Harbor

Special worlds only - Annual Special, New Year's Special and some Community Week worlds. A village becomes a harbour village the moment it is settled on an abandoned shore, next to deep water; the building itself comes later, and the village keeps that status even if the harbour is destroyed or never built at all.

• It takes a building slot of its own, like the Rally Point, and nothing else can be built there.
• Ships are the point: the level sets how many the village may hold, one more each level, reaching 210 at level 20. The types are not rationed, so 210 of one kind is as allowed as an even split.
• Deep water runs at 18 fields an hour at 1x for every tribe, and nothing speeds it up - no hero item but the map, no artefact, no Tournament Square. On land the usual bonuses apply again.
• Trade ships need no merchants and are not capped at 20, so a full harbour can push resources to 210 places at once - the one way around the merchant limit.
• Alliance Commerce raises trade ship capacity and speed together, by 30% a level to 150%, and that shortens the return leg as well.
• A scout sees the harbour's level but never the number of ships.
• Only raid ships can go in a farm list. Warships and decoy warships cannot, and a ship is destroyed if every troop it carried dies.

Strategy. The gain grows with distance and with how slow the army is, so a harbour is worth most to the players whose targets are far away and whose troops walk.

Vikings. Their raid bonus carries into the water: raid ships at 24 fields an hour rather than 18.