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0007305Dwarf FortressDwarf Mode -- Tradepublic2014-07-14 18:522014-07-14 22:34
ReporterBlotterwize 
Assigned ToFootkerchief 
PrioritynormalSeveritymajorReproducibilityunable to reproduce
StatusresolvedResolutionno change required 
PlatformWindowsOSWindows 8.1OS Version8.1
Product Version0.40.03 
Target VersionFixed in Version 
Summary0007305: Caravan arrives dead.
DescriptionA caravan arrived, and then I had a warning that I was under siege. The camera took me to the edge of the map and showed me the invading force. They arrived dead, and are a mixed group of dead dwarves and dead elves. Are these from the previous two caravans that came with whom I couldn't trade perhaps.

Meanwhile the caravan that is at the depot is giving me the following message when I try to trade (this time my trader got their quick / I suspect because i requested trader at depot within seconds of the caravan arriving).

"My apologies, but we're still unloading, we'll be ready soon."

And I have also been notified that they will be leaving soon. So 3rd caravan in a row is going to fail. Considering that trading is a massive part my successful forts, this game is just looking broken :(
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related to 0006625confirmed Footkerchief Merchants climb up tree and go insane 
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Issue History
Date ModifiedUsernameFieldChange
2014-07-14 18:52BlotterwizeNew Issue
2014-07-14 18:55FootkerchiefNote Added: 0026406
2014-07-14 18:55FootkerchiefAssigned To => Footkerchief
2014-07-14 18:55FootkerchiefStatusnew => needs feedback
2014-07-14 20:43BlotterwizeNote Added: 0026412
2014-07-14 20:43BlotterwizeStatusneeds feedback => assigned
2014-07-14 21:23FootkerchiefNote Added: 0026415
2014-07-14 21:23FootkerchiefNote Edited: 0026415bug_revision_view_page.php?bugnote_id=0026415#r9842
2014-07-14 21:24FootkerchiefStatusassigned => needs feedback
2014-07-14 21:26BlotterwizeNote Added: 0026418
2014-07-14 21:26BlotterwizeStatusneeds feedback => assigned
2014-07-14 21:26BlotterwizeNote Edited: 0026418bug_revision_view_page.php?bugnote_id=0026418#r9846
2014-07-14 21:41FootkerchiefNote Added: 0026420
2014-07-14 21:41FootkerchiefStatusassigned => needs feedback
2014-07-14 22:19BlotterwizeNote Added: 0026427
2014-07-14 22:19BlotterwizeStatusneeds feedback => assigned
2014-07-14 22:21BlotterwizeNote Edited: 0026427bug_revision_view_page.php?bugnote_id=0026427#r9850
2014-07-14 22:22BlotterwizeNote Added: 0026428
2014-07-14 22:33FootkerchiefRelationship addedrelated to 0006625
2014-07-14 22:34FootkerchiefNote Added: 0026429
2014-07-14 22:34FootkerchiefStatusassigned => resolved
2014-07-14 22:34FootkerchiefResolutionopen => no change required

Notes
(0026406)
Footkerchief   
2014-07-14 18:55   
Wait, when it zoomed to the corpses, was that a caravan announcement or a siege announcement?
(0026412)
Blotterwize   
2014-07-14 20:43   
It was a siege announcement. Although it appears as though the two events are mixed up. And I am still in siege mode some hours later, there never was a siege. And strangely, the dead caravan/siege is very slowly moving along the edge of the map. I say this because their position on the ground is changing when I go back to check on them. Actually I just caught the elf corpse move 1 tile, her name is Nisa Glacierhaze.
(0026415)
Footkerchief   
2014-07-14 21:23   
What makes you think it's a caravan at all? It sounds like an undead/necromancer siege.
(0026418)
Blotterwize   
2014-07-14 21:26   
http://dffd.wimbli.com/file.php?id=8982 [^]

Here is the save folder.
(0026420)
Footkerchief   
2014-07-14 21:41   
Have you tried sending dwarves out to chop them into tiny pieces?
(0026427)
Blotterwize   
2014-07-14 22:19   
(edited on: 2014-07-14 22:21)
Eventually yes, after 6 hours of getting on with my fort, I wanted the siege mode to end, and thought that if I killed those units, it might trigger the end of the siege.

So they turned out to be undead, which Ive never seen in the whole time Ive been playing DF, it's always goblins first, then more goblins. There were 6 undead, and my fortress of 46 dwarves promptly died. I may have killed 1 corpse, but not sure.

And I found the caravan leader / liaison up a tree stark raving mad, and his mule at the base of the tree going mad too.
(0026428)
Blotterwize   
2014-07-14 22:22   
I'm so used to DF playing exactly the same way .. snatchers, then gobs, then goblin siege with a big critter or two. That I didn't know something totally different was happening.
(0026429)
Footkerchief   
2014-07-14 22:34   
I'm glad the game was able to surprise you! I'll close this one, but there are various other caravan reports e.g. 0006625 and 0007185.