TRADESMAN Deal to Dealer Early Trade Routes

Use this page as a corkboard. Town names follow English Steam copy where we have it (Grampstead, Fishpool, Grubgrog Village, Hoboken, Normingham). Community guides add mill towns, guard camps, Furryfoot, Beastborough, Bigfoot south, miner snow, cemetery north-east, and the western Wasteland. If your language pack uses joke names, match on demand tag and geography, not on the punchline.

Cargo still sets the fight. A “safe route” with four epic saws is not safe. Trading, goods tiers, combat.

Confirmed early loop

Place	Why you go	Typical demand flavour	Notes
Grampstead	Tutorial, grandpa grain, peasants	Mixed starter	Later legendary pillar (Duncan). Getting Started.
Clunky Town	First grain sink	Follow grandpa	Do not empty the purse.
Fishpool	Marine cargo, bear cubs	Industrial on some screenshots; seafood reputation in community tables	Cap for roar-bear.
Grubgrog Village	Tavern, drinks, passengers	Industrial drinks/food	Night HUD shots. Taxi synergy.
Hoboken	Basics sink	Civilian / mixed	Good for thinning weird wells.
Normingham	Capital	Mixed sinks	Looks like the library hero street.
Mill / saw towns	Planks, woodcutters	Often civilian food in	Cart recipes. Carts.
Guard camps	Soldiers, books	Military	Crit/book caps.
Furryfoot Village	Beastborough key	Civilian food	Max standing, then red brick.
River towns	Hauler bears	Civilian food in community notes	Claw-type epics.
Bigfoot south	Fighter / hauler Bigfoot	Food in village	Hauler wants cap. Animals.
Miner / snow	Named diggers, moles	Mixed	Cleanse shout.
Cemetery / holy	Paladins	Mixed	Quests.
Wasteland west	1.0 desert belt	Unstable	Wasteland.
Silvermineham	Buy silver after a medium condition	Mixed	Wasteland-era notes. Easier than the old hunt.
Youngfield	1.0 story town, boss road	Mixed	23 Aug 2026 ninja. Walkthrough.

Short PC gameplay — towns, stalls, and the cart on the move

Two-town oscillators that pay rent

Food → tools. Buy eggs/fish in a people-village, sell in a mill, leave with planks. Repeat until the cart upgrades. Low rarity, low ego, high reputation if you stay on-tag.

Military camp loop. Armor and ammo into a camp, food out, never mix with a taxi bench. Sponge required.

Fishpool bear fund. Seafood or industrial in, cubs out (hire, not haul as cargo). Cap the pillar when you want the roar-bear, then stop.

Capital skim. Sell whatever the capital lights up, buy nothing with a +5 rarity bump unless the squad is already late-game.

Bricks that are not routes

Beastborough is a reputation door, not a loot pinata. New Cemeteries waited through Early Access; 1.0 plus later patches filled more of that belt. Snow tunnels hide lantern moles. Do not “route” them as trade hops until the shout is bought — talents.

How to update this table yourself

1. Open the stall.
2. Photograph the demand row.
3. Hover one item for traits.
4. If the row disagrees with this page, believe the row and check updates for a ninja patch.

Official map art is the in-game M screen. The map guide explains pips, Red Flags, and bricks. Discord screenshot threads on links are faster than a wiki map that lies.

Drive light. Sell on-tag. Rest with a watch. That is the whole route craft, whether you are in Grampstead or staring at desert sand.