Hostel/1.03

Wood Elf
The Hostel is the second research building available to the Wood Elves, offering Morale bonuses and, more importantly, the Trade skill. With the Trade skill researched, the Hostel can exchange that spare crystal and gold the Wood Elves acquire through free means for metal and stone, allowing them to start fighting back against their economy. Of course, crystal is in such demand early on where you wont have enough Ancient Wisps around to give you a reliable crystal income, and Magic Wells come in tier 4, this makes the Trade skill not too important in tier 3. But nonetheless, can still be used to help balance out your resources in tier 3. This does mean that you will need this building to stick around and, once again, the building is pretty big for its purpose, making it difficult to place down to begin with. It is also one of the more expensive Wood Elven buildings, too. But it is quite durable with 600 hit points and fast to build.

The Hostel also offers morale bonuses which not only improve attack speed across all of your units, but also slightly ups your population cap, allowing for some extra units without the need to build more buildings. A plus for a race that owns an unsavory amount of large buildings. The Hostel itself also adds a bit more to the population cap, too.