Farm (Age of Empires III)

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

Farm
Information
Introduced in	Age of Empires III: The WarChiefs
Type	Building Farm building Economic
Civilization(s)	Native Americans
Age	Exploration Age
Use	Infinite source of food Herdable animals fattens faster when tasked into Farms Trains Sheep (and Cows with the "Ranching" card) (Llamas for the Inca)
Building
Built by	Villager and its counterparts Travois Farm Travois
Cost	400 Wood
Max. builders	10
Build time	20 seconds
Statistics
Size	2x8 7.5x8 (placement obstruction)
Hit points	2,500
Line of Sight	12
Max. gatherers	10
Build XP	80
Kill XP	160

“	Slow, infinite source of Food. Limited to 10 gatherers.	”
—In-game description

The Farm is an economic building in Age of Empires III: The WarChiefs that is unique to the Native American civilizations (Aztecs, Haudenosaunee, Inca, and Lakota).

Overview

The Farm the functions of a Mill and a Livestock Pen by acting as an infinite food source, although the Farm has an inferior food gather and makes herdable animals tasked to it fatten faster, as well as a Market for the purposes of hunting technologies.

Note that both villagers and herdable animals tasked to the Farm will count toward the total units allowed, so if there are already ten Villagers at the Farm, some of them will have to be removed to fatten herdable animals, or vice versa.

Tactics

Native Americans should use up all available Berry Bushes (equivalent in gather rate to a Mill with no upgrades) before tasking gatherers on the Farm. However, with the Haudenosaunee and Lakota abilities to spawn new huntable animals, and harvest berries, the "Furrier", and "TEAM Furrier" Home City Cards are more efficient for an early food boom strategy when combined with the initial Farm upgrades (which increase both hunting, and berries further). This relegates the Farm to a livestock pen, source of hunting, and berry upgrades until later Ages when absolutely necesarry to utilize it in infinite food production.

Units

Unit	Cost	Limit	Civ.
Sheep	100 food	30	Aztecs
Cow	80 food	20
Llama	70 food		Inca

• The Cow requires the "Ranching" Home City Card to be trained at Farms.

Technologies

Age	Technology	Cost	Effect	Civ.
	Selective Breeding	75 wood 75 coin	Herded animal gather work rate for Livestock Pen, Farm, Village, Livestock Market, and Hacienda +25%	All
	Great Feast	100 wood 75 coin	Villager gather work rate for hunted animals, Berry Bush, Cherry Orchard, Mill, Farm, Rice Paddy (food), Field (food), and Hacienda (food) +10%; Hacienda auto gather food work rate for food +10%
	Strawberry Festival	250 wood 250 coin	Delivers 1 Huge Crates of Food (500 food) for every 10 minutes of the game time, up to 30 minutes
	Horsemanship	500 coin	Cavalry train time -33%, bonus damage against Walls +1.0
	Urcuchillay Worship	400 wood 400 coin	Delivers 2 Llamas carrying additional 350 food for every 5 minutes of the game time, up to 30 minutes	Inca
	Harvest Ceremony	225 wood 125 coin	Villager gather work rate for hunted animals, Berry Bush, Cherry Orchard, Mill, Farm, Rice Paddy (food), Field (food), and Hacienda (food) +15%; Hacienda auto gather food work rate for food +15%; requires Great Feast	All
	Green Corn Ceremony	350 wood 175 coin	Villager gather work rate for hunted animals, Berry Bush, Cherry Orchard, Mill, Farm, Rice Paddy (food), Field (food), and Hacienda (food) +20%; Hacienda auto gather food work rate for food +20%; requires Harvest Ceremony
	Cinteotl Worship	600 food 500 wood	Delivers 1 Eagle Runner Knight for every 2 minutes of the game time, up to 30 minutes	Aztecs
Imperial Age	Large Scale Gathering	1,000 wood 1,000 coin	Villager gather work rate for Mill, Farm, Rice Paddy (food), Field (food), and Hacienda (food) +50%; Hacienda auto gather food work rate for food +50%; herded animal gather work rate for Farm +50%; requires Green Corn Ceremony	All

Further statistics

Building strengths and weaknesses
Strong vs.	Nothing
Weak vs.	Everything
Improvements
Hit points	Flying Buttress (+20%) Byzantine Legacy (+15%)
Cost	Sudanese Hakura System (-30% wood) Tupi Forest Burning (-20% wood) Cree Textile Craftsmanship (-10%)
Build time	Sudanese Hakura System (-30%) Cree Textile Craftsmanship (-25%)
Other	Cherokee Basket Weaving (technologies except Selective Breeding, Large Scale Gathering, and Big Buttons cost no wood) Berber Ghorfas (reduces the speed of enemy units in an area of 9.5 by 30%) Folwarks (grants 60 food upon constructing)

Home City Cards

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

Some cards are highlighted with:
Green	TEAM Shipment that is sent to each player in a team

Shared

Card	Description	Age
TEAM Improved Buildings	Building hit points +25%

• "TEAM Improved Buildings" is available to the Inca, Indians, and Maltese.

Aztecs

Card	Description	Age
3 Farm Travois	Delivers 3 Farm Travois

Haudenosaunee

Card	Description	Age
Wampum	Unit train bounty +35%, train time -20%, siege unit and artillery train time -5% instead; building build bounty +35%
1 Travois	Delivers 1 Travois
2 Travois	Delivers 2 Travois
3 Travois	Delivers 3 Travois

Inca

Card	Description	Age
Monumental Architecture	Building hit points +30%; Town Center and Command Post damage +35%

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%

Native Americans

Card	Description	Age
Improved Buildings	Building hit points +40%
Ranching	Enables Cows to be trained at Livestock Pens and Farms
Advanced Farm	Delivers 1 Farm Travois; Farm cost -50%, hit points +100%
1 Farm Travois	Delivers 1 Farm Travois
2 Farm Travois	Delivers 2 Farm Travois
Agrarian Ways	Farm and Estate technologies (except Large Scale Gathering, Excessive Tribute, and Big Button) are free
Land Grab	Mill, Estate, Farm, Livestock Pen, Rice Paddy, Sacred Field, and Hacienda cost -40%, build time -75%; Village cost -30%, build time -60%; State Capitol Homestead Wagon, Mill Wagon, and Estate Wagon cost -40%
Old Ways	Big Button technologies cost -50%

• "Improved Buildings", "Ranching", and "Land Grab" are not available to the Inca.
• "1 Farm Travois" and "2 Farm Travois" are not available to the Haudenosaunee.
• "Agrarian Ways" is not available to the Lakota.

History

“

The Native Americans were well versed in various agricultural techniques. Sharing their expertise with the Mayflower colonists helped ensure the colony's survival. Adaptation of agriculture among Indian Nations depended largely on usefulness and location. The Aztecs, with their home city of Tenochtitlan, engineered extremely complex systems of farming, producing crop yields capable of supporting a population of several hundred thousand people. The Iroquois were accomplished growers of fruits and vegetables. They referred to their three primary crops - corn, beans, and squash - as "The Three Sisters." The ancestors of the Sioux and other Plains Indians were farmers as well as hunters, but their descendants adopted a more nomadic buffalo-based way of life after being forced westward by the advance of the Europeans.

”

Gallery

An in-game Lakota Farm

Farm image from the Compendium section