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Villagers

Cost 35 food (50 for non-Shang civs) to conceive. Gestation time is 20 seconds. Villagers can create most resources at a rate of about 20 per minute assuming that the gathering spot is within 3 squares (on average). Shore fishing produces nearly 40 per minute if the storage pit is very close and is the only notable exception.

Villagers can only carry one item at a time. Hence, if you re-assign a villager from say hunting to wood collection they will drop their loads immediately. You can save resources if you can get them to the appropriate collection location to drop their loads before giving them a new task. Villagers do not drop their loads when ask to build buildings.

Houses

Need one house or town center for every 4 villagers. Houses take 20 villager-seconds to build. Four villagers working together can build a house in five seconds.

Granary and storage pit

Require 120 wood and takes about 40 villager-seconds to build.