But for the purposes of this article I’ll be looking specifically at the cost of the farm buildings and not their “value added” features, which at the end of the day don’t really matter in terms of food production. Burrows and Ziggurats can be upgraded at an additional cost to towers and Moon Wells double as health and mana restoration.
Now of course each race’s “farm” unit costs a different amount, and provides a different amount of food or function to each race. I promise it won’t work unless you spend some more resources to build some farms. If you don’t believe the above is true, hit the food cap and try to build some more units. Additional units do not just cost their listed gold and lumber price, they also incur an additional cost due to food costs. What’s a player to do? Build some farms, of course.Īssuming you’re already at your pre-set food limit (all players start with a town hall which provides 10 food), you will be required to build additional farms (or town halls, which is less efficient than buildilng farms) to build additional units. Unfortunately for you, you have gold and lumber, but no food. So you’re ready to build a bunch of units to go crush your opponent’s base. This is of course assuming that you use a lumber harvesting worker to build a building and not a gold harvesting worker, which I think most would agree is a logical assumption. The Lumber Cost+ column indicates the actual cost of lumber given the fact that a worker unit must construct the building and while they’re doing that they could have been harvesting lumber. Table 1: Food buildings with modified lumber cost Building
This table illustrates the “actual” real cost of each race’s food supplying building. Like any other resource in an RTS game, food costs you something to supply and that cost can be calculated. Food usage does effect the unit’s final cost though since food supply is not free. In most cases the most relevant data is simply the unit’s listed gold and lumber cost. When looking at how much a unit “costs” in Warcraft 3, few people consider the costs associated with unit food supply into the cost of the unit.