Peasant

> "*Villager that constructs buildings and gathers resources.*"
> ― In-game description.
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## Overview

The **Peasant** is an economic unit that can be trained by Nation States civilizations at the Town Center. Settlers are the backbone of every civilization's economy, performing key tasks such as resource gathering and building construction.

The stat of the Peasants is identical to the standard European Settlers or Villagers.

## Tactics

Peasants can be assigned with the following tasks:

* Peasants can build most buildings.
* Peasants can gather food from Berry Bushes, Cherry Orchards, and huntable animals. Settlers may also be tasked to a Food Crop which will generate infinite Food, but at a slower rate and limited gatherer capacity. Alternatively, food can also be gathered from herdable animals.
* Peasants can gather wood from trees. Alternatively, they can gather from Mango Groves.
* Peasants can gather coin from Mines and tasking Peasants to work on Cash Crop will generate Coin, similarly to a Food Crop.
* When resource shipments arrive from the Home City, they do so in the form of Crates of Food, Cords of Wood and Chests of Coin at the assigned shipment arrival point, which usually is the first Town Center, but can be changed to certain other units and buildings. They must be unpacked by a gatherer (such as the Peasant) in order to add them to your resources.
* Similar to Chiefs, Peasants may also collect Treasures.

## Civilization Differences

* The Germans can gain up to 14 Peasants after sending the **Ruhrpolen** shipment.
* The Greeks can task their Peasants to gather Coin at their unique coin production building the Olive Plantation which holds 10 gatherers and have more upgrades compared to the standard Plantations.
* The Romanians have two types of Villager units which are Peasants and Roma Villagers, as such the Romanian Peasants have a lower build limit of 89.

## Further Statistics

 **Sight** |  **Farmer's Lodge** (+4 line-of-sight)
 **Gathering rate** | For Food Food* **Bloodhounds** (+10% for huntable animals)
* **Baiting** (+20% for huntable animals)
* **Scarecrows** (15% from Food Crops and +1 Crop gatherer limit)
* **Domestic Cats** (30% from Food Crops and +1 Crop gatherer limit)
* **Hoeing** (40% from Food Crops and +1 Crop gatherer limit)
* **Crop Rotation** (50% from Food Crops and +1 Crop gatherer limit)

For Wood Wood
* **Craftmanship** (+10% Wood gathering)
* **Carpentry** (+20% Wood gathering)
* **Wooden Furniture** (+30% Wood gathering)
* **Steam-Saw Factories** (+50% Wood gathering)

For Coin Coin
* **Marble Sculptures** (+10% gathering from Mines)
* **Mattocks** (+20% gathering from Mines)
* **Scarecrows** (10% from Coin Crops and +1 Crop gatherer limit)
* **Domestic Cats** (20% from Coin Crops and +1 Crop gatherer limit)
* **Hoeing** (45% from Coin Crops and +1 Crop gatherer limit)
* **Crop Rotation** (50% from Coin Crops and +1 Crop gatherer limit)
* **Crude Olive-Pomace Oil** (+10% gathering from Olive Plantations, Greeks only)
* **Refined Olive-Pomace Oil** (+20% gathering from Olive Plantations, Greeks only)
* **Olive-Pomace Oil** (+30% gathering from Olive Plantations, Greeks only)
* **Pure Olive Oil** (+45% gathering from Olive Plantations, Greeks only)
* **Virgin Olive Oil** (+55% gathering from Olive Plantations, Greeks only)
* **Extra-Virgin Olive Oil** (+75% gathering from Olive Plantations, Greeks only)

## Home City Cards

As the **Settler** is a shared European unit, only shipments related to the European civilizations and other civilizations' TEAM cards are shown in the following tables:

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

* **INFINITE** Shipments are highlighted in **Purple**
* **TEAM** Shipments are highlighted in **Green**
* Shipments that are boosted by politicians or maps are highlighted in **Blue**

### Shared Economic Cards

* "TEAM Pioneers" is available to the Japanese.
* "TEAM Sawmills" is available to the Canadians and French.
* "TEAM Exotic Hardwoods" is available to the Canadians.
* "TEAM Establish Ironmonger" is available to the Ottomans and Spanish.
* "TEAM Silversmith" is available to the Canadians.
* "TEAM Food Silos" is available to the Austro-Hungarians, Canadians, Germans, and Haudenosaunee.
* "TEAM Furrier" is available to the Canadians, Danes, Haudenosaunee, Russians, and Tupi.
* "TEAM Spice Trade" is available to the Canadians and Dutch.
* "TEAM Rum Distillery" is available to the British, Canadians, and Haitians.
* "TEAM Medicine" is available to the Haudenosaunee, Indians, and Tupi.

### Nation States

* "8 Peasants" is available to the Greeks.

## See Also

* Settler
* Pioneer