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AoE III DE: Achievements List & Guide

By VeelYo

All achievements can be obtained using cheats and taking advantage of the Scenario Editor unless stated otherwise in the description.

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Guide Index

Overview

Story Mode

Skirmish

Multiplayer

Home City

Miscellaneous

Shipments

Animals

We need more wood!

Credits

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Story Mode

Blood, Ice and Steel
Complete the Blood, Ice and Steel campaign:
Can be done on any difficulty.

Fire and Shadow
Complete the Fire and Shadow campaign:
The 'this is too hard' cheat can be used to breeze through all the campaigns.

The Asian Dynasties
Complete the Asian Dynasties campaign:
But there will be a special place in cheater hell for you.

Skirmish

Old fashioned
Win game on Hardest difficulty without upgrading your Town Center:
You cannot start the game any later than Age I and you cannot move to the next age.
The difficulty referred is the one called "Hardest", which ironically is not the hardest.

No Mains
Win all Skirmish games with all Civilizations in Hardest difficulty:
Win 1 Skirmish game on Hardest difficulty with every civ, you can use tuck tuck tuck.

Budget Cut
Win a Skirmish game without requesting any Shipments:
If struggling, play on lower difficulties for this achievement and the ones below.

Here comes the cavalry!
Win a Skirmish game with only cavalry and artillery units:
Do not use infantry or naval units. You can cheese it with the monster truck.

Whatever the price… I’ll beat it!
Win a Skirmish game with only mercenaries units:
Do not ever control any military units other than mercenaries trained at the Saloon.

The Earth is flat!!
Explore an entire map in either Skirmish or Multiplayer game:
Start a Deathmatch game to unlock the achievement automatically.

Community
Win either Skirmish or Multiplayer game and have 25 villagers working on the Community: refers to the former Fire Pits from Native civilizations.

Alliance
Win either Skirmish or Multiplayer game and have formed alliances with all native villages

Trades Master
Win either Skirmish or Multiplayer game and have occupied all trading posts on the map

Multiplayer

Winning!
Win your first multiplayer reward:
Win an award from the post-game summary after a multiplayer game.

Raising Conquerors
Win your first multiplayer game
For this and the achievement below, any game including scenarios counts.

Social Dominance
Win 25 Multiplayer games
You can always use cheats against an AI if you dread playing against others so bad.

Home City

What a beautiful city
Customize any Home City
Level up a European home city once and head into Customize to unlock something.

See My Vest!
Unlock all Cosmetics of any Civilization:
Level up a European home city high enough either naturally or by farming XP.

The civilization with the least amount of purchasable cosmetics is the Spanish with only 55 levels required.

If you have no honor and don't mind cheating, you can copy paste 'nova & orion' into the chat in order to cheat out 10 000 XP. Use it three times since the maximum XP limit in any game is 30 000 and resign. Repeat the same process as many times as needed to unlock all home city cosmetics. Note that you can only unlock cosmetics in European home cities (and not the Swedes), so leveling up other civilizations is completely useless.

If you wish to farm legit XP, here's the quickest way to do it without using cheats:

Play a Skirmish Deathmatch game. Deathmatch games start with 20 000 of every resource, allowing you to start building and training units without an early game.
For the map I'd recommend Malaysia since it has only 2 trading posts that can both be easily snatched or Honshu but you'd need to get a boat first. Picking a map with more TPs will not grant you more XP because the XP rates of trading posts decrease with the number of TPs on the map.
Start on Post-Imperial Age, aging up and buying upgrades does not give XP.
Set Difficulty on Easy so that the AI doesn't play too aggressively, with the handicap and boosted speed they will still develop fast.
Give yourself and the AIs +100% handicap.
Set Game Speed on Fast.
At the start of the game, check your home city to calculate how much XP you will need to have obtained 30 000 XP in the game, unlike in the 2007 version it will not tell you once you reach the cap.
First build trading posts everywhere you can for the bonus XP, then build an army of cannons to destroy enemy buildings easily, those give the most XP, and fire away at any army coming your way. You have a lot of resources so you can just keep sending canons after canons to get as much XP as possible. Once you hit the cap resign if there are still many AIs alive, the 2000 XP victory bonus is not worth the wasted time chasing every enemy settler down.
If you didn't check how much XP you started with, look how many shipments you've sent. With the Spanish, 30 000 XP is enough to send 23 shipments in total, with other civs it should be 21.

Note: Reloading saved games after finishing the games will not grant you any additional XP if your home city level is currently higher than it was when the game was saved.

Miscellaneous

Content Creator
Make your first Scenario in the Scenario Editor:
Head into the Scenario Editor from Tools, click on File at the top left, then Save.

The Tommynator
Use the ‘tuck tuck tuck’ cheat:
Press Enter and type tuck tuck tuck. You now know how to cheese all victory chievos.

Every moment I live… is agony
Revive your fallen Explorer:
Let your explorer die and heal to 100 HP, then walk to him with any unit to revive him.

Imperial Age
Advance to the Imperial Age with any Civilization:
Simply go to Age V.

Strike!
Kill at least 10 enemy troops from a rolling cannonball:
The easiest way to get this is as follows:

Start a Deathmatch game with cheats enabled against one or more AIs. I recommend playing against the Chinese or the Russians since their armies tend to be more quantitative than qualitative.
When the game starts, build a Capitol and research Spies quickly in order to be able to see the size and location of the enemy armies.
Use the cheat code 'speed always wins' so that the AIs can train their armies a lot faster.
Use the cheat code 'ya gotta make do with what ya got' to spawn the most powerful piece of artillery in the game.
Send your so-called Mediocre Bombard towards the enemy and once you see a large chunk of enemies piled together, fire away at the frontline. It did it on my first try so if this doesn't work for you just keep trying until you get the achievement.
As of a recent update, Strike! is now obtainable in the Scenario Editor, so you could also try doing it there by placing a cannon and loads of enemy units to fire at.

My Hero
Rescue 100 People in need of help:
Kill guardians holding units hostage from the treasures scattered around every map.

They belong in a museum!
Collect at least 100 treasure objects from maps in any mode:
Collect treasures objects scattered around every map.

A Pirate’s Life for Me
Destroy at least 100 ships in any mode:
You can use the Scenario Editor to speed this one up.

Cathedral Assist
Build an Advanced; Mill, Market, Arsenal, Dock, Trading Post and Estate in a single game: equip the required cards in your deck first, European civs only.

Wonders
Build all 15 Wonders:
Build each of the 5 Wonders from each Asian civ, you can only build 4 in one game.

Faith
Convert 100 neutral or enemy units:
Use the the Incas' priestesses' convert power 100 times.

Elephant in the Room
Build 100 Elephant units in a single game:
Play as the Indians in a Post-Imp Deathmatch game. You'll start with 20k resources.

Shipments

You don’t need wings to fly
Deploy an Advanced Balloon:
Equip the above card from the European civs' Trading Company and ship it.

The comforts of home
Receive at least 100 shipments total from your home city in any mode:
Cumulative between games.

To the seas!
Deploy ‘3 Galleys’ from your shipments as the Ottomans:
Equip the above card from the Harbor in your deck and ship it at age III.

War Wagons
Deploy ‘4 War Wagons + 4 Uhlans’ from your shipments as the Germans:
Equip the above card from the Military Academy in your deck and ship it at age IV.

Fierce Cavalrymen of Tartars
Deploy ‘9 Cavalry Archery’ from your shipments as the Russians:
Equip the above card from the Military Academy in your deck and ship it at age IV.

Big Brothers
Deploy ‘6 Cuirassier’ from your shipments as the French:
Equip the above card from the Military Academy in your deck and ship it at age IV.

Pike and Shot!
Deploy ’24 Pikeman’ from your shipments as the Spanish:
Equip the above card from the Torre del Oro in your deck and ship it at age IV.

Congreve Rockets
Deploy ‘2 Rockets’ from your shipments as the British:
This refers to the purple repeatable card from the Military Academy on age IV.

Riders!
Deploy ’17 Ruyters’ from your shipments as the Dutch:
Equip the above card from the Military Academy in your deck and ship it at age IV.

Ribauldequin
Deploy ‘5 Organ Guns’ from your shipments as the Portuguese:
Equip the above card from the Military Academy in your deck and ship it at age IV.

Animals

Animal hunter
Hunt all animal species:
The description is wrong, you actually need to kill a total of 500 animals currently, this includes both those hunted for food by villagers and treasure guardians.
If you want to go fast, head into the Scenario Editor and make a trigger with Unit Create Multi as its effect. Select the Alligator, player 2, type a high number in Count, and set the area where you want them to spawn. Place anything powerful like a Lil' Bombard nearby as player 1 so you can kill them all instantly. Then test/play the scenario as player 1 to slay the beasts.

Note that the weird 0/500 counter for this achievement will never progress. 'We need more wood!' also has the same broken counter for a reason I am clueless about.

Animal Whisperer
Control all pets:
This is a list of animals that may not be 100% accurate on the Definitive Edition. Unfortunately Warchiefs cannot convert guardians into pets anymore, so you will have to get them from treasures or Home City cards. Alternatively use the solution down below to get the achievement easily in the Scenario Editor.

Buttercup the Pet Cougar: - Found as a treasure guardian commonly on many maps. - Ally with Tupi tribe (Amazonia, Pampas) and research Tupi Animal Lore.

Gentle Pete the Pet Bear: - Found on North American maps.

Honcho the Pet Grizzly Bear: - Found on North American maps (California, Great Plains).

Fang the Tame Coyote: - Found on NA maps (Rockies, Great Plains, Texas, Painted Desert, Sonora) - Trained by Lakotas with the Smoke Signals HC card.

Buck the Tame Wolf: - Found in most North American maps. - Deployed from the Lakota home city. - Trained with the High Chief card from the Haudenosaunee home city. - Not to be confused with the coyote above.

Janey the Pet Jaguar: - Found on tropical maps (Yucatan). - Deployed from the Aztec home city.

Lhota the Pet Lion: - Found on Asian maps (Mongolia, Deccan, Yellow River, and Silk Road). - Deployed from the Indian home city.

Randy the the Pet Rhino: - Found in Asian maps (Borneo, Indochina). - Deployed from the Indian home city.

Axehilt the Tame Tiger: - Found in nearly every Asian map. - Deployed from the Indian home city.

Wagner the Pet White Tiger: - Research White Tiger Training from the Indian monastery.

Kermond the Pet Monitor Lizard: - Found on Asian maps (Indochina, Borneo) as a Komodo Dragon. - Deployed from the Japanese home city. - Rescued from treasures in Yellow River and Silk Road.

Old Doug the Orangutan: - Found on Asian maps (Borneo, Ceylon). - Trained from Marathan Catamarans and Wokou Junks (Asian shipments).

Pete-Pete the the Pet Panda: - Found in Yellow River and Silk Road.

Big Jerome the Pet Polar Bear: - Found in Saguenay and Yukon.

Duber the Pet Monkey: - Rescued from treasures in Siberia.

Freitag the Pet Macaque: - Rescued from treasures in Indochina and the Himalayas.

Play on Deathmatch to have the entire map revealed to yourself right as your start and facilitate your search.

Once again if you have no honor and really wish to cheese this achievement instead of hunting every animal down, you can choose to head into the Scenario Editor, go to Objects, Place Object, Units category, and then scroll for all the units that start with 'Pet'. Place them all on the map and you will obtain the achievement.

We need more wood!

We need more wood!
Build every building:
Doesn't work in the Scenario Editor. Wonders are required as well.

Find the list of all required buildings below. This achievement is reportedly glitched but the cause has been found to be linked to certain Wonders not registering as being built. If you have built everything and cannot get the achievement to pop, build the 4th Chinese Wonder (Temple of Heaven) during the Exploration Age. If you still cannot get the achievement, trying going through everything a 2nd time or rebuilding all Wonders in a different order.

Building

Civilization

Information

Town Center

Any

House

Europeans

Market

Any

Mill

Europeans

Livestock Pen

Europeans

Dock

Europeans & Natives

Only placeable on water, can be a very small pond

Outpost

Europeans

Trading Post

Any

Requires a Trading Post slot

Native Embassy

Any

Unlocks after building a Trading Post on a native settlement

Church

Europeans

Barracks

Europeans

Stable

Europeans

Artillery Foundry

Europeans

Arsenal

Europeans

Estate

Europeans & Natives

Saloon

Europeans

Dance Hall upgrade not required

Capitol

Europeans

Available at Age V

Field Hospital

Europeans

Built by Surgeons shipped from European home cities

Fort

Europeans

Built by Fort Wagons shipped from European home cities

Factory

Europeans

Built by Factory Wagons shipped from European home cities

Manor House

British

Torp House

Swedes

Bank

Dutch

Mosque

Ottomans

Distinct from other European Churches

Blockhouse

Russians

Community Plaza

Natives

Farm

Natives

War Hut

Natives

Tribal Marketplace

Haudanosaunee & Lakota

Must be placed next to a mine

Corral

Haudanosaunee & Lakota

Longhouse

Haudanosaunee

Siege Workshop

Haudanosaunee

Teepee

Lakota

Kancha House

Inca

Tambo

Inca

Requires a Trading Post slot.

Kallanka

Inca

Stronghold

Inca

Ship the Machu Picchu HC card from the Temple at Age III.

Aztec House

Aztecs

Distinct from other Houses for some reason

Nobles' Hut

Aztecs

Rice Paddy

Asians

Asian Dock

Asians

Asian Docks are distinct from European and Native Docks

Castle

Asians

Monastery

Asians

Consulate

Asians

Village

Chinese

War Academy

Chinese

Sacred Field

Indians

Caravanserai

Indians

Shrine

Japanese

Dojo

Japanese

Ship one of the Dojo HC cards from the Imperial Court at Age III.

Credits

Easy Target for 'The Earth is flat!!' solution.
Jaculus & unemployed virgin for figuring out the glitched 'Animal hunter' achievement.
Muckelchen for finding a fix to 'We need more wood!'.
ageofempires.fandom.com for game information.

189 Comments

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Vaca 20 Aug @ 4:30am

``Animal Whisperer`` I went into scenarion, objects, place object, typed in ``pet`` and placed all of the ``pet ...`` ones, after playtest scenario it pop up

``We need more wood`` seems missing some buildings like the Cathedral OR Hacienda from Mexicans, not sure which one gave me +1, tried USA`s different building and seems that it didnt add nothing for me, ethiopions too, finally when going into Russians it popped up (had 2 missing) this was the worst achievement so far, holly f*

Well, someone should make another guide on this, updated one with all new achievements

Vaca 20 Aug @ 4:30am

``Winning!`` is now ``Winner, winner!``, just to help others, if you are lazy as I am and just went full ``tuck tuck tuck``, you have to actually play a little to get some awards in game, just train some villagers, gather some resources, train some militaries etc, only tuck tuck tuck rush early game won`t get you any awards

``Content Creator`` now is not only saving, but you have to actually TRY the map, do it and will get you the achievement

``My Hero`` and others of killing X number of stuff, just go into scenario editor, objets, place objets, type ``treasure``for example and spam it on the map, you can CTRL C CTRL V to make things easier, place many granadiers and explorers. On ``objects`` go into ``treasure editor``, select one that has villager on it, select all treasures placed and set them to be that one you like, now test the map, do it with all these ``100`` ones

Khodyrov 15 Aug @ 2:41pm

I cant advance to age V, nothing appears after IV or it's related to a certain civi ?

The Sound of No One Listening 18 Jul @ 4:13pm

I advanced to age V in a lot of games and I never got the achievement. Any ideas why?

zidroc 7 Jul @ 6:04pm

For those about to give up on "We need more wood" ... I had resigned myself to never getting it, I had built everything over and over, did all the wonders in first age, followed the guides, etc. It randomly popped today after I built an Artillery Foundry with the Russians (I have built this building on probably all civs, just some janky-ness of this achievement I guess).

I guess it only pops after you have mentally given up on it, so that is my contribution to the guide.

Theoderich 7 Apr @ 10:53am

Whatever the price… I’ll beat it!: Play in Magnat Mode 10-20 Min. use a Civ which can deploy mercenaries (i took dutch) very early on and choose a map, where you are on Islands, separated from enemies, so your General won't be tempted to any action. When your mercenaries have arrived, directly send them to battle some treasure guards.
Do not even klick on your General and do not control any boats.

SirSephy 14 Feb @ 1:03am

The guy who created the guide-- his or her last log was 6th February 2021 (probably). he isn't gonna back.

michael.vds 7 Feb @ 4:27am

You forgot something for the achievement: We need more wood: You need to build every wonder for Chinese, Japan and India in every age.

Tip make a match with pace fast and recources infinite and build every wonder in every age (set difficulty on easy).

YumoZ 15 Aug, 2024 @ 6:21am

Content Creator Achievement should be:
Click "Scenario" --> "Playtest Scenario"
:)

EliteDynasty 7 Aug, 2024 @ 9:27pm

War Wagon, i onlyhave 2 war wagon cards, :(

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