Elf Trade no-nos

[hellosharkness]

They obviously do not like wood, wood decorated things or being drowned/killed/melted/smashed. Today I have also learned that they do not like horns, horn decorations or some food items. Specifically some blackberry wine biscuits made them quite mad. Anyone else find some new things that the elves won't take in trade?

[McFuzz]

They don't like any animal products. I'd wonder what the other product was in the blackberry wine biscuit.

Apparently, they also don't like glass. Because you need to burn wood to get ash.

Rock and metal really is the only safe bet.

[Kujila]

I like to trade with gems

[Desolator]

just steal all their ♥♥♥♥

[Commisar Jon Fuklaw]

The elves take steel in trade. The benefit of trading steel is you get to keep the steel and the elves give you whatever you want (and plenty of things your pet volcano wants).

[Rainbow Jeremy]

Most of the time the things the elf caravans bring aren't that useful anyway because the magma pumps burn their wooden items when they flood the room.

[LastChime]

They don't take shells...our whole fort happens to be decorated with them...found that out last few caravans, I'm expecting a smelly hippy invasion any second

[Endemonadia]

they also dont want leather or bone items

[NimrodX]

Yea they're basically some sort of extreme vegan hippy eco-terrorists who seem to hate everything but rock and metal. They of course jump to the conclusion that you must have killed anything that a bone, horn, or shell came from.

I don't usually kill them because I'd rather that they haul their own crap off the map. I try to trade in good faith but if they get offended by some bone decorations or some wood or something then I just seize whatever they have that I want and let them haul the rest of the crap off the map. If you want to make them leave early with their crap just offer them an elf bone crown.

I consider elven caravans to only be good for plants, animals, and musical instruments.

[Lminith]

Originally posted by NimrodX:

Yea they're basically some sort of extreme vegan hippy eco-terrorists who seem to hate everything but rock and metal. They of course jump to the conclusion that you must have killed anything that a bone, horn, or shell came from.

I don't usually kill them because I'd rather that they haul their own crap off the map. I try to trade in good faith but if they get offended by some bone decorations or some wood or something then I just seize whatever they have that I want and let them haul the rest of the crap off the map. If you want to make them leave early with their crap just offer them an elf bone crown.

I consider elven caravans to only be good for plants, animals, and musical instruments.

Isn't it worse to seize their goods and letting them go?
To let them complain further and spread that it's fine to insult dwarves on their home for a couple of trinkets?
Soon there would be no end to scrawny tree-hugging free-riding good-for-nothing daffodils filling our great halls.

No! They come to our realm and insult us, they got to pay for damages and if that wasn't enough, often what they bring doesn't cover it. You'd expect them to be wiser for their age.
I suppose starving for centuries leaves anyone in foul mood... so much that they explode seeing dwarven fine cuisine when they see what they've been living without.

[['w']]

hypocrites who shoot owls on sight

[Stealthkibbler]

My new favourite thing to do is allow an elf long term residence then when they apply for citizenship make them my hammerer, that way all criminals in my fort suffer death by elf.

[Xcorps]

Originally posted by Frank McFuzz:

They don't like any animal products. I'd wonder what the other product was in the blackberry wine biscuit.

Apparently, they also don't like glass. Because you need to burn wood to get ash.

Rock and metal really is the only safe bet.

They will buy magma forged glass.

[hellosharkness]

Originally posted by Stealthkibbler:

My new favourite thing to do is allow an elf long term residence then when they apply for citizenship make them my hammerer, that way all criminals in my fort suffer death by elf.

This way they die before they die.

[Shiranai]

So, I'm trying to sell my steel weapons and armor, but they keep saying "...that poor gentle creature..."

Any clues why?
Maybe they are able to tell whether the steel was melted using charcoal instead of coke?

[Dogma]

Originally posted by Commisar Jon Fuklaw:

The elves take steel in trade. The benefit of trading steel is you get to keep the steel and the elves give you whatever you want (and plenty of things your pet volcano wants).

What do you mean you can keep the steel?