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[Strant]

I'm not entirely sure on this since I rarely, if ever give the elves any kind of metal, they aren't worth taking my precious steel.

Of course you don't give the elves steel.  Trade them some nice lead goblets and lead barrels instead.

[Satarus]

I've worked with elves a bit.  I know for a fact you can trade Leather, Plant Fiber (rope weed/pig tail), Silk, Metal (including steel), Rock, Gem, Bone, and Green Glass.

What you can't trade are wood, obsidian swords, soap, clear glass, crystal glass, or any wood byproducts (charcoal, lye, etc).  Having those items in the trade depot don't bother them as long as you don;t try to actually offer it to them.  So go ahead and move your entire wood stockpile to the depot just to taunt them.

[Neonivek]

Don't they also refuse to trade anything with an inch of blood on them?

[Cheater]

Don't they also refuse to trade anything with an inch of blood on them?

In similar logic, they didn't used to accept items with blood on them, but since you can't wash it off it was changed (I assume dwarves wipe it on their beard before trade. Good as new!)

[Grendus]

Essentially, if it isn't wood or wood ash, they don't care. Even if you actually did use wood to forge the items, even if they watched you cut the trees, charcoal the logs, smelt the ore, and forge the items using charcoal, they'll still take the items so long as they can plug their ears, sing, and pretend you used magma.

Bunch of bloody hypocrites.

[Sensei]

They also buy bone items now. I imagine something like this:

Year 1:
- "Here, take this =Goblin Bone Bolts=."
- "This used to be a proud creature, now it is a rude bauble fit only for your kind! You should be ashamed of yourselves!"

Year 2:
The caravan barely survives a goblin ambush, with only a few elves returning to the forest to the tale.

Year 3:
- "Here, take this +Goblin Bone Mug+."
- "Sure, I'll give you this -Goblin leather- in return."

[Satarus]

You give them bone bolts?  Those are for my marksdwarves to practice with.  I give them the +Goblin Skull Totem+ that is otherwise useless to me except as a memento of the battle.

[Sphalerite]

Usually when I 'give' the elves bone bolts, it's at high velocity, delivered directly to their vital organs.

[Quietust]

They also buy bone items now.

I've sold elf skull totems to the elves and they're ecstatic about the trading.

[BurnedToast]

Don't they also refuse to trade anything with an inch of blood on them?

No, and they never have.

I don't know where the myth about elves and blood/vomit covered things came from but it's never been true.

At least the booze bomb myth had a (misleading) movie.

[Sabre_Justice]

I think everyone's used to dwarf products being caked with layers of blood and vomit.

And the elves seem to give the dwarves the benefit of the doubt, and only object to products that couldn't be obtained any way other than killing trees. Beyond that, fair game, you can make their father's skull into a mug and they're cool with it.

[Satarus]

I think I remember hearing about how someone found a preserved Elf Skin in the HFS.  He made leather out of it and proceded to encrust it with every gem and studded with every metal available.