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
Building information
Introduced in	The WarChiefs
Type	Economic
Civilization	Native Americans
Age	Discovery Age
Use	Infinite source of food Livestock fattens faster when tasked into Farms Trains Sheep (and Cow with the Ranching Home City Card)
Construction
Wood	400
Max. builders	10
Statistics
Hit points	2,500
Line of Sight	12
Max. gatherers	10
XP build bounty	80
XP bounty	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, Iroquois, and Sioux). It combines the functions of a Mill and a Livestock Pen by acting as an infinite food source, although the Farm has an inferior food gather rate (0.5 food), and makes livestock tasked to it fatten faster, as well as a Market for the purposes of hunting improvements.

Note that both villagers and livestock 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 livestock, 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 Sioux, and Iroquois ability to spawn new huntable animals, and harvest berries, the Furrier, and TEAM Furrier 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	Init. food	Max. food	Limit
Sheep	100 food	50	300	30
Cow	80 food		500	20

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

Technologies

Age	Technology	Cost	Effect	Civ.
	Selective Breeding	150 wood 150 coin	Livestock fattens 25% faster	All
	Strawberry Festival	250 wood 250 coin	Ships 500 food for every 10 minutes the game has passed, up to 30 minutes	Iroquois
	Horsemanship	500 coin	Cavalry gets +10% hit points	Sioux
	Great Feast	100 wood 75 coin	Villagers gather food 10% faster	All
	Harvest Ceremony	225 wood 125 coin	Villagers gather food 15% faster; requires Great Feast
	Green Corn Ceremony	350 wood 175 coin	Villagers gather food 20% faster; requires Harvest Ceremony
	Cinteotl Worship	600 food 500 wood	Ships 1 Eagle Runner Knight for every 2 minutes the game has passed, up to 30 minutes	Aztecs
	Large Scale Gathering	1,000 wood 1,000 coin	Villagers gather food 50% faster and livestock fattens 50% faster; requires Green Corn Ceremony	All

Further statistics

Building strengths and weaknesses
Strong vs.	Nothing
Weak vs.	Everything
Improvements
Hit points	Flying Buttress (+20%)
Construction cost	Cree Textile Craftsmanship (-25% wood) Tupi Forest Burning (-20% wood)
Other	Cherokee Basket Weaving (improvements except Selective Breeding, Large Scale Gathering, and Big Buttons cost no wood)

Home City Cards

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

Green: TEAM Shipment that is sent to each player in a team Indians Card Description Age HC level TEAM Improved Buildings Buildings get +25% hit points 10 Native Americans Card Description Age HC level Improved Buildings Buildings get +40% hit points 10 Ranching Farms can train Cows 1 Advanced Farm Farms get +100% hit points and cost -50% 1 Agrarian Ways Farm and Plantation technologies (except Large Scale Gathering, Excessive Tribute, and Big Buttons) are free 25 Old Ways Big Button technologies cost -50% 40 Land Grab Farms and Plantations cost -30% to -40% and build time -75% 25 The Improved Buildings card is available at a level 1 Home City for the Sioux. The Ranching card is not available to the Iroquois. The Agrarian Ways card is not available to the Sioux.

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

A Sioux Farm