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[JakeTamber]

Simple question, if you lure some elves into the trade depot, and then wall it off, will the eventually starve in there and die?

[Jim Groovester]

They won't starve.

They will go insane.

Then they will begin to starve.

Merchants don't require food and water until they go insane from being unable to leave the map. However, they will be unable to satisfy their thirst and hunger, as far as I know.

[Magua]

I don't think I've ever seen traders starve.

Then again, I've only kept them penned up for a year at the most.

I have seen them go berserk.  I have seen them go melancholy.  Melancholy ones seem to die after awhile.  Berserk ones, AFAIK, do not.

[martinuzz]

Berserk ones, AFAIK, do not.

My hammerdwarf squad strongly disagrees.

[Magua]

You use hammerdwarfs on traders?

Talk about a waste.  I tended to use mine on other traders.

(Or tried.  Never recall there being the expected bloodshed.)