Trade

Trading is an interaction mechanic between player's home island and villages on the world map.

There are two types of offers: quick trade and contracts.

Currently, trading offers and their item ratios are fixed, so any world seed is guaranteed to have all the options necessary. They are also not affected by any starting settings. Though, positions of the villages themselves are randomized at the start. The starting village, which is always revealed to the player, will always have the same trading offers.

A village will display all of it's offers since it's discovery, and increasing your reputation through donations will not reveal any new options. However, reputation still matters, because a message about its insufficiency will pop up upon trying to establish a contract.

Quick Trade

This type of offer is intended for the urgent purchase of a relatively small amount of resources that are important at the current time.

Any type of player-owned ship is not required to perform a quick trade. In order to perform it, only three conditions have to be met:

• The player has to have Trading Dock built.
• The player has to own a resource they trade with, stored in any storage on the island. Direct access by a truck or export settings are not required.
• The player has to have required Unity amount.

Trade is performed instantly, and desired goods magically appear at the Trading Dock, from where they can then be exported via trucks.

With every two trades on the same offer, the trade ratio worsens by some amount. Worse ratio remains present for some time afterwards. This is a demising return mechanic, intended to stop the player from using quick trading for large quantities of resources on a frequent basis.

Quick Trades (Initial trade ratio,version 0.5.2)

Village	Required Reputation	Export		Import		Unity
1	-	Wood	40	Bricks	40	0.5
1	-	Wood	80	Concrete Slab	80	0.5
1	-	Wood	80	Iron Scrap	96	0.5
1	-	Construction Parts	40	Potato	40	0.5
1	-	Construction Parts	80	Copper	80	0.5
1	-	Construction Parts	80	Rubber	80	0.5
1	-	Diesel	120	Coal	160	0.5
1	-	Coal	160	Diesel	80	0.5
2	-	File:ConstructionPartsII.png Construction Parts II	20	Diesel	80	0.5
2	-	Rubber	40	Wood	80	0.5
2	-	Construction Parts	40	Coal	120	0.5
2	1	File:ConstructionPartsIII.png Construction Parts III	40	Glass	80	0.5
2	2	File:ConstructionPartsII.png Construction Parts II	20	Chicken	30	0.5
3	-	File:ConstructionPartsIII.png Construction Parts III	600	File:CargoShip.png Cargo Ship	1	20.0
4	-	Nothing	-	-	-	-
5	1	Diesel	200	Bread	60	0.5
5	1	Coal	40	Sulfur	80	0.5
5	1	Electronics	120	Iron Ore	80	0.5
5	2	File:ConstructionPartsIII.png Construction Parts III	160	File:ElectronicsII.png Electronics II	80	0.5
5	2	File:ConstructionPartsIII.png Construction Parts III	120	Medical Supplies	40	0.5
6	2	Gold	160	Microchips	40	0.5
7	-	Nothing	-	-	-	-
8	1	Electronics	80	Quartz	80	0.5

Note

• Importing Glass is the only way to get it before Research Lab III
• Importing Chicken is the only way to get it
• Importing Cargo Ships are the way to get additional ones after repairing all Damaged Cargo Ships.

Contracts

This type of offer is intended for creating a long term supply route of some basic resource. Mechanic is intended to extend player's capabilities in the late game, mitigating the limit of finite ores and some other basic resources on the island and in the World Map finite nodes. Contracts play a decisive role when it comes to allowing a player to infinitly sustain their settlement.

Setting up a contract is much more demanding, than performing a quick trade. A player is required to have a Cargo Depot (2) (or a wider version), a dedicated Cargo Ship, while also paying fixed Unity fee per month of usage, per ship travelled, and per establishment of the contract. Therefore, it is not recommended to use contracts until there is a stable and sufficient Unity income present.

A contract can be established through either a cargo module's interface itself (see Loose Module (S) or better analogs), or through a dedicated trading interface (found on the bottom pannel of the game UI).

The following table is a list of all the contract offers with cargo ship with size 8 currently available. With a smaller cargo ship, it also downscales the amount of imported/exported items and Unity per ship. Take note, that exact numbers may change, and game version should be taken into consideration here.

Contracts (with a Cargo Ship having 8 modules, version 0.5.2)

Village	Required Reputation	Export		Import		Unity
						per month	per ship	at establish
1	-	?	?	Nothing	-	?	?	-
2	2	Cement	818	Coal	4500	0.2	5.0	12
2	2	Household Goods	1125	Coal	4500	0.2	4.5	12
2	2	File:LabEquipmentIII.png Lab Equipment III	656	Coal	5250	0.2	6.3	12
2	2	Sulfur	3000	Coal	3000	0.2	3.0	12
2	2	File:VehiclePartsIII.png Vehicle Parts III	97	Coal	5250	0.2	6.3	12
2	2	Rubber	3750	Wood	1875	0.2	2.1	12
2	3	Household Appliances	583	Wood	5250	0.2	5.8	12
2	2	File:LabEquipmentII.png Lab Equipment II	1500	Copper Ore	4000	0.2	5.2	12
3	-	?	?	Nothing	-	?	?	-
?	?	Household Appliances	750	Copper Ore	4875	0.3	6.3	18
?	?	File:MedicalSuppliesIII.png Medical Supplies III	750	Copper Ore	4875	0.2	5.9	12
4	1	Food Pack	818	Crude Oil	4500	0.2	4.5	12
4	2	File:VehiclePartsII.png Vehicle Parts II	187	Crude Oil	5250	0.2	5.2	12
4	3	Gold	276	Crude Oil	5250	0.3	7.9	18
4	3	Consumer Electronics	141	Crude Oil	5250	0.3	7.9	18
5	2	File:ConstructionPartsII.png Construction Parts II	525	Limestone	5250	0.2	3.0	12
?	?	File:CompositeCore.png Composite Core	114	Limestone	5250	0.3	5.2	18
5	2	File:VehiclePartsII.png Vehicle Parts II	375	Iron Ore	5250	0.3	2.4	18
8	1	Server	57	Iron Ore	5250	0.3	6.3	18
5	3	Slag	3750	Sour Water	1500	0.4	3.0	24
6	3	Diesel	5250	Gold	420	0.3	0.6	24
6	2	Coal	1875	Quartz	3750	0.3	4.5	18
6	2	File:VehiclePartsII.png Vehicle Parts II	403	Quartz	5250	0.3	6.3	18
?	?	Solar Cell	700	Quartz	5250	0.3	6.3	18
?	?	Consumer Electronics	210	Quartz	5250	0.3	6.3	18
6	2	Sulfur	1500	Sludge	4500	0.1	4.5	6
?	?	Slag	3750	Sludge	1500	0.4	3.0	24
?	?	Server	58	Gold Ore	5250	0.3	6.3	18
7	1	Food Pack	2250	Uranium Ore	3375	0.3	3.4	18
7	2	Gold	1285	Uranium Ore	4500	0.4	5.4	24
7	3	File:LabEquipmentIV.png Lab Equipment IV	900	Uranium Ore	4500	0.4	5.4	24
?	?	Iron Ore	3000	Uranium Ore	3000	0.4	3.6	24
?	?	File:VehiclePartsII.png Vehicle Parts II	700	Imported Goods	5250	0.1	4.2	6
?	?	Diamond	477	Imported Goods	5250	0.1	4.2	6
?	?	File:FertilizerII.png Fertilizer II	4500	Wheat	1500	0.3	1.5	18
?	?	Sausage	2250	Wheat	3600	0.2	3.6	12
?	?	File:FertilizerII.png Fertilizer II	3750	Sugar Cane	1875	0.3	1.9	18
?	?	Wood	1500	Corn	4500	0.3	4.5	18
?	?	Snack	2083	Wheat	3750	0.3	3.7	18
?	?	Meat	1125	Vegetables	4500	0.2	4.5	12
?	?	Consumer Electronics	900	Chicken Carcass	4500	0.2	4.5	12
?	?	Food Pack	750	Ammonia	4500	0.2	4.5	12
?	?	File:CompositeCore.png Composite Core	35	Fuel Gas	5250	0.3	4.2	18
?	?	Dirt	1875	Fuel Gas	3750	0.2	3.7	12
?	?	Slag	3375	Waste	2250	0.3	4.5	18
?	?	Gold	450403	Bauxite	5250	0.2	5.2	12
?	?	File:ConsumerAppliances.png Consumer Appliances	700	Bauxite	5250	0.3	5.2	18
?	?	File:ConstructionPartsIV.png Construction Parts IV	61	Bauxite	5250	0.4	5.2	24
?	?	File:CompositeCore.png Composite Core	95	Bauxite	5250	0.4	5.2	24
?	?	Manufactured Sand	3750	Dirt	1875	0.1	1.9	6
?	?	Server	57	Titanium Ore	5250	0.4	7.9	24
?	?	File:ConstructionPartsIV.png Construction Parts IV	69	Titanium Ore	5250	0.4	7.9	24