The Travelling Pedlar

A shop on the road

Your satchel is full, your health potions are gone, and the town is a long walk behind you. You press one key. A lantern bobs over the hill, and a kindly old badger comes walking up with a donkey full of goods. "There you are! Parsnip heard you call before I did."

That's Pemberton the Pedlar and his donkey Parsnip. They bring a shop to wherever you are, so you can sell what you gathered, stock up and keep exploring.

How it works

1. Press U, or the PEDLAR button on the map screen (with a controller, open the map from the Menu button).
2. Pemberton appears about 9 m away and walks up beside you. His shop opens by itself.
3. Buy and sell, just like in a town shop. Other players nearby can trade with him too.
4. When you're done, close the shop or walk on. He waves goodbye and heads off down the road.

You can call him again 60 s after your last call.

What he buys and sells

• He sells health potions, mana potions, food for the road, torches, rope, arrows and sling stones.
• He buys everything a town shop buys: materials, food, fish, tools, gear, potions and more. Rare, epic and legendary finds still belong on the market board, as in town.

His prices are the town shops' prices, exactly: no cheaper, no dearer. Like any shopkeeper he sells a few of each thing a day and buys a limited amount from you each day. What he saves you is the walk, not coins.

When he can't come

• During a fight. Not while a creature is after you, or for 10 s after you were hurt.
• Near a boss (within 60 m) or inside the Dragon Tower.
• In a town, the village or Duck Mines. Their shops are right there.
• In Survival worlds. Nothing bought with real money helps you survive there.
• On water or steep ground. He needs dry, open ground beside you.

Getting him

The Travelling Pedlar is sold in the store for US$19.99 (Steam shows the price in your own currency). It's a one-time purchase, kept for good, and it can't be traded. Real-money purchases are off until a grown-up turns them on with the PIN, and every purchase asks for the PIN. See Family safety features.

Without it, you trade in the same way at any town: the shops there buy and sell the same things at the same prices.

Where next

Out past the last town, a long way from home: that's where Pemberton is worth the most. Head for a realm you haven't mapped yet and see how far you can go without turning back.

• The market and trading: coins, the market board and the shops.
• Towns and townsfolk: the towns and their shopkeepers.
• Storage: satchel, chests, the locker and the vault: your satchel, chests and the Home Vault.
• Getting around, and animal friends: ways to travel far and fast.