Age of Empires:Villager Work Rates
These statistics, which aren't printed in the manual, are likely the most important pieces of information that you will need to get a fast bronze time.Everything here, if utilized properly ,will GREATLY improve your bronze time.Also, practice and perfecting you use of villagers, without delay, will help as well.Practice with the hotkeys, and that,too will improve your time.Now, here is the stuff.
Villager Work Rates
| Villager Task | Units/Second | Organization Needed | Other Notes |
| Foraging Berries | .45/second | Not too much,pretty easy | -Effective source of food early |
| Shore Fishing | .80/second | 2 villagers/fishing spot | -4 on this=7 on berries... |
| Hunting | .45/second | 5 vills/elephant, kill all gazells,b4 collecting food | -Persian work rate is .8/sec!!! |
| Wood Cutting | .45/second | Basically none | -Wood is very important... |
| Mining | .45/sec | Not much, just build pit, mine | -Always wall yourself in, and not JUST the crossing!!! |
| Fishing | .45/sec | Boats collect 15 at a time, but are no more effective | -Fish...alot |
| Farming | .4/sec | Worst source of food, and 1 vill/farm ONLY |
The average vilager moves at 1.1 tiles per second.Take note of that, and the 30% advantage of Yamato and Assyrian villagers.