merchants

[Ready to Smash]

do merchants come back or is there only 1? the only merchant i had come to my town got slaughtered by goblins and i havent seen on since

[SilverRose]

lol, did not know they could be attacked

also I think #? (#? = number of merchant stalls) come once each season, but then again if one died due to goblins then they might not come back again for a few seasons.

[Ready to Smash]

Originally posted by SilverRose:

lol, did not know they could be attacked

also I think #? (#? = number of merchant stalls) come once each season, but then again if one died due to goblins then they might not come back again for a few seasons.

damn first time i play the game and i get a merchant killed lol

[SmashedPumpkinG]

merchants always visit on the 5th day of every season (except winter). doesnt matter if one dies (or if all died). if you have more than one market stall, multiple merchants may visit (i have had 4 visit at the same time). when your kingdom gets larger, i suggest to at least build 4 market stalls so you can buy ore.

[Ready to Smash]

Originally posted by SmashedPumpkinG:

merchants always visit on the 5th day of every season (except winter). doesnt matter if one dies (or if all died). if you have more than one market stall, multiple merchants may visit (i have had 4 visit at the same time). when your kingdom gets larger, i suggest to at least build 4 market stalls so you can buy ore.

welp its been an in-game year and i havent gotten a single merchant so my save may be bugged. im gonna wait for 2 mroe seasons then if i dont get a merchant with my 2 stalls ill make a new save

[lPaladinl]

Merchants are randomly generated, but can be attacked once they enter your borders. Also, you can only ever have 1 merchant visit your Kingdom, despite the message system being able to inform you of more. If you build multiple market stalls, the game will tell you that merchants up to however many stalls you put up have arrived, but you can only ever have 1 Merchant arrive.

I wouldn't call it a bug so much as a placeholder event that the Developer has not altered for some time.

[kevinshow]

I'm not sure what you mean by the arriving message. I've definitely seen messages of "1, 2, 3, 4, etc merchants arriving", and that was how many merchants would be walking to the stalls and then set up shop at the stalls (assuming a kingdom hast that many stalls)

[kevinshow]

I'm not sure what you mean by the arriving message. I've definitely seen messages of "1, 2, 3, 4, etc merchants arriving", and that was how many merchants would be walking to the stalls and then set up shop at the stalls (assuming a kingdom hast that many stalls)

[kevinshow]

I'm not sure what you mean by the arriving message. I've definitely seen messages of "1, 2, 3, 4, etc merchants arriving", and that was how many merchants would be walking to the stalls and then set up shop at the stalls (assuming a kingdom hast that many stalls)

[kevinshow]

I'm not sure what you mean by the arriving message. I've definitely seen messages of "1, 2, 3, 4, etc merchants arriving", and that was how many merchants would be walking to the stalls and then set up shop at the stalls (assuming a kingdom hast that many stalls)

[lPaladinl]

Unless it was fixed in the last patch and wasn't put into the patch notes, for a long time you could only get 1 Merchant to your kingdom.

[Fox]

Originally posted by lPaladinl:

Unless it was fixed in the last patch and wasn't put into the patch notes, for a long time you could only get 1 Merchant to your kingdom.

If it's been 'fixed' recently that means it was 'broken' in an update a while ago. Because I took a break from playing a few months ago, but before I took that break I was getting 2 and 3 merchants visiting at a time.

That was months ago, and since picking the game up again I have not built multiple market stalls in one map. Maybe I'll try doing that again to see what happens. But definitely a few months ago you could get multiple merchants visiting at once, I can confirm that.

[lPaladinl]

Odd, I wonder why it never came up in patch notes, i'm not the only one who was getting limited Merchant numbers. It would tell you that you could recieve multiple merchants, I've gotten a message for 4 at a time, but it never actually spawned more than 1 Merchant.

[Ready to Smash]

well thankfully on the 5th day of summer in the 2nd year 3 merchants arived so my save isnt bugged to hell

[theystillspyillegally]

Merchant numbers are not greater than 1 for spring and fall. You can have up to 8 merchants in the summer, but the game only spawns one merchant for each market stall you have. If you have 6 market stalls and get 8 merchants on the 5th of summer, you will see only 6 merchants have spawned. You also may get LESS than the number of market stalls you have. No merchants show up in winter. I commonly build lots of market stalls, but from experience, you don't generally need more than 4 or 6 but anymore than 8 will be a waste unless it's for decoration (e.g. making a flea market/bizaare).
Paladin, you may not have noticed more than 1 merchant in the summer if you have either only 1 market stall... or they may spawn at seperate areas around the map edge. They don't all show up in the same place if there is a choice where to spawn (and there is unless you walled off all but ONE section).
*** Sometimes, if you've trapped your merchants from the summer, you may not get awarded a merchant in the fall. Only happens in most recent version. Odd, but it has happened to me as I frequently wall in with four walls and NO door. :)

[lPaladinl]

Originally posted by theyspyillegally:

Paladin, you may not have noticed more than 1 merchant in the summer if you have either only 1 market stall... or they may spawn at seperate areas around the map edge. They don't all show up in the same place if there is a choice where to spawn (and there is unless you walled off all but ONE section).

Nope, the events i'm remembering involved me building a market plaza with more than 4 stalls, with an open door policy for the base, with guards loosely patrolling the map to find any enemies. I would recieve messages telling me that 4 Merchants would arrive, but only 1 would Spawn.

I'm just happy to know that I should be getting multiple Merchants. It was always something I felt was really odd, but just chalked up to it being an early access/beta thing and expecting it to change eventually. Seems odd to me if what you say is true, that they only come in larger numbers for the summer, or at least that's their busier time for the year, but I also think that's a nice concept.

I feel a lot more interested in attempting to make a more Commerce based Kingdom, focusing on trade goods to gain most of my resources. Though I kind of know that in the end it doesn't matter if I want to focus on merchants or not, as you always need everything eventually. Plus the more you stockpile, the more problems you have with Goblins and Mants.