| โ | Must be built on a Stone Outcropping. Harvests 70/100/120/150 Stone per minute by Age. Houses unique Mongol technologies. Constructing a new Ovoo will destroy the prior one. | โ |
| —Age of Empires IV description for Mongols | ||
| โ | Must be built on a Stone Outcropping. Harvests 60 Stone per minute even from Depleted Stone Deposits. Build limit is increased by +1 after each age up. | โ |
| —Age of Empires IV description for Golden Horde | ||
The Ovoo is a unique building in Age of Empires IV that is available to the Mongols and Golden Horde. It harvests Stone over time.
The White Stupa, the Mongol Imperial Age economic Landmark, also functions as an Ovoo. It is also an extra Ovoo that will not destroy the previous Ovoo after it is completed, allowing the player to have additional Stone.
Mechanic[]
Mongols[]
Mongol Villagers can neither collect nor use stone directly (as they are not able to build fortifications), and can only do it with the help of the Ovoo. Unlike other Mongol buildings, the Ovoo cannot be packed/unpacked to move - it must be built over a new Stone Outcropping. If a new Ovoo is built, the previous one will be automatically destroyed. Hence, it is limited to one. However, the Ovoo is not automatically destroyed when the Stone Outcropping is exhausted.
If there are no Stone Outcroppings left, new Ovoos cannot be built.
Golden Horde[]
Similarly to the Mongols, Golden Horde Villagers cannot collect stone directly, and can only do it with the help of the Ovoo. The player is limited to one Ovoo in the Dark Age, but each Age advancement increases the limit by one, up to a maximum of four in the Imperial Age.
Abilities and influences[]
Mongols[]
- Ovoo Influence (Influence): The Ovoo generates a 7 x 7 tile area of influence around itself. Buildings built within this influence are granted the ability of creating two units at the same time and research "improved" technologies at a cost of extra Stone.
- The Ovoo gathers 70/100/120/150 stone per minute by Age from Stone Outcroppings over time until depletion. The actual interval at which stone is granted is one second. Unlike the Pit Mine, which generates infinite gold over time, the Ovoo stops generating stone when the Stone Outcropping is exhausted.
Golden Horde[]
- The Ovoo gathers 60 stone per minute, which can be increased by a variety of upgrades. The actual interval at which stone is granted is one second. Unlike the Mongols, Golden Horde Ovoos can continue generating stone after the Stone Outcropping is depleted.
Available technologies[]
Mongols only[]
Unique technologies[]
Relic Ovoo[]
| โ | The Relic Ovoo does not have to be placed on Stone deposits and the Relic will drop if the Ovoo is destroyed. Harvests 60 Stone per minute. | โ |
| —Age of Empires IV description for Golden Horde | ||
Relic Ovoos are a variation of the Ovoo that can be created by a Shaman carrying a Relic after advancing to the Castle Age with Relic Ovoos. It does not require a Stone Outcropping to be constructed, nor does it contribute to the Ovoo limit. If it is destroyed, a Relic will spawn at its location.
Further statistics[]
| Technologies | |
|---|---|
| Hit points |  Court Architects (+30%)
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| Resource generation |  Ovoo Offering (+30%)
|
Changelog[]
- Originally, the stone generation rate was 105 stone per minute in all Ages. With patch 11963, the rate was changed to 80/100/120/150 stone per minute per Age. With update 10.0.576, the Dark Age stone generation was reduced to 70 per minute.
- Court Architects was added in update 7.0.5861.
- Pax Mongolica was added in patch 8.2.218.
Campaign version[]
Because the original four campaigns have not been rebalanced since the release of the game, Ovoo have the following main differences in those campaigns:
- They have only 1,200 hit points, but 10 fire armor
- They collect stone at a flat rate of 120 stone per minute across all ages
- They do not contain Mongol unique technologies; these are researched at the Outpost instead
Trivia[]
An Ovoo or Obo (Mongolian: ะพะฒะพะพ, traditional Mongolian script: แ ฃแ ชแ คแ ญแ แ , meaning "heap" or "pile") is a cairn used as a border marker or a shrine, often found in places such as mountain passes or mountain tops. Their function as a shrine was originally connected to Mongolian shamanism, but nowadays are also a site for Buddhist ceremonies. Ovoos are usually made of stone, and often decorated with branches and ceremonial silk scarves called khadag. In regions with scarce supply of stones, soil, sand, or branches may be used instead to build Ovoos.
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