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[Adriaan]

I have a dwarf who prefers to consume sunshine.  Yup, it just says "sunshine."

Sunshine is booze made from sun berries

[Zaerosz]

Querns are pretty damn awesome. They propel my cloth/dye industry. In the 8 months I've been playing DF I've not once attempted anything that requires power, and only once or twice used a screw pump for irrigation. I don't know what advantages, if any, millstones have over querns, but I'm quite happy to stick with what I know for now.

[AtomicPaperclip]

Not to worry, she'll go for 2 conglomerate querns first. (Do people actually USE querns?)

Yes, I usually have about 4 per fort running constantly.

[Untelligent]

Well, millstones use regular power instead of dwarf power so your dwarves get tired when they use millstones but not querns. I presume they stop querning when they get tired but millstoners can mill as long as you need them to. Unless they need to do something else.

[Dragonchampion]

I have a dwarf who prefers to consume sunshine.  Yup, it just says "sunshine."

Sunshine is a type of beer brewed from a rare berry. I forget which, but it is the rarest drink in the game, and the most pricey.

[Max White]

Costs a little over 1,000 a barrel from the elves. Good drinking!

[Aspgren]

I have a dwarf who prefers to consume sunshine.  Yup, it just says "sunshine."

Sunshine is a type of beer brewed from a rare berry. I forget which, but it is the rarest drink in the game, and the most pricey.

That'd be the sun berries.

I always hear that sun berries and valley herbs are rare but I get them from caravans all the time.

[Max White]

I think they mean rare to find, rather then trade for. Although I find them common enough in good biomes.

[SmileyMan]

If you ever see sun berries on a wagon, sell whatever you can to buy them, because you can get seeds from brewing tem into sunshine and then plant them for megaprofits.

As for querns, I use them to make dyes.  Dyed clothes are worth loads of money, and make dwarves who wear them happier

[Encased in burning magma]

Trap a trader wagon, watch it scuttle, collect wood.

[The_Countess]

Well, millstones use regular power instead of dwarf power so your dwarves get tired when they use millstones but not querns. I presume they stop querning when they get tired but millstoners can mill as long as you need them to. Unless they need to do something else.

i think you mean that the other way around.

also the description says millstones are quicker, al thou I have never made any !! science !! comparisons.

In the 8 months I've been playing DF I've not once attempted anything that requires power, and only once or twice used a screw pump for irrigation. I don't know what advantages, if any, millstones have over querns, but I'm quite happy to stick with what I know for now.

that's not the dwarven way!

[Psieye]

Yeah, I never tested it out myself but it makes sense millstones are faster than querns. I mean, compared to having to turn the huge grinder rock yourself, wouldn't it be faster to grind your material with an auto-spinning stone? I've never had a map where I have 0 wind so far.