The Storage Pit is a Stone Age building in Age of Empires. It acts as a key building for resource gathering as villagers can drop off Fish, Gold, Food, Stone, and Wood. Upgrades to increase the efficiency of armor and weapons are also researched here starting from Tool Age to the Iron Age. Shield upgrades are not available for certain number of civilizations, such as the Egyptians and the Assyrians. Metallurgy is not available for Greeks, Sumerians, and Palmyrans, Assyrians and Choson lacks Chain Mail, Carthaginians and Phoenicia lacks both. The Babylonians are the only civilization that lacks all Iron Age technologies from the Storage Pit.