Portal:Commodities/Intro

What would a pirate be without his clothes, ships, and swords? But none of these items can be made without the basic commodities it takes to produce them. Commodities are the fundamental building blocks of everything that can be made in Puzzle Pirates and come in various forms such as basic commodities, herbs, minerals, cloth, dyes, paint, and enamels as well as ship supplies and forageable fruits. All of these commodities can be combined in various forms through the work of a stall or shoppe to produce a finished good.

Most commodities go through one or more processing sequences before they're ready to be used by a pirate. A shirt starts off as a few units of hemp and herbs. The herbs go to the apothecary where they are transformed into dyes. The dyes then travel with the hemp to a weavery where they become cloth. Finally, this cloth is sent to a tailor where it is turned into clothing and may be purchased by the community.

Commodities are available from the commodities markets through a bid ticket system or may be pillaged from merchant brigands. Merchant brigands will also deliver commodities to stalls or shoppes with buy offers for those commodities if the distance is worth the price offered. Commodities movement for profit is one of the base enterprises of merchanting in the game.