Goods

Goods are a type of item that can be purchased at villages and towns, or found as loot from caravans, bandit camps and raiding villages. Goods serve several roles in Mount&Blade, including trade, food and production.

General

Goods cannot be directly used, although food is consumed automatically, but you can buy them and sell them at other towns or villages for a profit, or if you own a Productive Enterprise, you can give your master craftsman raw materials instead of having him buy them from the market (although he will usually be able to get them for a good price). Likewise, you can tell your master craftsman to hold onto the goods the enterprise produces so that you can trade them yourself for higher profit.

Weight

All goods have a weight and are typically quite heavy, which can slow down your Party Speed. It is worth taking along some extra horses to serve as pack mules to maintain your overland speed if you want to trade and still hunt down bandits, or outrun them, during your trips between towns.

Prices

The prices of goods are highly variable, and based upon an abstract model of Supply and Demand, which is covered in the trade page. All goods have a True Price, this is the game-assigned value of each good. This is rarely ever what the actual price of the goods will be, buy/sale price is modified based upon the local abundance or scarcity of that product. You can purchase goods where they are abundant and cheap, and sell where they are scarce and valuable to earn a profit. If you wish to engage in trade, only purchase goods when they are notably less than the True Value listed unless you are sure that there is a town where the scarcity of the good will drive up the value even further.

Type of Goods

Many goods are not used directly by towns or villages, and are used only as a raw material for the creation of another type of good. Finished products, meanwhile, consume those raw materials in their creation, and part of trade is based around moving supplies of raw materials to the places where they are turned into finished products. Most food items are already a "finished product" as soon as they are created. Grain is unique it can be made into two finished products, and velvet is unique in that it requires two different raw materials. The player can also own a Productive Enterprise which allows the player to convert a small amount of those raw materials into finished products in their cities, as well.

Food

For more info on food, see Food.

While all food can be eaten, some, like grain, can be used as raw ingredients to make other items by craftsmen at a Productive Enterprise.

Household Goods

Household goods include food, oil, spice, ale and wine. You should maintain a supply of these goods in your court if you own a fief, so they can be used in Feasts to raise relations to other lords.

Trade Goods

Some goods have no use except in trade, and are just Trade Goods.

Goods Table

The following is a list of household and trade goods, for a complete list of foods, see the food page. For more specific information, see individual good pages.

Name	Weight	Type	Made from...	Base Values
Ale	30	House	Grain	84	120	-	280
Date Fruit	40	Trade	-	-	120	120	-
Dyes	10	Trade	-	-	200	200	-
Flax Bundle	40	Trade	-	-	150	150	280
Furs	40	Trade	-	391	391	391	391
Hemp	40	Trade	-	-	-	125	-
Hides	40	Trade	-	-	120	120	320
Iron	60	Trade	-	264	264	264	304
Leatherwork	40	Trade	Hides	-	220	220	-
Linen	40	Trade	Flax Bundle	250	250	250	365
Oil	50	House	Olives	484	450	450	-
Pottery	50	Trade	-	126	100	100	-
Powder	40	Trade	-	-	-	400	-
Raw Silk	30	Trade	-	-	600	600	-
Salt	50	House	-	255	255	255	305
Shag	40	Trade	-	-	-	400	-
Spice	40	House	-	880	880	880	-
Tools	50	Trade	Iron	410	410	410	410
Velvet	40	Trade	Dyes, Raw Silk	1025	1025	1025	-
Vodka	40	Trade	-	-	-	350	-
Wine	30	House	Grapes	220	220	220	780
Wool	40	Trade	-	130	130	130	230
Wool Cloth	40	Trade	Wool	-	250	250	250

Notes

• Some trading goods may be requested by nobles of a realm to improve relations. (collect velvet and furs to make a robe for a noble whom you have bad relations with)
• Some village elder or guild master quests will require the player to either purchase/find goods (e.g. wheat for a village) and deliver them to the village or to carry some goods (e.g. wine) to a tavern in another city.
• Date Fruit seems to have been intended to have been a type of food, as it has a food quantity, but lacks a morale bonus, and is not actually consumed as food is.