Great Buildings Encyclopedia (2024)

To place a great building, you need the following:

• The nine different blueprints of that building
• An amount of goods from that building's age

Once you comply with the requirements, you can place the construction site. But that doesn't give you the building yet – see section "Levels".

Every great building is a puzzle of nine pieces, which you have to collect in order to construct the building. That can be achieved in the following ways:

• Polish or Motivate your neighbours/guildmates,
• Plunder your neighbours, 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.
• Quests and the Treasure Hunt can also give you random blueprints
• Special events may feature blueprints as prizes

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.

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 posts of each building below.

Of course the great buildings aren't just a waste of space, but grant powerful bonuses that grow with the building's level. Depending on the building, you might get the following:

You may only donate to other players once you have researched "Architecture" in the tech tree.If you help other players construct or upgrade their great buildings, you may receive some useful rewards. By the time the current level is finished, mainly the five most generous donators will receive the following, depending on the level and age of the building:

• Medals
• Forge Points
• Blueprints:
  

  > Level > ⇩Rank⇩	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21
  #1	-	1	1	1	2	2	2	3	3	3	3	4	4	4	4	5	5	5	5	5	6
  #2	-	-	1	1	1	1	2	2	2	2	2	3	3	3	3	3	3	4	4	4	4
  #3	-	-	1	1	1	1	1	1	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	3	3	3	3	3	3
  #4	-	-	-	1	1	1	1	1	1	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	3
  #5	-	-	-	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2

For a full detailed list of all the medal and FP rewards, check the Great Building that you are interested in (Thanks to Martynius for compiling the first ten levels of the first 8 eras).

Each Great Building gives points to your global ranking. These points will increase as your Great Building reaches higher levels. The overall points* for each Great Building is as follows:

*Overall points means that if you sold that Great Building, you would lose that many points. To find the amount gained each level. Subtract the next level by the current level or alternatively, multiply the FP needed for that level by 15 (i.e. a Tower of Babel requires 40FP to reach level 1, so reaching that level gives 40*15 = 600 additional points. This works for levels above 10 as well).
**Both Tomorrow Era GBs have an extra half a point that I rounded up (i.e. placing a Dynamic Tower would give you 66,562.5 points and the final level gives 134,662.5 points overall)