Metallurgy

Metallurgy is a technology in Age of Empires that can be researched at the Storage Pit once the Iron Age is reached and Metalworking is researched. Once researched, it increases the attack of all melee units by +3. Metallurgy is required to upgrade Heavy Cavalry to Cataphracts.

Technology availability

Available	Unavailable
Assyrians Babylonians Choson Egyptians Hittites Macedonians Minoans Persians Romans Shang Yamato	Carthaginians Greeks Palmyrans Phoenicians Sumerians

Changelog Edit

Age of Empires Edit

• Babylonians: Cannot research Metallurgy.

Definitive Edition Edit

• Babylonians: Metallurgy added to the technology tree.

Technologies in Age of Empires
Economic technologies
Woodworking*  · Stone Mining*  · Gold Mining  · Domestication  · Artisanship*  · Wheel  · Plow  · Craftsmanship*  · Coinage  · Irrigation
* also military technologies for ranged units
Military technologies
Melee units	Toolworking  · Metalworking  · Metallurgy  · Leather Armor Infantry  · Scale Armor Infantry  · Chain Mail Infantry  · Bronze Shield  · Iron Shield  · Tower Shield  · Logistics  · Aristocracy  · Leather Armor Cavalry  · Scale Armor Cavalry  · Chain Mail Cavalry  · Nobility
Ranged units	Leather Armor Archers  · Scale Armor Archers  · Chain Mail Archers  · Siegecraft  · Engineering  · Alchemy  · Ballistics
Religious technologies
Polytheism  · Mysticism  · Astrology  · Medicine  · Monotheism  · Afterlife  · Fanaticism  · Zealotry  · Sacrifice
Miscellaneous technologies
Architecture  · Writing
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