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JakeTamber

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Can you starve traders?
« on: October 22, 2009, 05:12:45 pm »
Simple question, if you lure some elves into the trade depot, and then wall it off, will the eventually starve in there and die?
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Jim Groovester

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Re: Can you starve traders?
« Reply #1 on: October 22, 2009, 05:27:04 pm »
They won't starve.

They will go insane.

Then they will begin to starve.

Merchants don't require food and water until they go insane from being unable to leave the map. However, they will be unable to satisfy their thirst and hunger, as far as I know.
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Magua

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Re: Can you starve traders?
« Reply #2 on: October 22, 2009, 06:27:27 pm »
I don't think I've ever seen traders starve.

Then again, I've only kept them penned up for a year at the most.

I have seen them go berserk.  I have seen them go melancholy.  Melancholy ones seem to die after awhile.  Berserk ones, AFAIK, do not.
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Quote from: Footkerchief on November 01, 2008, 02:04:30 pm
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Re: Can you starve traders?
« Reply #3 on: October 22, 2009, 09:56:08 pm »
Quote from: Magua on October 22, 2009, 06:27:27 pm
Berserk ones, AFAIK, do not.

My hammerdwarf squad strongly disagrees.
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Re: Can you starve traders?
« Reply #4 on: October 22, 2009, 10:56:49 pm »
You use hammerdwarfs on traders?

Talk about a waste.  I tended to use mine on other traders.

(Or tried.  Never recall there being the expected bloodshed.)
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Quote from: Footkerchief on November 01, 2008, 02:04:30 pm
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