Well fuck moments #1

Ok. So I started a fortress, everything was going smoothly, but I hadn't built a farm yet. I only noticed this after my dwarves became unhappy. They didn't have food! So I tried to build a farm, started building, and it took a while to get done, but it did. Now I'm waiting for the food to grow, and my dwarves are throwing tantrums and dying. But, one of they had a fey, and he now makes awesome wooden things! So a caravan comes, and think, OFUCK MY CHANCE TO SURVIVE! ILL JUST TRADE THIS SUPER VALUABLE STUFF! One of my guys had just died, and his clothes were worth sooo much! So I bought a ton of food, and I press trade. 'Once a beautiful tree, now? etc.' and he refused to trade, even though there was over 1000$ worth of stuff. I removed the wooden things, and they refused to trade still. Now all my dwarves, 51 mind you, threw tantrums and died. Fuck. STUPID ELVES!