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Tip 1: Optimize Space
From the very beginning it is imperative that you are aware of optimising space. A simple way in which you can do this is to move your Town Hall immediately at the start of the game.
First, run through the tutorial with the assistance of Ragu Silvertongue. This will build your early town and take you to the Bronze Age. It will also set up the key buildings and ensure that you understand the very basics of the game:
Once he is finished outlining the basics, click the build button:
Now click the move button:
Rearrange your landscape so that you have more available space, an example can be found below (moved tree and Hut):
Tip 2: Keep Streets at a Minimum
In Forge of Empires, one of the most often overlooked tips is to build as few streets as possible. Streets, not only require resources to be built, but often can prevent space for other buildings. By minimising streets, we are also able to build more cultural buildings which increase the Towns Happiness and do not need to be built next to streets.
Tip 3: No Decorations and Minimize Tiny Buildings.
To enable our city to gain the best possible advantage, tiny buildings and decorations should be eliminated or at the very least, minimized. Cultural buildings provide us with a much better advantage to keep our people’s happiness high (and above 120%). So delete all these types of decorations, or prevent building them, from the very beginning:
First, click the build button on the left hand interface, and then the Sell Button.
Now sell all of your memorials, pillars and Obelisks:
Don’t forget to sell your trees!:
Now, with the much needed space, we are able to build Cultural Buildings by click on the build and then cultural buildings button:
Now, build your first cultural building which will be a Theatre:
Tip 4: Be Frugal with Diamonds!
Perhaps one of the best Tips you will read in this Forge of Empires Beginners Guide! Diamonds are an incredibly valuable resource and can speed our progress through Forge of Empires. But, they take time to collect through the gameplay or can cost us real money. It is therefore advised to be frugal and to not spend Diamonds where they do not need to be spent. With this mentality from the outset you will ensure quick progress throughout the game without having pay money to purchase the required Diamonds. As buying Diamonds makes it much easier, this tactic should only be used rarely or only at the users discretion.
A simple way to save your Diamonds; never spend them for laziness reasons: Research, Forge Points or Building space.
The best use for your diamonds is to buy the last missing blueprint for a legendary building you want to start.This reduces the time to wait significantly!
Tip 5: Highlight unattached Units:
As soon as you start fighting, it is useful to know what units were produced in Military Buildings, and which are unattached. You will prefer to use unattached units for your city defense and those from Military buildings for your attacks. You will find these options in your settings.
First click the settings button:
Now, click the box to make highlighting the unattached units active. :
Then press “Ok”.
Tip 6: Collect Resources with a Single Click:
It is advised to collect your coins and supplies regularly, and you can do this in one click! For this reason, it would be helpful to place all of your housing buildings next to one another:
Now, once coins are available, click the mouse button and hold down. Now run over all buildings with coins to collect
Tip 7: Mini Game Treasure Hunt
As soon as you develop the Fruit Farm, a mini-game will be enabled – the Treasure Hunt! This is an excellent offer for those who play regularly. If you have the ability to access your computer several times during the day, you can receive serious awards like Blueprints, Unattached Units and Forge Points. It is absolutely worth the effort!
Tip 8: Build Chalets
Our final tip in this Forge of Empires Beginners Guide. You can replace house directly; it is not necessary to remove one house before you build a new one. Replace your house with Chalets as soon as possible. With these it is much easier to provide the population needed with minimal building space. These chalets are your only house type to the Iron Age. At this point you will replace them with Cottages.
With this Forge of Empires Beginners Guide, you will reach the Iron Age within a few days, and will have the best preparation with what comes next.
Now with these Forge of Empires Beginners Tips, go forth, Forge your Empire!
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Is it possible to start over again, I have made big mistakes
Hello Ann,
Not that we are aware of, unless you create a new account.
A post on the FOE forum several years ago may be of interest: https://forum.beta.forgeofempires.com/index.php?threads/starting-over.158/
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Yes you can start from scratch with your build,click the build button (hammer) the click sell at the top ( the $ symbol) and “sell” your town hall…
Is it better to have a military or goods and produce builds? Should I forget military and just get buildings that give me material and supplies? Such as gold, iron, rope or jewlery and farms and leather works. To advance through the ages I have noticed I need material and resources. So should material and resources be my only concern?
Is it best to sell ole ages military and up grade with the current age to save space and have better attack/defense or keep them all? Do you need original soldiers?