I cant get Tools

[Maxe]

Hey, i cant get tools via trading , my first Trading Patner dont Sell tools and i cant craft them, how can i get acces to tools when i cant trade them and cant make them:( for the village that sell tools i need cloth to aktivate the trade route. but i cant make clothe without tools for the building , iam stuck and cant find a way to solve it

[Minotorious]

If the first trading partner doesn't sell tools then you have a mod loaded that changed that as that is the default vanilla way to get tools.

[Jambie Lionheart]

He probably doesn't know the proper steps to activating the trade route for particular products and goods. The game isn't exactly noob friendly in that regard.

@Maxe: Assuming the above is actually the problem, this is what you need to do;
Once trade route it open, you need the have a warehouse that accepts what ever it is you want to trade. In this case it's tools. Then you want to go to the resources overview (somewhere in the tabs menu).

Somewhere in that overview is the tools resource. There's a few things you can do with tools from here. Looks through your options. If it looks like a button or a scribble in the same row then hover the mouse over it to investigate it. Description pop up's will appear to tel you what they do. For now, you will need to set an amount limit and how many you want to store (so you won't trade for more than you want or sell to much when the time comes) and you'll want to set the resource to buying. I can't remember if you can set it to buy AND sell at the same time.

Do all of that and you SHOULD be able to trade. You need 70 ccoins to trade for ten tools, initially and in vanilla.
If you get to a point in the game where you run out of tools, cannot produce them and cannot afford to buy them, you pretty much have to start all over again.

[Machine Gunn Eddie]

If Northburry doesn't sell tools, you usin balancin trade mod

[Cheet4h]

Originally posted by CtMurphy:

He probably doesn't know the proper steps to activating the trade route for particular products and goods. The game isn't exactly noob friendly in that regard.

... It's not? Isn't trading for tools part of the tutorial, explaining step-by-step how to achieve that, or do I misremember that?

[Vorpal]

make sure A warehouse has a spot for tools. Seller can't drop tools if they have nowhere to put them.

[Fobicafa]

Originally posted by Minotorious:

If the first trading partner doesn't sell tools then you have a mod loaded that changed that as that is the default vanilla way to get tools.

Got the same problem right now. No Mods, No savegame before 1.9. Only the second trader sells tools... will start a new game and check if the first trader sells tools.

EDIT: Started a new game, "Coast" procedural again. First trader don't sells tools.

EDIT2: Strange thing, I bought (10) tools although the 2nd trader isn't "opened" yet. Sorry, can't find the right word in english.

[Minotorious]

We are aware that the wording in the German translation is currently wrong in the trade window and the top items are what the trader actually sells while the bottom ones what he buys. (This is going to be fixed asap)

I can assure you the 1st trader 100% sells tools in a vanilla game ;)

[Fobicafa]

Originally posted by Minotorious:

We are aware that the wording in the German translation is currently wrong in the trade window and the top items are what the trader actually sells while the bottom ones what he buys. (This is going to be fixed asap)

I can assure you the 1st trader 100% sells tools in a vanilla game ;)

Ah, now that makes everything clear :) Thanks.

[VanHeagen]

I'm glad to have found this topic. It's really sad that this hasn't been fixed yet. I was about to uninstall the game because I couldn't find a way to get bread so I could trade tools before I ran out of tools. took me 7 reboots to see that it's impossible if you believe the german translation...

[Storm[HUN]]

And a year later, I'm having the same issue. It worked for a while, then stopped working.

[Finwickle]

Best to make a new post about it instead of reviving a very old one. The original, very old, post is about the first unlocked trader not having tools to trade. As I read your post, your trader did have them but stopped trading. Not the same issue. Make a new post in the Bug Reports section.