# đŚ The new Market is open: every realm trades, and Merchants carry the goods
**URL:** https://forum.slcoloniesroleplay.com/t/the-new-market-is-open-every-realm-trades-and-merchants-carry-the-goods/1648
**Category:** Community Announcements
**Created:** [October 8, 2026, 7:28am UTC](https://forum.slcoloniesroleplay.com/t/the-new-market-is-open-every-realm-trades-and-merchants-carry-the-goods/1648 "2026-10-08T07:28:47Z")
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### Author:  [@attila.katana](https://forum.slcoloniesroleplay.com/u/attila.katana)
#### Post date: [October 8, 2026, 7:28am UTC](https://forum.slcoloniesroleplay.com/t/the-new-market-is-open-every-realm-trades-and-merchants-carry-the-goods/1648/1 "2026-10-08T07:28:47Z")
The old market sold everything, everywhere, from one bottomless pool. Thatâs gone. **Every realmâs market now keeps its own stock and its own prices** , and the goods have to be carried from one to the next by the people who play here.
https://www.youtube.com/embed/-y9ZZqPZE4k?feature=oembed&wmode=opaque
_The full walkthrough._
## How it works
- **Touch a Marketplace HUB** and the market opens on the website, signed in as the avatar that touched it. Stay **within 20 metres** while you trade.
- **Every market has a character.** A realm rich in timber sells timber cheap; a realm short of metal pays well for it. Where you trade changes the price by up to 15% either way.
- **Your discount** comes from Charisma and your Merchant level, up to 25%. It lowers what you pay and raises what youâre paid.
- **The Grand Exchange** in Everdale is the capital: the realmâs reserve, where new stock enters the world and every other market is supplied from. Itâs also the only place to post **player buy and sell orders** at your own price.
- Anyone can browse every price, from anywhere, at **[slcoloniesroleplay.com/market](https://slcoloniesroleplay.com/market)**.
## Courier contracts (Merchants)
This is what replaces the warehouse mini-game. When a market runs short, a contract goes up to carry goods there.
1. **Take a contract** on the Couriers board. Starter runs need no deposit; bigger loads need a higher Merchant level.
2. **Pick up** at The Grand Exchange, or at a market with too much of something.
3. **Unload** at the market youâre delivering to. **One crate lands a minute.** Step away and it waits for you.
Every delivery **earns your colony coins** and **earns you CXP** into your Merchant pool. You have to be there in person, at the market, so the markets become somewhere people meet.
**The weekly race.** Every Monday, a quarter of the weekâs Grand Exchange fees is shared between colonies by the contracts their members delivered. The colony that delivered most is the **Courier Colony of the Week** : it takes a tenth of that off the top, and **its crest goes up on The Grand Exchange**. The first race starts this week.
## Watch the crates
The new HUB has a crate stack on each side of the stall. **One shows how well supplied the market is** : a bare pallet means itâs short, and worth hauling to. **The other shows goods waiting to leave.** While you unload, crates stream from you into the stall, and a countdown floats above your head until the next one lands.
_The countdown uses the SL Colonies experience. Accept it when asked and it appears by itself; decline, and your contract still works without it._
## For market owners
- **Colonies can set a fee** of 0 to 10% on a market they own, paid into the colony treasury. A lower fee makes your market cheaper to buy from. The colony leader or a manager sets it on the colony page.
- **Make it yours.** The HUBâs main prim is a plain cube holding the scripts. Keep the cube and you can take the stall mesh off and build your own market around it.
- **A brand-new market starts empty** and fills as couriers bring it what it needs.
## Own an old HUB? Swap it for free
HUBs from before this update no longer trade. Bring yours to the **Station Exchange** counter in [our in-world store](https://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Noru/52/95/3901) and youâll get the new one, free:
1. **Touch the counter.**
2. Within a minute, open your inventory, **hold CTRL** and drag your old HUB onto the counter. A plain drag rezzes it instead; just pick it up and try again with CTRL held.
3. **Let go when the counter is outlined in red.** The courier checks it and sends you the new HUB, and youâre told each step in local chat and by IM.
**Full guide:** [[ESSENTIALS] Marketplace HUB](https://forum.slcoloniesroleplay.com/t/essentials-marketplace-hub/1513)
**The market:** [slcoloniesroleplay.com/market](https://slcoloniesroleplay.com/market)
**Get a HUB:** [slcoloniesroleplay.com/treasure/marketplace-hub](https://slcoloniesroleplay.com/treasure/marketplace-hub)
Questions? Ask below, or IM the bot, and one of our mentors will happily walk you through it in person. See you on the road. đ
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### Author:  [@RemmyHun](https://forum.slcoloniesroleplay.com/u/RemmyHun)
#### Post date: [October 8, 2026, 11:35am UTC](https://forum.slcoloniesroleplay.com/t/the-new-market-is-open-every-realm-trades-and-merchants-carry-the-goods/1648/2 "2026-10-08T11:35:44Z")
I attempted the swap this morning, and nothing happened. I followed the directions, waiting for the red outline before I let go.
It may be because the Market had been given the name âRuYaad MoonShip Marketâ so maybe the thing didnât recognize the Market HUB as a Market HUB? I didnât think to reset it before I turned it in for the new version.
**UPDATE: New Market HUB successfully received! THANK YOU!**