Northbury Trader Never Arrives

[gmg199990]

The Northbury trader completely skips my village every cycle. I've run out of tools and money because I'm not able to trade.

[Minotorious]

Do you have a warehouse slot with tools assigned and the trade window set to buy tools with a value higher than the value currently in stock?

Could you post a screenshot of your set up for us to investigate further?

[jcmeerman]

What happens if you sell something that Northbury buys? And do make sure that commodity is stored in a warehouse / granary.

[vitorvb]

I had the same problem after the update, even started a new game, but again no trader. He just never arrives (no mods btw)

[Minotorious]

Originally posted by vitorvb:

I had the same problem after the update, even started a new game, but again no trader. He just never arrives (no mods btw)

Do you have a warehouse slot with tools assigned and the trade window set to buy tools with a value higher than the value currently in stock?

Could you post a screenshot of your set up or better the save file itself for us to investigate further?

[vitorvb]

so, I made a new city, because the one with the bug I tried some mods to fix it but ended up breaking the save

and on this new map the trader just came without any problems??? I chose a similar map, with the ‘river’ configuration (on max), small lakes scattered around (maybe 10 or 20%?) and zero mountains.

I thought that maybe it was a pathfinding issue with that particular setup, but the new villagers arrived every week without problems, so I'm not sure of what happened. But at least it's all back to normal in the current city =)

[Mr Ash]

Originally posted by vitorvb:

so, I made a new city, because the one with the bug I tried some mods to fix it but ended up breaking the save

and on this new map the trader just came without any problems??? I chose a similar map, with the ‘river’ configuration (on max), small lakes scattered around (maybe 10 or 20%?) and zero mountains.

I thought that maybe it was a pathfinding issue with that particular setup, but the new villagers arrived every week without problems, so I'm not sure of what happened. But at least it's all back to normal in the current city =)

Do you still have the save file for your initial trader issue? We have seen a similar problem with another map seed so if you have the save please could you send it in to us to [e-mail]
Thanks

[FatherWicked]

Same issue on both a custom seed and a legacy. I will send in a save game. Little guy just does not stop at my Granary or Warehouse. Yes I have planks to sell and tools to buy set in the book.

[Moroza]

Had the same issue on the following seed.
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Trader just kept walking through the settlement.

[bullseye]

Hallo, same problem here. I started 3 new maps, in every map the same. Trader don't like to trade.
I've played the game for about 2 years, so i know how it should be, and what to do.
But the trader not, anymore...

[Minotorious]

Please share your save files as Ash asked above for us to investigate all individual cases. :)

[bullseye]

Hallo Minotrorious,
thanks for reading. I've klicked on the sell/buy buttons many times. Make them green, red and yellow again and again and wait.

One day the trader does his job. I don't know why, I will test it in other maps.

Thanks again and greetings from Germany. Foundation is a great game, I've played it for over 300 h and i think there will be 300 h more,
thanks

[Ofcow]

Hi everyone,

I am experiencing the same kind of issue, i'll try to give as much details as I can (sorry for my english):
- I have open the commercial route with Northbury (so it's curently still on level 1).
- In my stock, I have 80+ plank of wood and 0 tools.
- In the trade book, I set the plank of wood on : 'sell everything above 25', and the tools on 'buy until 25'.
- In my warehouse, both tools and planks are accepted, and the building has 4/4 workers.
- The building is easily accessible (he is capable of picking the plank so it's not a pathfinding issue).
- I have enough gold to buy the tools (about 500 gold).

The Northbury guy is doing his cycles, stoping by to the warehouse to buy my planks of wood but never drop the tools. I tried to buy barrrels, but the guy doesn't drop it neither.
I hope I didn't do something wrong ^^
Are you guys interested in the save file ?

[Mr Ash]

Originally posted by Ofcow:

Hi everyone,
I am experiencing the same kind of issue.
I have open the commercial route with Northbury (so it's curently still on level 1).
In my stock, I have 80+ plank of wood and 0 tools.
In the trade book, I set the plank of wood on : 'sell everything above 25', and the tools on 'buy until 25'.
In my warehouses, both tools and planks are accepted, and the buildings have 4/4 workers.
The Northbury guy is doing his cycles, he is stoping by to the warehouse to buy my planks of wood but never drop the tools.
The buildings are accessible (not a pathfinding issue).
Trying with other stuff, the Northbury guy never sell anything.
Did I do something wrong ?
Are you guys interested in the save file ?

One thing that is sometimes missed is the up/down arrow buttons to set to buy or sell (in the resource window of the book). They should be either green (up arrow) to buy or red (down arrow) to sell. If the arrows are white they haven't been clicked on.

If not that then yes please send in the save file as it will be easier to diagnose. You can send it to [e-mail] and we will take a look

[Ofcow]

Originally posted by Mr Ash:

Originally posted by Ofcow:

Hi everyone,
I am experiencing the same kind of issue.
I have open the commercial route with Northbury (so it's curently still on level 1).
In my stock, I have 80+ plank of wood and 0 tools.
In the trade book, I set the plank of wood on : 'sell everything above 25', and the tools on 'buy until 25'.
In my warehouses, both tools and planks are accepted, and the buildings have 4/4 workers.
The Northbury guy is doing his cycles, he is stoping by to the warehouse to buy my planks of wood but never drop the tools.
The buildings are accessible (not a pathfinding issue).
Trying with other stuff, the Northbury guy never sell anything.
Did I do something wrong ?
Are you guys interested in the save file ?

One thing that is sometimes missed is the up/down arrow buttons to set to buy or sell (in the resource window of the book). They should be either green (up arrow) to buy or red (down arrow) to sell. If the arrows are white they haven't been clicked on.

If not that then yes please send in the save file as it will be easier to diagnose. You can send it to [e-mail] and we will take a look

That was exactly the issue... I feel a little stupid, but at least I can continue playing my game now! Thank you @ash :-)

[arestelle]

I was encountering the same thing on a coastal map; the Northbury trader would appear on the screen and follow a well-trodden path at an edge of the map until he disappeared again, never coming anywhere near my village. Didn't matter whether or not I set tools in a warehouse slot and set it to buy a number more than I have. What did matter is whether I was set to sell something that Northbury buys (even if it's not in a warehouse and I have 0 of it, so I've set one of those at a high minimum since I don't actually want to sell anything and sure enough, the trader headed towards town the very next time he appeared on the map) - this has to be a bug since there is an achievement that depends on not selling things, but we obviously still need to be able to buy tools.