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[WanderingKid]

This entire thread is making me want to go beat on beekeeping to see if I can get it to even work again.  Last few times I tried it was a failure of FUN proportions.

[Halfling]

Another question is how many dwarves you are trying to supply.  Going with some very rough calculations with 40 hives you would produce around 250 mead per year (200 mead per harvest 1 harvest every 9 months).  If ever dwarf requires ~ 16 drinks per year you could supply around 16 dwarves. That should be enough in theory to support the first year's migrants.  Even if you only managed to get one harvest a year (far more likely all things considered) you should still have enough to supply 12 dwarves in relative comfort.

Under no circumstances does a dwarf require 16 drinks/year, k. see posts just before you.

[mek42]

Is the sixteen per year what the dwarf would drink with no booze restrictions?

[AutomataKittay]

Is the sixteen per year what the dwarf would drink with no booze restrictions?

4 drinks per season, 4 season a year, yeah around right. They'll drink water as frequently if there're no booze available, though. Dwarves need to eat twice a season as an aside.

I think having booze once a year would help to manage the slow-down, at least it only took one drink to get them back to speed last time I did alcohol-less embark as an test. It takes around.... I think three seasons before they starts to feel the effect in their thoughts.

[hiroshi42]

Another question is how many dwarves you are trying to supply.  Going with some very rough calculations with 40 hives you would produce around 250 mead per year (200 mead per harvest 1 harvest every 9 months).  If ever dwarf requires ~ 16 drinks per year you could supply around 16 dwarves. That should be enough in theory to support the first year's migrants.  Even if you only managed to get one harvest a year (far more likely all things considered) you should still have enough to supply 12 dwarves in relative comfort.

Under no circumstances does a dwarf require 16 drinks/year, k. see posts just before you.

I guess I could have been clearer, but what I meant by in comfort was having dwarves only drinking mead.