Hand Cart

Hand Cart is a technology in Age of Empires II available at the Town Center upon reaching the Castle Age. Once researched, it allows Villagers to carry 50% more resources (20 instead of 13, actually 54% more) and move 10% faster.

Civilization bonuses Edit

• Chinese: Hand Cart is 15%/20% cheaper in the Castle/Imperial Age.
• Persians: Researching Hand Cart is 15%/20% faster in the Castle/Imperial Age.
• Vikings: Hand Cart is free.

Trivia Edit

• During development, Age of Mythology had a technology that was essentially a successor to its Age of Empires II counterpart, even being called Hand Cart and requiring the Wheelbarrow. However, the gathering capacity increase was given to Husbandry, Pickaxe, and Hand Axe instead.

History Edit

“The hand cart or simple wagon pulled by a horse or other animal was an improvement in land transport and boosted productivity. A man with a cart could carry the load of many men and more cheaply. The demand for carts was a boost to the economy itself by creating jobs for horse breeders, harness makers, cart makers, and wheelwrights.”

—Age of Empires II: The Age of Kings game manual

Technologies in Age of Empires II
Economic technologies
Wheelbarrow  · Hand Cart  · Caravan  · Coinage  · Banking  · Guilds  · Gillnets
Wood	Double-Bit Axe  · Bow Saw  · Two-Man Saw
Farming	Horse Collar  · Heavy Plow  · Crop Rotation
Gold	Gold Mining  · Gold Shaft Mining
Stone	Stone Mining  · Stone Shaft Mining
Military technologies
Conscription
Melee units	Forging  · Iron Casting  · Blast Furnace  · Scale Mail Armor  · Chain Mail Armor  · Plate Mail Armor  · Supplies  · Squires  · Arson  · Scale Barding Armor  · Chain Barding Armor  · Plate Barding Armor  · Bloodlines  · Husbandry
Ranged units	Fletching  · Bodkin Arrow  · Bracer  · Padded Archer Armor  · Leather Archer Armor  · Ring Archer Armor  · Thumb Ring  · Parthian Tactics  · Ballistics  · Chemistry  · Siege Engineers
Building technologies
Town Watch  · Town Patrol  · Masonry  · Architecture  · Treadmill Crane  · Heated Shot  · Arrowslits  · Murder Holes  · Hoardings
Religious technologies
Redemption  · Atonement  · Herbal Medicine  · Heresy  · Sanctity  · Fervor  · Faith  · Illumination  · Block Printing  · Theocracy
Miscellaneous technologies
Loom  · Sappers  · Spies  · Treason  · Unique technologies
Naval	Careening  · Dry Dock  · Shipwright
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