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[ShadowHammer]

I have just reclaimed a fortress. I brought with me 30 olm meat and 15 cave lobsters. There was a farm plot with two plump helmets on it. When my dwarves started getting hungry, two of them ate the plump helmets in the farm plot, but the rest are sitting in the dining room starving themselves. Any recommendations for fixing this?

[AutomataKittay]

Short of butchering anything that moves and hunting things down or checking that dwarves can path to food, not really. Might have some luck fishing and cleaning something up before they dies.

45 pieces of food is a bit on low side for busy embark and would only last three and half seasons with seven dwarves.

[WanderingKid]

Cook the meat and lobsters in simple meals.

[smjjames]

Did you unforbid the items? I read on the wiki that everything that was still in there gets forbidden. I know reclaims are kind of buggy, so not sure if there is some other bug that hit the food already there.

[Imp]

The food you brought with the reclaimers should be edible still.  Something has happened to block access to it - either through being unable to reach it (pathing) or being unable to interact with it (forbidden).

You can easily fix any forbidden issues by using d - reclaim all option, and selecting the square(s) your food barrels are on.  That will gaurentee your food barrels and all contents (as well as anything else within the same squares) are not forbidden.

if pathing is the issue, you can verify this by attempting to pen an animal on the food-containing square, or if no animals remain, by trying to station a dwarf there, trying to build something there or right next to it - and then when that fails to get done shift your attempted location closer and closer to your idling dwarves until one does attempt the task - this can help pinpoint where the point of inaccessibility has occurred.

[ShadowHammer]

The reclaim failed almost immediately, so this didn't end up being a problem, but I tried d-b-c, and I stationed a squad on top of the wagon, and it wasn't forbidden and was accessible, so I don't know what the problem was.

[AutomataKittay]

The reclaim failed almost immediately, so this didn't end up being a problem, but I tried d-b-c, and I stationed a squad on top of the wagon, and it wasn't forbidden and was accessible, so I don't know what the problem was.

I've had issue with (o)rder not allowing food hauling making dwarves starve ( apparently eating need hauling labor ), it's something I almost never think to check personally.