Merchants have 0 Denars and don't sell anything.

[RefriedBeanDip]

Hello everyone. Recently I have encountered an issue with the merchants in the game. I have the most updated Steam version and play on the Diplomacy mod module. The bug is that merchants have no money (0 Denars) and they don't sell anything except for an article of clothing. The clothing sometimes does not fit the merchant, such as a horse merchant selling a Lady's Dress. I do not have cheats enabled, and there is no "CHEAT! Show reports." option when at a town or village.

I have found a very similar post, however it does not have a solution that fixes my problem.
http://forums.taleworlds.com/index.php?topic=180049.0

I have re installed the game and the issue is only on my one save.

[Sohei]

It is a known bug but I don't remember if there is a fix or not. There were posts about it here on Steam as well if you want to try a search.

[RefriedBeanDip]

Thank you for the reply Sohei. I did manage to find one post that had the exact same problem, however the post did not have any replies. I will continue to search for a solution.

[Robbie Disco]

Please do message me when you have a fix to this problem
I may have found a way to prevent it depending on what your cause was.
I saved the game then turned off my computer without closing M&B then when I went back in I was greeted by a corrupted save file. I'm not going to sub to discussion so I will only recieve messages.

[UnsafeTwo]

Sorry to reply on such an old discussion, but I do believe that I have found a fix.

This problem is usually a sign of a corrupted save, so you can reload an older save and if it's not corrupted then the merchants should have all their stuff back.

If all of your save files are corrupted or you only have only save, then navigate to where your saves are located, by default the path is:

Documents>Mount&Blade Warband Savegames>Native

You should see all of your save files there along with a file called last_savegame_backup.sav, this is a copy of the last successful save that the game performed. Remove all of your saves except for this one and rename it to sg00.sav.

Now when you start up your game you should see one save that's not corrupted, load it up and go to a merchant and see if the problem is fixed. It is also important to note that this may take a lot of progress back but it should work, at least it did for me.

Hope this helped.

[Morkonan]

Just acknowledging - The OP's saved game file is corrupted. Unless there is another that can be restored, as Unsafe Two indicated, then that saved game can't be "fixed."

There are, however, some other bugs or mod-balancing/mod bug issues , where applicable, that can cause merchants to not have any money.

But, when merchant item lists get borked, the saved game file is corrupted - Period. Restart with a fresh game, preferably after making sure all game files are good and the install of the mod is, itself, not corrupted/buggy.