This page organizes all the researchable technologies in Civilization Revolution into a table that highlights their cost in beakers, their various effects and what they enable, as well as the bonus they provide to the first civilization to research them. These bonuses can often be quite powerful, usually in the form of a free unit, building, or extra per turn output in a city. Keep in mind that under the Makes Available header, items are listed in the following order: resources, wonders, units, buildings, governments. While some technologies, like currency and navigation, enable multiple things, others, like Printing Press, are less substantial. Together, however, they form the technology tree in Civilization Revolution.
Note: This page is still under construction.
Official Tech Tree PDFs
2K Games has released two high resolution tech tree in PDF format. You can download them below:
Ultimate Tech Tree PDF
Forum member mikewest has created this ultimate CivRev tech tree and formatted it for easy two-page printing. Based on the official tech tree, mikewest added unit properties, more details on how they get obsoleted and what unit(s) they supercede; building costs, wonder costs along with what tech (if any) obsoletes them; resource type and amount, first to discover bonuses, era & start occurrences. The color-coding started by Firaxis is also refined. The amount of beakers required to research each tech is also added.
Technology Details
Details for each technology are included in the table below:
| Icon | Technology | Cost | Prerequisites | Makes Available | First to Discover Benefit |
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Advanced Flight | 2150 | Flight, Industrialization | Bomber | Free Bomber |
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Alphabet | 20 | none | The Oracle of Delphi, Library | none |
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Atomic Theory | 1270 | University, Invention, Electricity | Manhattan Project | +2 Science in every city |
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The Automobile | 1780 | Combustion, Steel | Rubber, Artillery | Free Artillery |
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Banking | 190 | Currency, Code of Laws, Literacy | Bank | 100 gold |
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Bronze Working | 20 | none | Fish, Colossus, Archer, Barracks | none |
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Ceremonial Burial | 30 | Pottery | Incense, The Pyramids, Temple | none |
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Code of Laws | 60 | Writing, Alphabet | Cattle, Trading Post, Republic | Free Trading Post |
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Combustion | 1050 | Steam Power, Gunpowder, Metallurgy | Oil, Tank | Free Tank |
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Communism | 770 | Industrialization, University | Communism | -33% cost of factories |
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Construction | 60 | Masonry, Iron Working | Oak, Workshop | Free Workshop |
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The Corporation | 720 | Banking, Industrialization | Military-industrial Complex | +5 Gold in every city |
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Currency | 80 | Bronze Working, Code of Laws | Gold, Trade Fair of Troyes, Caravan, Market | Free Caravan, Market |
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Democracy | 120 | Literacy, Code of Laws | Magna Carta, Pikeman, Democracy | Free Pikeman |
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Electricity | 850 | Metallurgy, Engineering, Steam Power | Submarine | Free Submarine |
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Electronics | 1570 | Electricity, The Corporation | none | +2 trade in every city |
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Engineering | 130 | Construction, Mathematics | Aqueduct | +1 production in every city |
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Feudalism | 140 | Horseback Riding, Monarchy | Game, Knight | Free Knight |
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Flight | 1620 | Combustion, Metallurgy, Invention | Fighters | Free Fighter |
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Globalization | 3400 | Mass Media, Networking | none | 500 Gold |
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Gunpowder | 330 | Invention, Feudalism | Sulfur, Rifleman | Free Rifleman |
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Horseback Riding | 20 | none | Oxen, Horseman | None |
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Industrialization | 710 | Steam Power, Banking | Factory | +5 gold in every city |
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Invention | 190 | Literacy, Engineering | Leonardo’s Workshop | Free Great Person |
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Iron Working | 30 | Bronze Working | Iron, Legion | Free Legion |
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Irrigation | 60 | Pottery, Masonry | Wheat, +1 Food on food producing tiles on the side of river | +1 population in every city |
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Literacy | 60 | Alphabet, Writing | Silk, Shakespeare’s Theatre, Courthouse | +1 science in every city |
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Masonry | 30 | Pottery | Marble, Great Wall, Walls | Free Wall |
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Mass Media | 880 | Printing Press, The Corporation | Hollywood | +1 population in every city |
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Mass Production | 880 | Railroad, Industrialization | Modern Infantry, Aluminum | Free Modern Infantry |
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Mathematics | 70 | Writing, Masonry | Catapult | Free Catapult |
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Metallurgy | 390 | Engineering, Iron Working, University | Cannon | Free Cannon |
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Monarchy | 120 | Code of Laws, Writing, Ceremonial Burial | Dye, Himeji Samurai Castle, Monarchy | Free Great Person |
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Navigation | 110 | Writing, Mathematics | Whale, East India Company, Galleon, Harbor | Free Galleon |
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Networking | 2290 | Electronics, The Corporation | Internet | Reduced University Cost |
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Nuclear Power | 2150 | Atomic Theory, Mass Production | Uranium | +2 production in every city |
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Pottery | 20 | none | Wine, Hanging Gardens, Granary | none |
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Printing Press | 390 | University, Religion | none | +1 culture in every city |
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Railroad | 350 | Steam Power | Iron Mine | +2 production in every city |
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Religion | 150 | Ceremonial Burial, Monarchy | Cathedral, Fundamentalism | +1 culture in every city |
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Space Flight | 5860 | Advanced Flight, Electronics, Nuclear Power | Apollo Program, SS Fuel, SS Propulsion, SS Habitation, SS Life Support | Entire map is revealed |
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Steam Power | 340 | Iron Working, Invention, Engineering | Coal, Cruiser | Free Cruiser |
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Steel | 730 | Metallurgy, Steam Power | Battleship | Free Battleship |
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Superconductor | 6740 | Mass Production, Space Flight | SDI Defense | Free SDI in a city |
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University | 240 | Literacy, Mathematics, Democracy | Oxford University, University | +1 science in every city |
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Writing | 40 | Alphabet | Great Library, Spy | Free Spy |