Forge of Empires: 8 Essential Consumable Items to Produce

To sustain steady account progression in Forge of Empires, prioritize buildings that generate fragments for consumable utility items rather than relying solely on raw Forge Points or base resources. Generating a steady supply of reset items, storage kits, era upgrades, aid kits, supply rushes, and combat potions allows you to bypass event time gates, reconfigure your grid, and push through high-attrition battles without spending diamonds.

Production Resetters

1. Finish Special Production (FSP)

Finish Special Production items reset the 24-hour production cycle of any single non-Great Building special structure. Using an FSP on premier event buildings enables you to collect high-value outputs—such as large Forge Point packages, military units, goods, or secondary item fragments—multiple times in a single day. Structures like the Sunken Treasure and Golden Orrery supply fragments for these tools. Whenever possible, collect FSP fragment-producing buildings while charges from the Blue Galaxy Great Building are active to increase your total yield.

2. Finish All Special Production (FASP)

Finish All Special Production resets every eligible special building across your entire city layout at once. Because Great Buildings are excluded from this reset, FASP items are best saved for major milestones: multiplying daily collections during limited-time events, harvesting massive quantities of goods right after aging up, or cycling entire fields of fragment-generating event assets.

Grid Management

3. Store Building Kits

Grid efficiency decreases as newer, more powerful event buildings outclass older leveled structures. Instead of deleting outdated event pieces, using a Store Building returns them to your inventory. This preserves high-value assets for sale at the Antiques Dealer and provides the temporary space needed to rebuild road networks or place temporary quest production grids during active events. Relying exclusively on random incident drops or Guild Expedition encounters does not produce enough kits, so dedicated fragment-generating structures are necessary for regular city reorganizations.

Era Transition Items

4. One-Up Kits

Unlike Great Buildings, standard event buildings remain locked to the era in which they were acquired. A One-Up Kit advances a targeted building by exactly one era. These are most efficiently used when stepping sequentially through adjacent ages or updating minor military support buildings that require small statistical updates.

5. Renovation Kits

A Renovation Kit updates an outdated building directly from any previous age to your current era, regardless of how many ages it sits behind. Reserve Renovation Kits for your most impactful structures, such as premier goods producers, primary attack-boosting buildings, or assets whose fragment yields scale substantially in advanced eras like Space Age Mars or Space Age Titan.

City Protection and Quest Rushers

6. Mass Self-Aid Kits

Unmotivated buildings drop only their base outputs and remain vulnerable to plundering by neighbors. A Mass Self-Aid Kit motivates and polishes every eligible structure in your city in one action. Triggering a Mass Self-Aid immediately following your daily collection safeguards all incoming cycles, guarantees maximum production outputs, and ensures special buildings drop their bonus rewards, Forge Points, and item fragments.

7. Finish Supply Production

Event questlines frequently require completing specific production batches, such as multiple 15-minute runs or lengthy 24-hour cycles. Finish Supply Production and Finish All Supply Production consumables fulfill these tasks instantly. A reliable reserve of supply rushes eliminates the need to clutter your grid with temporary Blacksmiths, allowing you to complete early rush quest brackets on the first day of an event and rapidly cycle Chateau Frontenac recurring quests.

Combat Enhancements

8. Attack and Defense Boost Potions

Sustaining deep runs in Guild Battlegrounds (GBG) and completing Tier 5 in Guild Expedition requires substantial offensive and defensive combat pools. Consumable combat flasks provide temporary 20% to 30% spikes to your attacking army's attack or defense. Stockpiling these potions from fragment-producing city structures gives you the extra strength needed to secure critical GBG sectors at high attrition limits without permanently dedicating city space to passive combat decorations.