EverydayWheat
Every household grinds it for bread. Margins are thin, but the demand never stops.
Markets shift. Dynasties rise.
Build your trading dynasty
Buy wheat at harvest. Supply workshops with tin, timber, and wool. Move goods by road, river, and sea as markets shift around you. Build a trading house your descendants can inherit.
The road to Marok
“If a man does not know which harbour he seeks, no wind is the right wind.”Seneca, Letters LXXI
The simulation behind every market
From raw material to market.
Amphora simulates an economy from the ground up. Crops, herds, forests, quarries, and mines supply raw materials. Workshops turn those inputs into goods. Carriers move them between towns, where stocks and prices change with every harvest, shortage, and new business.
- Raw materialsLand, deposits, weather, and seasons shape what each place can produce.
- WorkshopsMakers buy inputs, hire skilled workers, pay wages, and sell what they produce.
- Trade costsFreight, crew wages, road tolls, port dues, and handling fees change the cost of every route.
- Market shiftsSupply and demand move local prices. Profitable shops expand; unprofitable ones close.
For players who love deep simulations
A market is only the beginning.
If you like EVE Online's trade routes, Dwarf Fortress's generated worlds, or the long arcs of Paradox grand strategy, Amphora connects local markets to distant shores. Start with nearby grain and workshop goods, then build routes to foreign markets for tin, amber, glass, pepper, and incense. Prices respond to harvests, wages, freight, tolls, and shortages. Generated people and families inherit the consequences across generations.
More than 170 trade goods
Every good has a buyer somewhere.
Grain and salt keep a town fed. Tin, purple and fine glass are scarce enough to build a house on. Each good has its makers, its inputs, and its own price in every market.
Everyday
RareTin
Bronze needs one part tin to nine of copper, and tin is found in few places. Smiths wait for it.
EverydayOlive oil
Food, lamp fuel and bath oil in one jar. Ships carry it by the hundred amphorae.
RareMurex purple
Thousands of sea snails give a little dye. The costliest colour of the age, worn by the powerful.
EverydaySalt
Fish, meat and cheese keep only with salt. Inland towns far from the pans pay well for it.
EverydayWine
Every table and every festival wants it. A town that holds its quality can earn a name.
RareGlass flasks
Core-formed by a few skilled workshops. Rich buyers fill them with perfume and fine oil.
EverydayTools
Every farm and workshop wears out its sickles and hoes. Iron towns sell to everyone.
RarePerfume
For the bath, the feast and the funeral. A small crate is worth more than a cart of grain.
EverydayCured olives
A year in brine, so they travel where fresh fruit cannot. Cheap, steady, always on the table.
RareSilver ware
Cups and plate for the feast. Rich families buy it to show what they are worth.
RareGold jewellery
Worn for rank and kept as wealth. When a house prospers, this is where the silver goes.
And many more
Barley, cheese, timber, hides, copper, bronze, papyrus, marble, silk, horses and every craft in between.
Twelve of the goods in the first playable world. Prices move with harvests, makers, freight, and news.
Ways to carry a load
From a handcart to a merchant ship.
Buy them, hire them, or have them built. A donkey walks any track. A merchant ship carries more than a thousand donkey loads, but only between harbours.
LandHandcart
Where most houses start. One person, a few crates, the nearest market.
100 kgload
20km a day
1crew
LandPack donkey
Walks any track the roads never reach. The carrier of the poor.
70 kgload
25km a day
1crew
LandMule string
Five mules to one driver. The fastest way over mountain tracks.
500 kgload
30km a day
1crew
RoadOx cart
Slow and strong, and the oxen eat hay. It needs a road to run on.
500 kgload
20km a day
1crew
RoadWagon
A team of four for stone, timber and heavy loads on good roads.
800 kgload
18km a day
2crew
RiverRiver barge
Bulk goods move cheaply downstream. Towing back up costs far more.
20 tload
40km a day
4crew
SeaCoastal boat
Hugs the shore from harbour to harbour, trading along the way.
15 tload
80km a day
5crew
SeaMerchant ship
Hundreds of amphorae between the great ports. The mark of a real trading house.
120 tload
110km a day
12crew
And many more ways
Porters, donkey carts, pack mules and pack horses. Camel caravans for the desert roads are on the way, with breeds of animal and kinds of hull.
Loads and speeds from the game data, sourced from ancient records such as Diocletian's Price Edict where they exist.
A world that keeps going
Your house grows inside a living world.
Nothing waits for you. Harvests fail, rivals copy your routes, news runs ahead of your cargo, and floods and raids redraw the map. Towns grow where trade pays and shrink where it stops.
Build a workshop
Turn local materials and skilled work into goods worth carrying.
Make a name across the map
Move valuable cargo between towns by road, river, and sea.
A bad harvest moves every price
Rain follows the land, and every season sets the harvest. When the hill wheat fails, bread climbs and the river towns sell their surplus dear.
Good routes don't stay secret
Rival houses and carriers watch the same prices you do. Open a gap and others follow, until a glut drives the price down and the weakest sellers close.
What you know is weeks old
Prices and rumours travel with traders and travellers. A far market you heard of last season may have moved on. Reputation spreads the same way.
The map does not stand still
Floods, fires, earthquakes, epidemics and raids strike real places. Harbours silt up, and traffic wears new tracks into roads.
Generated peoples, local ways
Meet complex cultures.
Generated people give each market a name, family line, calendar, currency, and set of customs. These come from the three peoples you can play in the first world: a sea people, a hill people, and a river people.
The Itrokoz, a sea people
Fazkokaz Kokyk
Head of the first house of Konozkak · age 30Saying“The sea gives, and the sea keeps the account.”
Festival
Nizkiaz, three days in the month of Nizkiri, for Kizmi, god of the sea, the harvest and healing.
Trade
Sea traders with an open port. Konozkak sells marble from the face behind the city.
Tastes
Fond of fish sauce, fresh fish and salted fish. They live on grapes and legumes.
The Mitosos, a hill people
Fisos Bosmikh
Head of the first house of Zobitos · age 58Saying“The furrow is straight for the patient.”
Calendar
They count the years from the founding of Bostostos.
Trade
Dry hill farmers with walled towns. Foreign traders pay tolls and buy licences.
Tastes
Fond of bread, olive oil and wine. Zobitos sells iron from the ore below its walls.
The Alonu, a river people
Alnabril of Miakh
Keeper of the temple granary · age 44Saying“Wood burns once, and the ash feeds the grain.”
Money
The Alonu pay in grain, not coin. She measures every sack that enters the temple: 24 measures to the sack.
Festival
The Bilbralra, held every five years. The Alonu count their years by it.
Trade
A river-valley temple people with big towns and dense farmland. Miakh sells copper and dressed stone.
People of the first playable world. Names, festivals, money, and customs are generated, and change with every world.
Trade across the map
Grow from local cargo into workshops, carriers, and a house with business in many towns.
Read each market
Grain, tools, oil, wool, and wine move with harvests, local demand, and the cost of the road.
Start small, end with the industry
Begin with a few crates and a donkey. Buy into workshops, then own the mines and kilns that make the goods.
Pass on what you build
Your heir takes over the ships, the workshops, the debts and the rivals. Local custom decides whether the house passes whole or splits among the children.
The first voyage is ahead
Get a note when Amphora is ready to play.
One email when there's news. No dispatches from the agora.