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0008818Dwarf FortressDwarf Mode -- Tradepublic2015-02-15 05:172016-05-16 16:31
ReporterGoblin Cookie Assigned Touser11 
PrioritynormalSeveritymajorReproducibilityrandom
Status resolvedResolutionduplicate 
OSWindows Vista 
Product Version0.40.24 
Summary0008818: Caravans leaving without unloading goods.
DescriptionRecently I have encountered a bug in my 4-year old fortress in which my civilizations caravan never finished unloading it's goods and eventually left without trade ever being possible. This happened right when I became a barony, in case that is relevant. I have a save file backup to offload and shall play the month again to see whether I can fix this by demolishing and rebuilding the depot.
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duplicate of 0007185 confirmeduser6 Horrified merchants immediately destroy their wagons, pack their goods and leave the depot 

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Goblin Cookie

2015-10-19 11:50

reporter   ~0033123

Last edited: 2015-10-19 11:51

 Happened to me too.

solumkar

2016-02-22 20:52

reporter   ~0034733

Last edited: 2016-02-22 20:54

 My first dwarf caravan worked fine, but when the elves came it just declared that they arrived but they never showed up on the map. They could have just been scared off by a kobold corpse, I don't know.

But the next two caravans, one dwarf and one elf, entered the map, with a single merchant and a pack animal, but no wagons. They proceeded to unpack until they left, without giving me a chance to trade.

I'm playing vanilla 42.06 on linux, rebuilding the depot did not help.

Muumeh

2016-02-23 06:34

reporter   ~0034737

I can confirm this happening to me as well. Sometimes the caravans arrive without wagons, and unload forever, and sometimes I get announcement that a caravan has arrived but nobody actually arrives. No merchants on the unit lists, but all their items show up at stocks screen. If you zoom into them, there are none to be seen but the game zooms into an empty tile near a map edge where the caravan supposedly arrived.

If you play the game forward, you can actually send your trader to depot as if there actually were merchants, but there is no trade option. You also get "merchants of InvisibleTraderCompany are leaving soon in appropriate time.

The only workaround I've found to either of these is to save the game always when season changes, and reload from that save if the merchants are bugged. (I also save the game immediately after trading just in case)

Muumeh

2016-02-23 06:36

reporter   ~0034738

Last edited: 2016-02-23 06:44

 Eh, since this is kind of two bugs, maybe the title should be changed something like "Partial/invisible caravans arrive, trade impossible", or should I make a separate bug report about the invisible ones?

user11

2016-05-16 16:27

  ~0035197

Last edited: 2016-05-16 16:30

 Without a save, this is most likely a case of scared merchants dropping cargo (wagon scuttled) and fleeing/ending trade. I'm going to mark it a duplicate of 0007185; post any saves you have there. If it isn't that, then PM a manager on the forums.

Issue History

Date Modified Username Field Change
2015-02-15 05:17 Goblin Cookie New Issue
2015-10-19 11:50 Goblin Cookie Note Added: 0033123
2015-10-19 11:51 Goblin Cookie Note Edited: 0033123
2016-02-22 20:52 solumkar Note Added: 0034733
2016-02-22 20:54 solumkar Note Edited: 0034733
2016-02-22 20:54 solumkar Note Edited: 0034733
2016-02-23 06:34 Muumeh Note Added: 0034737
2016-02-23 06:36 Muumeh Note Added: 0034738
2016-02-23 06:44 Muumeh Note Edited: 0034738
2016-05-16 16:27 user11 Note Added: 0035197
2016-05-16 16:27 user11 Relationship added duplicate of 0007595
2016-05-16 16:27 user11 Status new => resolved
2016-05-16 16:27 user11 Resolution open => duplicate
2016-05-16 16:27 user11 Assigned To => user11
2016-05-16 16:30 user11 Note Edited: 0035197
2016-05-16 16:31 user11 Relationship deleted 0007595
2016-05-16 16:31 user11 Relationship added duplicate of 0007185