Trading Relationships

[WatsonX]

I'm looking to start some trading relations, but i have a couple of questions first:
What are some items that aren't too hard to come by, but are in demand? How much would a crate full of dragonflies go for?

[TeckXKnight]

Check the Apples for Oranges subforum and look over prices of current traders. This is a good way to gauge the market.

[evilrich]

the question i would ask here, is whether you have a village idol for your trade, or if you seek those much more local to yourself. although tech DOES make a good point ( as always )

[Magisticus]

As a new player, to get anything from trade you basically need to do what more experienced players don't want to do - the boring repetitive tasks. There are two good things you can make without many levels required:

1. Linen. Plant loads of flax or hemp and build yourself a loom. It takes 5 plant fibres to make a piece of linen and 25 pieces of linen to make a flag (a village territory claiming tool), so villages will buy lots of it regardless of quality.

2. Bricks. Find a clay node, quality doesn't matter but the higher quality the more you can make at a time. build a few kilns next to it and start manufacturing bricks. Even more demand for these than for linen (for wall building) but will require finding a node first.

A little further along the line you can prospect for and find some metal, if you find iron then:

3. Steel. Mine a load of iron ore and process it through a smelter to get iron then a finery forge to get a bloom, hammer it out on an anvil to get wrought iron and then process through a steel crucible to get steel. The last step takes a lot of fuel and a lot of time (2 1/2 days) and you have to check on the fuel level more frequently then every 12 hours otherwise it will go out and you have to start again. Consequently steel of any quality is annoying to make, couple this with it being usefull to build statues (big banners) and brick wall gates, and again it is a very good trade resource and quality doesn't matter.

For high end trades you should work towards getting your perception and exploration up and finding good curios.

THE TRADING ITSELF

Generally trading is done through village idol teleporting. If your character doesn't have a hearth fire and they are a member of a village then they can log in at the village idol rather than their harth fire. So an effective way for two villages to trade is for an alt (never risk your main) to leave his village and join the village they want to trade with, log out and log in at the idol and then conduct the trade and reverse the process to get back.

If only one side has a village idol then a trade over distance is still possible. Use your alt to commit a summonable crime near your home, preferably where someone else won't come across it and then join the trader's village and conduct the trade as above. After leaving the trader's village, to get home, use your main to summon your alt by clicking on the scent on the ground (because your alt doesn't have a hearth fire they will be teleported straight there).

Be as cautious as you can at all times and try to limit what you are risking, ie using an alt and not taking anything with you that isnt involved with the trade. If you are trading with someone new then do a small trade first and see how it goes before trading anything too valuable, there have been some incidents of trader theft lately if you read the forums. Generally if you want to be safe then anyone who has started a large trading thread on the forums is pretty safe as they won't want to risk their reputation.

Magisticus

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[baxstaber1]

Large chest are awesome in my point of view anyway, steel not so much for established villages, but the best thing of all are curios such as edels, pearls bluebells and so on.

[ninja_yodeler]

For your original question, the easiest thing to come by is blueberry's and chant's. and pandemonium buys them fro 1 point each
so if you collect enough, you can buy anything off of them