Daily round
Trade Carriage
Collect the trade chests, then send the carriages out again.
Trade Carriage walks to the gold cart parked on the road just inside the city gate, opens its Trade Carriage window, collects every reward chest a returned carriage has brought back, and then sends transports out until the day's allowance runs out or no carriage is free to load. It has no Task setup of its own — the game decides how many transports you get.
Where to find it: Instances ▸ open an instance ▸ Duties ▸ Daily activities ▸ Trade Carriage ▸ ⚙. It is a duty, not a plan task: it has no card in Task setup and no chip on the plan shelf.
- How often
- Run before plan tasks
- Retry when it fails
- Reset schedule
- Record line
- Reset records
- Done
- How often
- Run before plan tasks
- Retry when it fails
- Reset schedule
- Record line
- Reset records
- Done
- How often
- Run before plan tasks
- Retry when it fails
- Reset schedule
- Record line
- Reset records
- Done
Set it up
- Open the instance and go to the Duties tab. Press Daily activities in the row of buttons under the headline to scroll to the card.
- Flip the row's switch to ON.
- Start the instance from Overview. Duties only take turns while the instance is running.
The row
ON / OFF
The row's switch, at its start. ON: the duty takes its turn whenever it comes due. OFF: it never runs, and nothing waits for it. Default: OFF. Your settings and its record are kept while it is off.
Trade Carriage
The row's name, beside its icon. Clicking the name opens the settings window, the same as ⚙.
Gift badge
A small gift icon right after the name, shown only while Reward claims is on and this row is switched on — it reports where today’s round of this activity stands on the game’s own Activity board. Faded: not looked at yet today. Plain: looked at, not done. Gold ring: the bot claims it, unconfirmed. Gold dot: done, with a reward waiting. Green check: the game confirms it. Orange cross: the bot ran it, but the game disagreed. With Reward claims off, the badge stays hidden — nothing is reading the board.
Status chip
What the duty is doing, in words, with a small lamp beside it: Off; Due (waiting for its turn); Running; Done 14:05 (had a turn today, at that time); Retrying 14:40 (a turn failed, and it is waiting before it tries again); Skipped (the bot could not start it, with the reason added underneath); Held (waiting on its own settings); or Standing down (Solo is on for a task). Hover the chip for the full reason.
Summary line
The line under the name repeats your schedule: Once per game day, or Every Nh on an interval (just Every hour when N is 1). It adds before plan tasks or up to N× a day when those are set.
⚙
The settings button at the end of the row, drawn as a set of sliders — the row's name opens the same window. Hover text: Settings for this duty — when it runs, and how it behaves.
The settings window
The ⚙ opens a window titled Trade Carriage. It opens straight onto Schedule — Trade Carriage has no Task setup of its own. Hover any control for its tooltip.
How often
Two segments, Once a day and Every few hours. Once a day takes one turn per game day, which ends at the daily reset (00:00 US Pacific time). Every few hours keeps coming back on an interval. Default: Once a day.
Run before plan tasks
Shown only while How often is Once a day. Off, the row waits for free time and only pushes into a busy plan as the reset gets close. On, it runs before the plan's first task of the day, together with every other row you tick, in board order. Default: off.
Come back every
Shown only while How often is Every few hours. 1–24 hours, measured from the last time the row actually ran rather than from a fixed clock, so a turn that was cut short does not lose its place. Default: 6 hours.
Run cap
Shown only while How often is Every few hours. Reads Use up to … per Game day: the most times the row may run in one game day, 0–99. At 0 it reads No cap and the row runs as often as its interval allows. Default: No cap.
Retry when it fails
1–10 tries a day: how many times a failed turn is tried before the row is left until its next window, with a longer wait between each try. 1 means don't retry. Default: 3.
Reset schedule
Puts this page back to its shipped defaults and closes the window.
Record line
Left of the footer buttons: what the row has recorded about its own turns — for example Had its turn today, 2 turns today, Backing off until 14:32 after 2 fails, Last turn at 09:14 — or Nothing recorded yet. Long lines are shortened; hover for the whole line.
Reset records
Forgets what the row remembers about its turns — whether it ran today, how many turns it took, any wait after a failure — so it can take another turn. It asks first (Reset them / Cancel) and acts at once, without closing the window. Nothing in the game changes and your settings are untouched. Greyed out while nothing is recorded.
Done
Saves the window and closes it. The ✕ in the title bar, or Esc, closes it without saving.
How it runs
- The carriage itself is not a mapped landmark, so the flow walks to the Wall through the City Mapper and pans over to find the carriage parked beside it — the Walls still have to be mapped and calibrated, the same prerequisite Patrol uses.
- It opens the Trade Carriage window and reads Transports Left Today before touching anything, so it knows the day’s allowance up front.
- It collects every reward chest a returned carriage is holding first — each is confirmed before moving on, so a chest that did not open is never counted as collected.
- Then it loads and dispatches transports, one at a time, until the day's allowance is spent or no carriage is free to load — a carriage is loadable only while it is idle and its own chest is already claimed.
- A run with nothing left to collect or send says so and costs one short trip. Once the day’s transports are all away it waits for the daily reset instead of walking back to read a number that cannot change.
- The run’s headline says what was sent: Sent 3 transports — none left today, Sent 1 transport — 2 more left today, No transports left to send today, or No transports sent — no carriage was free, 3 left today.
- When several duties are ready at the same moment, Daily activities goes after Protection and Buffs, and before Reward claims and Common tasks.
- Every turn is written to the Activity Monitor on the Overview tab, in the words quoted on this page.
Examples
- Any account: switch it on and leave the shipped Once-a-day schedule. Each carriage is away for hours at a time, so a daily visit collects what has come home and re-sends what is free without checking in more often than the trip itself takes.
Troubleshooting
It reports nothing sent.
Either the day’s transports are already all away, or none of the carriages had finished their last trip yet — a carriage is only free to load once it is idle. It picks up again once one returns.
Where does it find the carriage — I never mapped it in City Mapper.
The carriage itself is not a mapped landmark, but the flow still reaches it by walking to the Wall as a proxy and panning over — so the Walls must be mapped and calibrated in City Mapper, or the run is blocked before it starts.