Mughal Empire

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Friend! I've heard only great things about you. I invite you to my palace to help me build up the most beautiful city in my empire!

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The Mughal Empire is the fifth culture of the Cultural Settlements and was introduced to the game on 11 August 2021. Construct Mughal Empire Settlement buildings and gain their resources to unlock embassy advancements. Finish the settlement by completing all quests to gain unique settlement rewards.

The Mughal Empire is the second settlement not playable as soon as the cultural settlements are unlocked. The player needs to to have researched the technology Higher Education in the Late Middle Ages to unlock it.

This page explains the workings of the quests, embassy advancements and rewards; for information about the settlement and its buildings check the Mughal Empire Settlement page.

Milestone Rewards

Complete 6 quests:	Complete 10 quests:	Complete 15 quests:	Complete 20 quests:
60 Forge Points	375 Goods	150 Forge Points	Finish Settlement

Quests

Akbar the Great

Finish all 20 quests presented by Akbar the Great to finish the Mughal Empire Settlement. The quest rewards consist of items for the player's main city, like coins, supplies, Forge Points and Self Aid Kits. Also there are rewards for the Mughal Empire Settlement in the form of Impediment Removal Items and Rupees.

Quest 1 Warm Welcome (Mughal):

Akbar the Great: "Have 6 Bhavans"
Reward: 125 Current Era Goods

✔ Done

Quest 2 Easy Access:

Akbar the Great: "Have 3 Alleys" and "Have 102 diplomacy"
Reward: 20 Forge Points and 500 Rupees

✔ Done

Quest 3 Delicious Food:

Akbar the Great: "Have 1 Rice Paddy" and "Gather 10 Basmati"
Reward: 1 Impediment Removal Item

✔ Done

Quest 4 More Diplomacy:

Akbar the Great: "Have 3 Water Canals" and "Have 214 diplomacy"
Reward: Self-Aid Kit and 250 Rupees

✔ Done

Quest 5 Colorful Clothes:

Akbar the Great: "Have 1 Saree Weaver"
Reward: 125 Previous Era Goods and 500 Rupees

✔ Done

Quest 6 Clothes For The People:

Akbar the Great: "Gather 10 Saree"
Reward: 2 Impediment Removal Items

✔ Done

Quest 7 Taxes:

Akbar the Great: "Gather 500 Rupees"
Reward: One Up Kit

✔ Done

Quest 8 More Houses:

Akbar the Great: "Have 2 Shanti Ghar"
Reward: 45 Forge Points

✔ Done

Quest 9 Nap Time:

Akbar the Great: "Have 2 Chhatri"
Reward: 125 current era goods and Store Building

✔ Done

Quest 10 Improvements:

Akbar the Great: "Gather 1,500 Rupees" and "Have 540 diplomacy"
Reward: 1 Impediment Removal Item

✔ Done

Quest 11 Perfect Flavor:

Akbar the Great: "Have 1 Spice Trader"
Reward: Store Building and Self-Aid Kit

✔ Done

Quest 12 Perfect Meals:

Akbar the Great: "Gather 10 Spices"
Reward: 50 Forge Points

✔ Done

Quest 13 Five More Minutes:

Akbar the Great: "Have 2 Baldachin"
Reward: 2 Impediment Removal Item

✔ Done

Quest 14 Good Progress:

Akbar the Great: "Gather 2000 Rupees" and "Have 870 diplomacy"
Reward: Self-Aid Kit and Finish All Special Productions Kit

✔ Done

Quest 15 Festival:

Akbar the Great: "Gather 20 Basmati" and "Gather 20 Saree"
Reward: 125 Current Era Goods

✔ Done

Quest 16 Lotus Flower:

Akbar the Great: "Have 1 Lotus Flower Farm"
Reward: 125 Next Era Goods and One Up Kit

✔ Done

Quest 17 A Small Gift:

Akbar the Great: "Gather 10 Lotus"
Reward: 1 Impediment Removal Item and Mass Self-Aid Kit

✔ Done

Quest 18 Water Garden:

Akbar the Great: "Have 1 Charbagh"
Reward: 75 Forge Points

✔ Done

Quest 19 Expanding City:

Akbar the Great: "Have 1 Haveli" and "Gather 4,000 Rupees"
Reward: Renovation Kit and 5 Wishing Well Fragments

✔ Done

Quest 20 Celebration:

Akbar the Great: "Have 1,500 diplomacy" and "Gather 50 Basmati" and "Gather 50 Saree" and "Gather 50 Spices" and "Gather 50 Lotus"
Reward: 80 fragments of Finish All Special Productions

✔ Done

Embassy Advancements

Cultural Goods and Diplomacy

Embassy Advancements have to be unlocked in order to build new settlement buildings and to be able to unlock the next advancement. Embassy Advancements can be unlocked by paying a certain amount of cultural goods, while having the requested amount of diplomacy. Although the total amount of cultural goods and the type of goods is the same for every player, the amount of each good can be different.

The table below shows the total amount of cultural goods and the possible type of goods needed for each advancement. It can happen that one of the possible goods requires 0 amount and is not shown to the player. The total amount of cultural goods needed to unlock all advancements is 1,110.

Using Diamonds

When lacking cultural goods or diplomacy to unlock an advancement, the player can use diamonds. The amount of diamonds needed depends on the amount of cultural goods and diplomacy still needed to unlock the next advancement. Each 1 diplomacy costs 1 diamond, each 1 cultural good costs 5 diamonds.

Example: the second advancement costs 20 basmati and requires 214 diplomacy, the total diamond cost will be 5*20 + 214 = 314 diamonds. A player has 15 basmati in stock and 209 diplomacy in their city, missing 5 basmati and 5 diplomacy. This will cost 5*5 + 5 = 30 diamonds to unlock the advancement, plus the 15 basmati in stock.
The amount of diamonds shown below is the maximum diamond cost for each advancement, when no goods or diplomacy would be used at all. The total cost of all advancements would then be 10,993.

Warning: before using diamonds, be aware that when finishing a settlement (or abandoning one), the settlement will be reset and all buildings, goods in stock, advancements and expansions will be lost, including those unlocked with diamonds.

Advancement	Costs to unlock	Diplomacy needed
Water Canal	5 total ( 127)	102
Saree Weaver	20 total ( 314)	214
Shanti Ghar	+ 50 total ( 557)	307
Chhatri	+ 85 total ( 825)	400
Spice Trader	+ 130 total ( 1,190)	540
Baldachin	+ + 160 total ( 1,500)	700
Lotus Flowers Farm	+ + 190 total ( 1,820)	870
Charbagh	+ + + 220 total ( 2,150)	1,050
Haveli	+ + + 250 total ( 2,510)	1,260

Production Bonus

Cultural goods buildings provide a production bonus. In the first settlement, with each production the player has a chance of 3% to get 4x the amount of goods produced from Cultural Buildings or rupees and eventual set bonus goods from the Embassy. With each finished settlement this percentage will increase by 4% for the second settlement and by 2% for each settlement after. After 10 settlements are finished, it stays at 25%.

Settlement	Bonus
1	3%
2	7%
3	9%
4	11%
5	13%
6	15%
7	17%
8	19%
9	21%
10	23%
	25%

Settlement Rewards

Each finished Mughal Empire Settlement will provide a different reward for use in your main city. Collect them all to get the strongest buildings, emissaries and their respective portraits.

Finished	Reward	Extra Reward
Nr. 1	Mughal's Temple Level 1
Nr. 2	Emissary Babur	Emissaries Slot
Nr. 3	Mughal's Temple Upgrade
Nr. 4	Mughal's Temple Upgrade
Nr. 5	Emissary Mumtaz Mahal
Nr. 6	Mughal's Temple Upgrade
Nr. 7	Emissary Hamida Banu Begum	Emissaries Slot
Nr. 8	Mughal's Temple Upgrade
Nr. 9	Emissary Shah Jahan
Nr. 10	Mughal's Temple Upgrade
	Ascended Mughal's Temple Upgrade Kit

Time Rewards

When finishing the Mughal Empire Settlement within a certain time frame, the player will get an additional reward: fragments of the Minaret Selection Kit. It takes 15 fragments to obtain the Minaret Selection Kit, which gives the player a choice between a Minaret Level 1 or a Minaret Upgrade.

• 1st reward: 75 Fragments of Ascended Mughal's Temple Upgrade Kit, 18 Fragments of Minaret Selection Kit, 150 Forge Points, 750 Goods, 22 Fragments of Finish Special Production
• 2nd reward: 45 Fragments of Ascended Mughal's Temple Upgrade Kit, 8 Fragments of Minaret Selection Kit, 90 Forge Points, 450 Goods, 15 Fragments of Finish Special Production
• 3rd reward: 30 Fragments of Ascended Mughal's Temple Upgrade Kit, 4 Fragments of Minaret Selection Kit, 60 Forge Points, 300 Goods, 8 Fragments of Finish Special Production

The player receives all three rewards when finishing within the shortest time frame (30 fragments total), the second and third reward when finishing within the second time frame (12 fragments total) and only the third reward for finishing within the last time frame (4 fragments). The player will receive no time reward when finishing after the third time frame.

After each finished settlement, the time frame for the next settlement will be shorter. After finishing 10 Mughal Empire Settlements, the time frame will stay the same for each new Mughal Empire Settlement.

Settlement	18 Fragments	8 Fragments	4 Fragments
Nr. 1	23 days	28 days	32 days
Nr. 2	20 days, 21 hours, 49 min, 5 sec	25 days, 10 hours, 54 min, 33 sec	29 days, 2 hours, 10 min, 55 sec
Nr. 3	19 days, 20 hours, 43 min, 38 sec	24 days, 4 hours, 21 min, 49 sec	27 days, 15 hours, 16 min, 22 sec
Nr. 4	18 days, 19 hours, 38 min, 11 sec	22 days, 21 hours, 49 min, 5 sec	26 days, 4 hours, 21 min, 49 sec
Nr. 5	17 days, 18 hours, 32 min, 44 sec	21 days, 15 hours, 16 min, 22 sec	24 days, 17 hours, 27 min, 16 sec
Nr. 6	16 days, 17 hours, 27 min, 16 sec	20 days, 8 hours, 43 min, 38 sec	23 days, 6 hours, 32 min, 44 sec
Nr. 7	15 days, 16 hours, 21 min, 49 sec	19 days, 2 hours, 10 min, 55 sec	21 days, 19 hours, 38 min, 11 sec
Nr. 8	14 days, 15 hours, 16 min, 22 sec	17 days, 19 hours, 38 min, 11 sec	20 days, 8 hours, 43 min, 38 sec
Nr. 9	13 days, 14 hours, 10 min, 55 sec	16 days, 13 hours, 5 min, 27 sec	18 days, 21 hours, 49 min, 5 sec
Nr. 10	12 days, 13 hours, 5 min, 27 sec	15 days, 6 hours, 32 min, 44 sec	17 days, 10 hours, 54 min, 33 sec
Nr. 11	11 days, 12 hours	14 days	16 days

Emissaries

When placed in your Town Hall, each emissary provides a unique bonus on top of your regular Town Hall production. The first emissary will become available, along with the first emissary slot, after finishing two Mughal Empire Settlements.

Emissary	Bonus
Babur	16 Forge Point
Mumtaz Mahal	70 Goods of your age
Hamida Banu Begum	80 Goods of your age
Shah Jahan	100 Goods of your previous age

See Also

• Cultural settlements
• Mughal Empire Settlement