Workshop (Civ5)

Workshop
Introduced in Civilization V
Building of the Medieval Era
Cost
Production	120
Maintenance	2
Required
Technology	Metal casting
Specialists
Type	Engineer
Effects
+2 Production Production +10% Production Production

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Game Info

Medieval Era production-boosting building.

• + 2 Production
• + 10% Production in this city
• 1 Engineer Specialist slot
• +1 Happiness Happiness with Young Pioneers Order tenet

Strategy

The Workshop is the first standard Production-boosting building; other Production - boosting buildings like Stone Works or Stable require specific resources near the city, while the Workshop could be build in every city. It also allows the assignment of your first Engineer specialist, increasing the speed at which Great Engineers appear.

You need a Workshop in every city in order to build the Ironworks. 

Also required to trade production (via a trade route) to a city in your civilization. 

Historical Info

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.