Trade Route Strategies

This guide is designed to show you where and how you can make a profit by trading bulk goods from port to port. For more details on other short term highly profitable trade routes, please see the Wealth (Ambition) page.

Trade Routes

The distance the player has to travel to sell a good is usually a good indicator of the profit, but not always.

Trade good	Purchase Location	Purchase Price (per hold slot)	Sale Location	Sale Price (per hold slot)	Distance	Profit per Unit (per hold slot)	Notes
A Casket of Sapphires	Port Carnelian	86 x Echo	London	90 x Echo	Medium	4 x Echo
			Polythreme	95 x Echo	Medium to Long	9 x Echo
			The Chelonate	99 x Echo	Medium to Long	13 x Echo
Bale of Parabola-Linen	Iron Republic	57 x Echo	Adam's Way	63 x Echo	Short	6 x Echo	Sold in House of Pleasures shop only (requires Another Day: Iron Republic Days ≤ 4)
		57 x Echo	London	60 x Echo	Short	3 x Echo
Cask of Mushroom Wine	London	21 x Echo	Adam's Way	24 x Echo	Medium	3 x Echo
			Gaider's Mourn	23 x Echo	Short	2 x Echo
			Khan's Heart	24 x Echo	Medium to Long	3 x Echo
			Venderbight	23 x Echo	Very Short	2 x Echo
			Godfall	30 x Echo	Medium to Long	9 x Echo	This price is for Another Day: Time, the Healer < 200 Sold in batches x 5 only. Ceases to be profitable after Another Day: Time, the Healer ≥ 200, as the price drops to 20 x Echo
Foxfire Candles	Adam's Way	30 x Echo	Venderbight	33 x Echo	Medium to Long	3 x Echo
	Khan's Heart						Requires Nephrite Ring to access Licensed Exchange
Sack of Darkdrop Coffee Beans	Port Carnelian	38 x Echo	London	44 x Echo	Medium	6 x Echo
		38 x Echo	Aigul	44 x Echo	Short	6 x Echo	Depending on map generation, Adam's Way can be a substitute (at the same price) for Port Carnelian, such as in the example of Map Generation, for a shorter trip.
		38 x Echo	Vienna	80 x Echo	Medium	42 x Echo	This route requires access to the Surface and is limited by Favours: A Drop of Darkness ≥ 1 and ≤ 299. The shop becomes permanently unavailable once this quality reaches 300.
	Iron Republic	38 x Echo	London	44 x Echo	Short	6 x Echo	Sold in The House of Milks shop only (requires Another Day: Iron Republic Days 5 to 9)
	Khan's Heart	40 x Echo	London	44 x Echo	Medium	4 x Echo	Requires Nephrite Ring to access Licensed Exchange
Stygian Ivory	The Chelonate	26 x Echo	London	28 x Echo	Long	2 x Echo
			Polythreme	30 x Echo	Short	4 x Echo
	Khan's Shadow	27 x Echo	Polythreme	30 x Echo	Short	3 x Echo
Supplies	London	20 x Echo	Iron Republic	25 x Echo	Short	5 x Echo	Sell to The House of Milks (requires Another Day: Iron Republic Days 5 to 9)
	Wrack	15 x Echo	Gaider's Mourn	20 x Echo	Very Short to Medium	5 x Echo	Requires Wrack: The State of the City ≥ 17 These two locations may generate directly adjacent to each other. which would make this an extremely efficient trade route despite the low profit.
Crate of Human Souls	Khan's Shadow	57 x Echo	London	60 x Echo	Medium	3 x Echo

Complex Trade Routes

These trade routes may involve long distance travels and multiple ports before the profit is finally realized.

Locations	Total Distance	Trade Goods	Initial Investment (per hold slot)	Sale Equivalence (per hold slot)	Profit (per hold slot)	Notes
Adam's Way Irem Dahut	Very Long	Sack of Darkdrop Coffee Beans Bale of Parabola-Linen Echo	38 x Echo	66 x Echo	28 x Echo	If Dahut is not available, Parabola-Linen can be sold back in Adam's Way at a slightly lower price of 63 x Echo, resulting in a profit of 25 x Echo per slot. If you have access to the Licensed Exchange in Khan's Heart, you can buy Coffee Beans at a slightly higher price of 40 x Echo, allowing for a much shorter triangular route between Khan's Heart, Irem and Dahut.
Naples Saviour's Rocks London	Very Long	Supplies x 2 Bolts of Spider-Silk x 1-2 Echo	5 x Echo	25 - 50 x Echo Average: 30 x Echo	20 - 45 x Echo Average: 25 x Echo	Requires travel to Naples at the cost of 22 x Fuel and 2 x Supplies Purchasing Supplies from London instead has average profit of 10 x Echo per hold slot.
Wrack Saviour's Rocks Wrack	Medium to Long	Supplies x 2 Bolts of Spider-Silk x 1-2 (20% chance to receive 2) Echo (repeat)	15 x Echo	28 - 56 x Echo Average: 33.6 x Echo	13 - 41 x Echo Average: 18.6 x Echo	Requires Wrack: The State of the City ≥ 17. It is uncertain whether this is more or less profitable than going to Naples once you include the 22 x Fuel and 2 x Supplies needed to travel to the surface.
London Gant Pole Scrimshander Anthe Wrack The Chelonate	Ultra Long	Firkin of Prisoner's Honey Carboy of Primordial Shrieks Mutersalt Scintillack A Casket of Sapphires Echo	25 x Echo	99 x Echo	74 x Echo	Requires Wrack: The State of the City ≥ 17, otherwise sell the Scintillack in London for a profit of 45 x Echo per hold slot. Alternatively, sell the Sapphires in London for a complete trade loop with a profit of 65 x Echo per hold slot.
London Gant Pole Scrimshander Anthe Wrack The Chelonate Hideaway Repeat 4-7	Ultra Long (first pass 1-7) Very Long (4-7 loop)	Firkin of Prisoner's Honey Carboy of Primordial Shrieks Mutersalt Scintillack A Casket of Sapphires Sell half for Echo 2 x Mutersalt Repeat 4-7	25 x Echo	Intermediate loops: 44.5 x Echo Final loop: 99 x Echo	74 + (44.5 x # of loops) x Echo	Requires Wrack: The State of the City ≥ 17.
London Gant Pole Scrimshander Anthe Wrack Hideaway Khan's Heart Repeat 4-7	Ultra Long (first pass 1-7) Very Long (4-7 loop)	Firkin of Prisoner's Honey Carboy of Primordial Shrieks Mutersalt Scintillack A Casket of Sapphires 2 x Mutersalt Sell half for Echo Repeat 4-7	25 x Echo	Intermediate loops: 56 x Echo Final loop: 112 x Echo	87 + (56 x # of loops) x Echo	Requires Wrack: The State of the City ≥ 17 Requires Nephrite Ring to access Licensed Exchange
London  Port Carnelian  Chelonate  Polythreme  London	Very Long	Cask of Mushroom Wine A Casket of Sapphires Stygian Ivory Echo, 6 x Clay Man, Marked for London Echo	84 x Echo per hold	103 x Echo per hold + 120 x Echo total for Clay men	19 x Echo per hold + 120 x Echo total for Clay men
London Empire of Hands Irem London	Very Long	Cask of Mushroom Wine Sack of Darkdrop Coffee Beans Bale of Parabola-Linen Echo	21 x Echo	60 x Echo	39 x Echo.	Requires advancement of the Empire of Hands storylet. Must have gained access to the The Wildweald Court by finding a gift for the monkey emperor. If Zubmarine, take Parabola-Linen to Dahut for an extra 6 Echoes per cargo slot