Originally posted by Kattla:

Actually, the birds and deer are not hostile mobs either.

Remind me what they trade for gold as well please?

Originally posted by Subsonic:

That removes some of the puzzle/challenge of the biome if you're just going to hand out things the easy way. I wouldn't like that change personally but I can see why others would want that instead of working around the problem in creative ways.

Excellent point. I don't want to dumb down the challenges rather suggest alternates that are of about the same difficulty level for different play styles.

Perhaps Gold is insufficient, the Dverger could trade an extractor for a service (Quest) and some gold maybe? They are "The Lost" so that implies they want to go home gathering info HOW that might be achieved smells quest-worthy to me?

Need more lore to answer, how did they get here again?

Its moot as I think the devs stated they were not doing in game quest other than the Overall one Odin has given us. Then again they seem to be doing something along these lines int he recent Blogpost so I live in hopes!