Farm (Age of Mythology)

This article is about the economic building in Age of Mythology. For the building in other games in the series, see Farm.

Farm
Building information
Introduced in	Age of Mythology
Type	Economic
Civilization	All
Age	Classical Age (Egyptians: Archaic Age)
Use	Provides an unlimited source of food
Construction
Cost	70 gold (Egyptians) 200 wood (Atlanteans) 75 wood (Greeks, Norse, Nü Wa and Shennong) 60 wood (Fu Xi)
Statistics
Hit points	200

In Age of Mythology, Farms are buildings that enable Workers to gather unlimited food. The cost of a Farm varies with different civilizations. The high cost for the Atlanteans is presumably due to their Citizen's greatly enhanced work rate.

The Greeks, Norse, Atlanteans, and Chinese can build Farms in the Classical Age, but the Egyptians can do so in the Archaic Age. Like in other Age series games, only one Villager may work a Farm at a time. Farms do not hinder unit movement (unlike all other buildings), are very weak and can be destroyed very quickly. Moreover, another player's workers can take over an unoccupied Farm simply by beginning to gather from it.

Myth technologies

• Hades' Farms have 25% more hit points.
• Shaduf (Ptah): Decreases Farm cost by 33% and build time by 50%.
• Sundried Mudbrick (Hathor): Increases Farm hit points by 10%, decreases gold cost by 15%.
• Titan Shield (Atlas): Farm -15% hack and crush vulnerability.
• Athenian Wall (Hera): Increases Farm hit points by 20%.
• Rammed Earth (He Bo): Increases Farm hit points and hack armor by 10%.
• Five Grains (Huang Di): Farms cost 30% less wood.

Strategy

On most maps, farming is not economically viable in the early game. Farms cost resources to build, while the other available food sources (animals and Berry Bushes) are free and yield food more quickly. Once these sources become more scarce and Farms have been upgraded, farming becomes more useful; by the late game, farming dominates food production. Farms should always be built in a secure area. Normally, this will be inside a player's base, preferably around to a Town Center, which acts as a drop-off point and can garrison and defend the farmers if necessary.

When capturing a player's base, rather than spending time razing farms, it may be a good idea to send workers to capture them once the area is safe enough.

Changelog

Age of Mythology

• Originally, Egyptians farmed equally fast in all ages. With patch 1.03, they farm slower in the Archaic Age.

History

The ability to farm was one of the great advancements in human progress, because agriculture made possible large, renewable food supplies that could be stored and consumed year-round. The availability of food plants, rich soils, a mild climate, and dependable water determined where farming was possible and where early civilizations arose. Improvements such as the plow, irrigation, and fertilization increased yields.

Trivia

• Originally, Farms required a Socket Unit (similar to Settlements) called Fertile Fields. Farms also dictated the player's access to population (As houses were not added yet) making Action more common earlier in the game.
  • Farms originally were 3D instead of being a 2D .DCL (used for flat 2D images and fake-shadows) texture representing a cabbage field.
    • There were also 6 visual types; Wheat, Olives, Berries, Cabbages and anachronistically Potatoes, and Corn.

Gallery

Farm in-game

Egyptian Laborers gathering food from Farms around a Granary.

Atlantean Citizens gathering food from Farms.