As requested, I also made an explanation guide on the Trade routes. As I have found out how this works also just a few hours back, I hope I can pass this knowledge on to you without any problems.
Trade route allows you to set up routes for your merchant that he will walk every day at a certain hour. Standard this holds on for 7 days, but you can extend it with 7 days for the cost of 2 gold.
To set a trade route, you have to go to the marketplace. Once you have more than 1 villages, the tab “trade routes” will appear. What you see here is the screen you get when you have no Trade routes set yet. To Create a trade route, you have to click the “Create new trade route” link.
After clicking the “Create new trade route” link, This is the screen you will be shown. I censored the village name here again, which should be in the drop-down menu behind ‘target village’. A little explanation on the screen you see here:
target village: the village the resources will be transported to. Note that you can only send resources by using this feature to your own villages.
Resources: Pretty obvious. The resources you want to send to the other village
Start time: The time your merchant will be starting his route. In this case, I let it start at 16=16.00 server time. So not the time you may have set on your own, but server time. This is GMT+1(Germany, Netherlands…)
Deliveries: How many times you want your merchant to go? I set it to 3 here, so it will go 3 times starting the first time at 16.00 o‘clock. You can choose 1, 2 or 3 times.
Costs: The costs of the trade route. Always 2 gold.
Duration: This is also solid value when creating a new one. A new route is always 7 days.
Once created, you will see this when clicking the “trade routes” tab in the marketplace. Censored village name again, which should stand behind “Trade route to…”. You can select a trade route and hit the ‘Extend’, ‘edit’ or ‘delete’ link. All of them pretty much explain their selves. Further, you can see the starting time here, the amount of resources involved per load, the marchants used and the time left for that route. If you look beneath the “merchants” heading, you see “3x1”. The “3” is the amount of deliveries, which I set to 3. the “1” is the number of merchants. So 1 merchant, will walk 3 times.
After waiting to get 16.00 server time on my clock, I finally was able to make this last screenshot. Village names censored again. This is shown as soon as the trade route starts and looks just like a normal trade you send your merchants away for.
I hope you all enjoyed reading this again and if there are questions, comments, compliments, flames or especially suggestions, don’t hesitate to e-mail me at
happiej.travian@gmail.com