Dock (Age of Empires III)

This article is about the building in Age of Empires III. For the building in other games of the series, see Dock.

Dock
Information
Introduced in	Age of Empires III
Type	Building Economic
Civilization(s)	Asians Europeans Federal Americans Native Americans
Age	Exploration Age
Use	Trains ships Researches ship technologies
Building
Built by	Settler and its counterparts Karelian Jaeger Dock Wagon Dock Rickshaw Red Sea Wagon Steamer
Cost	200 Wood
Max. builders	8
Build time	20 seconds
Statistics
Size	4x3
Hit points	2,500
Garrison	20 Fishing Boats, Canoes, War Canoes, Tlaloc Canoes, Fishing Canoes
Line of Sight	34
Build XP	40
Kill XP	80
Healing
Healing	10/s
Range	12
Anti-ship attack
Damage	10 Siege
Range	32
Rate of Fire	3.0
Bonus damage	0.5x vs. Siege trooper
Notes
Heals ships only Anti-ship attack only available when garrisoned by Fishing Boats Canoe takes 3 seconds to load into the Dock

“	Builds and upgrades Fishing Boats and warships. Repairs nearby ships.	”
—In-game description

The Dock is an economic/military building in Age of Empires III. It trains ships, provide ship improvements, and repair nearby ships.

Overview

The Dock's ship repair ability works similarly to the Field Hospital for land units. However, the Dock will only repair a single ship at a time and ships with high hit points (e.g. Frigate) will obviously take longer.

Up to 20 Fishing Boats can garrison in each Dock to grant it a ranged attack and shelter from attacks. However, like the Town Center, only the first ten Fishing Boats affect the damage.

The African civilizations build the Port, which is identical in function with the Dock.

The "Advanced Dock" Home City Card, available to all civilizations, increases the Dock's healing effect by 85% and attack damage by 100%.

Attack

Note: The attack animation appears to be a rifle shot, thus ranged damage, however it is actually siege damage that ignores a ships ranged resistance.

The total attack of a Dock are calculated on the following formula:

$A = B * G$

Where A is the total attack, B is the Dock base attack, and G is the number of Fishing Boats garrisoned in the Dock.

With 10 Fishing Boats garrisoned, the Advanced Docks card and the Heated Shot improvement, the Dock will have 375 attack, and if the TEAM Coastal Defenses card is sent, it can deal 937.5 damage to ships when it is attacked by one, which is a significant investment that an enemy can merely ignore, or counter with longer range ships (e.g. Frigates or Tlaloc Canoes).

The Haudenosaunee can further boost the damage by +185% via Town Ceremony at the Community Plaza) to 2,671.875 damage. The Aztecs cannot research Heated Shot, but with Warrior Priests at the Plaza, Town Ceremony will increase the damage by +277%, allowing for 1,413.75 damage total.

Units

Age	Unit	Cost	Pop.	Limit	Civ.
	Fishing Boat	70 wood	1	99	All
	Caravel	300 wood 100 coin	–	5	EU
	Galley
	Galleass	400 wood 400 coin		3	Italians
	Order Galley	300 wood 200 coin		4
	Canoe	100 wood		20	NA
	Fire Junk	100 wood 100 coin		10	Chinese
	War Junk	300 wood 100 coin		5
	Fune				Japanese
	Galleon	300 wood 300 coin		3	EU
	Fluyt			4
	Atakebune			3	Japanese
	Chincha Raft	200 wood 150 coin		8	Inca
	Sloop	200 wood 200 coin		5	FA
	Frigate	500 wood 500 coin		2	Indians EU FA
	War Canoe	150 wood 100 coin		10	NA
	Fuchuan	450 wood 750 coin		2	Chinese
	Tekkousen	500 wood 500 coin			Japanese
	Steamer	250 wood 650 coin		3	FA
	Battleship	1,000 wood 1,000 coin		1	All
	Monitor	600 wood 200 coin		2	EU AS
	Tlaloc Canoe	400 wood 100 coin		5	Aztecs Maya
	Ironclad	500 wood 600 coin		1	FA

• The Canoe requires building a Trading Post for all civilizations except Native Americans and a Tambo for the Inca in native settlement on America maps to be trained at Docks.
• The Battleship requires building a Trading Post for all civilizations and a Tambo for the Inca in Royal House palace on Europa maps to be trained at Docks.

Technologies

Age	Technology	Cost	Effect	Civ.
	Gill Nets	90 wood 90 coin	Fishing boat gather work rate for fish and whale +15%	All
	Totora Reeds	500 food 500 wood 500 coin	Delivers 1 Fishing Boat and 1 Chincha Raft for every 5 minutes of game time, up to 30 minutes; Chincha Raft build limit, Line of Sight and range +4	Inca
	Long Lines	200 wood 200 coin	Fishing boat gather work rate for fish and whale +30%; requires Gill Nets	All
	Armor Plating	400 wood 400 coin	War ship hit points +50%	AS EU FA
	Carronade	350 wood 350 coin	War ship damage +25%
	Cipactli Worship	2,000 food 500 coin	Delivers 4 Tlaloc Canoes; war ship hit points and damage +10%	Aztecs
	Rawhide Covers	500 food 100 wood	War ship hit points +30%
	Flaming Arrows	100 wood 400 coin	War ship damage +30%
	Percussion Lock	250 wood 250 coin	War ship Broadside Attack damage +50%; requires Carronade	AS EU FA
	Improved Cordage	350 wood 350 coin	War Canoe, Tlaloc Canoe, and Chincha Raft hit points +25%	NA
	River Raids	350 wood 350 coin	War Canoe, Tlaloc Canoe, and Chincha Raft damage +25%
	Ship's Howitzers	400 wood 400 coin	Monitor and Ironclad hit points and damage +25%	AS EU FA
Imperial Age	Legendary War Boats	1,000 wood 1,000 coin	Upgrades War Canoes, Tlaloc Canoes, and Chincha Rafts to Legendary (hit points and damage +25%)	NA

Further statistics

Building strengths and weaknesses
Strong vs.	Ships (when garrisoned)
Weak vs.	Siege units, artillery
Improvements
Hit points	State Constitutions (+25%; United States only) Flying Buttress (+20%) Byzantine Legacy (+15%)
Attack	Heated Shot (+50% multiplier vs. ships)
Line of Sight	Somali Lighthouses (+10) Gas Lighting (+4)
Cost	Tupi Forest Burning (-20% wood) Cree Textile Craftsmanship (-10%)
Build time	Cree Textile Craftsmanship (-25%)
Other	Cherokee Basket Weaving (Gill Nets and Long Lines cost no wood) Greek Shipyards (+40% work rate)
Penalties	Customized Merc Weapons (+30% cost; John Black's Mercenaries only) Code Napoleon (+25% cost; French only)

Home City Cards

Click for a list of Home City Cards related to the Dock

Some cards are highlighted with:
Green	TEAM Shipment that is sent to each player in a team
Blue	Shipment that arrives fast (5 seconds)

Shared

Card	Description	Age
Advanced Dock	Dock damage +100%, heal work rate for ships +85%; war ship train time -33%
Improved Buildings	Building hit points +40%
TEAM Improved Buildings	Building hit points +25%
Monumental Architecture	Building hit points +30%; Town Center and Command Post damage +35%
TEAM Great Lakes	Dock and Port, and their technologies cost -30%; Naval Big Button technologies cost -50% instead
Chipotle Tactics	Delivers 1 Huge Crates of Food (500 food); grants food when an enemy or own building is destroyed equal to 20% ~ 40% of its total cost
TEAM Coastal Defenses	Building anti-ship attack bonus damage against ships +0.8
Admiralty	Dock war ship technology cost and research time -60%

• "Advanced Dock" is not available to Africans.
• "Improved Buildings" is available to Asians (except the Indians), Europeans (except the Maltese), Mexicans, and Native Americans (except the Inca).
• "TEAM Improved Buildings" is available to the Inca, Indians, and Maltese.
• "Monumental Architecture" is available to the Inca, and also Portuguese and Spanish upon revolting to Peru.
• "TEAM Great Lakes" is available to the British, Haudenosaunee, and Lakota.
• "Chipotle Tactics" is available to the Mexicans, and also Spanish upon revolting to Mexico.
• "TEAM Coastal Defenses" is available to Europeans and Federal Americans.
• "Admiralty" is not available to Africans and Native Americans.

Asians

Card	Description	Age
East Indiamen	Delivers 1 Dock Rickshaw; Fishing Boat wood cost -20
Land Reforms	Villager and rickshaw build work rate for buildings +50%; building build bounty +100%

Europeans

Card	Description	Age
Citizenship	Delivers 6 Citizens; enables Citizens to be trained at Town Centers for 70 coin; enables Settler Wagons to be trained at Mills for 100 wood, 70 coin (if Germantown Farmers was previously sent); enables Fishing Boats to be trained at Docks
Lantakas	Artillery, building, and ship damage +15%

• "Citizenship" is available upon Revolutions.
• "Lantakas" is available to the Dutch and Portuguese upon revolting to Indonesia.

Federal Americans

Card	Description	Age
The Alamo	Delivers 16 Minutemen; when destroyed by enemies, your buildings spawn a number of Minutemen equal to 1.5% of their cost rounded up	Imperial Age

• "The Alamo" is available to the United States upon selecting the Texas Federal State and Mexicans upon revolting to Texas, and spawns 3 Minutemen when a Dock is destroyed.

Haudenosaunee

Card	Description	Age
Wampum	Unit train bounty +35%, train time -20%, siege unit and artillery train time -5% instead; building build bounty +35%

Indians

Card	Description	Age
Mughal Architecture	Building wood cost -20%, build time -30%; Wonder build time -10% instead, +1 Hindu Villager

Italians

Card	Description	Age
Venetian Arsenal	Delivers 1 Arsenal Wagon; enables Arsenals to be built in the Commerce Age; Arsenals increase the work rate of military buildings and Docks by 60% in an Area of Effect of 24

Lakota

Card	Description	Age
Camp Movements	Delivers 2 War Hut Travois; building build time -25%; Town Centers, Community Plaza, Market, Corral, War Hut, Farm, Native Embassy, Estate, and Dock can be transformed into a Travois to be built elsewhere
Winter Counts	Unit train bounty +40%; building build bounty +20%

Mexicans

Card	Description	Age
TEAM Gulf of Mexico	Delivers 1 Dock Wagon; reveals the location of fishes, whales, water guardians, enemy ships and Docks
Colegio de San Nicolas	Delivers 1 Large Collection of Books (500 XP); unit Line of Sight +4; building (except Wall) Line of Sight +8; reveals enemy units' positions for 20 seconds
Michoacán Fishermen	Delivers 1 Dock Wagon; delivers 1 Fishing Boat for each shipment sent so far this game, including this one
Tampico Customs	Dock technology cost free, but research time +350%
Talavera Architecture	Building build time -30%, hit points +30%, grant coin build bounty instead of XP	Imperial Age
San Diego Port	Dock technology cost free, but research time +350%
Nojpetén	Delivers 6 Fishing Boats; enables Fishing Boats to be trained at Docks; Fishing Boat wood cost -70%, but hit points -70%
Maya Architecture	Building (except Fort) hit points +30%; buildings grant food as well as experience when built; grants Redoubts

• "Colegio de San Nicolas" and "Michoacán Fishermen" are available upon selecting the Michoacán Federal State.
• "Tampico Customs" is available upon selecting the Tamaulipas Federal State.
• "Talavera Architecture" is available upon selecting the Puebla Federal State.
• "San Diego Port" is available upon revolting to California.
• "Nojpetén" and "Maya Architecture" are available upon revolting to the Maya.

Portuguese

Card	Description	Age
Portuguese White Fleet	Each Dock spawns 4 Fishing Boats after 80 seconds

Spanish

Card	Description	Age
Fishing Fleet	Delivers 2 Dock Wagons; delivers 1 Fishing Boat for each shipment sent so far this game, including this one

• "Fishing Fleet" is available upon revolting to Chile.

United States

Card	Description	Age
Virginia Oak	Docks, Fishing Boat, Sloop, and Frigate hit points +15%
Annapolis Naval Academy	Delivers 1 Sloop with 6 Minutemen in it; enables Minutemen to be called from Docks; Minutemen garrisoned in Sloops, Steamers, and Ironclads improve their ranged attack damage by 10% each (up to +60%)
Connecticut Shipwrights	War ship train time -50%; building build time -35%; artillery train time -15%, Heavy Cannon train time -10% instead	Imperial Age

• "Annapolis Naval Academy" is available upon selecting the Maryland Federal State.
• "Connecticut Shipwrights" is available upon selecting the Connecticut Federal State.

Changelog

Age of Empires III

• The Dock anti-ship attack has no multipliers against siege units.

Definitive Edition

• The Dock anti-ship attack has a ×0.5 multiplier against siege units.

Trivia

• There are unused files for the Dock portrait in The WarChiefs (probably would be used by Native American civilizations).

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.

”

Gallery

In-game Western European Dock in the Commerce/Fortress Age

Unused Native American Dock portrait

Unused Japanese Dock portrait

In-game Native American Dock in the Exploration Age in the Definitive Edition

In-game Native American Dock in the Commerce/Fortress Age in the Definitive Edition

In-game Aztec Dock in the Industrial/Imperial Age in the Definitive Edition

In-game Haudenosaunee Dock in the Industrial/Imperial Age in the Definitive Edition

In-game Inca Dock in the Industrial/Imperial Age in the Definitive Edition

In-game Lakota Dock in the Industrial/Imperial Age in the Definitive Edition

In-game Chinese Dock in the Commerce/Fortress Age in the Definitive Edition

In-game Chinese Dock in the Industrial/Imperial Age in the Definitive Edition

Dock image from the Compendium section