Farm (Age of Empires III)

This article is about the building in Age of Empires III. For the building of the same name in other games of the series, see Farm.

Farm
Building information
Introduced in	Age of Empires III: The WarChiefs
Type	Economic
Civilization	Native Americans
Age	Exploration Age
Use	Infinite source of food Livestock fattens faster when tasked into Farms Trains Sheep (and Cow with the Ranching Home City Card) (Llama for the Inca)
Construction
Wood	400
Max. builders	10
Build time	20 seconds
Statistics
Hit points	2,500
Line of Sight	12
Gather rate	0.50 food per second * (No. of workers)
Max. gatherers	10
XP build bounty	80
XP bounty	160

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

The Farm is an economic building in Age of Empires III: The WarChiefs that is unique to the Native American civilizations (Aztecs, Haudenosaunee, Inca, and Lakota). It combines the functions of a Mill and a Livestock Pen by acting as an infinite food source, although the Farm has an inferior food gather rate (0.5 food), and makes livestock tasked to it fatten faster, as well as a Market for the purposes of hunting improvements.

Note that both villagers and livestock tasked to the Farm will count toward the total units allowed, so if there are already ten Villagers at the Farm, some of them will have to be removed to fatten livestock, or vice versa.

Tactics

Native Americans should use up all available Berry Bushes (equivalent in gather rate to a Mill with no upgrades) before tasking gatherers on the Farm. However, with the Haudenosaunee and Lakota abilities to spawn new huntable animals, and harvest berries, the "Furrier", and "TEAM Furrier" Home City Cards are more efficient for an early food boom strategy when combined with the initial Farm upgrades (which increase both hunting, and berries further). This relegates the Farm to a livestock pen, source of hunting, and berry upgrades until later Ages when absolutely necesarry to utilize it in infinite food production.

Units

Unit	Cost	Init. food	Max. food	Limit	Civ.
Sheep	100 food	50	300	30
Cow	80 food		500	20
Llama	70 food		400

The Cow requires the Ranching Home City Card to be trained at Farms.

Technologies

Age	Technology	Cost	Effect	Civ.
	Selective Breeding	150 wood 150 coin	Livestock fattens 25% faster	All
	Great Feast	100 wood 75 coin	Villagers gather food 10% faster
	Strawberry Festival	250 wood 250 coin	Ships 500 food for every 10 minutes the game has passed, up to 30 minutes	Haudenosaunee
	Horsemanship	500 coin	Lakota horsemanship enables Cavalry to train faster and inflict increased damage to Walls	Lakota
	Urcuchillay Worship	400 wood 400 coin	Ships 2 fattened Llamas for every 5 minutes the game has passed, up to 30 minutes	Inca
	Harvest Ceremony	225 wood 125 coin	Villagers gather food 15% faster; requires Great Feast	All
	Green Corn Ceremony	350 wood 175 coin	Villagers gather food 20% faster; requires Harvest Ceremony	All
	Cinteotl Worship	600 food 500 wood	Ships 1 Eagle Runner Knight for every 2 minutes the game has passed, up to 30 minutes	Aztecs
	Large Scale Gathering	1,000 wood 1,000 coin	Villagers gather food 50% faster and livestock fattens 50% faster; requires Green Corn Ceremony	All

Further statistics

Building strengths and weaknesses
Strong vs.	Nothing
Weak vs.	Everything
Improvements
Hit points	Flying Buttress (+20%)
Construction cost	Cree Textile Craftsmanship (-10%) Tupi Forest Burning (-20% wood)
Other	Cherokee Basket Weaving (improvements except Selective Breeding, Large Scale Gathering, and Big Buttons cost no wood)

Home City Cards

Click for a list of Home City Cards related to the Farm

Some cards are highlighted with:
Green	TEAM Shipment that is sent to each player in a team

Indians

Card	Description	Age	HC level
TEAM Improved Buildings	Buildings get +25% hit points		10

Native Americans

Card	Description	Age	HC level
Improved Buildings	Buildings get +40% hit points		10
Ranching	Farms can train Cows		1
Advanced Farm	Farms get +100% hit points and cost -50%		1
Agrarian Ways	Farm and Estate technologies (except Large Scale Gathering, Excessive Tribute, and Big Buttons) are free		25
Old Ways	Big Button technologies cost -50%		40
Land Grab	Farms and Estates cost -30% to -40% and build time -75%		25

The Improved Buildings card is available at a level 1 Home City for the Lakota.

The Agrarian Ways card is not available to the Lakota.

History

“

The Native Americans were well versed in various agricultural techniques. Sharing their expertise with the Mayflower colonists helped ensure the colony's survival. Adaptation of agriculture among Indian Nations depended largely on usefulness and location. The Aztecs, with their home city of Tenochtitlan, engineered extremely complex systems of farming, producing crop yields capable of supporting a population of several hundred thousand people. The Iroquois were accomplished growers of fruits and vegetables. They referred to their three primary crops - corn, beans, and squash - as "The Three Sisters." The ancestors of the Sioux and other Plains Indians were farmers as well as hunters, but their descendants adopted a more nomadic buffalo-based way of life after being forced westward by the advance of the Europeans.

”

Gallery

An in-game Lakota Farm