Rice Paddy

“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 a Plantation 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 Plantations (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 Edit

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 Plantations 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 Plantations 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 Plantations and Rice Paddies (coin) 20% faster; requires Rice Trade
Rice Exports	400 food, 400 wood	Villagers gather from Plantations 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 Edit

As the Rice Paddy is unique to Asian civilizations, only improvements available to them that are shown on the following table.

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 Edit

As the Rice Paddy is unique to Asian civilizations, only other civilizations' TEAM cards that affect them are shown in the following tables.

Click for a list of Home City Cards related to the Rice Paddy

Green: TEAM Shipment that is sent to each player in a team

Asians Edit

Card	Description	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 Edit

Card	Description	Age	HC level
Confucius' Gift	Improvements are researched nearly 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 Edit

Card	Description	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 improvements cost no wood +1 Villager	1

History Edit

“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.”

Age of Empires III
Buildings in Age of Empires III
Civilian	House
Economic	Town Center · Trading Post · Market · Mill · Livestock Pen · Church · Plantation · Factory · Capitol
Military	Outpost · Dock · Barracks · Stable · Artillery Foundry · Arsenal · Fort · Saloon*
Other	Field Hospital · Native Embassy*
British	Manor
Dutch	Bank
Ottomans	Mosque
Russians	Blockhouse
The WarChiefs
Aztecs	Fire Pit · Farm · War Hut · Nobles' Hut
Iroquois	Longhouse · Fire Pit · Farm · War Hut · Corral · Siege Workshop
Sioux	Teepee · Fire Pit · Farm · War Hut · Corral
The Asian Dynasties
Chinese	Village · Rice Paddy · Consulate · Castle · Monastery · War Academy · Wonders
Indians	Sacred Field · Rice Paddy · Consulate · Castle · Monastery · Caravanserai · Wonders
Japanese	Shrine · Rice Paddy · Consulate · Castle · Monastery · Dojo · Wonders
* introduced in The Warchiefs
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