Trade Workshop (Age of Empires II)

The Trade Workshop is an unused building in Age of Empires II.

Trade Workshops were originally intended so that you could assign villagers to work in them and make “luxury goods” which were to be sold for Gold. The Trade Workshop was not completed because the game design had changed, its function was not needed anymore, and was cut from the final game build.

It is available in the Scenario Editor, and some can be seen in the city of Paris in scenario 5 of the Joan of Arc campaign, The Siege of Paris. There is also one to the north in the second scenario (The Great Ride) of the Attila the Hun campaign, in addition there are some scattered around the map in scenario 5, The Catalaunian Fields. There are Trade Workshops in Milan the Barbarossa map Pope and Anti-Pope.