Sacred Field

Sacred Field
Building information
Introduced in	The Asian Dynasties
Type	Economic
Civilization	Indians
Age	Discovery Age
Use	Indian livestock generates XP faster when tasked to the Sacred Field Train Sacred Cows Heals injured friendly units (5 hit points per second, 12 AOE) (with The Mystical Syllable Home City Card)
Construction
Wood	250
Max. builders	8
Build time	20 seconds
Build limit	2
Statistics
Hit points	1,200
Line of Sight	10
Max. gatherers	10
XP build bounty	63
XP bounty	125

“	Livestock generate more experience points when tasked to a Sacred Field. Trains Cows.	”
—In-game description

The Sacred Field is an economic building in Age of Empires III: The Asian Dynasties that is unique to the Indians. It is similar in function to the Livestock Pen where livestock can be tasked to it, but since Indian Villagers cannot gather from livestock and they generates experience points instead, it increases the rate at which Indian livestock generates experience, and trains Sacred Cows instead of Cows.

Units

Unit	Cost	Limit
Sacred Cow	125 food	20

Technologies

Age	Technology	Cost	Effect
	Ritual Bovine	150 wood 150 coin	Indian livestock generates +25% XP when tasked to Sacred Fields

Further statistics

As Sacred Fields are unique to the Indians, only technologies that they have access to are shown in 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)

Home City Cards

As Sacred Fields are unique to the Indians, only their cards and other civilizations' TEAM cards are shown in the following tables:

Click for a list of Home City Cards related to the Sacred Field
Green: TEAM Shipment that is sent to each player in a team Indians Card Description Age HC level The Mystical Syllable Sacred Fields slowly heal nearby units and ships 1 Sacred Field Rickshaw +1 Villager 25 TEAM Improved Buildings Buildings get +25% hit points 10 Mughal Architecture Buildings except wonders cost -20% wood and build time -50% +1 Villager 40

History

“

As a source of food and a symbol of life in Hinduism, the cow may not be killed. According to the ancient religious text, the “Rigveda,” the cow is a goddess associated with Aditi, the mother of all gods. Therefore, slaughter is taboo. In ancient times, cows were sacrificed and their meat eaten, but never primarily for consumption, and milk-producing cows were never killed. Even during periods when meat-eating was permitted, vegetarianism was encouraged. On a more practical level, slaughtering cows for beef was an extremely expensive act for sacrifice or as a gift, since the animal was a source of many important products: milk for consumption, fuel from dung, and browned butter for lamps. Later, in the early centuries CE, the cow became an appropriate gift to priests of the higher caste, or Brahmans. It was even said that killing a cow was equal to killing a Brahman.

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Gallery

A Sacred Field