Pets are animals in Age of Empires III that can be controlled by the player. They possess the AbstractPet tag.
Overview[]
One of the more common pets in the game is the Dog, as an Explorer Dog is available to all Explorers through the Home City, apart from the Spanish, who can train five War Dogs instead.
Heroes and Town Centers can train pet Cougars with the Tupi Animal Lore technology, and Indian monks can train pet Tigers with the right Home City Card. Before the Definitive Edition, War Chiefs could train pet Coyotes, Wolves, or Jaguars through a Home City Card.
There are also other pets, usually found through treasures or sent from the Home City, available to all civilizations.
The WarChiefs enables civilizations added in the pack to use their War Chief to tame treasure guardians, including animals, however the resulting units are still tagged as Treasure guardians and not as Pets. One visible difference is that Pets are able to move in a line formation (even if they don't have the stances buttons on their unit menu), while tamed Treasure guardians are not capable of this level of organization.
Villagers have 2.0x bonus damage against pets. Concomitantly, Pets have a negative multiplier against Villagers.
All Pets, with the exception of the Lamb of the Creator and the cheat unit Fluffy, also have the hand infantry tag. Pets cannot attack buildings.
List of Pets[]
Aiz the Tame Elephant
Axehilt the Tame Tiger
Beau the Barbaric Boar- Big Jerome the Pet Polar Bear
- Buck the Tame Wolf
- Buttercup the Pet Cougar
- Duber the Pet Monkey
- Explorer's Dog
- Fang the Tame Coyote
- Fierce Cougar
- Fluffy
- Freitag the Pet Macaque
- Gentle Pete the Pet Bear
- Honcho the Pet Grizzly Bear
- Intrepid Turkey Scout
- Janey the Pet Jaguar
- Kermond the Pet Monitor Lizard
- Lamb of the Creator
- Lhota the Pet Lion
- Nili the Playful Hippo
- Old Doug the Orangutan
- Pambuu the Tame Warthog
- Pete-Pete the Tame Panda
- Peruvian Dog
- Randy the Pet Rhino
- Sanura the Tame Leopard
- Tengri Wolf
- Wagner the Pet White Tiger
- War Dog
- White Buffalo
Changelog[]
The WarChiefs[]
- Pets (except the Explorer's Dog and the War Dog) cannot reveal stealth enemies.
Definitive Edition[]
- All Pets can reveal stealth enemies.
| Tags in Age of Empires III | |
|---|---|
 Infantry | |
 Heavy infantry | Hand infantry ·  Pikeman · Musket infantry |
 Light infantry | Foot archer · Rifle infantry · Hand skirmisher |
| Other | Counter skirmisher · Gunpowder trooper · Grenade trooper |
 Cavalry /  Shock infantry | |
 Heavy cavalry |  Hand cavalry · Ranged heavy cavalry · Lance cavalry |
 Light ranged cavalry | Gunpowder cavalry |
| Shock infantry |  Hand shock infantry ·  Ranged shock infantry |
| Other | Camel · Elephant |
| Siege units | |
 Siege trooper ·  Artillery ·  Siege Elephant · Gatling Camel* · Fixed Gun* · Arrow Knight* | |
 Ships | |
Fishing boat · War ship ·  Recruiting ship | |
 Building | |
 Resource enclosure ·  Wall · Frontier fortification · Barracks | |
| Other | |
 Hero ·  Mercenary · Monk ·  Outlaw · Pet ·  Villager | |
| Mother nature | |
 Hunted animals ·  Guardian | |
| Support tags | |
| Archer · Healing unit · Native warrior · Archaic infantry · Ranged infantry · Ranged cavalry · Consulate unit | |
| All tags with icons are related to the bonus and penalties counter system, except *hidden tags that aren't in the UI | |