

It is used to summon and resurrect fallen Hero characters. The Altar of Kings is where Heroes are born (literally).
#WARCRAFT III FROZEN THRONE WALKTHROUGH UPGRADE#
The Barracks has the upgrades to teach your Footmen the Defend skill, upgrade Riflemen to Long Rifles, and Animal War Training. Once you upgrade your Town Hall to a Castle, build a Town Hall and a Lumber Mill, you will also be able to train Knights at the Barracks. Footmen can be trained from the very start, but Riflemen require a Blacksmith. The Barracks is one of the first structures you should build, as it provides your early attack units: Footmen and Riflemen. As you upgrade your Town Hall, more advanced versions of these will become available for purchase. It contains upgrades that increase the damage and armor of various units. The Blacksmith is also a required structure to train certain units, like Riflemen. The blacksmith is a structure dedicated purely to upgrades. The Lumber Mill also contains the upgrade to increase the armor and hit points of all of your structures, called Improved Masonry ( Advanced Masonry is also available as a later upgrade). You can further increase gathering efficiency by upgrading your Keep to a Castle and purchasing Advanced Lumber Harvesting. Improved Lumber Harvesting requires that you have a Keep. The Lumber Mill is a drop-off point for Lumber, and contains the upgrade to increase the amount of Lumber gathered per trip. The gold and lumber cost increases for each upgrade. The first upgrade turns your Town Hall into a Keep. You may upgrade your Town Hall to unlock better upgrades and additional units. If you’re desperate for defenses, you can use the Call to Arms ability to recall all of your Peasants and have them temporarily outfitted for battle. The Town Hall also serves as an armory in case of attack. From the Town Hall you can train Peasants to gather wood or gold, and build structures. Knowing what units and upgrades each building offers will help you to build a stronger and more efficient army. In a well balanced army, every structure will be in use, both for producing a vast array of offensive and defensive units, and outfitting them with additional utility.

In Warcraft III and Warcraft III: The Frozen Throne, structures allow the production of various units and also grant upgrades to units and other structures. Since wood is in high demand both for structures and units, most players will have 4-6 Peasants harvesting at all times. By building a Lumber Mill closer to the trees being harvested, you drastically increase gathering efficiency. Over time this can result in a clearing, or force your Peasants to travel farther for wood. This can be crucial in long battles because, as your Peasants chop trees for wood, those trees will be used up and disappear. Lumber Mills serve as a drop-off point for Lumber.

This can be increased by building a Lumber Mill and purchasing the Improved Lumber Harvesting upgrade. Similarly to gold, Peasants gather wood in armloads of 10. Anymore than that and the extras will simply wait in line outside, and you won’t gain gold any faster. You may have five Peasants working a single mine at a time. This means that if you want to expand outwards to other bases you’ll have to construct additional Town Halls if you want the gold gathered with any semblance of speed. They have to run between the mine and the Town Hall in order to credit the gold. Peons gather gold by the sack, with each sack holding 10.

Once one begins a building project, you can have several others join in to drastically increase the building speed. Unlike the Orcish Peons, Peasants excel at working together. They are responsible for mining gold, harvesting lumber, and constructing buildings. Build order and unit function is much more intuitive because of this. A large part of this is likely due to the fact that the units and structures use names that are mostly familiar. Of the four playable armies in Warcraft III and the expansion, The Frozen Throne, the Human army is one of the more simple and straight forward.
