Snow Monkey

Duber the Pet Monkey
Information
Introduced in	Age of Empires III: The Asian Dynasties
Type	Pet Hand infantry Sees stealth*
Civilization(s)	Haiti
Age	Revolution
Required Home City Card	"Brethren of the Coast"
Training
Trained at	Battleship
Cost	25 Food
Train time	10 seconds
Train limit	12
Statistics
Hit points	90
Resistance	10% Hand
Speed	5.0
Line of Sight	12
Train XP	3
Kill XP	3
Hand attack
Damage	6 Hand
Rate of Fire	1.5
Bonus damage	3.0x vs. Guardian 0.1x vs. Villager

“	A pet monkey that likes to wash his food and is good against guardians.	”
—In-game description

Duber the Pet Monkey is a pet in Age of Empires III: The Asian Dynasties.

He is among the weakest pets in-game, with only Fang the Tame Coyote and Freitag the Pet Macaque being weaker, though he also has the worst attack among pets, tied with Freitag's.

Duber the Pet Monkey appears much more frequently than Freitag, always appearing in an unguarded treasure in Himalayas, Kamchatka, Siberia, and also on some versions of Silk Road.

Upgrades

Duber the Pet Monkey, like all other pets, is automatically upgraded on each Age.

• +20% hit points and damage
• +30% hit points and damage
• +40% hit points and damage
• +60% hit points and damage

Further statistics

Unit strengths and weaknesses
Strong vs.	Treasure guardians
Weak vs.	Villagers
Improvements
Hit points	Maya Cotton Armor (+20%) Infantry Breastplate (+10%) Gadaa System (+5%; Ethiopians only) Tar Kilns (+5%)
Attack	Zapotec Cult of the Dead (+20%) Carib Kasiri Beer (+10%) Master Lessons (+10%) Gadaa System (+5%; Ethiopians only) Wind Horses (-10% Rate of Fire)
Line of Sight	Town Watch (+3)
Speed	Push of Pike (+10%; Swedes only) Apache Endurance (+5%) Wind Horses (+0.5)
Cost	Somali Oryx Hide Shields (-10%)

Home City Cards

Click for a list of Home City Cards related to the Duber the Pet Monkey

Some cards are highlighted with:
Green	TEAM Shipment that is sent to each player in a team
Red	Shipment that can be sent twice
Blue	Shipment that arrives fast (5 seconds)

• Definitive Edition
• The Asian Dynasties

Chinese

Card	Description	Age
Western Reforms	All units get +8% hit points and damage

Ethiopians

Card	Description	Age
Ignatian Spirituality	All units get +5% hit points and regeneration capability even while in combat

Europeans

Card	Description	Age
Brethren of the Coast	Delivers 1 Battleship with 10 Pirates in it; African, American and European outlaws, Pet Monkeys and some pets can be trained at Battleships; costs 1,000 coin
Wanderlust	Land military units and land villagers get +5% hit points; land villagers and construction wagons get +5% speed

• "Brethren of the Coast" is available to the British and French upon revolting to Haiti.
• "Wanderlust" is available to the British and Dutch upon revolting to South Africa, and can be sent 3 times.

Inca

Card	Description	Age
Road Building	Land military units get +10% speed

Indians

Card	Description	Age
Dravidian Martial Arts	All units get +15% all melee attack damage; Rajputs get +20% all melee attack damage instead; +1 Hindu Villager
TEAM Shivaji's Tactics	All units get +5% hit points and damage

Maltese

Card	Description	Age
TEAM Knights of the Round Table	Delivers 1 Hospitaller for each Town Center and Command Post build; all units get +2% hit points

Mexicans

Card	Description	Age
TEAM Mariachi	For the next 30 seconds, military buildings work 400% faster and units get +10% speed
Colegio de San Nicolás	Delivers Large Collection of Books (500 XP); units get +4 and buildings (except Walls) get +8 Line of Sight; sees what enemies can see for 20 seconds
National Servant	All units get +10% hit points; Padre healing 200% faster	Imperial Age

• "Colegio de San Nicolás" is available upon selecting the Michoacán Federal State.
• "National Servant" is available upon selecting the Estado de México Federal State.

Spanish

Card	Description	Age
TEAM Hand Infantry Attack	Hand infantry get +15% damage
Archaic Infantry Hitpoints	Hand infantry and foot archers get +15% hit points; Rodeleros get +20% hit points instead
Archaic Infantry Combat	Hand infantry and foot archers get +15% hit points and damage
TEAM Spanish Inquisition	Delivers 1 Inquisitor; military and economic units get +10 Line of Sight

Swedes

Card	Description	Age
Hand Infantry/Hand Cavalry Attack	Hand infantry and hand cavalry get +15% damage
Hand Infantry/Hand Cavalry Hitpoints	Hand infantry and hand cavalry get +15% hit points

Chinese

Card	Description	Age	HC level
Western Reforms	All units get +8% hit points and damage		40

Indians

Card	Description	Age	HC level
Dravidian Martial Arts	All units get +15% all melee attack damage; +1 Villager		40
TEAM Shivaji's Tactics	All units get +5% hit points and damage		25

Spanish

Card	Description	Age	HC level
TEAM Hand Infantry Attack	Hand infantry get +15% damage		10
TEAM Inquisition	All units get +10 Line of Sight		10

Treasure guardian

Snow Monkey
Information
Introduced in	Age of Empires III: The Asian Dynasties
Type	Guardian
Civilization(s)	Mother Nature
Statistics
Hit points	90
Speed	7.0
Line of Sight	9
Kill XP	6
Hand attack
Damage	6 Hand
Rate of Fire	1.5

The Snow Monkey is one of the weakest treasure guardians in Age of Empires III: The Asian Dynasties, but stronger than the Lion-Tailed Macaque and the Tibetan Macaque.

Like the two others, they are usually found in groups, up to ten Guardians for a single treasure.

Changelog

The Asian Dynasties

• Duber the Pet Monkey cannot reveal stealth enemies.
• The Snow Monkey has an obstruction radius of 0.79.

Definitive Edition

• Duber the Pet Monkey can reveal stealth enemies.
• The Snow Monkey has an obstruction radius of 0.49.

History

“

Scientific Name: Macaca fuscata Approx. Size: 26 lb. (male); 12 lb. (female) Diet: Fruit, seeds, leaves, berries, flowers, bird eggs, fungi, bark, invertebrates The snow monkey, or "Japanese macaque," is the most northerly living non-human primate on Earth, residing in the mountains of the Japanese Honshu regions. Although the snow monkey is most commonly known for its frequent visits to volcanic hot springs, such as outside the city of Nagano, it can survive in severe winter temperatures as cold 5° F. A small population of free-range snow monkeys also lives in the state of Texas, in the United States, but it is the only population outside of the monkey's native Japan. This group was brought overseas in 1972. The snow monkey has brown to gray fur, with a red face and bottom, and a short, stubby tail. It lives in multi-male and multi-female social groups with very rigid hierarchies in which infants are born into the social rank of their mothers. The snow monkey is famous for washing its food before eating.

”

Gallery

An in-game Snow Monkey

The Snow Monkey's history portrait

Snow Monkey image from the Compendium section