Merchant

Merchants are, alongside with sailors, one of the principal gold income source in the game. They can be acquired by tasking a Villager to work at the Trading Post or the Marketplace and will produce by default.

Tips and tricks
In order to build a strong economy, your merchants production can be improved in several ways and benefit from multiplicative bonuses.


 * Improve tools.png improvement gives % bonus to all merchants.
 * Unlocking [[File:Coinage.png]] Coinage knowledge gives % bonus to all merchants.
 * Upgrading a trading post or Marketplace gives another % bonus for all the merchants on the tile.
 * Upgrading both trading post and marketplace on the same area gives % bonus for all the merchants on the tile (x=). It is called a commerce center and its kröwn income is unmatched.