Mughal Empire Cultural Settlement
Mughal Empire
Your goal with the Mughal Empires is to help Akbar the great, to build a beautiful and flourishing city in his empire. To achieve your goal to build up a flourishing city, you will need Rupees. This resource is used to produce Cultural Goods (similar to resources from previous settlements: Copper, Koban, Deben and Cocoa Beans). Make sure to build residential and diplomacy buildings in your Settlement to produce enough Rupees, and go through the 20 quests to claim your settlement reward! Before you begin, remember that researching the technology Higher Education (late Middle Ages) is necessary in order to unlock the Cultural Settlement Mughal Empire. For the Mughal empire, you will need to gather new goods to progress, and you will also have new resources available to help you on your way: When you have collected enough resources, you're either able to unlock new buildings for the Mughal Empire Settlements or expansions.
 Mughals |
These are the equivalent to population in your main city. You need them to build certain buildings. |
 Diplomacy |
Shows the amount of trust you have gained among the Mughals. This is needed to unlock new buildings from this culture. |
 Rupees |
Rupees is used to produce Cultural Goods and can be collected from residential buildings as well as some Diplomacy buildings. You start each Mughal Settlement with 5000 Rupees. |
 Basmati |
Mughal good, that is produced by a Rice Farm |
 Saree |
Mughal good, that is produced by a Saree Weaver |
 Spices |
Mughal good, that is produced by a Spice trader |
 Lotus |
Mughal good, that is produced by a Lotus Flowers Farm |
Daily Bonus
With the introduction of the Ancient Egypt Cultural Settlement, we introduced a cultural cost to roads in Egypt. With that we also changed the amount of Cultural Currency at the start of the Settlement and a daily collection from your Embassy. This is the same for the Mughal settlement as well.
The puzzle
This time, you will find no additional interactive building on the outskirts of your raising Mughal city, meaning that there's no additional feature available upon completing 6 Cultural Settlement quests (e.g. Feudal Japan's Merchant, Aztecs' Courtyard, etc), although you can still get an additional reward by reaching this milestone.
Please be aware that you can place these diplomacy buildings anywhere in your city, but they will only provide you with additional bonuses if you properly connect them to your Embassy!
This time around, the whole Mughal Empire Settlement is the puzzle and also the minigame you have to solve. There are two types of diplomacy buildings, two small and three large ones, and these have chain and set mechanics to increase the beauty and production of your outpost.
Chain ability bonus  Small diplomacy buildings |
Set ability bonus  Large diplomacy buildings |
  Alley Water Canal |
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| The small diplomacy buildings have a chain ability, which means that you can attach them to your Embassy sides, or better saying, the entrances! When you connect these buildings, you increase the overall amount of diplomacy in your settlement.
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Meanwhile, the large diplomacy buildings have a set ability, meaning that you can collect additional cultural goods once a day by placing unique large buildings in the adjacencies of your Embassy (anywhere close to the Embassy, not necessarily to the sides or in front of the main building). There are three different large diplomacy buildings, and in order to fully maximize the potential of your settlement, you will need to build all of them. You can get up to three set bonuses, however, these are only granted by placing different set buildings! In other words, if you place three of the same large diplomacy building, you will only get one bonus, not three! So make sure to avoid repetition here. |
The challenge in the Mughal Empire Cultural settlement is to connect all those buildings together which is not an easy task, as you need to decide which expansions are worth unlocking and which impediments should be removed, as you also need to make room for residential and goods' buildings.
Mughal Buildings
During your time helping Akbar the great, you will use advancements to unlock various residential, cultural goods production and diplomacy buildings. Please note the building costs scale with your own era, so the ones below are based on the Colonial Age costs: Below, you can see what building you can build at what time:
Residential Buildings
| Building | Cost | Product | Unlocked with |
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Unlocked at start of settlement |
 Shanti Ghar |
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Unlocked with the 3rd advancement |
 Haveli |
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Unlocked with the 9th advancement |
Culture Goods Buildings
| Building | Cost | Production | Unlocked with |
 Rice Paddy |
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 5 in 4h |
Unlocked at the start of the settlement |
 Saree Weaver |
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 5 in 4h |
Unlocked with the 2nd advancement |
 Spice Trader |
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 5 in 4h |
Unlocked with the 4th advancement |
 Lotus Flowers Farm |
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 5 in 4h |
Unlocked with the 7th advancement |
Diplomacy
| Building | Cost | Product | Unlocked with |
Alley |
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 24
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Unlocked at the start of the settlement |
Water Canal |
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24 |
Unlocked with 1st advancement |
Chhatri |
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16 |
Unlocked with 4th advancement |
 Baldachin |
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63 |
Unlocked with 6th advancement |
Charbagh |
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150 |
Unlocked with 8th advancement |
Impediments
Impediments are also present in the Mughal Empire settlement and they will restrict your building area, thus making each settlement a puzzle! Every time you start a new playthrough, those impediments will be rearranged, adding an extra layer of challenge to organizing the settlement. However, just like in previous settlements, these impediments can be removed with pickaxes.
Mughal Expansions
In the Mughal Empire Cultural Settlement, expansions can be purchased with cultural goods or Diamonds. You can select what cultural good you would like to pay for any expansion and only one of the goods is needed per expansion.
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| 1 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 500 |
| 2 | 10 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 500 |
| 3 | 15 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 500 |
| 4 | 23 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 500 |
| 5 | 30 | 10 | 5 | 5 | |
| 6 | 39 | 15 | 5 | 5 | |
| 7 | 48 | 23 | 5 | 5 | |
| 8 | 55 | 30 | 10 | 5 | |
| 9 | 58 | 39 | 15 | 5 | |
| 10 | 60 | 48 | 23 | 5 | |
| 11 | 63 | 55 | 30 | 10 | |
| 12 | 66 | 58 | 39 | 15 | |
| 13 | 69 | 60 | 48 | 23 | |
| 14 | 71 | 63 | 55 | 30 | |
| 15 | 74 | 66 | 58 | 39 | |
| 16 | 77 | 69 | 60 | 48 | |
Reward
Mughal Temple and Minaret
To show his gratitude, Akbar will grant you some awesome rewards for helping him to build up an a flourishing city. The Mughal Temple is a beautiful 4x4 upgradable building with 6 levels! Upon reaching the level 6, this building will provide you coins, forge points, random goods and supplies.You will receive Lvl. 1 Mughal Temple the first time you complete the settlement. Upgrade kits can then be won on some of the subsequent completions of the settlement. That's not all, you can earn fragments of the Minaret Selection Kit as rewards by finishing the settlement fast enough. The Minaret is a 2x2 upgradable building with 4 levels, and it will grant you coins, random goods, forge points and supplies.
| Mughal Temple | Minaret |
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Once the quest line of Akbar the great, is completed, the village will completely trust you as their Honored guest and the settlement is complete. In the table below you will find the rewards listed for each playthrough of the Mughal settlement:
| 1st playthrough | Mughal's_Temple_-_Lv._1 |
| 2nd playthrough | Barbur + Free Slot |
| 3rd playthrough | Mughal's_Temple_-_Lv._2 |
| 4th playthrough | Mughal's_Temple_-_Lv._3 |
| 5th playthrough | Muntaz Mahal |
| 6th playthrough | Mughal's_Temple_-_Lv._4 |
| 7th playthrough | Hamida + Free Slot |
| 8th playthrough | Mughal's_Temple_-_Lv._5 |
| 9th playthrough | Shah Jahan |
| 10th playthrough | Mughal's_Temple_-_Lv._6 |
| 11th onwards | 60 Forge Points |
Mughal Emissaries
Last but not least, the Mughal Empire settlement have exclusive Emissaries who will come to your main city and sit in your Town Hall to grant you special bonuses. There are 4 new Emissaries in total and they can be obtained as a reward for finishing 2, 5, 7 and 9 playthroughs in the new settlement.
| Barbur | Hamida Banu Begum |
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| 1 Forge Point | 3 goods from your age |
| Mumtaz Mahal | Shah Jahan |
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| Medals (scales with age) | 3 goods from your previous age |