Sacred Field
Sacred Field is the Indians’ Exploration Age economic building in The Asian Dynasties and Definitive Edition. It replaces the usual Livestock Pen role for Indian livestock: animals assigned to it generate Experience rather than being gathered for Food, and they generate that Experience faster while tasked there. The building also trains Sacred Cows and can heal friendly units when the required Home City card is active.
Definitive Edition profile
- Civilization · Age
- Indians · Exploration Age
- Builders
- Hindu Villager · Sacred Field Rickshaw · up to 8 builders
- Cost · build time
- 200 Wood · 20 seconds
- Build limit · footprint
- 2 · 3×3
- Hit points · line of sight
- 1,400 · 10
- Gatherer capacity
- Up to 10
- Sacred Cow
- 125 Food · limit 20
- Healing
- 8 at range 12 · requires The Mystical Syllable
- Experience
- 50 for construction · 100 when destroyed
Indian livestock and Experience economy
A Hindu Villager or Sacred Field Rickshaw builds it for 200 Wood in 20 seconds; the player may have at most two. The building has 1,400 hit points, a 3×3 footprint and line of sight 10. Its profile allows up to eight builders and ten gatherers. It trains Sacred Cows for 125 Food, with a limit of 20. Assign eligible Indian herded animals to increase their Experience gathering rate; Ritual Bovine raises that rate by 10%. With The Mystical Syllable Home City Card, the field heals injured friendly units for 8 at range 12. Training livestock, generating Experience and healing are separate functions.
Research condition
Indians · Exploration Age · 200 Wood · 20 seconds · limit 2 · 3×3 footprint · 1,400 hit points. Healing requires The Mystical Syllable Home City Card.
Version and building values
Use the field when an Indian economy can benefit from livestock-generated Experience and the player wants Sacred Cows or card-enabled healing. Indian Villagers do not harvest Food from livestock: the animals assigned to this building support the Experience mechanic instead. Place it where its heal can reach friendly units, but remember that the healing effect is unavailable without The Mystical Syllable. Its two-building cap makes the placement and livestock assignment matter; do not assume that building it automatically supplies cows or activates healing.
Version values and changes
The Asian Dynasties profile predates the Definitive Edition balance change. Before update 13.27885, Sacred Field cost 250 Wood, had 1,300 hit points and awarded 63 Experience for construction and 125 when destroyed. Update 13.27885 changed those figures to 200 Wood, 1,400 hit points, 50 construction Experience and 100 destruction Experience. Keep the earlier values separate when reading original-expansion games.
Livestock, cards and improvements
The field trains Sacred Cows for 125 Food, up to a limit of 20. Indian herded animals assigned to it generate Experience faster; the Ritual Bovine technology increases their Experience gathering rate by 10%. The Mystical Syllable card enables the field’s healing effect. The source also records the TEAM Improved Buildings card and building improvements such as Flying Buttress and Byzantine Legacy for hit points, plus Tupi Forest Burning and Cree Textile Craftsmanship for cost or build time where those effects are available. These bonuses do not change the building’s basic role.