| “ | Villagers gather Wood much faster. | ” |
| —In-game description | ||
Deforestation is a technology at Age of Empires III that can be researched at the Capitol by European civilizations or the Market once the Imperial Age is reached and Forest Spirit Ceremony is researched by Native American civilizations. Once researched, it allows Settlers, Coureurs des Bois, Settler Wagons, and Villagers to gather wood 50% faster.
See also[]
- Tropical Timber Trade – Asian counterpart
- Ebony Exports – African counterpart
- Pine Tree State – United States counterpart
| Capitol technologies | |
|---|---|
| Blockade · Spies · Knighthood · Peerage · Legendary Native Warriors · Immigrants · Large Scale Agriculture · Deforestation · Excessive Taxation · Cadets · Brigadier General | |
| State Capitol technologies | |
 | Oregon Trail · State Constitutions · Statehood |
 | Cadets · New Mexico Immigration |
 | Blockade · Spies · Brigadier General · Legendary Native Warriors · Iowa Farmlands · Pine Tree State · Mountain State Gold Rush |
| Other civilization's counterparts | |
| African | Large Scale Farming · Ebony Exports · Strangers' Quarters |
| Asian | Mechanized Rice Cultivation · Tropical Timber Trade · Collective Economy · Exalted Natives |
| Native American | Large Scale Gathering · Deforestation · Excessive Tribute · Legendary Native Warriors |
| Market technologies in Age of Empires III | |
|---|---|
| European/Federal American | |
| Food | Hunting Dogs · Steel Traps |
| Wood | Gang Saw · Log Flume · Circular Saw |
| Coin | Placer Mines · Amalgamation |
| Other | Blunderbuss · Great Coat · Frontiersmen |
| Native American | |
| Food | Hunting Dogs |
| Wood | Lumber Ceremony · Forest People Ceremony · Forest Spirit Ceremony · Deforestation |
| Coin | Placer Mines · Fur Dressing |
| Other | Spirit Medicine · New Year Festival · Inti Festival |
| Asian | |
| Food | Hunting Eagles · Professional Hunters · Hanami Parties · Yozakura Lanterns |
| Wood | Water Wheel · Regenerative Forestry · Timber Trade · Tropical Timber Trade |
| Coin | Blanket Filters · Flume and Ditching |
| Other | Eastern Medicine · Civil Servants · Imperial Bureaucracy |
| African | |
| Wood | Hardened Iron Axes · Selective Logging · Blackwood Trade · Ebony Exports |
| Coin | Placer Mines · Amalgamation · Gold Purification |
| Other | Royal Hunters · Tribal Societies · Royal Banquet · Transhumance · Cow Loans |