Moon Ceremony

Moon Ceremony
Information
Introduced in	Age of Empires III: Definitive Edition
Civilization	Inca
Age	Commerce Age
Performed at	Community Plaza
Effect
Trickles wood

“	Perform a Moon Ceremony to generate Wood over time.	”
—In-game description

The Moon Ceremony is a ceremony available at the Community Plaza for the Inca in the Commerce Age, which generates wood. Due to its high base wood trickle, the ceremony is most effective in the early game by placing a single Llama on the Community Plaza. Its low scaling makes placing any more Villagers on the plaza an inefficient use of them, as a villager's base wood gathering rate is higher.

At maximum capacity with 10 Priestesses and 15 Villagers, the ceremony trickles 11.35 wood per second. Alternatively, if the player wishes not to use any Villagers and instead uses 15 Llamas upgraded with the Llama Lifestyle Home City Card, the ceremony trickles 7.56 wood per second.

Changelog

Definitive Edition

• Moon Ceremony is available in the Fortress Age.

The African Royals

• With update 47581, Moon Ceremony is available in the Commerce Age and the wood trickle scaling improved to approximately 0.25 wood per second per tasked Villager (Llamas and Priestess count as 0.25 and 1.5 units, respectively).

Knights of the Mediterranean

• With patch 15.30007, all units that can be tasked on the Community Plaza (Villagers, Priestesses, Llamas) now generate ~20% less wood with one unit tasked, but roughly ~10% more with about 10 and more units tasked.