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[Metruption]

I've had merchants sitting in my depot from winter into autumn and there is a wagon in my dead/missing screen. I think somehow a wagon got lost and now they are going to hang around forever causing a lot of lag. Is there any way to bring back the wagon or make them all leave without resorting to violence?

[delphonso]

Deconstructing the depot should get them to leave, but they'll also leave behind all the tat they arrived with - you may need to atom smash the resulting piles of armor and cheese. It doesn't become violent, but the next caravan may have slightly less value. Not really a big deal.

[Metruption]

I'm more looking for if I can bring back the missing wagon with DFHack

[delphonso]

The bug has already been reported, so you can ask in the DFHack threads for advice on this particular issue. I've got no clue on DFHack, unfortunately.

[Bumber]

I'm more looking for if I can bring back the missing wagon with DFHack

You could (with "full-heal -r"), but it would immediately scuttle without pulling animals.

[qualiyah]

I don't know that you can fix that one wagon, but DFHack can make sure the rest of them leave safely, which will hopefully make them less mad at you than if they lost all the wagons. The commands you want are "caravan happy" and "caravan leave".

[Stench Guzman]

In large forts I block wagon access to my depot so I don't have to deal with the cleanup when wagons start self-destructing.

[Metruption]

In large forts I block wagon access to my depot so I don't have to deal with the cleanup when wagons start self-destructing.

This is still the first few years which is a time when I like to import extreme amounts of leather as that's something relatively difficult to mass produce because I only seem to get one unit of leather per murdered animal

[Thisfox]

Why block off the depot? Why not just deconstruct it and not have one at all?

I make a paved road from the depot to the four sides of the map. Doesn't have to be pretty, but it's usually made from rock blocks. Before I can make the paved road, I at least clear the path annually. Wagons, even ten years in, don't self destruct. I have found if I don't make a road or something similar, trees destroy the wagons, but they're the only reason wagons seem to have a problem when I play. I used to complain about wagons deconstructing, many versions ago, but it really hasn't happened to me for five or more years. Caravans are just too useful for disposing of rubbish in the fort, I don't want to prevent them.