Travel and travelling merchants is a General codex entry in Kingdom Come: Deliverance
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Travel was dangerous in the Middle Ages, but necessary, especially for traders. The roads differed by their purpose – trade routes had river-fords, bridges, inns, signposts, milestones and so on. Pilgrimage routes were without such luxuries. A person was able to cover about 25–30 km per day by wagon. Wayfarers would overnight at inns near road junctions, their goods stored in a depot. In times of instability and chaos - the kind in which the KCD story takes place - traders and travellers would often be waylaid by marauders, which led to travelling in groups with a hired armed escort.
Bohemia imported canvas, silk and other textiles, weapons, wine, salt, seafood, salt-water fish, southern fruit, spices and other exotic and luxury goods. Goods exported included wheat, butter, honey, beeswax, beer, malt, freshwater fish, cheeses and other local products.
