“ | 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 an Estate 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 Estates (0.5 food, 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[]
Age | Technology | Cost | Effect |
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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 Estates 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 Estates 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 Estates and Rice Paddies (coin) 20% faster; requires Rice Trade | |
Rice Exports | Villagers gather from Estates 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[]
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 Mechanized Rice Cultivation and Collective Economy cost no wood) |
Home City Cards[]
- Click for a list of Home City Cards related to the Rice Paddy
Some cards are highlighted with: | |
Green | TEAM Shipment that is sent to each player in a team |
Asians[]
Card | Description | Age | HC level |
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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 Hindu Villager for the Indians) | 10 |
- The Indians have the TEAM Improved Buildings card instead of Improved Buildings.
Chinese[]
Card | Description | Age | HC level |
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Confucius' Gift | Technologies are researched 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[]
Card | Description | Age | HC level |
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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 technologies cost no wood +1 Hindu Villager | 1 |
Trivia[]
- There is unused portrait for the Indian Rice Paddy in the The Asian Dynasties files. Despite being updated for the Definitive Edition, the portrait for the Indian Rice Paddy remains unused.
History[]
“ | 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. | ” |