County of Fortune how to distribute products: inside a region, products move along the roads and the vendors do the work themselves. Connect settlements with a road, then set the settlement to accept a food recipe or equipment, and the deliveries start rolling in on their own.
County of Fortune how to distribute products: set the settlement to accept
Build the road first — the settlements have to be genuinely connected, not merely near each other. Building roads covers the connection rules, including why two road ends next to each other is not enough. Then open the settlement's Needs tab and set it to accept the food recipe or the equipment it is missing.
Deliveries are not instant, so a road can sit idle until the producing settlement has a surplus to take.
When products are not arriving
The first thing to check is that the road is genuinely connected to the settlement's centre square rather than merely running past it. If the connection is good and the goods still do not come, the producer is probably at its own input shortage — a production building missing an input shows a warning icon in the Buildings tab.
Two UI details make this easier to read. A production building that is missing an input product shows a warning icon, so a shortage is visible at a glance. And the production-chain tooltips carry small arrows showing which products feed which, making the relationship between inputs and outputs easier to follow. Production chains explains what each arrow means.
Read the building card carefully
Be careful reading a building card: the production and consumption numbers it shows are its maximum possible values, not its current output. A building can therefore display a production figure while producing nothing at all because an input is missing, which is exactly what the warning icon is there to tell you.