I bought a cow from a merchant at the beginning and it vanished. The second one i was able to relocate to my barn. But the first one is lost in space (but not in my stock).
For #1 I think if you click the Trader 1 tab you will find the merchant. I notice if I interact with the trading post before the merchant arrives for the day, I have to click the tab to see them. I am not sure if this is intentional or not, I like it because if I am working on stocking my TP, the list doesn’t get reset when the first merchant shows up while I am working on it.
Btw…does anyone have any idea how can i fix the buildings? Like force workers to fix them before they collapse? And my laborers stopped completely gathering wood.