Prices at the stalls
What things have been selling for lately, and how the going rate is worked out.
Nobody new to the woods has any idea what a loaf of bread or an iron bar is worth in gold, so the game keeps track for you. Every time someone buys from a market stall, the price they paid goes down in the book, and the going rate for that thing is the middle of the last few prices. The table at the bottom of this page is the going rate right now, and it changes as people buy and sell.
How the going rate is worked out#
It takes the last 20 sales of each kind of thing from the past 4 weeks, lines the prices up from cheapest to dearest and takes the one in the middle. That way one odd sale, someone letting bread go cheap to clear a stall or paying over the odds because they were starving, doesn't move it much. Each sale counts once however many were bought, so one big order can't swing it either. It needs 3 sales before there's a going rate at all.
Until then, food gets a rough guess instead. It's worked out from the food itself: how much it fills your food bar, how long it keeps you fed, what goes into it, and how much Cooking it takes to make. A shepherd's pie comes out at 15 gold each and a baked potato at 4 gold each, because the pie does more for you and takes a much better cook. It's only a starting point, and once real sales come in they take over.
Anything else, tools and timber and ore and the rest, has no guess. What something like that is worth depends too much on who needs it and how far it's come, so it goes out at 10 gold each until enough has sold to give it a going rate.
Where you see it#
When you mind your stall, everything on it and in your pack shows its going rate under the name, and anything new you put out starts at that price. Buyers see it too, so they can tell a fair price from a dear one. Each item's page in this wiki has it in the box at the top, and once a week the Lantern prints what's gone up or down.
The going rate is what people have been paying, not what you have to charge. If your stall is a long walk from anywhere, or you're the only one selling stew, you can ask more. If you want to clear a big batch, ask less.
Going rates right now#
| Thing | Going rate | Sales lately | Rough guess |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bacon and eggs | Not enough sold yet | 0 | 10 gold each |
| Baked potato | Not enough sold yet | 0 | 4 gold each |
| Beef | Not enough sold yet | 0 | 1 gold each |
| Boiled egg | Not enough sold yet | 0 | 2 gold each |
| Bread | Not enough sold yet | 0 | 5 gold each |
| Butter | Not enough sold yet | 0 | 2 gold each |
| Buttered potatoes | Not enough sold yet | 0 | 6 gold each |
| Carrots | Not enough sold yet | 0 | 1 gold each |
| Cheese | Not enough sold yet | 0 | 5 gold each |
| Cooked meat | Not enough sold yet | 0 | 6 gold each |
| Eggs | Not enough sold yet | 0 | 1 gold each |
| Fish chowder | Not enough sold yet | 0 | 10 gold each |
| Fowl | Not enough sold yet | 0 | 1 gold each |
| Fried eggs | Not enough sold yet | 0 | 4 gold each |
| Fried potatoes | Not enough sold yet | 0 | 5 gold each |
| Grilled fish | Not enough sold yet | 0 | 3 gold each |
| Hare | Not enough sold yet | 0 | 1 gold each |
| Jerky | Not enough sold yet | 0 | 2 gold each |
| Maple sugar | Not enough sold yet | 0 | 2 gold each |
| Maple syrup | Not enough sold yet | 0 | 1 gold each |
| Meat stew | Not enough sold yet | 0 | 12 gold each |
| Medicinal herbs | Not enough sold yet | 0 | 3 gold each |
| Milk | Not enough sold yet | 0 | 1 gold each |
| Mutton | Not enough sold yet | 0 | 1 gold each |
| Pancakes | Not enough sold yet | 0 | 8 gold each |
| Pork | Not enough sold yet | 0 | 1 gold each |
| Potatoes | Not enough sold yet | 0 | 1 gold each |
| Raw meat | Not enough sold yet | 0 | 1 gold each |
| Roast beef | Not enough sold yet | 0 | 8 gold each |
| Roast carrot | Not enough sold yet | 0 | 3 gold each |
| Roast fowl | Not enough sold yet | 0 | 5 gold each |
| Roast hare | Not enough sold yet | 0 | 4 gold each |
| Roast lobster | Not enough sold yet | 0 | 5 gold each |
| Roast mutton | Not enough sold yet | 0 | 6 gold each |
| Roast pork | Not enough sold yet | 0 | 6 gold each |
| Roast venison | Not enough sold yet | 0 | 6 gold each |
| Shepherd's pie | Not enough sold yet | 0 | 15 gold each |
| Smoked fish | Not enough sold yet | 0 | 2 gold each |
| Spruce tea | Not enough sold yet | 0 | 1 gold each |
| Venison | Not enough sold yet | 0 | 1 gold each |
| Wild berries | Not enough sold yet | 0 | 1 gold each |