Mysterious wandering trader question

[JustinGayme.TTV]

Yes, I used the search frearure to try and find the answer but found conflicting answers.

Does the mysterious wandering trader spawn only Fri-Mon? Also, do I need to have a certain amount of influence for them to show up? I’ve seen reports that this is the case.

If so what is the influence needed?

Does the trader show up randomly on map? How long between spans? Like ballpark figure. 2 hours? 12 hours?

[Morbidius]

Yes the mysterious wandering trader only shows up friday-monday.

About the other questions I don't know. For me it just feels random if the mysterious wandering trader shows up or not. I have played during the weekend for maybe 4-5 hours without the trader showing up at all. And I have also started up a game and the mysterious wandering trader shows up within the first 15 minutes that I play.

I don't think I have ever seen the mysterious wandering trader when I was very low on influence though. Say between 0-300 influence. So I would say try to have over 1000 influence in your community. This is NOT!!! a fact though just something that I'm "feeling". Maybe there is a threshold you have the be over with your influence for the mysterious wandering trader to be able to spawn, or maybe there is no such requirement.....

[Requiem]

It's just random

I just played some and it took me less then a minute for the Mysterious Wandering Trader to spawn in this time.

I had just over 6000 influence with my community.

[TheStorySmith]

Full answer: There are multiple types of 'Mysterious Trader'. They show up both randomly, Friday, Saturday, Sunday and Monday, as well as and have a small chance of appearing any day of the week. Then there is the small chance of having a trader being an ambush.
For more details check out the wiki page: https://state-of-decay-2.fandom.com/wiki/Wandering_Traders

[Protectron]

Originally posted by TheStorySmith:

Full answer: There are multiple types of 'Mysterious Trader'. They show up both randomly, Friday, Saturday, Sunday and Monday, as well as and have a small chance of appearing any day of the week. Then there is the small chance of having a trader being an ambush.
For more details check out the wiki page: https://state-of-decay-2.fandom.com/wiki/Wandering_Traders

There is only one type of trader that is called "Mysterious". The others are just called wandering traders. You can see the name of the enclave that pops up when the mission spawns it in, either on the map or in the missions screen.

The ambush is a misc mission, and are not called "wandering trader" at all. There are several misc missions about trading, so you can't tell beforehand that it is an ambush.

[JustinGayme.TTV]

Hi all,

Wanted to follow up and say thanks for the info.

I was able to find the mysterious wandering trader. Of course everyone has different experiences but I will share mine, take what you want from it.

1.) the more influene I had the more likely it seemed to spawn. If I logged into communities with high amounts of influence the trader almost immediately spawned.

2.) more plaguehearts seemed to reduce their chances of spawning. If true, this makes sense, similar to how it’s hard to spawn things on a fresh lethal map due to “nowhere for them to spawn”

3.) due to points 1 and 2, I had to get what I wanted from easier campaigns and send them to legacy pool and recruit on my lethal campaign. I started my lethal campaign from scratch and while fun, I’m constantly starved for influence, so I never got it to spawn here.

Thanks again for all your tips.