Market (Age of Empires III)

This article is about the building in Age of Empires III. For the building in other games of the series, see Market.

Market
Building information
Introduced in	Age of Empires III
Type	Economic
Civilization	All
Age	Exploration Age
Use	Buy/sell resources Researches economic technologies
Construction
Wood	100
Max. builders	8
Build time	15 seconds
Statistics
Hit points	2,000
Line of Sight	12
XP build bounty	20
XP bounty	40

“	Provides early economic improvements and exchanges one resource for another.	”
—In-game description

The Market is an economic building in Age of Empires III. It provides early economic technologies and allows the player to trade coin for food or wood, or vice-versa.

Overview

It functions most like its Age of Empires counterpart, which also provided upgrades. Unlike in Age of Empires II or Age of Mythology, the Market can no longer be used to facilitate trading to gain gold with other players. However, unlike all previous games, the Market is no longer required to give tribute.

European civilizations serve as the baseline setup for technology researched at this building, with one technology per resource for each age, as well as two Villager combat upgrades. Major Native civilizations do not research that many technologies here, but their technologies at the Farm and Plantation apply to all sources of that resource instead of just gathering from the respective building. Asian civilizations split the effect of the resource technologies in half, between a resource-specific technology and an all-resources technology, but additively the result is the same increase in resource collection per age.

Technologies

Age	Technology	Cost	Effect	Civ.
	Hunting Dogs	50 wood, 50 coin	Settlers, Coureurs des Bois, and Settler Wagons gather from huntable animals 10% faster	EU NA
	Hunting Eagles	25 wood, 25 coin	Villagers gather from huntable animals 5% faster	Chinese Indians
	Hanami Parties		Villagers gather from Berry Bushes and Cherry Orchards 5% faster	Japanese
	Gang Saw	100 food	Settlers, Coureurs des Bois, and Settler Wagons gather wood 10% faster	EU
	Lumber Ceremony	100 food, 150 coin	Villagers gather wood 20% faster	NA
	Water Wheel	50 food	Villagers gather wood 5% faster	Chinese Japanese Indians
	Placer Mines	75 food, 75 wood	Settlers, Coureurs des Bois, and Settler Wagons gather from mines 10% faster	EU NA
	Blanket Filters	40 food, 40 wood	Villagers gather from mines 5% faster	AN
	Civil Servants	50 food, 50 wood, 50 coin	Villagers gather from natural resources 5% faster
	Blunderbuss	110 food	Villagers get +3 attack, +4 range, and +4 LOS	EU
	Great Coat	75 food	Villagers get +35% hit points
	Spirit Medicine	150 food	Villagers get +35% hit points, +3 attack, +4 range, and +4 LOS	NA
	Eastern Medicine			AN
	New Year Festival	500 food, 500 wood, 500 coin	Gives 2,000 XP	Haudenosaunee Lakota Aztecs
	Inti Festival	1000 coin	Adds one Home City shipment.	Incas
	Steel Traps	125 wood, 125 coin	Settlers, Coureurs des Bois, and Settler Wagons gather from huntable animals 20% faster; requires Hunting Dogs	EU
	Professional Hunters	65 wood, 65 coin	Villagers gather from huntable animals 10% faster; requires Hunting Eagles	Chinese Indians
	Yozakura Lanterns		Villagers gather from Berry Bushes and Cherry Orchards 10% faster; requires Hanami Parties	Japanese
	Log Flume	150 food, 250 coin	Settlers, Coureurs des Bois, and Settler Wagons gather wood 20% faster; requires Gang Saw	EU
	Forest People Ceremony	150 food, 235 coin	Villagers gather wood 20% faster; requires Lumber Ceremony	NA
	Regenerative Forestry	75 food, 75 coin	Villagers gather wood 10% faster; requires Water Wheel	Chinese Japanese Indians
	Amalgamation	200 food, 200 wood	Settlers, Coureurs des Bois, and Settler Wagons gather from mines 20% faster; requires Placer Mines	EU
	Flume and Ditching	100 food, 100 wood	Villagers gather from mines 10% faster; requires Blanket Filters	AN
	Imperial Bureaucracy	150 food, 150 wood, 150 coin	Villagers gather from natural resources 10% faster; requires Civil Servants
	Circular Saw	240 food, 480 coin	Settlers, Coureurs des Bois, and Settler Wagons gather wood 30% faster; requires Log Flume	EU
	Forest Spirit Ceremony	250 food, 400 coin	Villagers gather wood 20% faster; requires Forest People Ceremony	NA
	Timber Trade	240 food, 480 coin	Villagers gather wood 30% faster; requires Regenerative Forestry (no pre-requisite for Indians)	AN
	Deforestation	1,000 food, 1,000 coin	Villagers gather wood 50% faster; requires Forest Spirit Ceremony	NA
	Tropical Timber Trade		Villagers gather wood 50% faster; requires Timber Trade	AN

Further statistics

Building strengths and weaknesses
Strong vs.	Nothing
Weak vs.	Everything
Improvements
Hit points	Flying Buttress (+20%)
Sight	Gas Lighting (+4, European civilizations only)
Construction cost	Cree Textile Craftsmanship (-25% wood) Tupi Forest Burning (-20% wood)
Other	Cherokee Basket Weaving (technologies except New Year Festival, Deforestation, and Tropical Timber Trade cost no wood)
Penalties	Code Napoleon (+50% cost, French only) Customized Merc Weapons (+30% cost, John Black's Mercenaries only)

Home City Cards

Click for a list of Home City Cards related to the Market

Green: TEAM Shipment that is sent to each player in a team All Card Description Age HC level Improved Buildings Buildings get +40% hit points 10 Advanced Market Markets get +20% buy/sell rates 1 The Improved Buildings card is available at a level 1 Home City for the Sioux. The Indians have the TEAM Improved Buildings card instead of Improved Buildings. The Advanced Market card is available to European and Native American civilizations. Chinese Card Description Age HC level Confucius' Gift Improvements are researched nearly instantly and Home City shipments arrive 33% faster 40 Commodities Market Ships 1 Market Rickshaw and Markets get +30%/+5% buy/sell rates 1 Dutch Card Description Age HC level TEAM Cheap Market Improvements Discovery Age Market improvements cost less 1 Indians Card Description Age HC level TEAM Improved Buildings Buildings get +25% hit points 10 Mughal Architecture Buildings except wonders cost -20% wood and build time -50% +1 Villager 40 Bazaar Ships 1 Market Rickshaw and Markets get +25%/+10% buy/sell rates +1 Villager 1 Japanese Card Description Age HC level Kwankoba Bazaar Ships 1 Market Rickshaw and Markets get +15%/+20% buy/sell rates 1

Trivia

• According to a unused texture in the game files (trade_buy_fame.ddt), it would be possible to exchange coin for experience in the Market (since the experience resource was originally called fame).
• There are unused files for the Market portrait in The WarChiefs (probably would be used by Native American civilizations), and in The Asian Dynasties for the Chinese and Indian Markets. The Market portrait used by Asian civilizations in The Asian Dynasties would be unique to the Japanese, as it is called japanese_market_icon_portrait.ddt in the game files. Despite being updated for the Definitive Edition, the portraits for the Chinese and Indian Markets remain unused.

History

“

A market provides a location to bring together buyers and sellers to trade. Ideally, prices are set by supply and demand. Markets were composed of stalls where vendors would sell their wares. Often people wouldn't pay with money, but would barter by offering a service in return for whatever they needed. As cities grew larger, stores replaced the open marketplaces, and money became a more common form of currency.

”

Gallery

Icon of the Market in Age of Empires III

The Market in the Discovery Age

The Market in the Colonial Age

Unused Market portrait in The WarChiefs

Unused Chinese Market portrait

Unused Indian Market portrait