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[Arathanar]

...with a TAME GIANT JAGUAR. No injuries.

I was used to elves bringing a bunch of crappy cloth and uselessly giant helmets made out of trees! They brought a giant cat that is more than willing to rip out the throat of the next goblin that so much as comes NEAR it!

Needless to say, I actually decided to make things for this caravan, so I quickly made around 200 dwarfbucks of no quality stone crafts, and ended up with... 90 in change. They sold this thing for 110. That's like selling a hovercraft to ancient egyptians for some sand!

EEEEEE! Or, rather, JJJJJJJJ!

[twwolfe]

give them enough good stuff, and they can bring you giand scorpions and GCS as well

[Demonic Spoon]

They can bring you GCS?

[kilakan]

ya i have a fort where they brought me two Giant desert scorpions and another (which eventually died horribly due to a really bad tantrum spiral) where they brought 4 GCS at once If you are near the terrain for the creature or their base is then they will bring you some really exotic pets and cheaply I might add.

[Rowanas]

do you have to release gcs into the wild to harvest silk?

[milaga]

They brought me a giant eagle once. I just kept it in it's cage and was afraid to go near it.

[Psychoceramics]

they brought me a breeding pair of jaguars the first time they showed up. Couple years later, a Giant Leopard and a Grizzly Bear. Every year I hope they bring the opposite so I can start training War Bears. A diplomat just showed up to whine about my deforestation project though = /

[milaga]

Oh yeah. One year they brought me a breeding pair of grizzlies. I chained them up at the entrance as guards. I never had a thief in that fort.

[Village_Idiot]

The elves once brought me three kitten corpses, it seems dwarves are not the only species with catsplosions.

[Rowanas]

struck by their own nefarious plots. stupid elves.

[blah28722]

The only neat thing I've ever gotten from elves was a single jaguar. That was on the first year.

I try to give them stupidly high amounts of money for their useless crap. Now they just bring even more wood.

What am I doing wrong?

[HmH]

Maybe you should gift caravans with good things with lots of mugs(or food, or everything you use as wealth maker) and burn/drown caravans with wood? "Giantanimals the live giant-cages of animals" and "Moonshine the shiny moon-loads of booze" corporations will get richer and you will take care of their rivals, "Woodweapons the carping wood-wagons of weapons", "Catscats the breeding meow-cats of domination" and "Deadanimals the dead awesome-animals of miasma". And, of course, they will satisfy your "special" interests, because they know that in another case you will rename them to "Burntelves the funny warm-piles of ashes".
Or, simplier, elven race will be screened with patented Eugenic Magma Pullthelever/Eugenic Goblindrived Slowdrowner and clever elves will some day be the only elves in civ you're trading with. Remember, there's never too many tree-huggers.
Or you could kill their liason and get a bunch of free +elf cages+ and *unicorn cages* every year. Elves are good to be suddenly freed from their cages when the vile forces of darkness(elf-loving nobles, in example) arrive, unicorns are untamable but their children are.

But at first make a huge wood stockpile, not necessarily accessable. AFAIK, the bigger stockpiles will force them to bring less wood.

[Slogo]

The elves once brought me a Giant Eagle, Giant Jaguar, Grizzly Bear, ground hog, and a cougar all one in caravan.

[dood_]

The elves once brought me a Giant Eagle, Giant Jaguar, Grizzly Bear, ground hog, and a cougar all one in caravan.

Almost makes me feel guilty for the Elf Pit* I'm building. Almost.



*Ten z-levels down, five by five wide with a floodable magma base optional.

[Lummox JR]

My fortress now has a healthy population of black bears thanks to three that the elves brought me in trade (the first two were male). Recently I adapted my arena where I've been having my marksdwarves shoot at captive goblins from above, and instead dumped a bunch of bears in with them. The results were hilarious, and about half the bears ended up with names after that. If I catch any goblins in the next siege (unlikely since I have new slaughter machinery in place), I'm gonna have to try to earn the other bears names as well.

For a while though the elves haven't been bringing me much good stuff. I suspect my fortress is not generating wealth at a fast enough rate, which also explains the dearth of sieges.