| “ | Small boat that gathers Food from either Deep Water Fish or Shoreline Fish. Does not require a Dock to drop off gathered Food. The Lodya can be converted to any other type of ship. | ” |
| —Age of Empires IV description | ||
The Lodya Fishing Boat is the Lodya form of the Fishing Boat available to the Rus in Age of Empires IV trained at the Dock starting in the Dark Age. It is significantly different from the regular Fishing Boat, unlike other Lodya ships and their counterparts. It does not need to return to a Dock to drop off food. When their carry capacity limit is reached, they drop off food directly in the resource pile. However, to drop off food less than the carry capacity, the player needs to manually drop that off at the Dock.
Overview[]
Lodya Fishing Boats cost twice as much as Fishing Boats and take 50% more time to train. In turn, they gather almost twice as fast as Fishing Boats: They gather 1.42 food/s from Deep Water Fish and 1.2825 food/s from Shoreline Fish. Because Lodya Fishing Boats do not need to return to Docks to drop off food, their effective gathering speed is usually more than twice that of a Fishing Boat. They have a default carry capacity of 40, like Fishing Boats, but because they do not need to return to the Dock to deposit their fish, there is no benefit to increasing their carry capacity.
Ability[]
Lodya Fishing Boats have the ability to transform into any other type of ship for a cost. A detailed description of the ability is given in the Lodya Transformation section of the Ability page.
Further statistics[]
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| Carry Capacity |  Extended Lines (+10) Drift Nets (+20)
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| Gathering Rate | Extended Lines (+15%) Drift Nets (+10%)
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| Movement speed | Drift Nets (+15%)
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| Ability |  Adaptable Hulls (+50% transformation speed, removes 25 wood conversion penalty)
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Dialogue lines[]
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Changelog[]
- With update 8324, Lodya Fishing Boats incur a 50% movement speed penalty while switching roles, and wood cost to switch roles was increased by 25 wood.
- Originally, Lodya Fishing Boats cost 60 wood. With update 8324, they cost 75 wood. With the Season One Update, they cost 150 wood.
- With update 24916, Fishing Boats can now see into stealth fog on water, like a Scout, and their Line of Sight set to 14 tiles. With update 9.1.176, the maximum Line of Sight was changed to 11 tiles. With update 11.0.782, their maximum Line of Sight is 9.78 tiles.
- Originally, Lodya Fishing Boats cost 1 population, trained in 25 seconds, and had 125 hit points. With the Season One Update, they cost 2 population, train in 38 seconds, and have 250 hit points. With update 9.1.176, hit points were reduced to 200. With update 11.0.782, they train in 46 seconds.
- Originally, the gathering rates from Deep Water Fish and Shoreline Fish were 1.1 and 0.75 respectively. With patch 11009, they were reduced to 1 and 0.66. With the Season One Update, the gather rates were increased to 1.9 for Deep Water Fish and 1.19 for Shoreline Fish to compensate for the increased population cost. With update 6.0.878, they were changed to 1.71 for Deep Water Fish and 1.26 for Shoreline Fish. At some point, the gather rate for Deep Sea Fish was further reduced to 1.52, but not listed in any patch notes. With patch 13.1.4420, the Deep Water Fish gather rate was reduced again to 1.42. With update 15.1.6970, the Shoreline Fish gather rate was increased to 1.2825.
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