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.

• 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.