Wealth & Trade

Turn your colony into a trading power. Track your true net worth — goods, gear, buildings and colonists — as it climbs through wealth tiers. Faction caravans walk onto your map to trade; build a reputation with each, take on their contracts, and send your own convoys to distant markets. But wealth draws attention — caravans can be ambushed on your doorstep. Start by running expeditions. Traders come from the locations you have discovered, so every expedition you send out is what brings new caravans to your gate — a colony that never explores will keep waiting for visitors who have nowhere to travel from.

★ Expeditions are how trade starts. Traders come from locations you have discovered, so sending expeditions is not a side activity — it is how you find the factions that will visit you. Discover more places and more caravans arrive, from more factions, with more varied stock. If caravans have stopped coming, you have run out of discovered locations to draw them from. • Net-worth tracking across items, equipped gear, structures and skill-valued colonists, with wealth tiers, a live trend graph and a per-category breakdown. • Physical faction caravans — settlers, scavengers, raiders, remnant, mechanoids and tech cultists — each armed and dressed in its own colours. Click a caravan leader to talk and trade. • A full trade window: staged buy/sell with per-item steppers, buy-all / sell-all, and running totals for both sides. • Reputation with every faction — better prices, rarer stock and more frequent visits as you earn their trust. • Supply and demand: factions pay a premium for what they want and sell their surplus cheaper. • Contracts: caravans offer directed jobs for a premium reward and standing. • Caravan raids: a visiting caravan can be ambushed — help defend it for a reward, or leave it to its fate. • Outgoing convoys: send goods to a distant market for a better price, at the risk of ambush on the road. • Raiders are rare, wary traders; finished weapons are a costly luxury — crafting is always the smarter path. Requires the AshForge Mod Loader — enable it from the AshForge Hub.