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The apothecary is a civilian building.

Description[]

The apothecary is an expensive building that provides a healer. The healer can wander around the castle, removing disease clouds as he encounters them. Disease can occur randomly from events, as well as spread from catapulted carcasses.

Information[]

The apothecary requires one healer to operate. Healers spend their time brewing medicine before venturing out to visit the townsfolk. They patrol your city and keep a watch for disease clouds, in which case they run towards them and remove them. The healer keeps taking turns even when no disease is present. A healer can move out to clean up to three clouds with one walk.

An apothecary also provides all peasants and troops damage resistance against disease clouds. One building provides 20% resistance, up to a maximum of 60%.

Due to the the scarcity and relative ineffectiveness of disease, apothecaries are not too useful to keep around. This is due to the fact that disease does not affect units on high elevation, and the damage a single cloud causes can be mitigated by moving affects units out of its area of effect.

The apothecary requires one healer to operate. The healer spends his time brewing medicine before venturing out to visit the townsfolk. He patrols the city and keeps a watch for disease clouds, in which case he runs towards them and removes them. The healer keeps taking turns even when no disease is present.

A lesser known fact is that the apothecary can also restore a Lord's health, if it is under 50%. For this, the Lord must be returned to civilian duties, so that he can take a visit to the apothecary.

Due to gong being a common sight in the castle, the apothecary can be somewhat valuable if gong pits are not readily available for coverage.

Trivia[]

  • In addition to pharmacy responsibilities, the apothecary offered general medical advice and a range of services, such as surgery and midwifery. Apothecaries often operated through a retail shop which, in addition to ingredients for medicines, sold tobacco and patent medicines. The apothecaries also used many other herbs not listed.
  • Interestingly, the first people who ran the apothecaries where mostly women, who passed their medicinal knowledge from generation to generation. Such women were commonly targeted by witch hunts.
  • In the Unofficial Community Patch, the healer can also heal wounded units, making it very useful for sustained defense.

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