DTX Studios: Wiki launch content: written from the game's code, data and story bible (Tools/wiki/content)

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Wiki launch content: written from the game's code, data and story bible (Tools/wiki/content)

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{{Infobox unit
| name = Trade Cart
| image = Icon_Unit_TradeCart.png
| role = Support
| damage_type = None
| hp = 120
| attack = 0
| defense = 2
| range = 0
| siege_attack = 0
| cooldown = 0
| train_time = 25
| food =
| gold = 50
| wood = 100
| stone =
| leather =
| fibre =
| population = 1
| trained_at = [[Trading Hub]]
| ranged = No
| can_siege = No
| status = In the game
}}

The '''Trade Cart''' is a trading unit trained at the [[Trading Hub]]. It earns gold by travelling between its home Trading Hub and an '''ally's''' Trading Hub. It cannot attack.

== Trading ==
* The cart's '''home''' is the Trading Hub that trained it. Order it onto an ally's built Trading Hub to start a route.
* It travels home, then to the ally's hub, then home again, repeating. The gold is paid to the cart's owner '''when it returns home'''.
* '''Allies only:''' a route to your own Trading Hub is refused.
* '''Gold per round trip''' = 0.40 x (distance between the two hubs in metres, minus 40), rounded, between 0 and 120. Hubs 40 m apart or closer pay nothing; the 120 cap is reached at 340 m.
* Any move order you give the cart ends its route.
* Computer opponents do not train Trade Carts in the current build.

== Combat ==
The Trade Cart has no attack (Attack 0, Range 0). It cannot fight; it relies on other units for protection.

It has 120 hit points and 2 armour. Every hit it takes is reduced by its armour, to a minimum of 1 damage per hit (see [[Damage types]]).

== Training ==
* '''Trained at:''' [[Trading Hub]].
* '''Cost:''' 50 gold, 100 wood. The cost is paid when the unit is queued. Cancelling a queued or in-progress unit refunds the full cost.
* '''Train time:''' 25 seconds. Training-speed bonuses from the owner's [[Callings|Calling]] and [[Disciplines]] shorten it; no unit trains in under 0.5 seconds.
* '''Population:''' 1. Training is refused when living units plus everything already queued in all of the player's buildings, plus this unit, would pass the population cap.
* A building holds at most 5 units in its training queue.

== Notes ==
* The trade formula's constants are a starting point and may be tuned.

== See also ==
* [[Units]]
* [[Damage types]]
* [[Trading Hub]]
* [[Trade Ship]]


[[Category:Units]]
[[Category:Support units]]

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