Trader never has cattle, so barn is unusable.

[simon]

Are there something I am missing?
From I build the trading station I have never had a trader with cattle. Some years I get a visit from one trader, some two, but I have never seen then trading cattle.

[Don Cool]

You are unlucky, experienced the same with willow/baskets and simply gave up on that map after 12 seasons or so. The problem with cows is that you can´t find them in the wild, so restarting isn´t going to fix it.

[Death Korps Commissar]

Originally posted by simon:

Are there something I am missing?
From I build the trading station I have never had a trader with cattle. Some years I get a visit from one trader, some two, but I have never seen then trading cattle.

The Trader only has cattle after you upgrade the Trading Post to T2 ... which should be apparent by the fact the goods are greyed out when the Post is at T1

[simon]

Not apparent no, there could be a number of reasons why items are greyed out.
I mean I need to have unlocked tier three town center before I can use the barn, why then is it unlocked at tier two?

[Cy]

Originally posted by Libertine:

The Trader only has cattle after you upgrade the Trading Post to T2 ... which should be apparent by the fact the goods are greyed out when the Post is at T1

thats not true at all

[Ninjafroggie]

Originally posted by Libertine:

The Trader only has cattle after you upgrade the Trading Post to T2 ... which should be apparent by the fact the goods are greyed out when the Post is at T1

This is not correct, merchants can have cattle the very first time they show up, and upgrading the trade post is not necessary.

OP just had incredibly bad RNG luck.

[ltkrogoth]

I got cattle multiple times now in my 1st game.
Better build the barn before buying cattle, because I did it otherwise and my cattle disappeared (aka died) until the barn was built :D

[simon]

I really dont get the tier list.
Almost all building have no use untill you have unlocked tier 3.
You can't use the following; Cooper, vault, windmill, bakery and armory. And baybe barn, I don't know.
Most of theese is do to you needing Iron bars, but theese are not unlocked until tier 3.
And you, in my case at least, can't buy thoose at the trading post either.

I mean I have an iron mine, but no use of it.

[Ninjafroggie]

Yes you can, you just have to buy stuff from the merchant, and this makes perfect sense as a new town would have to rely on buying many goods it didnt make itself until it grew large and wealthy enough to produce those things on its own. If you're not getting iron bars from the merchant than you are almost certainly not checking every one that shows up, because I get iron, brick, cattle, tools, etc show up every few years

[metalsingh]

So it is, period!

[simon]

Originally posted by Ninjafroggie:

Yes you can, you just have to buy stuff from the merchant, and this makes perfect sense as a new town would have to rely on buying many goods it didnt make itself until it grew large and wealthy enough to produce those things on its own. If you're not getting iron bars from the merchant than you are almost certainly not checking every one that shows up, because I get iron, brick, cattle, tools, etc show up every few years

I check every year, just got cattle, but at just under 1000 gold per cow.
So to be able to puschace them I need to save up for multible years per cow.

[Ninjafroggie]

and by now you should be making pottery, candles, hide coats, shoes, and baskets that you can sell. You could also sell timber or planks, even stone (though i dont recommend it, as stone is a finite resource), or herbs, or honey. If you're harvesting flax you could be making linen clothes to sell too....making money is easy.

[Don Mailo]

Originally posted by Ninjafroggie:

and by now you should be making pottery, candles, hide coats, shoes, and baskets that you can sell. You could also sell timber or planks, even stone (though i dont recommend it, as stone is a finite resource), or herbs, or honey. If you're harvesting flax you could be making linen clothes to sell too....making money is easy.

Finite resource until next patch btw.
But still i agree with you to not sell stones at all ;)

[Yehoodi]

It took me a few years before I was able to get cows from the traders, then they would bring cows about every 3 to 4 years. I just went slow and bought a few when I had the first chance and then let the cows bred, so i just bought cows once.

[Nova]

There a multiple traders, which offer different things. Some only visit with tier 2 but cattle is not one of them.

Traders come by random. Your first trader can have cattle, or your 100th can have it.
But you will have the option to "call" a specific trader with the next update so your not so depenant on luck.

[simon]

Originally posted by Ninjafroggie:

and by now you should be making pottery, candles, hide coats, shoes, and baskets that you can sell. You could also sell timber or planks, even stone (though i dont recommend it, as stone is a finite resource), or herbs, or honey. If you're harvesting flax you could be making linen clothes to sell too....making money is easy.

Just sold some planks and baskets, neither of the other options appear as sellable. I can purchace them, but thats it.
I am able to sell food quite easily, but that seems like a way to disaster. Having multiple farms, foragers, hunters, fishers and am just barely able to keep up with demand.
Still havn't had a merchant selling iron bars, so can't make barrels and are thus not able to keep food for that long.

Also you talk as if the game tells you any of this, it doesn't it tells you practically nothing.