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	-	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	Construction Parts III	40	Glass	80	0.5
2	2	Construction Parts II	20	Chicken	30	0.5
3	-	Construction Parts III	600	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	Construction Parts III	160	Electronics II	80	0.5
5	2	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	502	Coal	2160	0.2	2.4	12
2	2	Household Goods	720	Coal	2016	0.2	2.0	12
2	2	Rubber	1800	Wood	900	0.2	1.0	12
2	3	Household Appliances	327	Wood	2520	0.2	2.8	12
2	2	Lab Equipment II	440	Copper Ore	2160	0.2	2.8	12
3	-	-	-	Nothing	-	-	-	-
4	1	Food Pack	633	Crude Oil	2640	0.3	4.0	18
4	2	Vehicle Parts II	280	Crude Oil	3080	0.3	4.6	18
4	3	Gold	162	Crude Oil	3080	0.4	5.2	24
4	3	Consumer Electronics	88	Crude Oil	3080	0.4	5.2	24
5	2	Construction Parts II	280	Limestone	2520	0.2	3.0	12
5	2	Vehicle Parts II	440	Iron Ore	2160	0.3	2.4	18
5	2	Household Appliances	400	Copper Ore	2160	0.3	2.8	18
5	3	Slag	2160	Sour Water	872	0.4	1.7	24
6	3	Diesel	3075	Gold	246	0.4	0.4	24
6	2	Coal	1440	Quartz	1440	0.3	2.0	18
6	2	Vehicle Parts II	440	Quartz	2160	0.3	3.0	18
6	2	Sulfur	480	Sludge	2160	0.1	2.2	6
7	1	Food Pack	2160	Uranium Ore	720	0.3	2.2	18
7	2	Gold	1080	Uranium Ore	1728	0.4	6.9	24
7	3	Lab Equipment IV	372	Uranium Ore	2160	0.4	8.6	24
8	1	Server	65	Iron Ore	2520	0.3	3.0	18
8	2	Medical Supplies III	600	Copper Ore	2160	0.2	2.6	12
8	2	Lab Equipment III	116	Coal	2520	0.2	3.0	12
8	2	Solar Cell	526	Quartz	2160	0.3	2.6	18
8	3	Consumer Electronics	116	Quartz	2520	0.3	3.0	18
8	3	Server	65	Gold Ore	2520	0.3	3.0	18