JesseLowe/TradeGoods

A short and incomplete list of possible ship's cargos in the Age of Sorrows.

• Cloth, in bolts of 100 square yards (2 yards x 50 yards)
  • Canvas: 33-pound bolts
  • Cotton: 15-pound bolts
  • Silk: 10 pound bolts
• Drugs (See Manacle and Coin, p. 53)
  • Cocain, in 75-pound crates (60 pounds of cocaine to the box)
  • Heroin, in 75-pound crates (60 pounds of heroin to the box)
  • Marijuana, in 100-pound casks (80 pounds of marijuana to the cask)
  • Opium, in 75-pound crates (60 pounds of opium to the box)
  • Qat gum, in 75-pound crates (60 pounds of gum to the box)
  • Tobacco, in 75-pound crates (60 pounds of tobacco to the box)
• Firedust, in 150 pound barrels (100 pounds of firedust to the barrel)
• Fruit, dried, in 100 pound barrels (70 pounds of fruit to the barrel)
• Gold, in bar, ingot, plate, or coin.
• Grain (Unprocessed wheat) in 100 pound sacks
• Jade, in heavily guarded 100-pound chests at 1 bookkeeping talent to the chest (1,024 obols), or in cut blocks of about 200 pounds each.
• Iron, usually in bars of 50 pounds each
• Salt, in chests of about 50 pounds.
• Silver, in bar, ingot, plate, or coin.
• Stone (Marble is used as the base) in blocks ranging from 100 pounds to over a ton.
• Wine: Transported in either 600 pound barrels (59 gallons to the barrel; 125 pounds empty) or in amphorae of 6 gallons / 80 pounds full.

Resources Income Examples:
0: Beggar
1: Peasant
2: Yeoman farmer, journeyman
3: Wealthy farmer, master tradesman
4: Wealthy plantation owner, Guild factor
5: Merchant Prince