Lumber Camp (Age of Empires II)

This article is about the building in Age of Empires II. For the building in Age of Mythology, see Lumber Camp (Age of Mythology).

Lumber Camp
Building information
Introduced in	The Age of Kings
Type	Economic
Civilization	All civilizations
Age	Dark Age
Use	Drop off wood Research logging technologies
Construction
Wood	100
Construction time	35 seconds
Statistics
Size	2×2 tiles
Hit points	600 800 1,000 1,000
Melee armor	0 1 2 3
Pierce armor	7 8 9 10
Armor classes	Building Standard building
Line of Sight	6

“	Used to deposit wood and research wood-gathering improvements.	”
—Age of Empires II description

The Lumber Camp is an economic building in Age of Empires II. It is a drop-off point for wood. Also, logging technologies are researched here.

Tactics and placement

It is advantageous to build Lumber Camps near forests so that the Villagers have the shortest possible walking distance to drop off their chopped wood. Leaving one tile between the edge of the forest and the Lumber Camp is most efficient if there are at least three Lumberjacks working on that Lumber Camp. In order to keep the walking distances short and the wood-chopping efficiency high, new Lumber Camps should be built when the Villagers start to have longer ways, so the Villagers can 'dig' into the forest.

As in the Dark Age the most valuable resources are wood and food, most players build a Lumber Camp once they chopped out all the trees around the Town Center (that in most maps are 3 or 4). As Lumber Camps only cost 100 wood, they are also the cheapest way (next to Mills and Mining Camps) to cover a building prerequisite to advance to the Feudal Age.

Technologies

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Further statistics

Building strengths and weaknesses
Strong vs.	Nothing
Weak vs.	Everything
Upgrades
Hit points	Masonry (+10%)  Architecture (+10%)
Armor	Masonry (+1/+1, +3 building armor)  Architecture (+1/+1, +3 building armor)
Line of Sight	Town Watch (+4)  Town Patrol (+4)
Conversion defense	Faith  Heresy
Construction speed	Treadmill Crane (+20%)

Civilization bonuses

• Burmese: Researching Faith is 50% cheaper. Lumber Camp technologies are free.
• Byzantines: Lumber Camps have +10%/+20%/+30%/+40% HP in the Dark/Feudal/Castle/Imperial Age. Town Watch is free.
• Chinese: Technologies that benefit Lumber Camps and Lumber Camp technologies are 10%/15%/20% cheaper in the Feudal/Castle/Imperial Age.
• Japanese: Lumber Camps are 50% cheaper.
• Malians: Lumber Camps are 15% cheaper.
• Persians: Researching Town Watch and Town Patrol is 10%/15%/20% faster in the Feudal/Castle/Imperial Age.
• Spanish: Lumber Camps are built 30% faster.

Team bonuses

• A team containing Malians: Researching Masonry, Architecture, and Treadmill Crane is 80% faster.

Changelog

The Age of Kings

• Lumber Camps always have 1,000 HP.

The Conquerors

• Heresy introduced.

The Forgotten

• Lumber Camp HP staggered: 600/800/1,000/1,000 in the Dark/Feudal/Castle/Imperial Age.

Trivia

• The Western European, Central European, Mediterranean, and East Asian Lumber Camps have a Treadmill Crane. The Eastern European and Native American ones also have one but without the treadmill. However, a European style treadmill crane would have been unknown to the Mesoamericans and East Asians in reality.
• The treadmill cranes mentioned above are also counterweight cranes. They use the same counterweight model from the Trebuchet albeit smaller.

History

“

The great forests of Dark Age Europe were an important natural resource that was converted into wood for building and firewood for fuel. Lumber was cut from tree logs at a lumber camp. The early lumber camps were highly labor-intensive. A log was laid perpendicular to the ground above a pit. With one man above ground and one in the pit, a long iron saw was used to rip boards from the log. In the Middle Ages, better technology was developed to use water or animal power to drive iron saws and increase productivity.

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Gallery

All Lumber Camps in The Age of Kings and The Conquerors

All Lumber Camps introduced in the HD expansions

All expansion Lumber Camps in the Definitive Edition

Lumber Camps should be renewed to save walking time

Spritesheet for the Lumber Camp

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