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Lucien

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[40d] Dwarven traders arriving with corpse-cages (Mac)
« on: December 14, 2008, 05:02:11 am »

The Dwarven traders are arriving with the pets I requested, but every cage is full of corpses instead of actual pets.  Thankfully, this makes them very cheap.
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Taritus

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Re: [40d] Dwarven traders arriving with corpse-cages (Mac)
« Reply #1 on: December 14, 2008, 11:45:48 am »

The pets can't survive in your biome and so they die.  It's not so much a bug that they're dead, but more like that the traders bring them in the first place.  It's been reported before, though.
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Re: [40d] Dwarven traders arriving with corpse-cages (Mac)
« Reply #2 on: December 16, 2008, 05:59:41 pm »

Yeah, that's the problem. The animals freeze and die on the way to you. Glacier forts I don't think can get any surviving animals via traders that aren't native to that biome, mountain biomes can get critters, but they will slowly die from the cold.
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Re: [40d] Dwarven traders arriving with corpse-cages (Mac)
« Reply #3 on: December 16, 2008, 06:36:20 pm »

I have a freezing mountain fort where people keep getting mysterious wounds.  One guy bled to death on the inner side of my moat.  A lot of other people have frozen to death.  In their bedrooms.
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Re: [40d] Dwarven traders arriving with corpse-cages (Mac)
« Reply #4 on: December 16, 2008, 11:27:47 pm »

A good way to test whether your map is too cold to survive in is to try and place a meeting area outside. If it's 'deathly cold' you can't do it.

I've had fun ordering shipments of 'beef' from the humans on my glacier. The kobolds freezing to death or running away before they can steal anything is just an added incentive.
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