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Introduction
Today we will talk about Merchantry, what it is, and how to play.
What is Merchantry?
Merchantry is a side mini-game within Black Desert Mobile, allowing you to take resources and material from one town to another and trade those materials for profits.
During the game, you will have the opportunity to collect resources from completely different tasks using your workers.
The global vision of Merchantry is different from the Asian servers. Still, since we cannot access those servers, we will have to figure out our differences.
How to find Merchantry
To find Merchantry, it will be in your camp option, but your Main Storyline quests have to be fully completed up to X Marine, and you do need to have your trading post completed.
You are going to have the option to build two wagons. However, you would need to have your level of Merchantry up to level 10, which is just a very high level.
You can manage those wagons, see how many are available, the capacity, and how much the horse is going to eat during the trading travels. You can also change the name of the horse. You can also change the horse on the wagon if you wanted a different horse for any reason.
You can also manage the escorts, which are the workers that come with you on the trade. You can change them by analyzing vitality, strength, and dexterity too.
At the bottom of the screen, you would see the Daily Food Supply, which is the amount of food you can carry per trade, which will be the amount of food that the workers would be consuming during the trade. So you can make one trade per day and not just keep on trading until you run out of food, unfortunately.
Your first Merchantry
Now that you are all set, you have the wagon on, the horse, and the workers, and you are excited to see how this goes!
So, you are going to want to go to the first town, which is Velia. But first, you will want to make sure that you have the Amity Map with all of the world’s trade workers in each town, which will be the people you will be talking to.
Now, if you click on Rapport Exchange List, you can see every Amity Benefit with each Amity NPC. By reaching 100 Amity points, you will earn 30 Rapport points. You will earn Rapport Points every time you exchange Trade Goods, and when those Rapport points increase, you will have more options to buy and choose from this list.
If you do not make any trade for 3 days, your Rapport Points start to drop.
So first thing first: make sure you take those Amity points to 100 to have premium trade goods. After that, start to buy and sell every day to get more rewards, and also, you do not risk that your Rapport Points start to drop.
The Trading Shop
This can be very complex. However, let’s try to make it simple.
There will be three options at the top of the right-hand column: Buy, Exchange, and Sell.
The Exchange option is the most simple one. You will use it to exchange material for other material. It can happen that you will find decent stuff to exchange. This all depends on your situation and what you are looking to receive.
The Buy options are where you can buy the material, it sounds simple, but it is pretty important to buy food at this moment because it is the only moment where you can provide food for the team while in Merchantry.
When you are buying other goods than food, pay attention to the value rate. When you learn to read those stats, you will realize that sometimes it is good to buy something that will go up on price the next time around, when you will be selling it.
When you go to the Sell option, you can check which other vendors are selling.
The world map inside Merchantry
You will see that in Merchantry, you have three different choices, Check Merchandise, Auto-path, and Set Destination. Right up those choices, you will see the amount of silver and the amount of food.
The amount of food that it takes to get to that specific destination, the amount you will make at that destination if you sold the item above that you have in your wagon. If this last option is empty, it means that you do not have anything to sell to those destinations.
You can see what you can buy and sell in that location on the Check Merch option, but remember, not every item is sellable, and not every item is buyable in each location. So make sure before buying a trade good in one town, check if you can sell it in the next town.
Travel
At the bottom of the screen, you have little notes that say: Normal, Magic, Rare, Unique, and Epic.
As you go through town, you will encounter those notes on your paths, and you will have the option to open them and read the benefits. If you think the benefit would suit you, you can go around and collect the notes. We think that it is a really good way to be leveling up workers in the Merchantry world.
You consume 50 food every 30 seconds on the travel, but zero when you reach the town. The notes that you collect will give you 75 of the foods.