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[Vindcara]

For the past two years of my game neither the dwarven caravan, nor the outpost liaison has arrived despite my civ still being alive. Does anyone have an explanation for this? can it be fixed? I'm playing version 0.43.03

[Stormfeather]

The obvious question: were you having a siege at the time? I'm like 99% sure that elf and human caravans at the very least don't show up if you have a siege or some invading surface monster attacking, not sure about dwarf caravans/the liason.

[Vindcara]

the first year I had a siege at the beginning of autumn, the second year I did not (unless you count forgotten beasts)

[Stormfeather]

Does your civ still have an outpost liason listed? Not sure if those can get killed, and if they get replaced (and if so how long it takes).

Not sure actually if Forgotten Beasts would stop a caravan. I wouldn't think so, but I don't know!

[Vindcara]

Does your civ still have an outpost liason listed? Not sure if those can get killed, and if they get replaced (and if so how long it takes).

Not sure actually if Forgotten Beasts would stop a caravan. I wouldn't think so, but I don't know!

Yes my civ still has an outpost liason listed.

[PatrikLundell]

I would expect Titans rampaging to count at invasions for caravan blocking purposes but cannot swear on it, but FBs down in the caverns do not (I don't know what happens if they get up to the surface, though).
Dwarven caravans have the same sense to keep out of being slaughtered as other caravans do (and the same lack of sense regarding half goblin teeth).
It's known that dwarven caravans can go AWOL for years, but it's not really known why (apart from the obvious siege block). There siege of the mountainhome has been used as one explanation, but I don't know how well that theory has been researched.

[Halnoth]

Titans and FBs do NOT stop the caravan.

I think a likely cause is that the caravan got stuck outside the maps edge on the first seige. I've had this happen a few times. You can fix it with dfHack. There is a script to fix stuck merchants.

To see if this is the cause take a look at your stock screen. Do you have any invisible items? They show up red and when you zoom in on them there is no item there.

[h27kim]

It's also possible that your king/queen is not where he/she should be. 

To explain, I've had a weird incident where the old dwarven king died and was succeeded by a dwarf that had been kidnapped by goblins, "escaped," and became a bandit so that a bandit camp was technically the mountainhome--which could not send caravans, obviously.

What made caravans resume was to go into the adventure mode and slay the queen to have the kingship pass to someone at a proper fortress.

[Vindcara]

Titans and FBs do NOT stop the caravan.

I think a likely cause is that the caravan got stuck outside the maps edge on the first seige. I've had this happen a few times. You can fix it with dfHack. There is a script to fix stuck merchants.

To see if this is the cause take a look at your stock screen. Do you have any invisible items? They show up red and when you zoom in on them there is no item there.

I have red items in my stocks, and they are not there when I zoom to them. I attempted to use the guide here (http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=159297.0) to fix the problem, since my version of dfhack does not seem to have fix/stuck-merchants, but while the red items were now located at the spot I teleported everything to, neither they nor the theoretical merchants became visible.

[GenJeFT]

Titans and FBs do NOT stop the caravan.

I think a likely cause is that the caravan got stuck outside the maps edge on the first seige. I've had this happen a few times. You can fix it with dfHack. There is a script to fix stuck merchants.

To see if this is the cause take a look at your stock screen. Do you have any invisible items? They show up red and when you zoom in on them there is no item there.

I have red items in my stocks, and they are not there when I zoom to them. I attempted to use the guide here (http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=159297.0) to fix the problem, since my version of dfhack does not seem to have fix/stuck-merchants, but while the red items were now located at the spot I teleported everything to, neither they nor the theoretical merchants became visible.

Here is a video tutorial I made on how to add scripts for dfhack.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VgGuYZg8yBQ&feature=youtu.be

You will probably have to add the script in yourself. The code will be in that guide thread so you can copy and paste it into note++ and save it into the scripts section of dfhack.

[Vindcara]

Here is a video tutorial I made on how to add scripts for dfhack.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VgGuYZg8yBQ&feature=youtu.be

You will probably have to add the script in yourself. The code will be in that guide thread so you can copy and paste it into note++ and save it into the scripts section of dfhack.

the claimmerchantstuff command worked on about half the items, the dismissmerchants command did nothing.

[Halnoth]

I just select the red items for dumping and then use autodump. They all should be teleported.

You can try fix/retrieve-units which I think works for any units who are stuck.