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
XP build bounty	40
XP kill bounty	80
Healing
Healing	10/s
Range	12
Anti-ship attack
Damage	10 Siege
Range	32
Rate of Fire	3.0
Bonus damage	0.5x Siege unit
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.

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.

Tactics

The "Advanced Dock" Home City Card, available to all civilizations, doubles the healing effect and attack of Docks.

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
	Order Galley	300 wood 200 coin		4
	Canoe	100 wood		20	NA
	Fire Junk	100 wood 100 coin		10
	War Junk	300 wood 100 coin		5
	Fune
	Galleon	300 wood 300 coin		3	EU
	Fluyt			4
	Atakebune			3
	Chincha Raft	200 wood 150 coin		8
	Sloop	200 wood 200 coin		5	FA
	Frigate	500 wood 500 coin		2	EU FA
	War Canoe	150 wood 100 coin		10	NA
	Fuchuan	450 wood 750 coin		2
	Tekkousen	500 wood 500 coin
	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
	Ironclad	500 wood 600 coin		1	FA

Technologies

Age	Technology	Cost	Effect	Civ.
	Gill Nets	90 wood 90 coin	Fishing boats gather 15% faster	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 Rafts get +4 Line of Sight, range, and build limit
	Long Lines	200 wood 200 coin	Fishing boats gather 30% faster; requires Gill Nets	All
	Armor Plating	400 wood 400 coin	Warships get +50% hit points	AS EU FA
	Carronade	350 wood 350 coin	Warships get +25% attack
	Cipactli Worship	2,000 food 500 coin	Delivers 4 Tlaloc Canoes; warships get +10% hit points and attack damage
	Rawhide Covers	500 food 100 wood	Warships get +30% hit points
	Flaming Arrows	100 wood 400 coin	Warships get +30% attack damage
	Percussion Lock	250 wood 250 coin	Warships' Broadside Attack deal +50% damage; requires Carronade	AS EU FA
	Improved Cordage	350 wood 350 coin	War Canoes, Tlaloc Canoes, and Chincha Rafts get +25% hit points	NA
	River Raids	350 wood 350 coin	War Canoes, Tlaloc Canoes, and Chincha Rafts get +25% attack damage
	Ship's Howitzers	400 wood 400 coin	Monitors get +25% hit points and attack damage	AS EU FA
	Legendary War Boats	1,000 wood 1,000 coin	Upgrades War Canoes, Tlaloc Canoes, and Chincha Rafts to Legendary (+25% hit points and attack damage)	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)
Build time	Cree Textile Craftsmanship (-25%)
Cost	Tupi Forest Burning (-20% wood) Cree Textile Craftsmanship (-10%)
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)

All

Card	Description	Age	HC level
Advanced Dock	Docks get +100% attack and heal ships 85% faster; warships' train time -33%		10
Improved Buildings	Buildings get +40% hit points		10
TEAM Improved Buildings	Buildings get +25% hit points		10
TEAM Great Lakes	Docks cost -30% and their technologies cost -30%; Naval Big Button technologies cost -50% instead		10
Chipotle Tactics	Ships 500 food; receive food when an enemy or own building is destroyed equal to 20% ~ 40% of its total cost		N/A
TEAM Coastal Defenses	Buildings get +0.8 multiplier against ships		25
Admiralty	Dock warship technologies cost and research time -60% (also +2 Uhlans for the Germans; +1 Villager for the Indians)		1

• "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.
• "TEAM Great Lakes" is available to the British, Haudenosaunee, and Lakota.
• "Chipotle Tactics" is available to the Mexicans and 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	HC level
East Indiamen	Ships 1 Dock Rickshaw; Fishing Boats cost -20 wood (also +1 Hindu Villager for the Indians)		10
Land Reforms	Villagers and Rickshaws build buildings 50% faster; buildings grant +100% build bounty (also +1 Hindu Villager for the Indians)		10

Europeans

Card	Description	Age
Citizenship	Ships 6 Citizens; Citizens can be trained at Town Centers for 70 coin; Fishing Boats can be trained at Docks
Lantakas	Artillery, buildings, and ships get +15% attack

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

Federal Americans

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

• "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	Training units and constructing buildings grants +35% XP

Indians

Card	Description	Age	HC level
Mughal Architecture	Buildings cost -20% wood and build time -30%; Wonders' build time -16% instead; +1 Hindu Villager		40

Italians

Card	Description	Age
Venetian Arsenal	Ships 1 Arsenal Wagon; Arsenals now increase the work rate of nearby military buildings and Docks by 60%

Lakota

Card	Description	Age
Camp Movements	Ships 2 War Hut Travois; all buildings' build time -25%; Town Centers, Community Plaza, Markets, Corrals, War Huts, Farms, Native Embassies, Estates, and Docks can now be transformed into a Travois to be built elsewhere
Winter Counts	Training units grants +40% XP and constructing buildings grants +20% XP

Maltese

Card	Description	Age
Squires	Military buildings train and research work 80% faster, except Forts which train and research work 260% faster

Mexicans

Card	Description	Age
TEAM Mariachi	For the next 30 seconds, military buildings work 400% faster and units get +10% speed
TEAM Gulf of Mexico	Ships 1 Dock Wagon; reveals the location of fishes, whales, water guardians and enemy ships and Docks
Colegio de San Nicolás	Ships 500 XP; units get +4 and buildings (except Walls) get +8 Line of Sight; sees what enemies can see for 20 seconds
Michoacán Fishermen	Ships 1 Dock Wagon; ships 1 Fishing Boat for each shipment sent so far this game including this one
Talavera Architecture	Buildings get +30% hit points, -30% build time, and grant coin upon being built instead of XP
San Diego Port	Dock technologies are free but researche time +350%
Nojpetén	Fishing Boats can be trained at Docks; Fishing Boats cost -70% but get -70% hit points
Maya Architecture	All buildings except Forts get +30% hit points; buildings now give food as well as experience when built; grants Redoubts

• "Colegio de San Nicolás" and "Michoacán Fishermen" are available upon selecting the Michoacán 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.

Native Americans

Card	Description	Age	HC level
Old Ways	Big Button technologies cost -50%		25

Portuguese

Card	Description	Age	HC level
Portuguese White Fleet	Each Dock spawns 4 Fishing Boats after 80 seconds		25

Spanish

Card	Description	Age
Salitrera	Trading Posts generate 0.5 coin/sec.; Citizens can be trained at the Town Centers for 70 coin; Fishing Boats can be trained at the Docks
Fishing Fleet	Ships 2 Dock Wagons; ships 1 Fishing Boat for each shipment sent so far in game

• "Salitrera" and "Fishing Fleet" are available upon revolting to Chile.

United States

Card	Description	Age
Virginia Oak	Docks, Fishing Boats, Sloops, and Frigates get +15% hit points
Annapolis Naval Academy	Ships 1 Sloop with 6 Minutemen in it; enables Minutemen to be called from Docks; Sloops, Steamers, Frigates, and Ironclads get +10% ranged attack per garrisoned Minutemen (6 max.)
Connecticut Shipwrights	Artillery train time -25%, buildings' build time -35%, and ships' train time -50%

• "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

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

This in game stats icon reveals the ranged anti-ship attack of a garrisoned Dock. Note that garrisoning more Fishing Boats does not change the attack.

Unused Native American Dock portrait

Unused Japanese Dock portrait

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

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