Livestock Market

Livestock Market
Building information
Introduced in	Age of Empires III: Definitive Edition - The African Royals
Type	Economic
Civilization	Africans
Age	Exploration Age
Use	Buy/sell resources Researches economic technologies Livestock fattens faster when tasked to the Livestock Market Trains Zebu Cattle/Sanga Cattle Sells livestock tasked to the Livestock Market for wood or coin
Construction
Wood	200
Max. builders	8
Build time	12 seconds
Statistics
Hit points	2,000
Line of Sight	12
Max. gatherers	10
XP build bounty	40
XP bounty	11

“	Combines Market and Livestock Pen. Can fatten and sell livestock for wood or gold.	”
—In-game description.

The Livestock Market is an economic building introduced in Age of Empires III: Definitive Edition - The African Royals that is unique to the African civilizations (Ethiopians and Hausa). It combines the functions of a Market and a Livestock Pen with some additional features explained below.

Overview

As previously mentioned, the Livestock Market combines the functions of both a Market and Livestock Pen, allowing the player to trade coin for food or wood, or vice-versa. It also trains livestock (Zebu Cattle for the Ethiopians, Sanga Cattle for the Hausa), which can be tasked to the Livestock Market to make them fatten at a faster rate. Also, it provides early economic technologies.

Unique to the Livestock Market, livestock that are being tasked to it can be sold for wood or coin; only livestock that are tasked to the Market (and only the Market) which does the transaction that can be sold. Selecting the building shows the selling value of livestock, which starts at roughly 56% and slowly increases to 100%; the value increases by 0.2 every second.

Whenever livestock is sold, the value decreases by 20% for whichever resource was just gained. This offers game balance, so as players cannot train new animals, then immediately sell them for a constant large resource gain.

Units

Unit	Cost	Init. food	Max. food	Limit	Civ.
Zebu Cattle	100 coin	100	500	20
Sanga Cattle

Technologies

Age	Technology	Cost	Effect
	Hardened Iron Axes	50 food	Villagers gather from trees and Mango Groves 10% faster
	Placer Mines	75 food, 75 wood	Villagers gather from mines 10% faster
	Tribal Societies	75 food	Villagers get +20% hit points and +10% speed
	Royal Hunters		Villagers get +4 range and +8 LOS; Requires Tribal Societies
	Selective Breeding	150 wood, 150 coin	Livestock fattens 25% faster
	Royal Banquet	250 coin	Sells all livestock for influence equal to 50% of their food
	Selective Logging	125 food, 125 coin	Villagers gather from trees and Mango Groves 15% faster; Requires Hardened Iron Axes
	Amalgamation	200 food, 200 wood	Villagers gather from mines 20% faster; Requires Placer Mines
	Blackwood Trade	125 food, 125 coin	Villagers gather from trees and Mango Groves 20% faster; requrires Selective Logging
	Transhumance	350 wood, 350 coin	Livestock influence generation rate +0.15
	Cow Loans	300 wood, 300 coin	Spawns an unfattened clone of a fully fattened livestock when they are sold
	Gold Purification	300 food, 300 wood	Villagers gather from mines 30% faster; Requires Amalgamation
	Ebony Exports	1,000 food, 1,000 coin	Villagers gather from trees and Mango Groves 30% faster; Requires Blackwood Trade

History

“

Like for several other world societies, livestock played a crucial role among several African people-groups – sedentary and pastoral-nomadic – both as a source of food and as a symbol of wealth. As such, livestock markets were prime loci of economic commercial transactions, whether they were within a society, with foreign merchants, or as a bridge between sedentary and pastoral-nomadic groups.

”

Gallery

A Livestock Market in the Exploration Age

A Livestock Market in the Commerce Age and up

A Livestock Market in the Commerce Age and up with grazing Zebu Cattle