Overview Microsoft Age of Empires Expansion Update 1.0a is an upgrade of Age of Empires Expansion 1.0 that includes several enhancements and gameplay fixes. These changes include: * Idle Villager Key: Pressing the period ( . ) key selects and centers the view on a villager or fishing boat that is not assigned a task. Pressing ( . ) cycles though all idle villagers and boats in the game. This is a keyboard-only command; there is no on-screen control for it. * Shang Food Cost: The cost of a Shang villager was reduced to 40 food. The amount of food the Shang player starts with was reduced by 40. * Phoenician Woodcutting Bonus: Phoenician villagers now work 15 percent faster. In previous versions of Age of Empires, they worked 54 percent faster.