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[TheProphet]

So the merchants were hilariously sadly killed by goblins and  since I don't want their deaths to have been for nothing; how do I go about getting all the loot? Do I just unforbid it all in the stocks list? Will this have any effect on the next time they come?

[UltraValican]

1. Kill Goblin
2. Unforbid stuff on the animals
3 Profit!

[TheProphet]

Thanks :DD

[i2amroy]

If the merchants are all killed by goblins they will count it the same as if you had killed the merchants yourself and stolen all of their stuff. This means that it will reduce the amounts that they bring in the future and if it happens enough then they will go to war with you.

[Tiruin]

If those merchants were dwarves, you should build rock slabs and engrave their names on it, guards included. You don't want to let a fellowman rot away do you? 

[UltraValican]

If those merchants were dwarves, you should build rock slabs and engrave their names on it, guards included. You don't want to let a fellowman rot away do you? 

This, and because any dwarf on the map can have a ghost.

[Grumbledwarfskin]

I believe there's an active bug that caravan guards cannot have slabs engraved for them, as they're not given historical figure status...so the only way to prevent ghosts is burial.

[Pukako]

And if you try trading the looted goods back to the same civ, then it doesn't go down all that well...

[peskyninja]

And you can't bury them either...

[Martholomule]

Do I just unforbid it all in the stocks list?

You could, but that's a pain the ass.  Why not use d-b-c and draw a box over it?  Even if it's scattered, this is way easier.

[Tirion]

And you can't bury them either...

Strange, my dorfs did bury some caravan guards with no problem.

[i2amroy]

And you can't bury them either...

Strange, my dorfs did bury some caravan guards with no problem.

Yeah burial will be done just as if they were your own dwarves as long as you have an empty coffin set to burial. Of course if their bodies have been annihilated by magma then that tends to be a little more difficult.