Only trade with ambassadors

gnomoria

I just started playing for the first time since they added ambassadors. My yaks died pretty early on and I wanted to buy new ones, but no traders have turned up. I invited some ambassadors but they require a bed before I can trade with them.. I need a bone needle to make beds, and I need yaks to make bone needles, so I can't trade with ambassadors. Spring and summer has gone by with no merchants appearing at my market stall, despite my kingdom having a worth of 5000. I had a market stall before day 5 of the first Spring, but nobody turned up. Are ambassadors the only way to trade now? If so, it seems I need to start a new save.

Best Answer

The ambassadors are also satisfied with simple straw beds, which you can build directly from the Build->Furniture menu with two units of straw. Should you have already fed all your straws to your animals, you can get more by farming wheat. Should you have no wheat seeds either, you need to kill something to get bone for a bone needle.

The wild animals which show up from time to time, like monitor lizards, honey badgers and bears, are surprisingly tough. When you attack them without properly trained and equipped soldiers, you will likely lose a few gnomes.