List of technologies in Civ6

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The following is a list of technologies in Civilization VI and its expansions, sorted by era.

Ancient Era

Technology	Science cost	Eureka	Infrastructure and units	Other unlocks	Leads to
Pottery	25	None	Granary Mekewap Great Bath	Allows harvesting Maize, Rice, Wheat	Writing Irrigation
Animal Husbandry	25	None	Pasture Camp Kurgan	Reveals Horses and allows harvesting Cattle, Sheep, Deer	Archery
Mining	25	None	Mine Quarry	Allows chopping Woods and harvesting Copper	Masonry Bronze Working Wheel
Sailing	50	Found a city on the Coast	Fishing Boats Galley Viking Longship Bireme	Allows embarking Builders	Shipbuilding Celestial Navigation
Astrology	50	Find a Natural Wonder	Holy Site Lavra Shrine Stonehenge		Celestial Navigation
Irrigation	50	Farm a resource	Plantation Stepwell Palgum Hanging Gardens	Allows clearing Marsh and harvesting Bananas
Writing	50	Meet another civilization	Campus Library Seowon Observatory Etemenanki		Currency
Archery	50	Kill a unit with a Slinger	Temple of Artemis Archer Pítati Archer Hul'che		Horseback Riding
Masonry	80	Build a Quarry	Ancient Walls Pyramids Great Wall Nubian Pyramid Battering Ram	Allows harvesting Stone	Construction
Bronze Working	80	Kill 3 Barbarians	Encampment Barracks Basilikoi Paides Ikanda Thành Spearman Hoplite	Reveals Iron and allows chopping Rainforest	Iron Working
Wheel	80	Mine a resource	Water Mill Heavy Chariot Maryannu Chariot Archer		Engineering

Medieval Era

Technology	Science cost	Eureka	Infrastructure and units	Other unlocks	Leads to
Military Tactics	300	Kill a unit with a Spearman	Huey Teocalli Pikeman Berserker Khevsur Impi		Mass Production
Buttress	300	Build a Classical Era or later Wonder	Dam Hagia Sophia ()		Cartography Mass Production
Apprenticeship	300	Build 3 Mines	Industrial Zone Hansa Workshop Man-At-Arms	+1 Production on Mines	Education Gunpowder Stirrups
Machinery	300	Own 3 Archers	Lumber Mill (Vanilla and ) Kilwa Kisiwani Crossbowman Crouching Tiger Voi Chiến Skirmisher Warak'aq		Printing
Stirrups	390	Have the Feudalism civic	Knight Mamluk Keshig Mandekalu Cavalry	+1 Food on Pastures	Banking Gunpowder
Education	390	Earn a Great Scientist.	University Hagia Sophia (Vanilla and ) University of Sankore Mission		Mass Production Banking Astronomy
Military Engineering	390	Build an Aqueduct.	Armory Military Engineer Trebuchet Domrey	Reveals Niter	Gunpowder
Castles	390	Have a government with 6 policy slots (Vanilla and ) Adopt a government with 6 inherent policy slots ()	Medieval Walls Alhambra Courser Black Army Oromo Cavalry		Siege Tactics

Renaissance Era

Technology	Science cost	Eureka	Infrastructure and units	Other unlocks	Leads to
Cartography	540 600	Build 2 Harbors	Casa de Contratación Caravel Nau	+1 ( +2) Gold on Fishing Boats. Allows Ocean movement.	Square Rigging
Mass Production	540 600	Build a Lumber Mill	Shipyard Venetian Arsenal		Industrialization
Banking	540 600	Have the Guilds civic	Bank Grand Bazaar Great Zimbabwe	+2 Gold on Quarries (Vanilla and )	Scientific Theory
Gunpowder	540 600	Build an Armory	Musketman Conquistador Hwacha Malón Raider Janissary	+1 Production on Quarries	Metal Casting
Printing	540 600	Build 2 Universities	Forbidden City	+1 Diplomatic Visibility on all other civilizations Double Tourism on Great Works of Writing	Military Science
Square Rigging	660 730	Kill a unit with a Musketman	Frigate De Zeven Provinciën	+1 Movement for Embarked units	Industrialization
Astronomy	660 730	Build a University next to a Mountain	Potala Palace		Scientific Theory
Metal Casting	660 730	Own 2 Crossbowmen	Bombard Pike and Shot Carolean		Economics Ballistics
Siege Tactics	660 730	Own 2 Trebuchets	Renaissance Walls Fort Tsikhe		Military Science

Industrial Era

Technology	Science cost	Eureka	Infrastructure	Other unlocks	Leads to
Industrialization	845 930	Build 3 ( 2) Workshops	Factory Electronics Factory Ruhr Valley Coal Power Plant	Reveals Coal +1 Production on Mines	Steam Power Flight
Scientific Theory	845 930	Have The Enlightenment civic	Oxford University	Allows Research Agreements +1 Food on Plantations	Economics Sanitation Flight
Ballistics	845 930	Have 2 Forts in your territory	Field Cannon Cuirassier Rough Rider		Rifling
Military Science	845 930	Kill a unit with a Knight	Military Academy Cavalry Cossack Garde Impériale Redcoat Line Infantry Huszár Llanero		Rifling
Steam Power	970 1070	Build 2 Shipyards	Railroad Canal Panama Canal Ironclad	+2 Movement for embarked units	Electricity Radio
Sanitation	970 1070	Build 2 Neighborhoods	Sewer Országház Medic		Chemistry
Economics	970 1070	Build 2 Banks	Stock Exchange Big Ben		Replaceable Parts
Rifling	970 1070	Build a Niter Mine	Ranger Highlander		Steel Refining

Modern Era

Technology	Science cost	Eureka	Infrastructure	Other unlocks	Leads to
Flight	1140 1250	Build an Industrial era or later wonder	Airstrip Aerodrome Hangar Biplane Observation Balloon	Bonus Tourism to all improvements that provide Culture, and also to Colossal Heads, Kampung, Kurgan and Rock-Hewn Church	Radio
Replaceable Parts	1140 1250	Own 3 Line Infantries	Food Market Infantry Digger	+1 Food on Farms for each adjacent farm +1 Production on Pastures	Advanced Ballistics Chemistry
Steel	1140 1250	Build a Coal Mine and an Ironclad	Eiffel Tower (Vanilla and ) Oil Well Battleship (Vanilla and ) Artillery	+1 Production on Lumber Mill Unlocks Urban Defenses Reveals Oil (Vanilla and )	Advanced Ballistics Combustion Combined Arms
Refining	1250	Build 1 Coal Power Plant	Oil Well Battleship	Reveals Oil ()	Combustion
Electricity	1250 1370	Own 3 ( 2) Privateers	Seaport Power Plant (Vanilla and ) Oil Power Plant Hydroelectric Dam Submarine U-Boat	Convert to Oil Power	Computers
Radio	1250 1370	Build a National Park	Seaside Resort Broadcast Center Film Studio	Reveals Aluminum	Computers Advanced Flight Rocketry
Chemistry	1250 1370	Complete a Research Agreement Have a level two Alliance.	Research Lab Mountain Tunnel AT Crew		Rocketry
Combustion	1250 1370	Extract an Artifact	Oil Well (Vanilla and ) Golden Gate Bridge Tank Supply Convoy		Combined Arms Plastics

Atomic Era

Technology	Science cost	Eureka	Infrastructure	Other unlocks	Leads to
Advanced Flight	1410 1480	Build 3 ( 2) Biplanes	Airport Fighter Bomber P-51 Mustang		Satellites
Rocketry	1410 1480	Boost through Great Scientist or Spy	Missile Silo Spaceport,	Launch Earth Satellite +1 Production on Quarries	Satellites Guidance Systems
Advanced Ballistics	1410 1480	Build 2 Power Plants Build 1 Oil Power Plant ()	Machine Gun Anti-Air Gun		Nuclear Fission Guidance Systems
Combined Arms	1410 1480	Build an Airstrip (Vanilla and ) Have 3 Armies or Armadas ()	Destroyer Aircraft Carrier	Reveals Uranium	Nuclear Fission
Plastics	1410 1480	Build an Oil Well	Offshore Oil Rig Spec Ops	+1 Food on Fishing Boats	Synthetic Materials
Computers	1580 1660	Have a government with 8 policy slots (Vanilla and ) Adopt a government with 8 inherent policy slots ()	Flood Barrier Drone	+1 Spy +100% ( +25%) Tourism	Telecommunications Robotics
Nuclear Fission	1580 1660	Boost through Great Scientist or Spy	Nuclear Power Plant	Manhattan Project Build Nuclear Device	Lasers
Synthetic Materials	1580 1660	Build 2 Aerodromes	Geothermal Plant Biosphère Helicopter	+1 ( +2) Gold on Camps	Composites Stealth Technology

Information Era

Technology	Science cost	Eureka	Infrastructure and units	Other unlocks	Leads to
Telecommunications	1850	Build 2 Broadcast Centers Boost through Great Scientist or Spy ()	Nuclear Submarine
Satellites	1850	Boost through Great Scientist or Spy Build 2 Broadcast Centers ()	Solar Farm Mechanized Infantry	Launch Moon Landing	Robotics
Guidance Systems	1850	Kill a Fighter	Rocket Artillery Mobile SAM		Robotics
Lasers	1850	Boost through Great Scientist or Spy Build 2 Drones ()	Jet Fighter Missile Cruiser		Robotics Nuclear Fusion
Composites	1850	Own 3 Tanks	Wind Farm Modern Armor Modern AT		Nanotechnology
Stealth Technology	1850	Boost through Great Scientist or Spy	Jet Bomber
Robotics	2155	Have the Globalization civic	Giant Death Robot	+1 Production ( +1 Food) on Pastures Launch Mars Habitation (Vanilla and )
Nuclear Fusion	2155	Boost through Great Scientist or Spy		Launch Mars Reactor (Vanilla and ) Operation Ivy Build Thermonuclear Device
Nanotechnology	2155	Build an Aluminum Mine		Launch Mars Hydroponics (Vanilla and ) Launch Mars Colony
Future Tech*	2500	None		Can be completed multiple times, increasing your points towards the Score Victory () +5% Production to city projects each time it is completed

^* This technology will appear in the following era if you have Gathering Storm installed.

Future Era

Note that this era of technology, unlike all other eras, is semi-randomized: all 7 technologies will appear in the game; however, the prerequisites to unlock them (and thus, how the tech tree looks in this era) vary each time.

The exact Science costs of Future Era technologies will also vary based on the exact tech tree structure, with earlier techs costing less than base cost and later techs costing more. The cost for Offworld Mission is always 2500 Science; it is always alone in its own column and is always the only technology that leads to Future Tech. The other technologies cost 2200 or 2300 Science, and their vertical order is the same every time (from top to bottom: Seasteads, Advanced AI, Advanced Power Cells, Cybernetics, Smart Materials, and Predictive Systems).

Sample technology layouts

Sample technology layout #1

Sample technology layout #2

Sample technology layout #3

Technology	Science cost	Eureka	Giant Death Robot upgrades	Other effects
Advanced AI	2200 or 2300	Boost through Spy	Drone Air Defense: Anti-Air Defense Strength increased to 130.
Advanced Power Cells		Boost through Spy	Particle Beam Siege Cannon: Ranged attacks against cities and Encampments are 100% effective and gain +30 Ranged Strength	Carbon emission from units is reduced by 50%.
Cybernetics		Boost through Spy	Enhanced Mobility: +3 Movement, can perform a Jump action to cross over Mountains terrain	+1 Production to Lumber Mills.
Predictive Systems		Boost through Spy		Offshore Wind Farm +1 Production to Quarries, Oil Wells and Offshore Oil Rigs.
Seasteads		Boost through Spy		Seastead +1 Diplomatic Victory point
Smart Materials		Boost through Spy	Reinforced Armor Plating: +10 Combat Strength when defending against land and naval units	Exoplanet Expedition
Offworld Mission	2500	Boost through Spy		Lagrange Laser Station Terrestrial Laser Station
Future Tech	2600			+5% Production for city projects.

Added in the Rise and Fall expansion pack.

Added in the Gathering Storm expansion pack.

See also

• List of technologies in other games