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Shadowdragon00

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Caravan Glitch
« on: October 28, 2017, 08:30:06 pm »
A huge caravan with 5 wagons Unloaded at my depot then suddenly left.Was this a glitch or what?
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Re: Caravan Glitch
« Reply #1 on: October 28, 2017, 09:17:40 pm »
By any chance is your trade depot near your refuse stockpile?
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Re: Caravan Glitch
« Reply #2 on: October 29, 2017, 01:03:50 am »
Quote from: Quietust on October 28, 2017, 09:17:40 pm
By any chance is your trade depot near your refuse stockpile?

I think it could also be a issue if you have dwarves hauling corpses past the depot?
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Re: Caravan Glitch
« Reply #3 on: October 29, 2017, 01:46:09 am »
Does this still actually happen?
In my last game human merchants arrived shortly after a battle and had to wade through blood and gore and scattered pieces of goblin to get to the trade depot. Didn't bother them at all.
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Re: Caravan Glitch
« Reply #4 on: October 29, 2017, 04:43:49 am »
- I don't think items in inventories (such as hauled corpses) affect merchants.
- I'd like to amend Quietust's question to ask if it's near your corpse stockpile (as corpses of sapients no longer are hauled to the refuse stockpile, but to the corpse stockpile).
- Other reasons for leaving are getting scared by "hostile" critters, or getting into a sufficiently violent fight with someone.
- As far as I know the sight of half a goblin tooth is still sufficient to normally send merchants into flight (but their guards won't get scared into fleeing and taking the rest of the caravan with them). However, I had an odd case where a merchant was paralyzed by fear after seeing some minor corpse piece, but then recovered and proceeded to the trade depot where trade was performed as normal. I later found a pile of scuttled junk in that general area. I think the scared trader was the last one in the caravan.
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Re: Caravan Glitch
« Reply #5 on: October 30, 2017, 12:24:40 pm »
There was a ton of corpses all over the place.And for some reason the caravan left a little "gift".They left a ton of goods every thing from glass to weapons to iron and every thing in between.
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Re: Caravan Glitch
« Reply #6 on: October 30, 2017, 04:45:37 pm »
The "gift" is the result of scuttling. An animal of burden drops what's carried, or a wagon deconstructs (I think) dropping what's carried as the draft animals abandon the wagon out of fright.
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