Field

Field
Information
Introduced in	Age of Empires III: Definitive Edition - The African Royals
Type	Building Farm building Economic
Civilization(s)	Africans
Age	Exploration Age
Use	Infinite source of food or coin
Building
Built by	Villager and its counterparts Zebu Cattle Sanga Cattle Big Benny (with the "Draft Oxen" card)
Cost	50 Wood
Max. builders	3
Build time	60 seconds
Build limit	50
Statistics
Hit points	600
Line of Sight	3
Max. gatherers	3
Build XP	10
Kill XP	20

“	Slow, infinite source of Food or Coin for up to three gatherers. Builds slowly, but is inexpensive.	”
—In-game description

The Field is an economic building in Age of Empires III: Definitive Edition - The African Royals that is unique to the African civilizations (Ethiopians and Hausa).

Overview

The Field combines the functions of a Mill and an Estate by acting as an infinite source of food and coin, but not both; the Field must be configured to provide either resource at one time. Unlike its counterparts, the Field is very cheap, costing only 50 wood, but takes no less than 60 seconds to build and can only support up to 3 villagers.

Fields shall be placed near a Granary, as villagers will build the Field faster (40 seconds instead of 60), and also gather 10% faster.

All villagers of all civilizations gather coin from Fields 10% slower.

Further statistics

Building strengths and weaknesses
Strong vs.	Nothing
Weak vs.	Everything
Improvements
Hit points	Flying Buttress (+20%) Byzantine Legacy (+15%)
Line of Sight	Gas Lighting (+4)
Cost	Sudanese Hakura System (-30% wood) Tupi Forest Burning (-20% wood) Cree Textile Craftsmanship (-10%)
Build time	Cree Textile Craftsmanship (-25%) Sudanese Hakura System (-15%)
Other	Berber Ghorfas (reduces the speed of enemy units in an area of 5 by 30%) Irreechaa (grants 10 influence upon constructing) Folwarks (grants 4 food, 4 coin upon constructing)

Home City Cards

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

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.

Africans

Card	Description	Age
Advanced Agriculture	Field and Granary build time -50%, hit points +75%; Fields become free, but do not give build bounty
Draft Oxen	Enables Zebu Cattle, Sanga Cattle, and Big Benny to build Fields and gather resources from them

Ethiopians

Card	Description	Age
Gondarine Architecture	Building hit points +25%; Town Center, Command Post, and Palace hit points +50% instead; Mountain Monastery hit points +100% instead; Wall hit points +225% instead

Hausa

Card	Description	Age
Koose	Grants 30 food for each Field present on the map; villager gather work rate for Mill, Farm, Rice Paddy (food), Field (food), and Hacienda (food) +10%
Kola Nut Cultivation	Enables land villager Field wood generation

Trivia

• The image for the field shows coffee berries, pearl millet and cowpea flowers.

History

“

Like in several other parts of the world, agriculture was a staple of societies in many regions in Africa. Crops can fundamentally be divided into two categories: alimentary and non-alimentary. The former, prime examples of which in Africa include teff and millet, were grown to be eaten. The latter saw primary use for material and commercial purposes, with examples such as indigo (for dye) and coffee (technically also a consumable, but with primarily commercial value).

”

Gallery

Field image from the Compendium section

An Ethiopian Field assigned to produce food

An Ethiopian Field assigned to produce coin

A Hausa Field assigned to produce food

A Hausa Field assigned to produce coin

See also

• Rice Paddy – Asian analogue