Age of Empires 4: How to pick up relics

Pick up a relic in AOE IV

Instructions:

1. Get to the Castle Age
2. Build a religious building like the monastery or mosque, based on your civilization
3. Create a religious unit, like the monk
4. Select the monk and right-click on the relic to pick it up
5. Put the relic inside the building by selecting the monk with the relic and right-clicking on the monastery or other building

Bonus: where to store the relic

Relics give you important bonuses:

• put the relic inside a Monastery (or similar building) to generate 100 gold units per minute
• moreover, with the Holy Roman Empire:
  
  • in the Keep, Outposts, and Towers to increase by 50% the armor of the building, by 35% the damage, by 25% the sight range and by 20% the weapon range
  • inside Docks to increase by 5% the attack speed of ships (up to 25%)

Religious units

• Imam (Abbasid)
• Prelate (Romans)
• Monk (Franks, English, Chinese)
• Scholar (Delhi)
• Warrior Monk (Rus)
• Shaman (Mongols)

Religious building

You can produce religious units in different buildings based on the civilization:

• Romans: Monastery, Town Center
• Franks: Monastery
• English: Monastery
• Mongols: Prayer's Tent
• Delhi: Mosque
• Rus: Monastery
• Abbasid: Mosque