Monuments

Overview

Monuments are large multi-phase construction projects. Many campaign missions require a Monuments rating high enough to finish the city; some also demand a specific monument type. Construction depends on raw materials (bricks, stone, timber, and later marble or sandstone), Work Camps for peasant labour, and the right construction guilds to direct the work.

Detailed pages for individual monuments will appear here as they are documented. Currently: Sphinx, Obelisk.

Size and materials charts adapted from Pharaoh Heaven — Monuments and the Pharaoh/Cleopatra Monuments Chart.

How construction works

1. Place the footprint on clear ground (or cliffs / rock where the monument requires it).
2. Deliver materials to storage yards near the site. Quarries and brickworks are often the bottleneck.
3. Staff Work Camps so labourers walk to the monument. The same camps also serve farms — harvest season can starve construction.
4. Staff the required guilds (bricklayers, stonemasons, carpenters, and in Cleopatra artisans). Guild members supervise on site.
5. Work proceeds in phases (mastaba courses, pyramid courses, scaffolding, finishing). Progress shows in the monument info window.
6. After a burial tomb is finished and burial provisions are dispatched (Overseer of Monuments; skip if the mission requires none), a one-shot funeral walker procession walks to the tomb and despawns. Tomb robbers stealing provisions later do not repeat the funeral.
7. Dispatched goods credit a per-tomb stock ledger (emptiest finished tomb first). City totals still drive the Overseer UI and win checks; robbers empty the target tomb’s stock, then the city counter. With several tombs, one site can be looted without wiping every grave.

Guilds & labour

You often need more than one guild of the same type on large monuments. Keep storage yards supplied; idle guilds with empty yards do nothing.

Size & materials

Footprints and primary needs for the base game. Exact material counts vary by size; see Pharaoh Heaven for full loadouts. The short list on All Buildings → Monuments matches Akhenaten’s building catalogue.

Cleopatra monuments

The Cleopatra expansion adds cliff tombs and Alexandria-era monuments. Materials vary (marble, sandstone, timber, copper, granite); guilds are usually Work Camp + Carpenters + Stonemasons — Artisans mainly for royal tombs. Some monuments must sit on cliffs or a special island.

Monument rating

Finished (and partially built) monuments contribute to the city’s Monuments rating. In Akhenaten the score is approximate and additive: each monument type has a weight in src/scripts/city/monuments.js, then rating ≈ 2.25 × Σ(weight × progress) + 4.5. Exact original per-monument points are still a pending weight recalibration. Examples with current weights: one finished small mastaba → 9; three → 18; one medium stepped pyramid → 40.

Tips

• Start material production early — stone and bricks take longer than the build phases themselves.
• Build one monument first; when a course finishes and labour frees up, start the next.
• During floodplain harvest, expect Work Camp labour to thin out; stockpile stone beforehand.
• Place storage yards and guilds near the site so cart pushers and guild walkers waste less time.
• Import granite, limestone, or sandstone when the map has no matching quarry.