0008891: Unretiring Fort with merchants and reclaiming leads to bugged items - Dwarf Fortress Bug Tracker

ID	Project	Category	View Status	Date Submitted	Last Update

0008891	Dwarf Fortress	Dwarf Mode -- Items	public	2015-03-31 07:42	2015-03-31 07:42

Reporter	Ivaneus	Assigned To
Priority	normal	Severity	major	Reproducibility	have not tried
Status	new	Resolution	open
Platform	Vista	OS	Windows Vista Home Premium	OS Version	Service Pack 2
Product Version	0.40.24

Summary	0008891: Unretiring Fort with merchants and reclaiming leads to bugged items
Description	When I accidentally unretired my fort with a merchant caravan in the Depot (I had just finished trading and wanted to save, hit the wrong option) and reclaimed I found that the merchants left with none of their goods and all the goods they had brought and the ones I had traded to them remained on the map marked as merchant goods with "()" around the item names. The Dwarves do seem very finicky in terms of what items they will and will not move or use. Worse is that the bug continues to affect all future caravans as all items purchased in trade will also be marked with "()" and when used for trade with the caravans, will show up as being on the fort's item list but in the grey-white color of caravan items.
Steps To Reproduce	Create fort and play until a caravan arrives to trade in the Depot. Allow merchants to fully unload their goods. Retire the fort with the merchants in the Depot. Reclaim the fort.
Additional Information	Here is a save of the game this bug was produced in. The Dwarven merchant caravan is 0000003:0000004 days from arriving so you should be able to observe all facets of the bug's behavior relatively easily. Link: http://dffd.bay12games.com/file.php?id=10723
Tags	No tags attached.

Date Modified	Username	Field	Change
2015-03-31 07:42	Ivaneus	New Issue