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"Villagers gather resources and construct buildings."
In-game description
The Villager is a worker unit in Age of Mythology: Retold that is only available to the Greeks. Villagers are essential in gathering the resources with which to develop the player's army and build structures to expand your empire. A strong empire has many Villagers. In times of emergency, Villagers are fair fighters, but they are best left to what they do well - gathering resources and constructing buildings.
The player can only have up to 100 Villagers at any given time regardless of the population cap status.
Tasks
Villagers are usually used to gather resources to fund the player's many technological upgrades and unit creation in addition to building and repairing structures.
Assigning Villagers to Temples will slowly generate favor. The more Villagers are praying at a Temple, the more favor is generated, though the benefit decreases with each additional Villager.
Gather Rates
Villagers gather resources from different sources at a different speed. The table below shows all gathering rates in descending order.
| Role | Resource | Source | Gathering Rate per second | Gathering Rate per minute |
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| Hunter | File:Infobox-food.png Food | Hunt | 1 | 60 |
| Herdsman | File:Infobox-food.png Food | Livestock Chicken | 0.9 | 54 |
| Forager | File:Infobox-food.png Food | Berry Bush | 0.8 | 48 |
| Farmer | File:Infobox-food.png Food | Farm | 0.7 | 42 |
| Lumberjack | File:Infobox-wood.png Wood | Tree | 1 | 60 |
| Lumberjack | File:Infobox-wood.png Wood | Gaia Tree | 1.05 | 63 |
| Miner | File:Infobox-gold.png Gold | Gold Mine | 0.85 | 51 |
Favor Generation
Villagers can also gain favor by praying at Temples. However, the efficiency of favor generation is lower with each Villager (across all Temples). For example, one Villager generates 6 favor per minute, five Villagers with a -4.6% penalty generate 21 (25 for Zeus) favor per minute, and twenty-five Villagers with a -17.6% penalty generate 50 (55 for Zeus) favor per minute.
Buildings
Villagers can construct the following buildings:
Statistical Bonuses
God Bonuses
 Zeus: Villagers generate favor 20% faster.
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General Technologies
Storehouse
| Image | Name | Description |
|---|---|---|
| File:Shared-t-hand-axe.png | Hand Axe | +10% wood gather rate, +50% carrying capacity |
| File:Shared-t-bow-saw.png | Bow Saw | +10% wood gather rate, +50% carrying capacity |
| File:Shared-t-carpenters.png | Carpenters | +10% wood gather rate, +50% carrying capacity |
| File:Shared-t-pickaxe.png | Pickaxe | +10% gold gather rate, +50% carrying capacity |
| File:Shared-t-shaft-mine.png | Shaft Mine | +10% gold gather rate, +50% carrying capacity |
| File:Shared-t-quarry.png | Quarry | +10% gold gather rate, +50% carrying capacity |
Granary
| Image | Name | Description |
|---|---|---|
| File:Shared-t-husbandry.png | Husbandry | +20% herdable food gather rate, 2× food carry capacity (of all types) |
| File:Shared-t-plow.png | Plow | +10% food gather rate from Farms |
| File:Shared-t-irrigation.png | Irrigation | +10% food gather rate from Farms |
| File:Shared-t-flood-control.png | Flood Control | +10% food gather rate from Farms |
Myth Technologies
| Image | Name | God | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| File:Grk-t-golden-apples.png | Golden Apples | Aphrodite | 15% favor generation. Researched at the Town Center |
| File:Grk-t-divine-blood.png | Divine Blood | Aphrodite | +20% movement speed, construct +15% faster, Villagers carry +10 food, wood, and gold. Researched at the Town Center |
| File:Grk-t-sun-ray.png | Sun Ray | Apollo | +6 Line of Sight. Researched at the Temple |
| File:Grk-t-dionysia.png | Dionysia | Dionysus | +5% hit points. Researched at the Temple |
Relic Bonuses
| Image | Name | Description |
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Black Lotus | +10% farming rate |
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Blue Crystal Shard | +5% gold and wood gathering rates |
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Charon's Obol | 50% cost refunded on death |
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Fetters of Fenrir | +20% attack |
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Harmonia's Necklace | +10% gold gathering rate |
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Hestia's Hearth | -5% training time |
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Kithara of Apollo | +10% movement speed |
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Pelt of Argus | +6 Line of Sight |
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Pygmalion's Statue | +40% hit points |
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Sistrum of Bast | -15% cost |
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Staff of Dionysus | Regenerate 0.5 hit points per second |
History
"Villagers form the basis of your economy. Make sure that you have enough Villagers to generate a steady flow of resources, but remember that they are weak in combat. Task a Greek Villager on a Temple to generate Favor. A mixture of freemen and slaves performed the bulk of the food production and other labor in the lands surrounding the Aegean Sea that constituted ancient Greece. Because the land here was not agriculturally rich, the typical freeman villager became adept at a variety of crafts and was a more independent thinker than more specialized peasants elsewhere. Free Greek villagers also formed the bulk of the Greek soldiery, the best in the world at the time, and were at the forefront of Greek expansion through colonization and trade."
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