Plantation

The Plantation is an economic building in Age of Empires III that produces coin. Plantations produce infinite coin for up to ten Settlers/Villagers to harvest (0.5 base rate). Plantations are useful when Mines (0.6 base rate) run out or are far away, but they are less efficient, requiring more Villagers for the same output.

Plantations work in a similar way to Mills and Farms: tasking more Settlers/Villagers will increase resource output (based on the Settlers'/Villagers' gather rate for a Plantation) but it will be coin instead of food.

Most civilizations who can build Plantations also have access to the Advanced Plantation Home City card, which reduces their cost by 31% and allows them to be built from the Discovery Age. The cost can be lowered by another 40% with the Land Grab card for a total of 71% cost reduction, but only if Land Grab is sent before Advanced Plantation – when sending the cards in the other order the cost reduction is only 58.6%. This difference is due to the hidden, different discount types the two cards use.

History
"A plantation is a large farm where crops are cultivated. They were common in the southern United States as well as in parts of the Caribbean. Many historical plantations used slave labor. In the United States, plantations are associated with a distinct type of architecture known as the Plantation House."