Monument Construction

Ancient China was full of monuments, the most famous being (of course) the Great Wall. In Emperor, you get the chance to build this monument and more.

This page lists what materials for which monument are needed. Handy if you plan your city: if you need to build for example an earthen Great Wall, you can see here that you'll need quite a lot of dirt and wood, so you can start importing/producing wood as soon as possible.

The size of the monuments is also listed, you don't want to build a perfectly harmonious city and then raze parts of it because that pesky monument needs to go right there in the middle because there's no space elsewhere, do you?

Screenshots of finished monuments can be found here, the page may take a while to load.

Construction guilds

First: a little table for what buildings you need to build your monuments:

Monument requirements

Monument	Materials needed
Great Temple size: 6x6	30 wood 1 clay 72 dirt
Splendid Temple size: 8x8	28 wood 1 clay 128 dirt
Temple Complex size: 16x16	30 wood 15 stone 1 clay 72 dirt
Grand Temple Complex size: 14x24	78 wood 18 stone 3 clay 248 dirt
Tumulus size: 8x8 plus 4 2x2	49 wood 7 bronzeware/lacquerware 4 silk 6 ceramics 308 dirt
Grand Tumulus size: 12x12 plus 4 2x2	89 wood 11 bronzeware/lacquerware 10 silk 9 ceramics 7 weapons 4 carved jade 876 dirt
Large Palace size: 8x16	190 wood 1 stone 6.75 clay 256 dirt
Grand Canal size: 4xn, always straight	Removing dirt (2 layers) Stone for construction
Underground Vault size: 14x24 + 2x8	106 wood 44 clay 337 dirt
Earthen Great Wall size: 4xn, twisting & turning	wood & dirt (around 280 loads of both)
Stone Great Wall size: 4xn, twisting & turning	stone & dirt
Clock Tower size: 7x7	16 wood 10 stone 4 steel
Grand Pagoda size: 10x10	16 wood 29 stone 0.25 clay