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The Prince who runs the shop in a Western Hive village, selling food, Hive armour and building materials. One rule is absolute — one "hiveless one" in your squad and the whole shop closes to you.

Hive Traders are the vendors of the Western Hive. The shop is run by a Hive Prince with a Smart personality, carrying a Staff and wearing Trader's Leathers and Cargopants at Standard grade with a 22% chance of High.

TipThe shop restocks every 6 hours with a stock cap of 150, and it is open day and night — which makes it an unusually good place to offload goods this far from a major city.

The rule that will block you

ImportantHive Traders refuse to trade with Hiver characters, calling them "Hiveless ones." And it is not limited to whoever walked up to the counter — if the traders find out there is any Hiver in the player's squad, they will not sell to the party at all. To trade with the Hive you need a human, Shek or Skeleton character to do the talking.

The wiki adds that this treatment seems to apply specifically to exiles of the Western Hive.

What they sell

Armour (Hive-specific)

ItemStock weight
Hiver Chain Shirt100
Leather Hive Vest100
Rusted Hive Shirt100
Plated Drifter's Leather Pants100
Blackened Chain Hive Shirt5

Goods and food

The heaviest stock weight by far is Dried Fish at 1000, followed by Book and Iron Plates at 500 each. Then come Building Materials, Steel Bars, Grand Fish, Fabrics and Thinfish at 200, and Animal Skin, Armour Plating, Electrical Components, Gears, Hashish and Hemp, Leather, Luxury Goods, Medical Supplies, Riceweed, Robotics Components and Standard First Aid Kits at 100. Rarities include Generator Core and Spring Steel at 25, and Pearl Cups, Urns and Vases at 22.

NoteThis is also where you dump Animal Skin and Raw Meat. Both appear on the Hive Trader's stock list, which means they deal in them — for a squad hunting Beak Things in Vain, this is the nearest place to turn a kill into cats.

Blueprints

Hive Traders sell the blueprint for Polearm, plus the patterns for the Hive armour on their own shelves: Plated Drifter's Leather Pants, Blackened Chain Hive Shirt, Hiver Chain Shirt, Leather Hive Vest and Rusted Hive Shirt.

Where the villages are

Hive Traders operate in Hive Villages and Distant Hive Villages. The wiki records five Western Hive villages in Vain, plus three more in Dreg.

TipHive Villages in Vain are frequently attacked by Beak Things and Gorillos. A player being chased by one can duck into a village for cover — but since the Hive are not your allies, the hivers will only join the fight if the animal attacks a drone as well.

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