Hi all, can anyone tell me if spice will expire if it is sitting in your storehouse and if so how long does it last before expiring? Thanks.
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Yes, not sure how long, many years. If you click on the resource it shows you a colored line of how far along the decay is.
It does expire eventually. However, if you keep it «in. Stock» in the trading house, that quantity of products will never expire. You can transfer it to general storage when needed. This is useful for all perishables bought at the trade post 
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Not sure if the trading post goods get a free shelf-life… they aren’t supposed to have one from what I recall.
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Unless they changed it in 0.8, that’s definitely how it works 
if that is either realistic, desirable or a form of exploit is debatable, but it definitely works that way. I guess the intention here is to let you stock the warehouse with goods to sell without worrying about them spoiling, which is very fair on the player but open to some light abuse.
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“In Stock” items never decay, but items in the invisible global storage at the trade center do. Bonus fun fact, items in homes never decay either.
Looks like the shelf life is about 5 years.
They get stored in both the trader and market places, but only marketplaces have barrels, so they end up decaying at slightly different rates.
What is spice even used for? You can’t harvest it, and I have never suffered the inability to make a product for not having ever bought any spice.
Spice provide luxury bonus to Tier 4 houses and can give your monthly income a big boost. It is well worth buying spice when you get to that stage.
And Large Houses too (unless that’s been removed from 0.8 but was something I definitely saw in 0.76)
The tax returns on spices are great: if you buy enough to go around then it gives you way more income than the initial outlay, if it can all be sold that is.
Serves to increase your tax income of your T4 mansions.
Its just a way to say that the inhabitants of this kind of property have now acquired a higher status of life… which is why it is shown in the “lux” section.
Fun Fact: “Spices” became by the end of the Medieval Era IRL a generic term for anything relatively small and portable of extremely high value. So the word was applied not only to spices and seasonings, but also to expensive bright red, yellow and blue dyes and jewelry.