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[Deimos56]

Offer their Merchants wooden goods to piss them off.
Then kill their Merchants.
Make a bunch of axes (you'll need them anyway!), make everyone a woodcutter and deforest the whole map.
If they send someone to impose a woodcutting limit ignore it (do they actually do that? I read about it but so far I haven't seen it).

Real diplomacy isn't yet implemented :/

I don't think they send the diplomats any longer. In fact, I think they stopped around the same time their placeholder forest retreat things were removed. So... Chances are, they'll be back to threatening us for cutting down trees and/or mushrooms in the future.

[Poindexterity]

it can be rough if you start off at war with them.
once i was ambushed by 3 squads in my second spring, 2 were mounted archers, 1 was mounted on unicorns.

[Newbunkle]

How do I cause war with elves?

I've only ever seen wars happen during world gen, but sometimes they're not over before you embark.

You'll need to use Tab on the embark screen to reach the list of your civilizations. Select each one in turn and then Tab again until you reach the neighbours screen. If you're in a war with one of the races it'll say so next to their name. I've seen a couple of elven wars and one human one.

[Wannazzaki]

Their archers are dangerous. Thats about it...the odd swordmaster might be a bit of trouble but anybodies swordmaster is a bit of trouble.

[Reudh]

-Melee elves = paltry offensive capabilities. They might get a lucky strike in but it's unlikely.
-Ranger elves = deadly, like most rangers.
-Elven war animals = deadly.

[malroth]

-Melee elves = paltry offensive capabilities. They might get a lucky strike in but it's unlikely.
-Ranger elves = deadly, like most rangers.
-Elven war animals = deadly. and Tasty

fixed

[lazygun]

I once started a fort where my civ started at war with the treehuggers. This was when the underground was 15 z-levels max. The first spring was... fun. Suddenly ambushed by squads of mounted elf archers.

[Urist Da Vinci]

...
How do I cause war with elves?

Mod the elf raw file to remove their ability to speak. They will then be permanently hostile to everyone, which leads to fun elf attacks (siege-sized ambushing war animal + elf). I've done this a few times.

[Iton Ibrukrithzam]

-Melee elves = paltry offensive capabilities. They might get a lucky strike in but it's unlikely.  and Tasty
-Ranger elves = deadly, like most rangers.  and Tasty
-Elven war animals = deadly. and Tasty

fixed

Fixed your fix.

[Shmo]

I once had a horrible experience with hostile elves that I never hope to relive. I embarked in a spot where I happened to be at war with them, dug out a big fancy chamber and flooded it to the brim with water while making my farm. I liked the site so I decided to fight for it. About a year into the pumping ordeal (don't ask), with my dwarves living like vagrants on the grassy hills, an elven ambush struck. They came from the shadows, pelting my unarmed civilians with volley after volley of arrows. After the dust settled I discovered to my horror that six of my dwarves had bruises. I never expected such brutal ferocity, and since that day I have feared the elves like hell itself.

[Deimos56]

-Melee elves = paltry offensive capabilities. They might get a lucky strike in but it's unlikely.  and Tasty
-Ranger elves = deadly, like most rangers.  and Tasty
-Elven war animals = deadly. and Tasty

fixed

Fixed your fix.

You're not willing to eat cats but you're willing to eat elves. You're a curious one, Iton. Not a bad kind of curious, but certainly curious...

...And if you haven't already, I believe there's an ethics setting in the dwarven entity RAW that would let you butcher the elves for food.

[Reudh]

SHMO! Ah, I remember that name, six years ago now I had a stab at making a game in RPG Maker 2003 and the main character was called that! Memories...

[Iton Ibrukrithzam]

-Melee elves = paltry offensive capabilities. They might get a lucky strike in but it's unlikely.  and Tasty
-Ranger elves = deadly, like most rangers.  and Tasty
-Elven war animals = deadly. and Tasty

fixed

Fixed your fix.

You're not willing to eat cats but you're willing to eat elves. You're a curious one, Iton. Not a bad kind of curious, but certainly curious...

...And if you haven't already, I believe there's an ethics setting in the dwarven entity RAW that would let you butcher the elves for food.

No arguments here.  What really made me wonder when I thought about it is that I have already happily edited the RAW to allow me to eat elves, and make elf skull totems, but when I jump the elven traders for their meat, I spare the pets they bring, opting to save them to sell to the Humans in summer or sometimes just keeping them.

[magmaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa]

you cant cut down more trees

[Azure]

After an accident with dfimmolate i had a few rounds of fisticuffs with elven siegers. Overall, Melee elves are worthless distractions for their mounts so that the war bear can delimb a dwarf. The archers are bothersome if your dodge/shield ranks are low and you don't have your marksdwarf support counter. After your first crop of non-trainer legendaries elves are nothing but a distraction and threat to random dwarves under the sun hauling bones and socks. Although, Elven Siegers are a bit misunderstood. You see, they don't come to kill you but are instead bringing dozens of socks and wood spears to bring you that much closer to fps death.