Supplies | Caravan The Banner Saga Guide

Buying supplies is a last resort, there are better ways to spend renown points

Supplies are much more important than morale because they symbolise food and all the essential things needed to satisfy the needs of people in the caravan. Losing all supplies will make you lose some of the Clansmen, Fighters and Varl every day, which will drastically lower your morale. Every longer journey should be planned in advance to make sure that you have enough supplies. It's impossible to predict every bad situation but preparing well should lower the loss.

The game doesn't show a specific number of supplies. Instead, you'll see the number of days until you run out of them. It's mostly affected by the number of people in the caravan. In my opinion, you should always accept offers of joining the caravan made by Fighters and Varl. Accept Clansmen only if you're not currently struggling with low supplies.

There are three ways of getting supplies:

1) Progressing in the main story - At some points you'll get a lot of supplies regardless of choices made. You shouldn't, however, spend them on resting for a very long time because you'll need them later on.

2) Additional events - You should read the description of additional events in the walkthrough because decisions made there will give you more supplies.

3) Visiting marketplaces - Use them as a last resort, when you don't have any supplies or you only have a few days worth of them and you're going to travel for a longer time. You buy supplies for Renown points and there are better ways to spend them, for example developing heroes.