Barley, Malt, Ale

[StickyFlowers]

I am bringing in barely since I cant grow in my area. Built a malt house and the barely just keeps sitting in the trading post. The same for grain and flour. I have the trading post fully staffed along with the malt house, bakery and windmill all working but no one will move the barley or grain/flour. I have a ton on ox and horses as well. I tried demolishing the buildings but same thing kept happening. Any ideas

[Agony_Aunt]

Barley is used in place of wheat for making bread. Only malt is used for beer.

Barley can only be used for bread if you have invested the development point in it.

[votadc]

No, that Is rye.
Barley is for malt, you can't grow malt.

[shaihulud]

The trade post will acquire the barley but it doesn't deliver, I think. That task will fall upon your Storage crew. Make sure it is manned. The Malt House will pick up the barley from the Storage site, make malt from the barley, which will be picked up by the brewery. Thus far, this setup has worked flawlessly for me.

Does the Trader have a horse? It probably just speeds up HIS travel times to find stuff. Honestly, I never checked to see if the Trader does anything besides stocking his shelves and searching the trade routes.

Also, a possible hangup could be the Advanced settings in your Storage. Are the desired items on the 'accepted' list? A check mark means accepted, a X means they are not. IF it's not accepted, Storage will leave the barley wherever it is, such as at a farm. I don't know if the Malt House will travel to the Trader for it. Mine is always picked up by Storage people.

[**********]

You only need one person in a trade house to accept trades. Your storage house staff may move it around, unless the game is coded that barley is a granary produce and needs to be transferred to the granary first by your granary staff. Your malt house staff may be waiting for barley to appear at the granary before they can get it to the malt house.