0008818: Caravans leaving without unloading goods.

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(0033123) Goblin Cookie (reporter) 2015-10-19 11:50 edited on: 2015-10-19 11:51	Happened to me too.

(0034733) solumkar (reporter) 2016-02-22 20:52 edited on: 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.

(0034737) Muumeh (reporter) 2016-02-23 06:34	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)

(0034738) Muumeh (reporter) 2016-02-23 06:36 edited on: 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?

(0035197) Dwarfu (manager) 2016-05-16 16:27 edited on: 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	View Revisions
2016-02-22 20:52	solumkar	Note Added: 0034733
2016-02-22 20:54	solumkar	Note Edited: 0034733	View Revisions
2016-02-22 20:54	solumkar	Note Edited: 0034733	View Revisions
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	View Revisions
2016-03-26 07:27	bacos666	Issue Monitored: bacos666
2016-05-16 16:27	Dwarfu	Note Added: 0035197
2016-05-16 16:27	Dwarfu	Relationship added	duplicate of 0007595
2016-05-16 16:27	Dwarfu	Status	new => resolved
2016-05-16 16:27	Dwarfu	Resolution	open => duplicate
2016-05-16 16:27	Dwarfu	Assigned To	=> Dwarfu
2016-05-16 16:30	Dwarfu	Note Edited: 0035197	View Revisions
2016-05-16 16:31	Dwarfu	Relationship deleted	0007595
2016-05-16 16:31	Dwarfu	Relationship added	duplicate of 0007185