Good trade goods?

[arnaud_defrance]

So what are good items to trade? I have been mostly using food: bread and wool because it's fairly easy to get plenty. Crafted goods don't seem to give a lot of value for their material. Any good advice there?

[corisai]

I'm still in mid-game (t3 with some t4 research) and nothing can beat holy water.

You can scavenge a lot of alcohol & cloth, and if using scavenged material holy water have best profit per worktime value, PLUS i'm leveling my crafters too.

[GAME OVER]

I sell ice boxes. Make about 20 of them between trader visits. It's easy on the mats because I have plenty of companion farms and water collectors.

[Goranz]

ice box , cheap and easy to craft

[CigarDan]

Leather Vest, 6 hide for 48 trade value (hide trades for 1 so by crafting you are 8x-ing your value) great for early-mid game as the never ending stream of werewolves and hellhounds will keep you stocked on hide.

[corisai]

I had done some worksheet with all data for interesting crafting receipts (worktime less then 1000, not using rare scavenge resource like clay / resin / etc).

Please, be warned - I'm using custom difficulty (lower then baseline) so some my values will be wrong!

I'm using pure profit : excluding mats sell cost from trade good sell cost.

Best crafting goods (if craft all pre-mats too, excluding working time for raw resource gathering like wood/stone/food/etc):

1. Salad (need 5 worktime for 1 point of profit).
2. Cloth (6,4 per 1 profit)
3. Boards (6,6 per 1 profit)
4. Gunpowder (8 per 1 profit, warning: using sulfur!)
5. Ice box (8,4 per 1 profit).

Using only scavenged mats (without crafting mats for trade goods) Holy Water will share 3rd place with Boards (6,6 per 1 profit).

P.S. I will look how I can share my resulting worksheet.

[SamuraiJones]

I've used holy water and gunpowder primarily. Leather vests are good, but it seems like for the time it takes to make em, it's better to just sell the hides directly. I haven't done and measurements/calculations to back that though, so do keep that's a very informal observation.