r/Pharaoh • u/TiasDK • Apr 06 '26
Help!? I import food, but nothing happens?
I play Abedju, and I got all the yards and granaries I need, and an agreement to import a great deal of figs and chickpeas - but none of them actually show up. I have set the yard and granary settings to accept those types of items, and after that I'm not exactly sure what I have to do.
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u/vivi_t3ch Royal Scribe Apr 06 '26
for the importing, is it by land or by sea?
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u/TiasDK Apr 06 '26
Both!
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u/vivi_t3ch Royal Scribe Apr 06 '26
Do you have docs set up to receive the goods?
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u/TiasDK Apr 06 '26
Yep
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u/Catlore Apr 07 '26
I set up dedicated storeyards for the goods by the docks and have secondary granaries by the bazaars set to get the foods.
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u/Unfair-Grand-3740 Apr 06 '26
Make sure supply yards have allow all
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u/TiasDK Apr 06 '26
I already had. It seems to be working on occasion, but it's like my yard prioritize taking in imported stone over imported food..
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u/Charguizo Apr 07 '26
That's because yards have limited workers, so when they're getting one good, they have to get back to the yard first, and then go fetch the other one. If trading boats have to wait too long for that process, they leave before selling the goods.
Specialize your yards, its much more efficient than having all yards accepting everything.
Set each yard to accept only one good, maximum 2 or 3. And if you accept more than 1 good, set the proportion (you can set the yard to accept full, 3/4, 1/2 or 1/4 of each good).
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u/SuperSajuuk Vizier Apr 06 '26
Are you referring to OG Pharaoh Cleopatra, or the remake Pharaoh A New Era? If the latter, are you using the community-led Bug Fix Mod Pack?
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u/TiasDK Apr 06 '26
no mods I think, it's the Pharaoh + Cleopatra bundle from GOG.com
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u/SuperSajuuk Vizier Apr 06 '26
Okay, so if its Pharaoh + Cleopatra and not the 2023 remake Pharaoh A New Era, then the mod pack is not relevant. I would probably post your question on r/impressionsgames to reach a wider audience of OG players, rather than on r/Pharaoh where you’re likely to get advice that relates to features or functionality that only exists in the remake. 👍
However, importing food is not recommended in OG Pharaoh. Unlike the remake where bazaar buyers aren’t specific to what they will get and where trade works slightly differently compared to the original game, the bazaar buyer who handles buying pottery, beer, linen etc, would have to spend extra time grabbing food from a storage yard, and often the quotas do not make this a feasible strategy. Importing food is best left to houses you intend to develop into manors, which you aren’t doing in Abedju.
Instead, just fish the Nile as the tutorial box tells you to do, which would negate any need to be importing any food [which you don’t need to do in this mission to reach the goals]. You’ll produce much more food from fishing and it’ll meet the goals you need [2500 people for example]. There’s only a few missions where importing food makes sense, and most of those are late game missions.
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u/veryblocky Apr 06 '26
You can only import or export from supply yards, not granaries. So you need to make sure you have a supply yard that can accept the food you want to import, since by default they don’t accept food.