| “ | Villagers can drop off Food at this building. It houses technologies to improve Food gathering and produces Scouts. Generates Gold based on the number of nearby trees. Gold rate decreased by nearby Hunting Cabins. | ” |
| —Age of Empires IV description | ||
The Hunting Cabin is a unique building for the Rus in Age of Empires IV which replaces the Mill. It serves as a drop-off point for food and contains a variety of technologies that improve Food gather rates. It also generates gold based on the number of nearby trees and can produce Scouts.
Gameplay[]
- When built, the Hunting Cabin 'tags' all trees within a 5 tile radius, including ones that are already felled (depleted trees are not counted).
- Hunting Cabins generate a varying amount gold per tree; the larger the number of tagged trees, the less each additional tree contributes to the total gold generation, which is every 30 seconds. With a relatively normal 20-25 trees covered for a hunting cabin built on the edge of a circular forest, the gold generation rate is around 0.8-0.85 gold per tree per minute.
- The gold generation rate is increased +10%/+25%/+40% depending on the Bounty level.
- The amount of gold generated does not change if trees around the structure are cut down. It keeps the same value that was originally there when built.
- Trees can only be tagged by a single cabin. If they are located within two or more overlapping Hunting Cabin radii, they will be ignored by the second cabin.
- The maximum gold the player can produce is 300 per minute with no Bounty, and 420 per minute with tier 3 Bounty. The High Trade House does not contribute to the Hunting Cabin gold generation cap and also does not tag any trees within its radius.
Trainable units[]
Available technologies[]
Survival Techniques- Wheelbarrow
- Horticulture
- Professional Scouts
- Fertilization
- Precision Cross-Breeding
Further statistics[]
As the Hunting Cabin is unique to the Rus, only technologies that are available to them are shown in the following table:
| Technologies | |
|---|---|
 Hit points
|
 Court Architects (+30%)
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| Aura and ability enhancements | |
|---|---|
| Other |  Gold Generation (gold generation increased +10%/+25%/+40% depending on Bounty level)
|
Changelog[]
- Originally, Hunting Cabins had a build time of 40 seconds. With update 7.0.5861, this was reduced to 25 seconds. With update 10.0.576, it is 35 seconds.
- Prior to the Season Five Update Hunting Cabins functioned differently.
- Hunting cabins similarly generated gold based on the amount of trees in their aura radius, but instead of 'claiming' trees, they suffered a penalty to gold income if the auras overlapped and simply did not generate any gold at all if placed within the aura of another Hunting Cabin.
- Gold generation was previously a fixed amount at a varying time interval based on accrued Bounty. After the patch, it generates a varying amount of gold in a fixed time interval based on accrued Bounty.
- The gold generation formula was linear based on the number of trees within the radius, meaning that it scaled extremely quickly on maps with a lot of trees. After the patch, it is logarithmic (diminishing returns)
- The High Trade House aura and generation were subject to the same penalties and limits as Hunting Cabins. After the update, it functions independently of any Hunting Cabins.
Gallery[]
A Hunting Cabin
Different Hunting Cabin gold generation amounts
