Hello all,
Relative newcomer to the game, I've played a few fortresses on an older version with a tutorial to help me get into the swing of things, and now I'm working on a fort in the current version.
Came across a problem involving trade that no amount of searching through the forums, the wiki, or even google has solved for me. Often goods I try and buy "in bulk" hundreds or thousands of dwarfbucks in value at a time (say, several hundred leather pieces because dammit I don't have a kitten industry yet and every moody dwarf wants leather). After getting the trade to go through, generally by offering copious amounts of worthless rock carved into pretty shapes, I wait for the departure of the caravan and the removal of my new leather supplies to the stockpile. Except...when the traders leave, there's no leather.
I'm sure I'm missing something blatantly obvious but for the life of me I cannot figure out how to get items I've traded for with the merchants to actually APPEAR in my fortress after they've left. Most recently I purchased a very large amount of wood from an elven caravan because my mountain home is somewhat sparse in that regard. Again...after the caravan left, my wood stockpiles still sit at the meager 17 I'm hoarding til the trees regrow.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.