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[Vhorthex]

Hey everyone,

I read the wiki about food & drink consumption and it states that each "season" the dwarfs will eat 2 units of food and 4 units of drink.

Does this change with the advent of parties? I'm just trying to get a feel of my food stores and how much to plan in terms of farming and all.

Thanks

[Emily]

Wait, people allow parties to happen?

...anyway, no, I don't think parties effect that; it just makes everyone sit around idle, they don't get hungry any faster.

(Anyway, you'll probably find you hardly have to put any effort into maintaining your food stocks.  Drinks can be slightly harder, but mostly because of running out of barrels than because it's hard to have enough to drink, in my experience.)

[xellas84]

More food is always good.  A good chef making lavish meals can create crazy amounts of wealth for your fortress and singlehandedly supply your trade needs.  I've had single stacks of prepped meals sell for over 5k.

[Lytha]

I'm just trying to get a feel of my food stores and how much to plan in terms of farming and all.

They don't eat or drink while doing a party. At least, they didn't do that when I was still allowing them to organize parties. That's a long while ago.

20 dwarves can be more than sufficiently fed with 2x6 farming squares. So many farming squares should actually produce a surplus of food already, so that you will have extra pig tails or rope reeds to produce cloth with.

Also, if you are keeping livestock of any kind, keep in mind that butchering their offspring (of which they produce just too much by the vanilla settings) will produce so much meat and tallow that you just won't know what to do with it after a year or two.

[Diacritic]

WHat always happens to me is that I kill one FB and then eat that meat for like twelve years.  And by that point, my poor cooks are finally done rendering the tallow.  Also, the dwarves are ecstatic because they're all like "OMG PTERODACTYL ROAST W00T"

[Psychobones]

I'm just trying to get a feel of my food stores and how much to plan in terms of farming and all.

They don't eat or drink while doing a party. At least, they didn't do that when I was still allowing them to organize parties. That's a long while ago.

20 dwarves can be more than sufficiently fed with 2x6 farming squares. So many farming squares should actually produce a surplus of food already, so that you will have extra pig tails or rope reeds to produce cloth with.

Also, if you are keeping livestock of any kind, keep in mind that butchering their offspring (of which they produce just too much by the vanilla settings) will produce so much meat and tallow that you just won't know what to do with it after a year or two.

I seem to recall someone posting a thread here saying that full fort of 200 can be supplied by one farming plot that's 4x4, or any other arrangement that gets you 16 farming squares. I've been using this since I read that. It only works with a legendary grower, but that's easy to get by just turning off all dwarves harvest, and only having one guy with farming(fields) enabled.