Dock (Age of Empires III)

"Builds and upgrades Fishing Boats and warships. Repairs nearby ships."

- In-game description

The Dock is a building in Age of Empires III. It can train ships, provide ship improvements, and repair nearby ships (10.0 hit points every second) similar to a Field Hospital for land units. However, the Dock will only repair a single ship at a time and higher hit point vessels obviously take longer.

Many civilizations can improve their Dock with the Advanced Docks card. This boosts the healing effect by 100%, ships train 33% faster and the Dock gains a more potent counterattack. The counterattack only works if it's being attacked by a ship, and is a very weak rifle shot even with cards such as Coastal Defenses and upgrades from an Arsenal. It is only effective against armed fishermen and some Canoes, unless many Fishing Boats are garrisoned.

Europeans and Indians
The Monitor is also available to the Chinese and the Japanese. The Caravel is not available to the Ottomans. The Galleon is not available to the Dutch.

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History
"Docks provide places for ships to load and unload passengers and goods. A group of docks is referred to as a dockyard. Towns often grow up around docks because they provide a convenient means of trade. This trend is evident in the Northeast section of the United States."