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Calima's interesting commodities

More Age of Frontiers development! Besides equipment, there are also goods and commodities that you will need for many uses. Don't worry: every single item will have a clear purpose in the world. I really dislike games with a ton of different items whose only purpose is to fill a trading spreadsheet (and I say this as someone who loves trading in sandboxes!).

Here is the initial set of goods available in Age of Frontiers:

Age of Frontiers goods icons: athale, clothes, crystals, crops, food, game, liquor, materials, medicines, ore, tools, treasure, wood and the rare goods

Raw goods

  • Wood: keeps weapons in working order, and builds a village's enterprises.
  • Game: raw product of hunting, for food, clothes and materials.
  • Crops: raw product of farming, for food and clothes.
  • Athale: a gathered plant, for medicines and liquor.
  • Ore: mined rock, for materials and tools.
  • Crystals: grown around certain places, the only source of charms.

Produced goods

  • Food: the party's upkeep, and how it recovers stamina.
  • Clothes: keep armour in working order.
  • Materials: maintain advanced weapons and armour, and are spent on some exploring tasks.
  • Medicines: heal the party beyond what rest can.
  • Liquor: keeps morale up, and the peace when different factions travel together.
  • Tools: maintain the best weapons and armour. Few villages sell them.
  • Charms: crystal work for manipulating the geen. The rarest produced good.

Trade goods

  • Treasure: the common currency for goods, contracts, equipment and services. Its value varies from village to village.
  • Rare metals, rare hides, rare bones, rare plants, fine fabric, spices, light mushrooms, dye and wreckage: each produced in only one part of the world. The further you carry them away, the more they are worth.

Processing

One of the interesting things you can do with goods is process them, provided the village you are in has the right crafting buildings. Cook crops into food, tan game into clothes, melt ore into materials... This is a very preliminary version of that screen:

Age of Frontiers processing screen for the village of Chasse: recipes such as craft, cook, smoke, weave, tan, treat, melt, work and prepare, each turning some goods into others, with the stock of goods along the bottom

As always, everything here is work in progress. I'll keep you posted!

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