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[penco]

Ok, that's what I was looking for. I guess my dwarves will be eating cheeseflour and syrup for dinner. If they get tired of it, there's fish.



...does anyone know the value of meat?

[shlorf]

Judging from this: http://df.magmawiki.com/index.php/Value
meat has a value of 2 which would then be multiplied (i think) with the animal multiplier (x1 for common animals x5 for elephants is the highest non exotic 15x for dragon meat would be the highest).
Unless you weren't asking for the literal value, in that case my answer would be the value is that it can be aquired easily (on non evil biomes by a hunter/butcher) and that it can be eaten raw.

[nanomage]

i've almost never used quarry bush leaves, how large are the stacks they produce? can it possibly be better than getting 50-80 meat from butchering an elephant or a rutherer?

btw, i wonder what a rutherer really IS? the game says nothing about them except four legs and enormous tail, and i can't find any pics

[shlorf]

One plant is processed to 5 leaves, if you use potash the average stack of plants will be around 7 plants (maximum 9 i think). So you can get bags with 35-45 leaves (25 with legendary grower without fertilization). That won't beat elephant meat (5 value vs quarry bush's 2) but it will mean more meals and if a dwarfs likes quarry bushes he'd get a happy thought. Dwarven syrup is another decent filler choice i you have the wood/surplus barrels).

[G-Flex]

Judging from this: http://df.magmawiki.com/index.php/Value
meat has a value of 2 which would then be multiplied (i think) with the animal multiplier (x1 for common animals x5 for elephants is the highest non exotic 15x for dragon meat would be the highest).
Unless you weren't asking for the literal value, in that case my answer would be the value is that it can be aquired easily (on non evil biomes by a hunter/butcher) and that it can be eaten raw.

You're misinterpreting value. Item value and material value aren't the same thing, and when it comes to prepared meals, at least, I'm pretty sure it's just the material value that matters, which should be equal to the animal multiplier.

[Psieye]

Yeah it depends on whether you want the highest values per individual meal that a dwarf eats when he sits down to dine or the highest values per stack (relevant for trade). You've got answers for both now and if you want to look up more, browse the raw files to read how valueable everything is. This'll all change next version when prices start to fluctuate depending on the supply/demand relevant to each caravan.

[Jurph]

I created a spreadsheet to address this at http://dffd.wimbli.com/file.php?id=944 so that I could operate my fortress as a drive-thru restaurant for the caravans.  Generally you want to use Quarry Bush Leaves, Dwarven Syrup, and the highest-value meat you can find (Dragon, if that is still a creature that exists in the game).  In the spreadsheet I set up, you can look at the value that each ingredient adds to a given stack assuming that the dwarf preparing the stack is of adequate skill.