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[morikal]

First off--I am not a complete newb

I did not seize the goods (even by accident--I only selected a few things, traded, and then took back my empty bins and told my trader he was no longer needed).

These were the first merchants to ever arrive at this fort. The surroundings are "calm" and there have been no ambushes, etc, so I'm pretty sure they weren't attacked... nothing in announcements about an attack.

Got the message they were leaving soon, and then a bit later that they had packed up and left. I notice my dwarves all running up and down to the depot. I looked, and the merchants seem to have left ALL of the items they had. I'm running 40d11... anyone know whats up with this?

(Maybe this should go in bug reports, but I wanted to make sure there is nothing I could have done that would legitimately cause this)

[Felius]

Maybe you forbid the trader's stuff?

[Airpi]

They'll do that if you deconstruct the depot out from under them, but I've never heard of them just dropping everything and leaving. The wiki also says that traders will flee cave-ins, leaving all their crap behind. Was there a cave-in around there?

[morikal]

Nope, none forbidden.

Nope, no cave-in... it was built on the surface, and I haven't had any cave-ins at all this game... this was during my first august.

[morikal]

Oh, and I just noticed a long line of dropped stuff near the edge of the map... not sure if the elven caravan that just arrived dropped a bunch of stuff on the way in (this is the 2nd caravan to show up this game, it is spring now) or whether the first caravan dropped more stuff on their way out... weird.

[morikal]

I think I figured it out--there are resus macaques on this map. I didn't run into them until after this stuff happened... maybe the traders got scared off by them?

[Zeg]

I had this happen once when I accidentally forbid the trade depot by forbidding everything it was made of while I was in the stocks screen. Forbidding all of one type of rock or metal is nice, you just have to remember things you already made of those items will stop functioning if you do heh.

[Aspgren]

I think I figured it out--there are resus macaques on this map. I didn't run into them until after this stuff happened... maybe the traders got scared off by them?

They attack people and steal from them so yeah this probably had something to do with it.
I.. I am not sure though. Did the monkeys KILL anyone? I don't think any traders have turned and run away for me ... not unless they met goblins and sustained casualties.

In fact I think they were attacked by ambushers once and the caravan guards dispatched them all. Doesn't seem logical that monkeys would scare them so much ... but what do I know?

[morikal]

I had this happen once when I accidentally forbid the trade depot by forbidding everything it was made of while I was in the stocks screen. Forbidding all of one type of rock or metal is nice, you just have to remember things you already made of those items will stop functioning if you do heh.

I've had that happen when I do that too, but I didn't do that this time.

[zchris13]

Mark massive amounts of crap for dumping?  Accidentally hit the trade depot with a d b d?

[Time Kitten]

Last time there were monkeys on my map, there were about 30 of them hanging outside my depot... three years later and I've caught both surviving males since the caravan was guarded with machine gunners.

[Mount]

I've seen *Elven* traders flee from harmless wildlife like raccoons, but the dwarf traders generally have to sustain an actual injury before they drop ballast and flee..