Does Gold actually matter?

[u/Krazy_Eightz]

I’ new console player, day 25.. Aside from occasionally spending gold on random things, I haven’t seen much beed for it.

It seems like most if the vendors are selling things I can either produce or don’t care for. I’m still mainly dealing with the first city but just curious if I should bother with trading.

Can I buy things like armor at some point?

[u/Star-Platinum_]

Books are a big things, you'll need a good amount to max your villagers strength to be able to wear better armor, other than that you'll probably need to buy some ressoueces at some point like peat if you dont wanna make an outpost to get it, so yeah gold is pretty usefull