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This article is about the technology in Age of Empires II. For the technology in Age of Empires, see Gold Mining (Age of Empires).

Gold Mining is a technology in Age of Empires II that can be researched at the Mining Camp or Mule Cart once the Feudal Age is reached. Once researched, it allows Villagers to gather gold 15% faster.

Gold Shaft Mining is the further upgrade of this technology.

Civilization bonuses[]

  • Armenians: Gold Mining is 40% more effective.
  • Bohemians: Gold Mining is free.
  • Burgundians: Can research Gold Mining in the Dark Age. Gold Mining costs -33% food.
  • Chinese: Gold Mining is 5%/10%/15% cheaper in the Feudal/Castle/Imperial Age.
  • Spanish: Receive 20 gold after researching Gold Mining.
  • Vietnamese: Researching Gold Mining is 100% faster and costs no wood.

Team bonuses[]

  • Portuguese: Researching Gold Mining is 25% faster.

Changelog[]

The African Kingdoms[]

Rise of the Rajas[]

Definitive Edition[]

Lords of the West[]

Dawn of the Dukes[]

Dynasties of India[]

Return of Rome[]

  • Vietnamese: With update 87863, researching Gold Mining is 100% faster.

History[]

The search for gold and silver since ancient and even prehistoric times meant that by the Dark Ages there was little of these precious metals to be found on the surface. To find more, it had to be mined from underground. The technology of gold prospecting and gold mining advanced during the early part of the Middle Ages, driven by the need for currency and demand for jewelry.
Technologies in Age of Empires II
Economic technologies
Villager Wheelbarrow Hand Cart
Food Horse Collar Heavy Plow Crop Rotation
Gillnets
Domestication Pastoralism Transhumance
Wood Double-Bit Axe Bow Saw Two-Man Saw
Gold Gold Mining Gold Shaft Mining
Caravan
Stone Stone Mining Stone Shaft Mining
Civilian ships Dry Dock · Shipwright
Market Coinage Banking
Guilds
Military technologies
General Conscription
Heresy · Devotion Faith
Upgrades
Melee units Forging Iron Casting Blast Furnace
Cavalry Bloodlines · Husbandry
Scale Barding Armor Chain Barding Armor Plate Barding Armor
Infantry Gambesons · Squires · Arson
Scale Mail Armor Chain Mail Armor Plate Mail Armor
Ranged units Ballistics · Chemistry
Fletching Bodkin Arrow Bracer
Archers Padded Archer Armor Leather Archer Armor Ring Archer Armor
Thumb Ring · Parthian Tactics
Siege Siege Engineers
Ship Careening Dry Dock
Shipwright
War Galley
Building Town Watch Town Patrol
Masonry Architecture
Heated Shot · Arrowslits · Murder Holes · Treadmill Crane · Hoardings · Bombard Tower
Herbal Medicine
Monk Redemption · Atonement · Sanctity · Fervor · Illumination · Block Printing · Theocracy
Villager Loom · Sappers
Miscellaneous technologies
Spies · Treason · Unique technologies
Removed/cut generic technologies
Bombard Cannon · Cannon Galleon · Cartography · Hand Cannon · Hunting Dogs · Revetments · Supplies · Tracking