Commodities

Commodities are items which, when combined with labor in a shoppe or stall, produce other items used in-game.

Raw commodities can be purchased at commodities markets via the bid ticket system, pillaged from merchant brigands, or simply be bought by setting a competitive buy price in the shoppe or stall, and waiting for either merchant brigands or players to sell these to the shoppe or stall. Refined commodities are manufactured from raw commodities at stalls or shoppes; these can be further processed into different commodities. Finished commodities have completed the manufacturing process and are ready for delivery.

Commodities can not be held in a pirate's personal inventory. They can be stored only in the hold of a building or ship, and can be moved from island to island only within the hold of a ship.

Raw commodities
"Raw" commodities consist of materials spawned by the game itself, along with a few intermediate products created by pirates which are used in the crafting of finished goods. This includes such things as "basic" commodities, herbs, minerals, and various forageables.

Basic commodities

 * Hemp
 * Hemp oil
 * Iron
 * Lacquer
 * Stone
 * Sugar cane
 * Varnish
 * Wood

Herbs

 * Broom flower
 * Butterfly weed
 * Cowslip
 * Elderberries
 * Indigo
 * Iris root
 * Lily of the valley
 * Lobelia
 * Madder
 * Nettle
 * Old man's beard
 * Pokeweed berries
 * Sassafras
 * Weld
 * Yarrow

Minerals

 * Chalcocite
 * Cubanite
 * Gold nugget
 * Lorandite
 * Leushite
 * Masuyite
 * Papagoite
 * Serandite
 * Sincosite
 * Tellurium
 * Thorianite

Refined commodities
"Refined" commodities consist entirely of intermediate products created by pirates which are then used in the crafting of various finished goods. These products include such things as ship supplies, cloth (and fine cloth), dyes, enamels, and paints.

Ship supplies

 * Swill
 * Grog
 * Fine rum
 * Small, medium, and large cannon balls

Dyes

 * Blue dye
 * Green dye
 * Kraken's blood ^
 * Red dye
 * Yellow dye

^ Kraken's blood is available only from pillaging.

Other links

 * Commonly discussed ideas from Game Design
 * YPP Tax Data mean market prices on all oceans.
 * Pirate Commodity Trader, a Java application for collecting, sharing, and analyzing data on commodity prices around the oceans.
 * Pirate Commodity Trader with Bleach, an alternate version which has web based searching.
 * List of commodity spawns
 * List of items with recipes for creation