age[]

Feudal Age[]

  • AoE4 GuildHall Guild Hall - Generates and stores resources over time. The more resources stored, the faster they are generated. The rate is reset when a resource is collected.
  • AoE4 RoyalInstitute Royal Institute - Houses all technologies unique to the civilization. Research at the Landmark is 30% cheaper and ignores Age requirements.

Castle Age[]

  • AoE4 CollegeOfArtillery College of Artillery - Trains "Royal" versions of gunpowder siege units, which deal 30% more damage, and unlocks the Artillery Shot ability for Cannons. Also contains gunpowder and siege technologies. Trains units and researches technologies 50% faster.
  • AoE4 RedPalace Red Palace - Acts as an improved Keep, with high-damage Arbalest Emplacements already installed. Garrisoned units add additional arbalests. Also unlocks Arbalest Emplacements on all Town Centers and Keeps.

HRE AoE4 Holy Roman Empire and Order of the Dragon AoE4 Order of the Dragon[]

Dark Age[]

  • AoE4 AachenChapel Aachen Chapel - Serves as a drop-off location for all resources, and extends the Holy Inspiration buff across a 6.5 tile radius as long as a Prelate is garrisoned inside.
  • AoE4 MeinwerkPalace Meinwerk Palace - Acts as a Blacksmith. Technologies researched at the Landmark cost 50% less and research 50% faster. Also contains several technologies unique to the Palace.

Feudal Age[]

Castle Age[]

  • AoE4 ElzbachPalace Elzbach Palace - Acts as an improved Keep with 50% more hit points. All friendly buildings within its influence take 33% less damage.
  • AoE4 PalaceOfSwabia Palace of Swabia - Acts as a Town Center. Produces Villagers 200% faster and with a 66% discount. The cost to build this Landmark is reduced by 20%.

Dark Age[]

  • AoE4 AachenChapel Aachen Chapel - Serves as a drop-off location for all resources, and provides a +15% gather rate bonus to Villagers within a 7.5 tile radius.
  • AoE4 MeinwerkPalace Meinwerk Palace - Acts as a Blacksmith. Technologies researched at the Landmark cost 50% less and research 50% faster. Also contains several technologies unique to the Palace.

Feudal Age[]

Castle Age[]

  • AoE4 ElzbachPalace Elzbach Palace - Acts as an improved Keep with 50% more hit points. All friendly buildings within its influence take 33% less damage.
  • AoE4 PalaceOfSwabia Palace of Swabia - Acts as a Town Center. Produces Villagers 200% faster and with a 66% discount. The cost to build this Landmark is reduced by 20%.

Japanese AoE4 Japanese[]

Dark Age[]

  • AoE4 KokaTownship Koka Township - Allows training of Shinobi.
  • AoE4 KuraStorehouse Kura Storehouse - Serves as a drop-off location for all resources, can garrison units, and contains all economic technologies available at the Farmhouse, Forge, and Lumber Camp. Periodically generates free Farms in the surrounding area. When Farms can no longer be created, the Storehouse generates Wood instead.

Feudal Age[]

Castle Age[]

Malians AoE4 Malians[]

Dark Age[]

Feudal Age[]

  • AoE4 GrandFulaniCorral Grand Fulani Corral - Generates 20 food per minute for every Cattle within a 6.5 tile radius.
  • AoE4 FarimbaGarrison Farimba Garrison - Unlocks or improves one unit in the Castle Age, and another in the Imperial Age, including potentially the Freeborn Warrior.

Castle Age[]

  • AoE4 FortOfTheHuntress Fort of the Huntress - Acts as a Keep. Applies stealth to all friendly infantry units within an 8 tile radius. Musofadi Warriors and Musofadi Gunners gain the First Strike ability, causing them to deal more damage when breaking stealth with an attack.
  • AoE4 GriotBara Griot Bara - Enables the activation of a Festival which provides temporary benefits for a cost of 300 gold. Festivals provide global enhancements to Food gather rates, production speed, or damage of torches and siege attacks.

Mongols AoE4 Mongols[]

Dark Age[]

  • AoE4 DeerStones Deer Stones - Provides the Yam Network bonus, granting +15% speed to all units (except siege) within a 12.5 tile radius of the Landmark and any Outposts. Unlocks Khan's Hunters.
  • AoE4 TheSilverTree The Silver Tree - Acts as a Market. Builds Traders 40% faster and at a 40% reduced gold cost.

Feudal Age[]

  • AoE4 Kurultai Kurultai - Provides a 20% damage bonus and heals all damaged units at a rate of 1 hit point per second within a 10 tile radius.
  • AoE4 SteppeRedoubt Steppe Redoubt - Acts as a Ger. Gold dropped off at this Landmark is increased by 50%.

Castle Age[]

  • AoE4 TheWhiteStupa The White Stupa - Acts as an Ovoo without the need to be placed on a stone outcropping. Produces 240 stone per minute.
  • AoE4 KhaganatePalace Khaganate Palace - Regularly spawns a pseudo-randomly chosen group of units, most of which are not otherwise available to the Mongols.

Ottomans AoE4 Ottomans[]

Dark Age[]

Feudal Age[]

Castle Age[]

  • AoE4 IstanbulObservatory Istanbul Observatory - Acts as a University. Has a 14x14 influence radius which allows all military buildings to produce units 100% faster.
  • AoE4 SeaGateCastle Sea Gate Castle - Acts as a Keep. Traders within a 15 tile radius of any Keep gain a +30% movement speed bonus and +8 melee and ranged armor. This buff lingers for 15 seconds after leaving the aura.

Rus AoE4 Rus[]

GameIcon-DarkAgeAoE4 Dark Age[]

GameIcon-FeudalAgeAoE4 Feudal Age[]

GameIcon-CastleAgeAoE4 Castle Age[]

Zhu Xis Legacy AoE4 Zhu Xi's Legacy[]

As the Chinese variant, Zhu Xi's Legacy can also build both its landmarks per age. Just like the Chinese, building the first landmark of a given age will advance to the next age, and building the second landmark will unlock a new Dynasty with different benefits than the standard Chinese dynasties.

Feudal Age[]

Castle Age[]

Imperial Age[]

Trivia[]

  • Some landmarks have generic names which might refer to types of buildings/institutions which can be found in a city, rather than specific real-world monuments, while others have names which seem to refer to specific places and edifices. However, of the latter group, only a few, including the Aachen Chapel, Spasskaya Tower, Tower of Victory and Shaolin Monastery, bear the names of real-world structures. The name of the Mount Lu Academy landmark may refer to the White Deer Grotto Academy on Mount Lu, in China.
  • Except Zhu Xi's Legacy, all variant civilizations use the same landmarks as their base civilizations. However, only Jeanne d'Arc uses them exactly the way the French do.
Buildings in Age of Empires IV
Common/Generic
Economic AoE4 Farm Farm · AoE4 House House · AoE4 LumberCamp Lumber Camp · AoE4 Market Market · AoE4 Mill Mill · AoE4 MiningCamp Mining Camp · AoE4 TownCenter Town Center · AoE4 TradePost/AoE4 CoastalTradePost Trade Post
Military AoE4 ArcheryRange Archery Range · AoE4 Barracks Barracks · AoE4 Dock Dock · AoE4 SiegeWorkshop Siege Workshop · AoE4 Stable Stable
Technology AoE4 Blacksmith Blacksmith · AoE4 University University/Madrasa
Defense AoE4 Keep Keep · AoE4 Outpost Outpost (AoE4 TollOutpost Toll Outpost) · AoE4 PalisadeGate Palisade Gate · AoE4 PalisadeWall Palisade Wall · AoE4 StoneWall Stone Wall · AoE4 StoneWallGate Stone Wall Gate · AoE4 StoneWallTower Stone Wall Tower
Religious AoE4 Monastery Monastery · AoE4 Mosque Mosque · AoE4 Monastery Prayer Tent
Victory Wonder · Sacred Site
Unique
Byzantines AoE4 Byzantines AoE4 Aqueduct Aqueduct · AoE4 Cistern Cistern · AoE4 MercenaryHouse Mercenary House · AoE4 OliveGrove Olive Grove
Chinese AoE4 Chinese
Zhu Xis Legacy AoE4 Zhu Xi's Legacy
AoE4 Village Village · AoE4 Granary Granary · AoE4 Pagoda Pagoda
English AoE4 English AoE4 SetupCamp Campfire
Japanese AoE4 Japanese AoE4 BuddhistTemple Buddhist Temple · AoE4 Keep Castle · AoE4 Farmhouse Farmhouse · AoE4 Forge Forge · AoE4 ShintoShrine Shinto Shrine
Malians AoE4 Malians AoE4 CattleRanch Cattle Ranch · AoE4 PitMine Pit Mine
Mongols AoE4 Mongols AoE4 Ger Ger · AoE4 Ovoo Ovoo · AoE4 Pasture Pasture
Ottomans AoE4 Ottomans AoE4 MilitarySchool Military School
Rus AoE4 Rus AoE4 HuntingCabin Hunting Cabin · AoE4 WoodenFortress Wooden Fortress · AoE4 PalisadeGate Fortified Palisade Gate · AoE4 PalisadeWall Fortified Palisade Wall
Landmarks
Abbasid Dynasty AoE4 Abbasid Dynasty
Ayyubids AoE4 Ayyubids
AoE4 HouseOfWisdom House of Wisdom
Byzantines AoE4 Byzantines AoE4 GrandWinery Grand Winery · AoE4 ImperialHippodrome Imperial Hippodrome · AoE4 GoldenHornTower Golden Horn Tower · AoE4 CisternoftheFirstHill Cistern of the First Hill · AoE4 ForeignEngineeringCompany Foreign Engineering Company · AoE4 PalatineSchool Palatine School
Chinese AoE4 Chinese AoE4 ImperialAcademy Imperial Academy · AoE4 BarbicanOfTheSun Barbican of the Sun · AoE4 AstronomicalClocktower Astronomical Clocktower · AoE4 ImperialPalace Imperial Palace · AoE4 GreatWallGatehouse Great Wall Gatehouse · AoE4 SpiritWay Spirit Way
Delhi Sultanate AoE4 Delhi Sultanate AoE4 DomeOfTheFaith Dome of the Faith · AoE4 TowerOfVictory Tower of Victory · AoE4 CompoundOfTheDefender Compound of the Defender · AoE4 HouseOfLearning House of Learning · AoE4 HisarAcademy Hisar Academy · AoE4 PalaceOfTheSultan Palace of the Sultan
English AoE4 English AoE4 AbbeyOfKings Abbey of Kings · AoE4 CouncilHall Council Hall · AoE4 KingsPalace King's Palace · AoE4 TheWhiteTower The White Tower · AoE4 BerkshirePalace Berkshire Palace · AoE4 WynguardPalace Wynguard Palace
French AoE4 French
Jeanne d Arc AoE4 Jeanne d'Arc
AoE4 ChamberOfCommerce Chamber of Commerce · AoE4 SchoolOfCavalry School of Cavalry · AoE4 GuildHall Guild Hall · AoE4 RoyalInstitute Royal Institute · AoE4 CollegeOfArtillery College of Artillery · AoE4 RedPalace Red Palace
HRE AoE4 Holy Roman Empire
Order of the Dragon AoE4 Order of the Dragon
AoE4 AachenChapel Aachen Chapel · AoE4 MeinwerkPalace Meinwerk Palace · AoE4 BurgravePalace Burgrave Palace · AoE4 RegnitzCathedral Regnitz Cathedral · AoE4 ElzbachPalace Elzbach Palace · AoE4 PalaceOfSwabia Palace of Swabia
Japanese AoE4 Japanese AoE4 KokaTownship Koka Township · AoE4 KuraStorehouse Kura Storehouse · AoE4 FloatingGate Floating Gate · AoE4 TempleofEquality Temple of Equality · AoE4 CastleoftheCrow Castle of the Crow · AoE4 TanegashimaGunsmith Tanegashima Gunsmith
Malians AoE4 Malians AoE4 SaharanTradeNetwork Saharan Trade Network · AoE4 MansaQuarry Mansa Quarry · AoE4 GrandFulaniCorral Grand Fulani Corral · AoE4 FarimbaGarrison Farimba Garrison · AoE4 FortOfTheHuntress Fort of the Huntress · AoE4 GriotBara Griot Bara
Mongols AoE4 Mongols AoE4 DeerStones Deer Stones · AoE4 TheSilverTree The Silver Tree · AoE4 Kurultai Kurultai · AoE4 SteppeRedoubt Steppe Redoubt · AoE4 KhaganatePalace Khaganate Palace · AoE4 TheWhiteStupa The White Stupa
Ottomans AoE4 Ottomans AoE4 TwinMinaretMedrese Twin Minaret Medrese · AoE4 SultanhaniTradeNetwork Sultanhani Trade Network · AoE4 InstanbulImperialPalace Istanbul Imperial Palace · AoE4 MehmedImperialArmory Mehmed Imperial Armory · AoE4 IstanbulObservatory Istanbul Observatory · AoE4 SeaGateCastle Sea Gate Castle
Rus AoE4 Rus AoE4 Kremlin Kremlin · AoE4 TheGoldenGate The Golden Gate · AoE4 AbbeyOfTheTrinity Abbey of the Trinity · AoE4 HighTradeHouse High Trade House · AoE4 HighArmory High Armory · AoE4 SpasskayaTower Spasskaya Tower
Zhu Xis Legacy AoE4 Zhu Xi's Legacy AoE4 MeditationGardens Meditation Gardens · AoE4 JiangnanTower Jiangnan Tower · AoE4 MountLuAcademy Mount Lu Academy · AoE4 ShaolinMonastery Shaolin Monastery · AoE4 ZhuXisLibrary Zhu Xi's Library · AoE4 TempleoftheSun Temple of the Sun
Gameplay elements in the Age of Empires series
Age · Ability (II · M · III · IV) · Architecture set (II · III) · Area of Effect (Trample damage) · Armor/Resists (hack/melee · pierce/ranged · crush/siege)  · Armor class/Tag/Unit type (I - original · I - Return of Rome · II) · Artificial intelligence · Attack (IV) · Attack delay · Attack ground · Aura (IV) · Auto Scout · Building (I · II · M · III · IV · AoE:DS) · Civilization (I · II · M · III · IV) · Civilization bonus · Cheat code (I · II · M · III · IV) · Conversion · Counter · Diplomacy · Gaia/Mother Nature · Game modes · Garrison · Gather Point · Healing · Hit points · Hotkey · Line of Sight · Mini map · Mobile building · Pass-through damage · Player · Population · Range · Rate of Fire · Regeneration · Relic (II · M · IV) · Repairing · Resource (Renewable resource) · Scenario Editor (I · II · M · III · IV) · Score · Signal Allies/Flare · Soundtrack (I · II · M · III · IV) · Speed · Stealth mode · Taunt · Technology (I · II · M · III · IV) · Technology tree (I · II · IV) · Terrain (AoE:DS · AoM:DS) · Town Bell · Trade (IV) · Tribute · Unit (I · II · M · III · IV · AoE:DS · AoM:DS) · Unit formation · Unit stance (III) · Upgrade (I · II · III · IV) · User interface · Victory · Villager Priority
Genie Engine
Frame delay · Full Tech Tree · Team bonus
ReturnRome-AoEIcon Age of EmpiresRuins · Discovery
AoE2-DLCicon-0 Age of Empires IIProjectile duplication
Bang Engine
Autoqueue · Multiplier · Snare
Aom original icon Age of MythologyGod (Major · Minor) · God power · Settlement
3Icon48px Age of Empires IIIAge-up methods (Politician/Tribal Council/Wonder/Federal State/Alliance· Banner army · Consulate · Damage Cap · Home City · Home City Card · Inspiring Flag · Minor civilization · Promotion · Revolution · Target Lock · Trade Monopoly · Trade Route · Treasure
GameIcon-AoE4 Age of Empires IV
GenericFire armor · Influence · Landmark · Religion · Sacred Site · Variant civilization
Civilization-uniqueBounty · Dynasty · Golden Age · Imperial Council (Vizier Point)
If a gameplay element has different pages across games, like civilization, the individual pages are linked in brackets.
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