I started playing Banished today, and I'm having problems with the Trading Post. The last two ships to come to the Trading Post, I have been unable to trade with. The ship currently at my dock has cattle for sale, and I have over 3000 food (corn, peppers, and fish) available to barter.
For some reason, the right hand side of the trade window is grayed out. My desired inventory matches my inventory on hand, so I know its not that. At first, I blamed my workers, but even after adding more workers, I can't get the right side of the trade window to enable.
I have checked the in game help system, as well as the wiki, but I've not been able to find an answer. Any ideas what is going on with my trading post?
Best Answer
The reason you can't trade your items with the merchant is because they have a trade value of 0. Certain merchants won't accept certain kinds of good for trade, and so the value of those goods will be set to 0 when trading with them. An example of this is herbs, which a lot of merchants won't accept for trade, but food merchants will.