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[Pwnage_Incarnate]

Whenever merchants leave my fort, the last wagon always seems to get mauled by the local wildlife, resulting in free stuff for me.

[Bask]

Yes, and when it pisses the merchant civs off, you get sieges with even more free stuff!

[Snall]

Blood & death =! Free

[Bryan Derksen]

Blood & death =! Free

From the discussions I've seen around here, blood and death are an added bonus.

[Ashery]

Better that than having a pack of undead monkies kill one of the pack animals to the elven caravan. So they left both before I could trade and without one of the actual merchants dying. Could've used some rope and livestock...

[RebelZhouYuWu]

If elves hate wooden items then why do they sell wood?

[Makrond]

That's like asking why they sterilise the needles before lethal injections.

Somebody, somewhere, knows the answer. But damned if anyone cares.

[KrataLightblade]

If elves hate wooden items then why do they sell wood?

I assumed this was because while, yes, Elves hate once-living items being bought and sold, they believe that if they gather and sell wood from trees that are already dying, IE, selling you what is already passing away anyway, they can keep you from clearcutting a forest, which they REALLY don't like.

IE, a "lesser of two evils" thing?

[erendor]

If elves hate wooden items then why do they sell wood?

I assumed this was because while, yes, Elves hate once-living items being bought and sold, they believe that if they gather and sell wood from trees that are already dying, IE, selling you what is already passing away anyway, they can keep you from clearcutting a forest, which they REALLY don't like.

IE, a "lesser of two evils" thing?

And when you try sell it back to them, they're offended that you'd be buying this wood, which they begrudge to sell you anyway, and then not even intending to use it!

[LASD]

If elves hate wooden items then why do they sell wood?

I have always thought that elves just think that dwarves don't make wooden things the right way. The words 'crude', 'unartistic' and 'ugly' come to mind along with some hippie things like "Man, you got to feel the wood, be the wood, you know, when you're making stuff from it. You know?"

[ChairmanPoo]

Dont take blood and death as a price, but as a risk. All activities have a given risk (IE: car trips do have a blood and death risk), but if we consider it acceptable, we do it anyway. And, since in DF most people engineer delliberate systems to massacre their own nobles (and children), chances are they will find the risk of "Drowning the traders" acceptable.

[DarkAvenger]

What "chance"? I design them to deliberately drown the traders

[Noctune9]

I once had a really odd error where the dwarven caravan came and unloaded their goods, then left, leaving all of their goods.

[Dogman]

I've had wagons toppled by waves on ocean-side maps. I never got any trade...

[RebelZhouYuWu]

I think that magma would be a much better way to kill traders, it would only leave the important stuff, Steel.