| “ | Shaolin wood clearing techniques increase Villager Wood and Mango Grove gathering. | ” |
| —In-game description | ||
Wood Clearing is a technology in Age of Empires III: The Asian Dynasties that can be researched at a Trading Post or Tambo built on a Shaolin Temple holy site. Once researched, it allows villagers gather wood from trees and Mango Groves 20% faster.
Strategy[]
Wood Clearing is useful for players who desire a turtle strategy or a native rushing one, due the fact which the majority of native and religious units cost additional wood. Principally, Wood Clearing is more useful for the Indians than other civilization due their special feature about the Indian villager cost, or for the Japanese, if the Zen Diet card is sent. Wood Clearing can be complemented with other woodcutting upgrades at the Market (and Deforestation at the Capitol, in the case of the Europeans).
Trivia[]
- Wood Clearing is likely a reference to martial artists chopping wooden blocks with their bare hands, especially with how the description is written.
