Rice Paddy

The Rice Paddy is a building featured in Age of Empires III: The Asian Dynasties, available to the three Asian civilizations (Indians, Chinese, and Japanese). It is a mixture of a Mill and a Plantation.

Overview
The Rice Paddy can be set to either produce Food or Coin, and a maximum of 10 Villagers can gather from the Rice Paddy at one time.

The Coin gathering rate is slightly slower than Food, but unlike European Mills or Plantations however, gatherers do not wander around as they work, so there is no need to "optimize" the gathering speed by limiting each Paddy to 7 (or some other number) gatherers.

Home City shipments
As the Rice Paddy is exclusive to the Chinese, Indians and Japanese, only their respective Home City cards are shown in the following list. {| class="wikitable collapsible collapsed" style="width:100%;" ! sab="1148" | Click for a list of Rice Paddy-related Home City cards Green : TEAM Shipment that is sent to each player in a team
 * - sab="1147"
 * - sab="1149"
 * sab="1150" |

Japanese
White : Shipment that can be sent only ONCE

Indians

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History
"The evolutionary origins of Rice, the genus oryza, are rooted in such distant history that no exact geographic location has been defined as the true source. A popular theory claims that the ancient supercontinent known as Gondwana, which included most of the landmasses in today’s southern hemisphere, was home to oryza; but when Gondwana split into pieces 200 million years ago, rice traveled with the newly created continents and landforms, populated the new continents and islands that became Africa, South America, Antarctica, Australia, New Zealand, India, and Madagascar. A rice paddy is an arable selection of land planted with rice seed that is flooded, providing the large amounts of water essential to rice growth. The paddy is irrigated by diverting water from rivers and mountain streams into a complex network of canals developed over years of use. Rice farmers often terrace the paddies up a hillside or slope, which conserves water by allowing it to flow down through successive rice fields. Rice seed is usually planted in a seedbed but transplanted to the paddy as a young plant. The water level begins at a depth of 6 inches, but as the plant grows, farmers gradually drain the water. By harvest time the water is almost entirely drained, and the farmers can collect the rice from the dried fields. Fifty percent of the world’s rice is grown in paddies that are fed by natural rainfall; thirty-five percent comes from paddies flooded by both rainfall and irrigation. The major rice-producing countries - including China, India, and Vietnam - primarily cultivate paddy rice."