Scapewatch Atlas

Items and economy

Barter

Barter is the gold-spending processing skill paired with Plunder. Barter tasks buy at a level-scaled discount, and a separate manual Barter panel is a gold and XP sink with rerollable prices.

See it on the systems map

Rules and numbers

  1. confirmed Barter task purchase cost uses a discount from 0.8 at level 1 to 0.4 at 99.cost = MAX(1, FLOOR(baseValue * (0.8 - (L-1)*0.4/98)))
    Source: Constants.js:903-910
  2. confirmed Barter withdraws up to 1,000 gold per Barter level from the bank, always leaving at least 1 gold.withdraw = 1000*L
    Source: Constants.js:408-409
  3. confirmed Panel rows unlock at Barter 10/40/70 (resources) and 20/50/80 (equipment).
    Source: Constants.js:913-914
  4. confirmed Buy rows roll a price modifier of 0.90-1.50 and sell rows 0.50-1.10; each Trader's Notes tier widens the favourable end by 2%.
    Source: Constants.js:919-922; Constants.js:4720
  5. confirmed A panel roll carries Barter level x 5 charges shared by all buys and sells.charges = MAX(1, 5*L)
    Source: Constants.js:926-929
  6. confirmed Panel XP is paid once, when the last charge is spent; each Trader's Notes tier and Broker's Favor add one step.panelXP = FLOOR(L * (10 + 10*steps))
    Source: Constants.js:937-942
  7. confirmed A panel reroll costs 10 barter reroll credits; credits come from Barter tasks (2 each) and, with Barter's Penny, 1 per slay task.
    Source: Constants.js:254; Constants.js:274; Constants.js:945
  8. dev note Trader's Charm lets you flip one row between buy and sell once per panel roll.
    Source: BarterPanel.js:10-11
  9. dev note Barter actions drop Almanacs.
    Source: Constants.js:2148

Connected systems

Arrows show who acts on whom: → this system acts on the other, ← the other acts on this one, ↔ both do.

Related pages

Guide: Your first week: what to take, spend and level

More in Items and economy

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Statuses: confirmed is a value or rule in the game files; observed is measured from recorded play; dev note comes from a developer comment, tooltip or patch note; inferred is worked out from the files with the assumption stated; unknown is decided on the server. Game data read 2026-10-03.