im not sure how i get sheep.

[Peter_Paradox]

I set it to import, i have a livestock pen, a trade post, a livestock trader, a sheep farm. It says i need around 30 to buy one at the market rate.. But unlike the normal trade post where i pay to SETUP a continual route i dont have any sort of finalization on the livestock post. What am i doing wrong

[Peter_Paradox]

Originally posted by Haggis MechHaggis:

you set to import and chose a desired surplus? is the livestock trading post manned?
(regular trading post isn't needed for anything sheep related afaik)

yeah i got a family in there, it lets me set my desired quantity (1) that ill import when i have a supply of 30+ bukkeros. But my village aint buying the damn sheeps

[rosablanka]

You have to build a live-stock trader, assign a family, put "import" on sheep (I do buy lambs as well) and (check your money) choose how many sheep you want imported.
Also, I usually build the sheep farm and pasture behind it first before I attempt to buy any sheep.
Takes a bit of time, but soon the first sheep arrives.

[Peter_Paradox]

Originally posted by rosablanka:

You have to build a live-stock trader, assign a family, put "import" on sheep (I do buy lambs as well) and (check your money) choose how many sheep you want imported.
Also, I usually build the sheep farm and pasture behind it first before I attempt to buy any sheep.
Takes a bit of time, but soon the first sheep arrives.

So I just gotta be far more patient than I am so far I guess.

[Doomed]

My sheep just wander the town streets . Year 7 and they are still just following behind warehouse workers.

[Jigsawn]

Yeah it takes a long time, when importing sheep your livestock traders actually have to walk to the trade zones at the edge of the map to go and collect them and bring them back, which can take many days.

[Tupa]

Originally posted by Doomed:

My sheep just wander the town streets . Year 7 and they are still just following behind warehouse workers.

I have the same problem. I'm getting sheep but they don't end up in the pasture

[Martin]

Originally posted by Peter_Paradox:

I set it to import, i have a livestock pen, a trade post, a livestock trader, a sheep farm. It says i need around 30 to buy one at the market rate.. But unlike the normal trade post where i pay to SETUP a continual route i dont have any sort of finalization on the livestock post. What am i doing wrong

You're not doing anything wrong.

But to go over it. You only need a Livestock Trader. +1 in there as a worker.
Set Sheep to Import. Set say 5 sheep to be imported. You'll need at least 150 coins to buy 5 sheep.
The trader will then go and buy 1 sheep, 5 times. The 5 sheep will appear in your pen.

Nothing else needs to be done at this time, however, you will need at least 1 sheepfarm + 1 worker, and 1 weaver + 1 worker to turn wool into yarn. You'll then need to either sell the yarn or build 1 dyer + 1 worker and 1 Lv 2 house into a weaver to sew the yarn + dye into a cloak, you'll then supply cloaks to your people via the market. Ideally you'll also have a storehouse near the sheepfarm/weaver/dyer.. to supply the products.

[Hawk7117]

Originally posted by Haggis MechHaggis:

you set to import and chose a desired surplus? is the livestock trading post manned?
(regular trading post isn't needed for anything sheep related afaik)

Its pretty funny, I'm on my 3rd playthrough and couldn't for the life of me figure out why my sheep weren't importing for over a year.

It helps if you man the livestock trading post.

[hechicero]

Originally posted by Hawk7117:

It helps if you man the livestock trading post.

the hell it does, haggis and hawk. the game is all bugs. i should've ordered an iguana to play the game.

[Brother Alpha]

Originally posted by Peter_Paradox:

Originally posted by rosablanka:

You have to build a live-stock trader, assign a family, put "import" on sheep (I do buy lambs as well) and (check your money) choose how many sheep you want imported.
Also, I usually build the sheep farm and pasture behind it first before I attempt to buy any sheep.
Takes a bit of time, but soon the first sheep arrives.

So I just gotta be far more patient than I am so far I guess.

I think it's a bug. I had all of it setup, including enough money for more than 20 sheep, and a year later I had 4 out of the 40 I was asking for.

[Whysoserious]

Yeah, don't go into sheep breeding though.... The import/export has the same system as the normal trade post.

So, when oversupplied, the exporting stops. Your sheep however, will not stop breeding.

I now have 1800 sheep.

[Brother Alpha]

Originally posted by Whysoserious:

Yeah, don't go into sheep breeding though.... The import/export has the same system as the normal trade post.

So, when oversupplied, the exporting stops. Your sheep however, will not stop breeding.

I now have 1800 sheep.

Are you on the Beta Patch? I think they changed that, so that you can still export when oversupplied.

This is where being able to butcher sheep for meat is a 100% necessity. 1800 sheep has to have some impact on performance.