Ok, I’ll try assigning more traders. At what point do you do an export trader – when you have a bulk of items filling up your large trader, or as soon as you can afford the people and materials to build and staff it? I’m a relative novice to the game really, I played for a while and had trouble with the balance of workers and food, and just quit playing for a long time. Now I’m starting again and seem to run into a threshold where I have plenty of food – and then suddenly I don’t have enough and my reserves start going down. I had a villager starve to death with 2500 food in storage and all the houses had food, they just didn’t go get something to eat.