| “ | 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) and is provided to them for free at the start of standard games. It combines the functions of a Market and a Livestock Pen with some additional features.
Overview[]
The Livestock Market combines the functions of both a Market, allowing the player to trade coin for food or wood and vice-versa, and a Livestock Pen. Herded animals tasked to the Livestock Market are fattened at a faster rate and grant influence. It also trains Zebu Cattle for the Ethiopians and Sanga Cattle for the Hausa, and researches economic technologies. 10 herded animals can be tasked to a Livestock Market at the same time.
Herded animals tasked to a Livestock Market can be sold for wood or coin. Selecting the building shows the selling value of herded animals, which starts at roughly 56% and slowly increases to 100%; the value increases by 0.2 every second.
Whenever a herded animal is sold, the value decreases by 20% for whichever resource was gained. This offers game balance, as players cannot train herded animals then immediately sell them for a larger resource gain.
Units[]
| Age | Unit | Cost | Limit | Civ. |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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 Zebu Cattle
|
100 coin | 20 |  |
 Sanga Cattle
|
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Technologies[]
| Age | Technology | Cost | Effect |
|---|---|---|---|
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 Hardened Iron Axes
|
50 food | Villager gather work rate for tree and Mango Grove +5% |
 Placer Mines
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75 food 75 wood |
Villager gather work rate for mine and Mountain Monastery +10% | |
 Tribal Societies
|
75 food | Villager hit points +20%, speed +10%; unit affected by villager upgrades hit points +7%, speed +3% | |
 Royal Hunters
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Villager Line of Sight +8, ranged attack range +4; unit affected by villager upgrades Line of Sight +3, ranged attack range +1; Requires Tribal Societies | ||
 Selective Breeding
|
75 wood 75 coin |
Herded animal gather work rate for Livestock Pen, Farm, Village, Livestock Market, and Hacienda +25% | |
 Royal Banquet
|
250 coin | Sells all herded animals for 50% of their food as influence | |
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 Selective Logging
|
125 food 125 coin |
Villager gather work rate for tree and Mango Grove +15%; Requires Hardened Iron Axes |
 Amalgamation
|
200 food 200 wood |
Villager gather work rate for mine and Mountain Monastery +20%; Requires Placer Mines | |
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 Blackwood Trade
|
125 food 125 coin |
Villager gather work rate for tree and Mango Grove +20%; Requires Selective Logging |
 Transhumance
|
350 wood 350 coin |
Sheep or goat and cattle auto gather work rate for influence +0.15 | |
 Cow Loans
|
300 wood 300 coin |
Fattened herded animals sold at Livestock Markets spawns an unfattened one | |
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 Gold Purification
|
300 food 300 wood |
Villager gather work rate for mine +30%; Requires Amalgamation |
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 Ebony Exports
|
1,000 food 1,000 coin |
Villager gather work rate for tree and Mango Grove +30%; Requires Blackwood Trade |
Further statistics[]
| Building strengths and weaknesses | |
|---|---|
| Strong vs. | Nothing |
| Weak vs. | Everything |
| Improvements | |
| Hit points |  Flying Buttress (+20%) Byzantine Legacy (+15%)
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| Line of Sight |  Gas Lighting (+4)
|
| Cost |  Tupi Forest Burning (-20% wood) Cree Textile Craftsmanship (-10%)
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| Build time | Cree Textile Craftsmanship (-25%)
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| Other |  Navajo Shepherds (+30% herded animals fatten) Selective Breeding (+25% herded animals fatten) Punjabi New Year (+10% herded animals fatten)
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Home City Cards[]
- Click for a list of Home City Cards related to the Livestock Market
| Some cards are highlighted with: | |
| Green | TEAM Shipment that is sent to each player in a team |
| Purple | Shipment that can be sent an INFINITE number of times |
- Shared
| Card | Description | Age |
|---|---|---|
 TEAM Improved Buildings
| Building hit points +25% | |
- "TEAM Improved Buildings" is available to the Inca, Indians, and Maltese (in the Industrial Age).
- Africans
| Card | Description | Age |
|---|---|---|
 Advanced Livestock Market
| Livestock Market buy factor -20%, sell factor +20%; herded animal wood and coin recovery rate +50% | |
| Card | Description | Age |
|---|---|---|
 TEAM Wool Staple Ports
| Herded animal auto gather work rate and gather work rate for Village, Livestock Pen, Hacienda, Farm, and Livestock Market +20%; Indian herded animal auto gather XP work rate for XP +20%; Japanese herded animal gather work rate for Shrine +25% | |
| Card | Description | Age |
|---|---|---|
 8 Semi-fattened Cattle + 1 Livestock Market Builder
| Delivers 8 Zebu Cattle carrying additional 100 food and 1 Livestock Market Builder | |
 Gondarine Architecture
| Building hit points +25%; Town Center, Command Post, and Palace hit points +50% instead; Mountain Monastery hit points +100% instead; Wall hit points +225% instead | |
| Card | Description | Age |
|---|---|---|
 8 Semi-fattened Cattle + 1 Livestock Market Builder
| Delivers 8 Sanga Cattle carrying additional 100 food and 1 Livestock Market Builder | |
Trivia[]
- The Livestock Market selection sound is a mixture of one of the selection sounds of the Market and Farm from Age of Empires: Definitive Edition.
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. | ” |
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