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Game Info[]

Medieval Era production-boosting building.

Strategy[]

The Workshop is the first standard Production Production-boosting building that doesn't require resources (like the Stone Works or Stable) and can be built in every city. It also allows the assignment of your first Engineer Engineer for another 2 Production Production (for a total of 4), increasing the speed at which Great Engineers appear.

In Brave New World, a Workshop is needed to trade Production Production (via a trade route) to another city in your empire. You also need one in every city in order to build the Ironworks, a useful National Wonder.

Civilopedia entry[]

A workshop is a building dedicated to constructing stuff. It would contain raw materials, tools, and the skilled labor to build whatever was needed. A pottery workshop would create pottery (unsurprisingly), while a carpentry workshop might construct doors, cabinets, floors - anything wooden. In Renaissance Italy, many artists worked in workshops, where a great painter might take credit for a painting that was in fact painted by his employees and students who had learned to accurately mimic his style, a practice which gives art collectors and historians headaches even today.

See also[]

Civilization V Buildings [edit]
Airport Amphitheater AqueductArmoryArsenalBank (Hanse Satrap's Court) • Barracks (Ikanda Krepost) • Bomb Shelter Broadcast TowerCaravansary Castle (Mughal Fort) • Cathedral CircusColosseumConstabulary CourthouseFactoryForgeGarden (Candi ) • GranaryHarborHospitalHotel Hydro PlantLibrary (Paper MakerRoyal Library ) • LighthouseMarket (Bazaar) • Medical LabMilitary AcademyMilitary BaseMintMonastery Monument (Stele ) • Mosque MuseumNuclear PlantObservatoryOpera House (Ceilidh Hall ) • Pagoda Police Station Public SchoolRecycling Center Research LabSeaportShrine (Pyramid ) • Solar PlantSpaceship FactoryStable (Ducal Stable ) • StadiumStock ExchangeStone WorksSupermarket2Temple (Burial TombMud Pyramid Mosque) • TheatreUniversity (Wat) • Walls (Walls of Babylon1) • Water Mill (Floating Gardens) • Windmill (Coffee House ) • Workshop (Longhouse) • Zoo
1 Requires a DLC2 Сut from the game
Added in the Gods & Kings expansion pack.
Added in the Brave New World expansion pack.