Rice Paddy

Rice Paddy
Building information
Introduced in	Age of Empires III: The Asian Dynasties
Type	Economic
Civilization	Asians
Age	Exploration Age
Use	Infinite source of food or coin
Construction
Wood	400
Max. builders	10
Build time	20 seconds
Statistics
Hit points	2,500
Line of Sight	12
Max. gatherers	10
XP build bounty	80
XP bounty	160

“	Slow, infinite source of Food or Coin. Limited to 10 gatherers.	”
—In-game description

The Rice Paddy is an economic building in Age of Empires III: The Asian Dynasties that is unique to the Asian civilizations (Chinese, Indians, and Japanese). It combines the functions of a Mill and an Estate by acting as an infinite source of food and coin, but not both; the Rice Paddy must be configured to provide either resource at one time.

Although the gather rates of Rice Paddies are slower than Mills and Estates (0.5 food and 0.34 coin), villagers gathering from a Rice Paddy do not wander around, thus eliminating the need to "optimize" the gather rate by limiting each Rice Paddy to be gathered by up to 7 villagers.

Technologies

Age	Technology	Cost	Effect
	Paddy Threshing	150 wood, 150 coin	Villagers gather from Mills, Farms, and Rice Paddies (food) 15% faster
	Rice Surplus	200 food, 200 wood	Villagers gather from Estates and Rice Paddies (coin) 10% faster
	Irrigation Channels	150 wood, 150 coin	Villagers gather from Mills, Farms, and Rice Paddies (food) 15% faster; requires Paddy Threshing
	Rice Trade	400 food, 400 wood	Villagers gather from Estates and Rice Paddies (coin) 20% faster; requires Rice Surplus
	Dike-Controlled Canals	150 wood, 150 coin	Villagers gather from Mills, Farms, and Rice Paddies (food) 15% faster; requires Irrigation Channels
	Rice Markets	400 food, 400 wood	Villagers gather from Estates and Rice Paddies (coin) 20% faster; requires Rice Trade
	Rice Exports		Villagers gather from Estates and Rice Paddies (coin) 20% faster; requires Rice Markets
	Mechanized Rice Cultivation	1,000 wood, 1,000 coin	Villagers gather from Mills, Farms, and Rice Paddies (food) 50% faster; requires Dike-Controlled Canals
	Collective Economy	1,000 food, 1,000 wood	All coin gathering (but not trickles, shipments, and Trade Routes) is 50% faster; requires Rice Exports

Further statistics

Building strengths and weaknesses
Strong vs.	Nothing
Weak vs.	Everything
Improvements
Hit points	Flying Buttress (+20%)
Construction cost	Cree Textile Craftsmanship (-25% wood) Tupi Forest Burning (-20% wood)
Other	Cherokee Basket Weaving (improvements except Mechanized Rice Cultivation and Collective Economy cost no wood)

Home City Cards

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Green: TEAM Shipment that is sent to each player in a team Asians Card Description Age HC level Improved Buildings Buildings get +40% hit points 10 Advanced Rice Paddy Rice Paddies get +100% hit points and cost -50% (also +1 Villager for the Indians) 10 Land Reforms Villagers and Rickshaws build buildings 50% faster and buildings' build bounty doubled (also +1 Villager for the Indians) 10 The Indians have the TEAM Improved Buildings card instead of Improved Buildings. Chinese Card Description Age HC level Confucius' Gift Technologies are researched instantly and Home City shipments arrive 33% faster 40 Land Grab Villages and Rice Paddies cost -30% to -40% and build time -75% 25 Indians Card Description Age HC level TEAM Improved Buildings Buildings get +25% hit points 10 Mughal Architecture Buildings except wonders cost -20% wood and build time -50% +1 Villager 40 Farmland Conservation Rice Paddy technologies cost no wood +1 Villager 1

Trivia

• There is unused portrait for the Indian Rice Paddy in the The Asian Dynasties files. Despite being updated for the Definitive Edition, the portrait for the Indian Rice Paddy remains unused.

History

“

The evolutionary origins of Rice, the genus oryza, are rooted in such distant history that no exact geographic location has been defined as the true source. A popular theory claims that the ancient supercontinent known as Gondwana, which included most of the landmasses in today’s southern hemisphere, was home to oryza; but when Gondwana split into pieces 200 million years ago, rice traveled with the newly created continents and landforms, populated the new continents and islands that became Africa, South America, Antarctica, Australia, New Zealand, India, and Madagascar. A rice paddy is an arable selection of land planted with rice seed that is flooded, providing the large amounts of water essential to rice growth. The paddy is irrigated by diverting water from rivers and mountain streams into a complex network of canals developed over years of use. Rice farmers often terrace the paddies up a hillside or slope, which conserves water by allowing it to flow down through successive rice fields. Rice seed is usually planted in a seedbed but transplanted to the paddy as a young plant. The water level begins at a depth of 6 inches, but as the plant grows, farmers gradually drain the water. By harvest time the water is almost entirely drained, and the farmers can collect the rice from the dried fields. Fifty percent of the world’s rice is grown in paddies that are fed by natural rainfall; thirty-five percent comes from paddies flooded by both rainfall and irrigation. The major rice-producing countries - including China, India, and Vietnam - primarily cultivate paddy rice.

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Gallery

A Chinese/Japanese Rice Paddy

Unused Indian Rice Paddy portrait

Unused Indian Rice Paddy portrait in the Defintive Edition