Trading Post

The Trading Post is a commerce building used to buy and sell resources with a merchant. The list of goods available for sale changes daily, with five resources shown on the signboard in front of the building at the lower right. It functions as a flexible way to fill short-term shortages, especially when a colony needs a specific resource immediately.

Buying from a merchant costs 1.2 times the base price, while selling to a merchant pays only 0.5 times the base price. Because of that, the Trading Post is useful for emergency purchases but is a poor tool for making money. It can still be worth using as a stopgap measure, such as buying food for hungry Ratizens by first obtaining Pia.

From the Trading Post’s detail window, you can choose which Storage will be used for trade. The setting works opposite to the buy/supply settings used by production buildings:

• The Storage selected for buying is where purchased goods are delivered.
• The Storage selected for selling is where goods are taken from and handed over to the merchant.