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This article is about the extra items in Age of Empires IV. For the extra items in Age of Empires III, see Treasure.
โ€œ They're free resources... โ€
—In-game description in Age of Empires IV: The Sultans Ascend

Resource Pickups are items that appear in several campaign scenarios in Age of Empires IV and Age of Empires IV: The Sultans Ascend. They can be collected by any unit simply by right-clicking on it with the unit selected.

In the four original campaigns of Age of Empires IV, all Resource Pickups are called Treasure Chests, and they provide all types of resources to the player in varying amounts, most often gold. In The Sultans Ascend, each resource type has its own pickup - Food Crate, Wood Cache, Gold Chest, and Stone Cache - and they give 200 of their respective resource. The first three can also be found in the water as Floating Food Crates, Floating Wood Crates, and Floating Gold Chests on any scenario with a water component, such as Raiders of the Red Sea or The Invasion of Cyprus. They are found not only floating freely in the water, but are dropped randomly by enemy ships upon sinking them.

Resource Pickups can be important sources of income in a number of campaign scenarios, particularly where the player is unable to build an economy, but can still use resources to research upgrades or recruit allies, such as in the scenario The Battle of Formigny in the The Hundred Years War campaign, The Battle of Tinchebray in the The Normans campaign, The Battle of Kulikovo in the The Rise of Moscow campaign, and The Song Fortress in the The Mongol Empire campaign. In The Sultans Ascend, they are not used anywhere as a replacement for resource gathering, but rather to supplement a standard economy. In certain scenarios, they can be found before a player gains control of any Villagers or economic buildings as a way to jump-start the economy, such as in The Defense of Tyre or The Battle of Mansurah.

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Campaign-only content in Age of Empires IV
Leaders
The NormansDuke William ยท King Harold ยท King Henry I ยท Robert Curthose ยท King Louis VI ยท King Stephen ยท Willikin of the Weald ยท William Marshal
The Rise of MoscowPrince Dmitry ยท Ivan III ยท Ivan IV
The Hundred Years WarJean de Beaumanoir ยท Olivier Arrel ยท Guy de Rochefort ยท Geoffroy du Bois ยท Yves Charruel ยท Jeanne d'Arc
The Mongol EmpireGeneral Subutai ยท Genghis Khan ยท Mongke Khan ยท Baidar ยท Batu Khan ยท Liu Zheng ยท Ismail
The Sultans AscendTughtekin ยท Shirkuh ยท Saladin ยท Reynald of Chรขtillon (flagship) ยท Reynald of Chรขtillon ยท Shajar al-Durr ยท Baybars ยท Templar Grand Master ยท Hospitaller Grand Master ยท Teutonic Grand Master ยท Qutuz ยท Kitbuqa
Units
Scout Ship ยท Danish Raider ยท Gilded Landsknecht ยท Huihui Pao ยท Dismounted Knight ยท German Mercenary ยท Knight Templar ยท Knight Hospitaller ยท Militia ยท Militia Archer ยท Pirate ยท Pirate Ship ยท Raiding Galley ยท Spy ยท Turkic Horse Archer ยท The Beast ยท Teutonic Knight ยท Genoese Crossbowman
Buildings and other
Arsenal ยท York Castle ยท Military Tent ยท Bureau Brothers' Workshop ยท Siege Camp ยท Acre Tower ยท Leader Tent ยท Resource Pickup ยท Stone Ruins
Technologies
Heavy Sledge ยท Planned Extraction ยท Applied Masonry ยท Steel Barding ยท Elite Spear Tactics ยท Grapered Lances ยท Silk Bowstrings ยท Crannequins ยท Superior Transport Construction ยท Doused Armor ยท Corned Gunpowder ยท Chain Shot ยท Efficiency Training ยท Longbow Mastery ยท Musketeer Regiment ยท Scouting Falcon ยท Husbandry ยท Improved Blacksmith and Arsenal Technologies ยท Setup Camp ยท Food Reserves ยท Berry Cultivation ยท Construction Drills ยท Ancient Relics ยท Any Port In A Storm
Civilizations
AsianCivIcon-FatimidAoE4 Fatimid Caliphate ยท CivIcon-IlkhanateAoE4 Ilkhanate ยท CivIcon-MamlukSultanateAoE4 Mamluk Sultanate ยท Ayyubids AoE4 Saladin ยท CivIcon-SeljukEmpireAoE4 Seljuk Empire
EuropeanCivIcon-ASEAoE4 Anglo-Saxon England ยท CivIcon-AntiochAoE4 Antioch ยท CivIcon-CyprusAoE4 Cyprus ยท CivIcon-DanesAoE4 Danes ยท CivIcon-LithuaniaAoE4 Grand Duchy of Lithuania ยท CivIcon-JerusalemAoE4 Jerusalem ยท CivIcon-BohemiaAoE4 Kingdom of Bohemia ยท CivIcon-HungaryAoE4 Kingdom of Hungary ยท CivIcon-PolandAoE4 Kingdom of Poland ยท CivIcon-KnightsHospitallerAoE4 Knights Hospitaller ยท CivIcon-KnightsTemplarAoE4 Knights Templar ยท CivIcon-NormansAoE4 Normans ยท CivIcon-NovgorodAoE4 Novgorod Republic ยท CivIcon-TeutonicOrderAoE4 Teutonic Order
Classification of campaign-only civilizations is based on their base civilizations, not geographical locations.
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