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[PashaN]

I've only been playing this game for a week, so please forgive my ignorance, but...

I can't seem to trade properly. The trading depot is outside. Merchants visit it. I can transfer goods to the depot and make trades. When I make a trade my goods switch to the opposite side of the menu.

However, I never get my purchased goods. I've bought multiple anvils, tons of seeds, and weapons and none of it ever shows up.

I've made new piles for every possible category and yet I still never receive anything. Help?

[smjjames]

Hm, are you actually [t]rading or are you (o)ffering? Because offering is just giving stuff without trading, I know it sounds like it means you're making an offer on a deal, but that's not what it is. The offering function pretty much only has to do with becoming mountainhome, I'm not sure what effect, if any, it has on other civs.

[PashaN]

I suppose that's possible. I double-checked to see if the trader had the same amount of anvils and I don't believe he does. Also, it tells me what the trader is making in profit and I've had him not agree to certain deals, so I think the trade is going through...

[blue sam3]

When you say you don't get it, do you mean it doesn't turn up on your side of the trading screen, didn't get moved to a stockpile, you couldn't use it, or it didn't appear on the stocks menu?

[WhimsyWink]

When you say you don't get it, do you mean it doesn't turn up on your side of the trading screen, didn't get moved to a stockpile, you couldn't use it, or it didn't appear on the stocks menu?

Right, because if you check back during a merchant's visit, the items you 'bought' would not be available to trade back without a 'bring goods to depot' even though they are at a distance of zero.  So it might seem as if you hadn't received it

[smjjames]

When you say you don't get it, do you mean it doesn't turn up on your side of the trading screen, didn't get moved to a stockpile, you couldn't use it, or it didn't appear on the stocks menu?

Right, because if you check back during a merchant's visit, the items you 'bought' would not be available to trade back without a 'bring goods to depot' even though they are at a distance of zero.  So it might seem as if you hadn't received it

It also sounds like his dwarves don't even pick up the bought goods.

[Raphite1]

I don't think your dwarves will unload the purchased goods into stockpiles until the traders actually leave the depot, and often they hang around for some time, even after the departure message.

I'm not 100% sure that I'm correct in this observation.

[Sutremaine]

Items become haulable as soon as they're bought.

[PashaN]

Yeah. I'm not really sure what's going on with my DF right now.

My dwarves mostly just sit around. They haul stuff occasionally. They build stuff when they feel like it. I removed my first trade depot and then second one has been pending for over a year...so I can't trade.

I have 70 dwarves in the fort. At any given time maybe 20 of them are working. My miners don't mine. My masons don't build anything. Plenty of mats. I mean, I know how to follow directions. I just can't figure out what's going on.

So, I guess I'll start over.

[Sutremaine]

Have you checked for access problems? One simple-ish way of doing this is to place a construction and note what materials you have and how far away they are. If the area you're trying to build in has a fortress's worth of stuff on the list, then you have a fortress's worth of access.

[WhimsyWink]

Yeah. I'm not really sure what's going on with my DF right now.

My dwarves mostly just sit around. They haul stuff occasionally. They build stuff when they feel like it. I removed my first trade depot and then second one has been pending for over a year...so I can't trade.

I have 70 dwarves in the fort. At any given time maybe 20 of them are working. My miners don't mine. My masons don't build anything. Plenty of mats. I mean, I know how to follow directions. I just can't figure out what's going on.

So, I guess I'll start over.

50/70 idle is not, by itself, an indication the fort is broken.  And barring a bad mood spiral or frame rate issue, there is not much I can think off that would effect the whole group.

Except that I caught myself once designating too much digging.  Seemed like I piled on so much work to be done that they sat down and sulked.

And being suspicioius of all things computer, I saved and restarted the fortress to check the electron plumbing.

good luck

[jcochran]

Yeah. I'm not really sure what's going on with my DF right now.

My dwarves mostly just sit around. They haul stuff occasionally. They build stuff when they feel like it. I removed my first trade depot and then second one has been pending for over a year...so I can't trade.

I have 70 dwarves in the fort. At any given time maybe 20 of them are working. My miners don't mine. My masons don't build anything. Plenty of mats. I mean, I know how to follow directions. I just can't figure out what's going on.

So, I guess I'll start over.

Things that come to mind....
1. Burrows... Do you perhaps have some of them defined and they're keeping the dwarves from accepting new jobs?
2. Are you sure you have the labors enabled on the dwarves? You may have accidentally turned 'em off.

[PashaN]

Yeah. Nothing seems to work. Game is buggy as all hell.

Thanks for trying to help. Time to move on to another game.

[Quietust]

Yeah. Nothing seems to work. Game is buggy as all hell.

Thanks for trying to help. Time to move on to another game.

While the game certainly does have quite a lot of bugs, I don't think you're currently observing one of them - if you could post your savegame on DFFD (or somewhere else public), somebody here might be able to determine what's wrong and set you back on the right track.