You can create multiple caravans.Ĭaution: Clicking 'Abandon' on an unoccupied colony will not prompt for any confirmation before making it an inaccessible ruins and lost forever. A dialog is shown to assign pawns, animals, and items. In the World map, select the colony icon and click 'Form caravan'. It's also cheaper than requesting traders at the comms console. It provides a wider selection of goods since friendly outposts have much more inventory than the limited selection traders (who are restricted by carrying capacity) show up with, and you get a 2% price bonus for direct trading.
Sending caravans out from your home, instead of just waiting for other tribes to come to you, helps keep fluid commerce. Double-clicking a caravan will select all caravans on the screen, allowing them all to be ordered to a single destination. Each caravan is represented on the world map by a yellow icon.
Goods can be carried by animals, colonists, or prisoners to facilitate trading on your own schedule a caravan can also act as a raid squad to attack other establishments. Caravans are a group of one or more colonists who gather together for different purposes.