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[Antikythera]

I wall in my original dwarves and never have outside contact. Eventually a liason or caravan arrives and either gets attacked or starves to death on the surface. From then on my inventory lists are tainted by items I dont want and can not remove from the list.

I cant see the items on the surface even after using DFHack to reveal.

Is there a way to delete these items?

[PatrikLundell]

The items are probably in the inventory of the dead merchants (who are not visible on the map).
There are a couple of DFHack scripts you might try (back up your save first):
dismissmerchants.lua

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-- Dismisses bugged merchants.
--[====[

dismissmerchants
=================

]====]

function dismissmerchants ()
  for i = 0, #df.global.world.units.active - 1 do
    if df.global.world.units.active [i].flags1.merchant then
   if df.global.world.units.active [i].flags1.dead and
   not df.global.world.units.active [i].flags1.left then
    dfhack.println ("Dismissing merchant ")
df.global.world.units.active [i].flags1.left = true      
   end
end
  end
end

dismissmerchants ()

This script has gotten rid of merchants that are stuck in limbo, blocking further caravans from appearing. Has worked sometimes, and sometimes not.

claimmerchantstuff.lua:

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function claimmerchantstuff ()
  for i = 0, #df.global.world.units.all - 1 do
    if df.global.world.units.all [i].flags1.merchant and
   df.global.world.units.all [i].flags1.dead and
   df.global.world.units.all [i].flags3.scuttle then
   dfhack.println ("Scuttling merchant: " ..  tostring (i))
   
   for _, v in ipairs (df.global.world.units.all [i].inventory) do
     if v.mode == 0 then  --  hauled
--    v.item.pos.x = df.global.world.units.all [i].pos.x
--    v.item.pos.y = df.global.world.units.all [i].pos.y
--    v.item.pos.z = df.global.world.units.all [i].pos.z
--    v.item.flags.on_ground = true
--    v.item.flags.in_inventory = false
--    v.item.flags.removed = false
   v.item.flags.dump = true
--    v.item.flags.trader = false
end
   end
end
  end 
end

claimmerchantstuff()

Causes the stuff bugged merchants have scuttled to be dump marked. That has caused dorfs to go to the invisible merchants and strip the items from their inventories. I suspect DFHack's script to teleport dump marked items would work as well (after which you can then use the other script to delete the pile of stuff just collected to get rid of it). I don't remember off the top of my head what these to scripts are called, so you'll have to search for them.

[Nolimit]

You can mark all of the items for dumping using stocks screen (also make sure that they are unforbidden) than use DFHack to autodump. Never tried it for this exact situation, but it worked for me in a similar case.