Trading in Storm of Zehir

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• Part 1
• Resources
• Raw
• Rare
• Trading in Cities and Towns
• Trading Goods
• Trading Posts
• Trade Caravans
• Caravan Income
• Total Income
• Part 2  (contents located on separate page)
• Merchant Cartels
• Caravan Upgrades
• Caravan repairs
• Crossroad Keep Upgrades
• Known Issues
• Console Command Cheat Codes

Resources

Raw Goods

There are three types of raw goods available for purchase and sale at any town with a Market:

• Ore - Ore is cheapest in places where it is mined. Trading Ore provides the highest profit per cargo space, but the lowest profit per bar. Ore can also be used to craft metallic weapons and armor.
• Lumber - Lumber is cheapest in places where it is logged. Trading Lumber provides a middle ground between profit per cargo space and profit per bar.  Lumber is used to craft bows and some shields.
• Skins - Trading Skins provides the highest profit per bar invested, but the lowest profit per cargo space. Skins can also be used to craft boots, cloaks and other articles of clothing.

Your party will be limited to a carrying capacity of 10 units total of any type of resource, raw or rare while on the Samarach map.  Once you reach the Sword Coast, your carrying capacity will be increased to 15 units. 

Table 1:  Raw resource prices and availability by location

Because the prices offered on Samarrach do not vary from town to town, it is NOT possible to earn a profit while trading between the towns of Samarrach.  I could have sworn that before the v1.21 patch the prices in Samarrach varied between the towns of Rassatan, Torich and Taurin however, which did allow me to create a small cache of trade bars before I left for the Sword Coast.

Rare Resources

While adventuring, your party will encounter Rare Resource nodes.  Once your party completes the steps necessary to make the node available or when you discover a new node, you can return to the nearest town and inform that town’s Provisioner. At this point, the town will pay you for your services, and that town will begin selling the associated Rare Resource.

Rare Resources are carried in your caravan like other goods. In addition to fetching a high price at some markets, you can use them to upgrade your Merchant HQ, complete quests, and craft unique weapons and armor.  A complete list of rare resources available by location can be seen in table 2 below.   Rare and Raw resources do NOT show up in your party's inventory as ingots.  Instead click on the little wagon on you character sheet and an inventory screen will open showing you what you are carrying. 

Table 2:  Rare Resource Availability and Prices by Location (Sword Coast only)

Your party can use their resource carrying capacity to buy rare resources in one town and sell them at a higher price in another town.  A complete list of prices paid for rare resources in all towns on the sword coast can be seen in table 3 below.  Note:  Prices indicated in BLUE represent the towns where rare resources originate from.  It is not possible to make a profit on Darksteel, Ivory, Mithral or Adamantine by buying and selling at towns unless you find the resources on the overland map.

Note:  There is a bug with shipping Rare Resources to Crossroad Keep.  See the known issues section for details.

Trading in Cities and Towns

Trading Goods

You primarily conduct trading in the towns and cities on the Overland Map at the Market, where you can buy and sell Trade Goods and Rare Goods. When you visit a Market within a town, it opens the Market interface which allows you to sell resources from your party inventory to the town, and buy other resources in their place. 

Table 4:  All Resource Availability and Prices by Location (Sword Coast only)

Trading Posts 

If you meet the requirements, your party can also establish a Trading Post in some towns and cities to generate a steady stream of monthly income.

The cost in trade bars and resources to establish a trading post varies from town to town as detailed in table 5 below.  The Trading Post in Neverwinter is available for purchase thru a dialog option with Sir Nevalle.  We suggest you accept the offer to buy it at the first opportunity as the offer may not be available a second time.

Table 5: Costs to establish Trading Posts

Trade Caravans

You can set up trade caravans to travel between cities on the Sword Coast and generate trade revenue. The number of caravans you have is a good indication of how successful you are as a merchant. Your caravan is rated at a certain carrying capacity, which represents the number of total units of Trade Goods your party is allowed to carry. Not all destinations are available for each starting locale, and NO caravans or Trading Posts can be establish on Samarrach.  The cost in gold pieces to establish a caravan depends on the two end points, and not the direction travelled, as detailed in table 6 below. 

Table 6:  Costs (gp) to establish caravans

Caravan Income

Your base caravan income is calculated in trade bars.  As with the cost of establishing a caravan, the base income depends simply on the starting and ending locations as seen in table 7 below.  As you might expect, the higher the profit, the greater the risk of something going wrong along the way.

The actual income that you earn is adjusted for caravan and crossroad keep upgrades.

Table 7:  Base Caravan incomes

Total Income

The total income you earn is based on a number of things.  You earn a base income of 20 trade bars just for being in business, plus a supplement of 5 trade bars for every Trading post you establish.  On top of this are added the profits you earn from your caravans.  All of these are then adjusted for the Keep upgrades which can increase the total by up to 70%.  We haven't found any impact on raising your rank within the Cartel organization but it may affect a parameter called "Company_Reserve" which is added to your income before the keep upgrades are taken into account.  Note:  There is a bug in the calculation of Trade Income which causes your income to grow exponentially and can cause a NEGATIVE income due to a buffer overflow.  See the Known Issue section for details.

   
 - Continue to part 2 of the SOZ Trading Guide