Selling in Pax Autocratica arrived with Directive AG-27 (August 27, 2026): the Trading Post now lets the Leader sell unwanted or excess items to visiting merchant ships. Before that patch, trading flowed one way, toward your colony. This guide tracks what the official announcements confirm about selling, what they leave open, and where the feature is heading.
Quick answer
Open the Trading Post when a merchant ship is visiting and you can sell unwanted or excess items to it. The feature shipped in Directive AG-27 as the first slice of the broader Trade Port update the developers announced in the AG-25 what's-next list.
What AG-27 confirms
The official AG-27 announcement states:
- An item selling feature was added to the Trading Post.
- Leaders can now sell unwanted or excess items to visiting merchant ships.
Directive ST-11 (September 11, 2026) then included a smaller interface touch: the Trade Port building details interface received a resolution adjustment, so the selling and buying screens render correctly across displays.
Both statements are official and dated. That is the entire published record on selling as of this page's verification date.
What the announcements do not say
The patch texts do not document the numbers around selling. Not officially published, and worth checking in your own game:
- Which items are sellable, and whether anything is excluded from sale.
- How sale prices are set, whether they vary by merchant ship, and whether prices change over time.
- How often merchant ships visit, and whether visits can be influenced.
- Whether selling affects any colony-side system beyond removing the item and granting payment.
This page will not fill those gaps with community guesses. When the values are documented officially or shown clearly in captured footage, they replace this section with dated numbers.
Where selling is heading
Selling is the first delivered item from a larger plan. The AG-25 announcement (August 25, 2026) listed a "broader Trade Port update" as in the works, and AG-27 delivered the selling slice two days later. Vehicle improvements and DX12 preloading from the same list remain announced but unshipped as of September 14, 2026. The roadmap guide tracks the whole list with dates, and the ST-11 feature guide covers the September directive that followed.
For how visiting ships and expeditions fit the wider economy, the colony management guide covers the resource loop selling now plugs into.
How this page stays honest
Every claim either quotes an official announcement or is marked as unpublished. Balance changes can retune prices or visit cadence in any directive; the patch notes guide carries the log, and this page is recalibrated when a directive touches the Trading Post.
Sources and verification
- Primary source: Directive AG-27 announcement, August 27, 2026, via the Steam news feed. Item selling at the Trading Post.
- Directive ST-11 announcement, September 11, 2026, via the same feed: the Trade Port interface resolution fix.
- Directive AG-25 announcement, August 25, 2026, via the same feed: the broader Trade Port update in the what's-next list.
- Store page: Pax Autocratica on Steam.
- Verified Sep 14, 2026.