Overview
Player Vendors are NPC shopkeepers that sell items on your behalf. Place one in your home, stock it with goods, set prices, and earn gold even while you're offline. Vendors operate on a commission system — they take a 20% cut of each sale and hold the remaining gold for you to collect.
Getting a Vendor
House Vendors
Vendor contracts can be purchased from any Banker NPC. Once you have a contract, use it inside a house you own to place the vendor. The vendor will remain at the location where it was placed.
Main Street Vendors
Vendors can also be placed on Main Street for increased visibility to other players. Main Street vendor spots cost 100,000 gold and must be arranged through a Game Master. Contact a GM in-game or through the community to request a Main Street placement.
Managing Your Vendor
Setting Up Shop
When you first place a vendor, its shop will be named "Shop Not Yet Named." You can customize both the vendor's name and the shop name through the vendor management menu.
To open the management menu, double-click your vendor or say "vendor status" while standing near it.
From the management menu you can rename the vendor, rename the shop, collect gold, deposit gold, upgrade the backpack capacity, customize the vendor's appearance, and dismiss the vendor.
Stocking Items
To add items for sale, drag them from your backpack and drop them onto the vendor. You will be prompted to enter a price and an optional description for each item. Pressing Escape during the prompt marks the item as "Not For Sale," which is useful for display containers.
The maximum price for any single item is 175,000,000 gold.
| Item Type | Can Be "Not For Sale"? |
|---|---|
| Containers (empty) | Yes |
| Books | Yes |
| Bulk Order Books | Yes |
| Recipe Books | Yes |
| All other items | No |
Containers marked as "Not For Sale" can hold items that are for sale, letting you organize your vendor's inventory into categories. Note that you cannot place a container inside another container on a vendor.
Backpack Capacity
Vendors start with a default item capacity. You can upgrade the backpack to hold more items at a cost of 100,000 gold per upgrade (withdrawn from your bank). Each upgrade adds 25 item slots, up to a maximum of 1,000 items.
| Detail | Value |
|---|---|
| Upgrade Cost | 100,000 gold (from bank) |
| Items Per Upgrade | +25 slots |
| Maximum Capacity | 1,000 items |
Gold Management
Your vendor holds gold from sales on your behalf, up to a maximum of 1,000,000 gold. You can collect or deposit gold at any time through the management menu or by voice command.
Gold is used to pay the vendor's daily upkeep. If you want your vendor to stay active while you're away, make sure it has enough gold in reserve to cover several days of fees.
Daily Upkeep
Vendors charge only a commission on Banes World. There is no daily upkeep price.
Voice Commands
You can manage your vendor using speech commands while standing within 3 tiles. You can use the general form or address the vendor by name.
| Command | Named Form | Effect |
|---|---|---|
| vendor buy | (name) buy | Target an item to purchase (for shoppers) |
| vendor browse | (name) browse | Open the vendor's inventory |
| vendor collect | (name) collect | Collect gold the vendor is holding (owner only) |
| vendor status | (name) status | Open the management menu (owner only) |
| vendor dismiss | (name) dismiss | Dismiss the vendor (owner only) |
| vendor cycle | (name) cycle | Rotate the vendor to face you (owner only) |
Shopping From a Vendor
Any player can browse a vendor's stock by double-clicking the vendor or saying "vendor browse." To buy an item, right-click it and select Buy from the context menu, or say "vendor buy" and target the item.
The vendor takes a 20% commission from the sale price. The remaining 80% is held for the owner to collect.
There is a brief one-minute delay after an item is first placed before it can be purchased, preventing accidental immediate sales.
Tips
- Use "Not For Sale" containers to organize your inventory into logical groups — weapons, armor, reagents, and so on. Shoppers will appreciate the organization.
- Upgrade the backpack capacity if you plan to sell a large volume of items. Each upgrade adds 25 slots for 100,000 gold.
- Main Street vendor placement offers the best foot traffic but requires a 100,000 gold fee and GM coordination. Contact a GM to arrange a spot.
- Vendors placed in houses are accessible to anyone who can enter the house. If someone is banned from the house, they cannot shop from your vendor.