Great Buildings

Great Buildings are one of the fundamental mechanics of Forge of Empires. They represent great achievements in humanity's history and future and provide very powerful bonuses for your city!

What makes Great Buildings special?

Great Buildings provide your city with a unique bonus and often an additional production. They can also be leveled up to very high levels, providing even better bonuses and higher productions to your city while remaining the same size.

Additionally, contributing Forge Points to the buildings of your friends, neighbors and guild mates may grant you contribution rewards for your own city and Great Buildings!

Building a Great Building

Great Buildings are built very differently than regular buildings in the game. They require a set of Blueprints and Goods of their age to be constructed. The Building Menu will show you an overview of available Great Buildings and their Blueprints at a glance.
You are also able to view your Great buildings from the inventory menu under the Great buildings tab. Note that you won't see Great Buildings you haven't found any Blueprints of in this list.

Blueprints

Every Great Building requires nine blueprints, which you have to collect in order to construct the building. That can be achieved in the following ways:

• Polish or Motivate your neighbors/guildmates
  
• Plunder your neighbors, though chances to find something are a little lower than with polishing/motivating
  
• Help other players construct their great buildings (see section "Donation Rewards")
  
• Diamonds, once you found at least one blueprint of that building one of the other ways
  
• Special events may feature blueprints as prizes
  
• Incidents happening in your city can also give a small chance at finding blueprints
  
• The Guild expedition is also a way to get blueprints. Look in the chest to see if you are lucky to get one, and what the percent is to win it.
• Lastly a special building The Shrine of Inspiration Gives out a blueprint if motivated

When Polishing/Motivating/Plundering, the affected building's age defines what blueprint you might find. Example: If you motivate a pottery, a Bronze Age building, you can only find blueprints for the Statue of Zeus or the Tower of Babel – Great buildings of Bronze Age.

You can also trade two duplicates in a specific Great building for one blueprint in that same Great Building (but still in a random spot) if you are still looking to get a specific spot.

Goods

Once you have the Blueprints of the building, you will also need to gather the goods required to construct it.

Make sure to trade with your guild, your neighbors and friends to obtain the needed goods. Once everything is ready, place the Great Building in your city by using the "Construct"-Button.

Leveling Great Buildings

Once you placed a great building, it's on level 0, like a construction site.

Unlike other buildings, these don't build up themselves, but have to be constructed with the use of forge points.

When the building reaches level 1, it is finally built, but can be upgraded to level 10 with forge points alone. You will then need set of blueprints to unlock levels past 10 (one set = one more level available).

The higher the building's level, the more powerful the bonus becomes and the greater the amount of forge points are needed to reach the next level.

Details on the forge-point costs and bonuses can be found in the respective site for each building.

Contributing to a Great Building

When contributing to a Great Building of a friend, guildmate or neighbor, the top five contributors will receive a reward once the building is completed. Players who have The Arc also get additional bonuses when placing in the top five of another player's building.

The rewards for contributing to a Great Building can be:

• Forge Points
• Medals
• Blueprints of the supported building

Great Building List

Below you can find a list of all Great Buildings currently in the game. If you'd like to see an overview of the effects of all Great Buildings in the game, please have a look at our Great Building Boosts-Page.

	Building	Age	Size	Skills
	Observatory	No Age	3x3	Guild Goods Fierce resistance
	Temple of Relics	No Age	6x6	Relic Hunt
	Oracle of Delphi	No Age	3x3	Supply production Happiness
	Tower of Babel	Bronze Age	4x4	Good production Population
	Statue of Zeus	Bronze Age	2x3	Military boost
	Colosseum	Iron Age	6x7	Medal production Happiness
	Lighthouse of Alexandria	Iron Age	4x4	Good production Supply boost
	Hagia Sophia	Early Middle Ages	7x6	Research Happiness
	Cathedral of Aachen	Early Middle Ages	4x6	Coin production Military boost
	Galata Tower	Early Middle Ages	3x3	Good production Plunder Repel
	St. Mark's Basilica	High Middle Ages	6x6	Good production Coin boost
	Notre Dame	High Middle Ages	4x6	Supply production Happiness
	Saint Basil's Cathedral	Late Middle Ages	5x5	Coin production Fierce resistance
	Castel del Monte	Late Middle Ages	5x5	Research Military boost
	Frauenkirche of Dresden	Colonial Age	5x5	Good production Happiness
	Deal Castle	Colonial Age	7x7	Medal production Fierce resistance
	Royal Albert Hall	Industrial Age	7x6	Good production Supply boost
	Capitol	Industrial Age	7x5	Supply production Population
	Château Frontenac	Progressive Era	5x6	Coin production Quest Reward Boost
	Alcatraz	Progressive Era	10x7	Penal Unit Happiness
	Space Needle	Modern Era	6x5	Coin production Happiness
	Atomium	Modern Era	7x6	Guild Goods Happiness
	Cape Canaveral	Postmodern Era	4x5	Research
	The Habitat	Postmodern Era	7x6	Coin production Population
	Lotus Temple	Contemporary Era	6x6	Coin production Happiness
	Innovation Tower	Contemporary Era	6x6	Research Population
	Truce Tower	Tomorrow Era	6x5	Supply production Aid Goods
	Voyager V1	Tomorrow Era	4x7	Supply production Plunder Goods
	The Arc	The Future	7x5	Guild Goods Contribution Boost
	Rain Forest Project	The Future	6x6	Good production Aid Blueprints
	Gaea Statue	Arctic Future	6x4	Medal production Happiness
	Seed Vault	Arctic Future	5x6	Supply production Helping Hands
	Arctic Orangery	Arctic Future	7x7	Research Critical Hit
	Atlantis Museum	Oceanic Future	6x7	Good production Plunder and Pillage
	The Kraken	Oceanic Future	5x5	Research First Strike
	The Blue Galaxy	Oceanic Future	7x5	Medal production Double Collection
	Terracotta Army	Virtual Future	4x6	Advanced Tactics
	Himeji Castle	Virtual Future	6x6	Supply production Spoils of War
	Star Gazer	Space Age Mars	5x5	Previous Era Goods Production
	The Virgo Project	Space Age Mars	5x5	Coin production Missile Launch
	Space Carrier	Space Age Asteroid Belt	7x4	Orbital Transfer Diplomatic Gifts
	Flying Island	Space Age Venus	4x6	Mysterious Shards
	A.I. Core	Space Age Jupiter Moon	5x5	Guild Goods Algorithmic Core
	Saturn VI Gate CENTAURUS	Space Age Titan	4x4	Previous Era Goods Production Military boost
	Saturn VI Gate PEGASUS	Space Age Titan	4x4	Research Fierce resistance
	Saturn VI Gate HYDRA	Space Age Titan	4x4	Guild Goods Advanced Tactics
	Stellar Warship	Space Age Space Hub	5x3	Penal Unit Advanced Tactics
	Cosmic Catalyst	Space Age Space Hub	4x4	Guild Goods Critical Hit