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[Tetragenic]

Well. My fort has too much cloth, food, but no metal except gold and zinc. Ideas for what I could do?

I have:
2 Legendary Clothiers
2 Legendary Chefs
2 Legendary Marksdwarves

The Marksdwarves bring in so much meat (hunting) that I'm overflowing.
The elves bring too little cloth.
And even with everything and mmaking Lavish Meals on repeat, I'm running out of room.

[xeivous]

wait for goblin Christmas, also dig more room out for storage space.

[Fredd]

Make cloth crafts, to free up cloth bins. Buy anvils with proceeds(melt). Heck, sell the meat, its tradeable.
 Make bone crafts, even armor if you are that desperate. With that much butchering, you are going to have beaucoup fat. Make a fat stockpile next to the depot. Then when you get ready to move trade goods, first chose sort by distance. Unload the fat on them.
 Another is to produce stone pots in the craftshop. They hold much more than a barrel.

[Tetragenic]

Oh. Second problem. No wars.

[nenjin]

Cross-train your legendaries to do something else, or just set them to hauling, while the rest of your good are converted and/or traded. Trade that stuff for raw metal or the weapons and armor you need. Probably fuel too.

And once you make those into clothes, make them available to your dwarves. They will chew through a good 50 socks and shoes and what not quicker than you'd think.

Oh. Second problem. No wars.

Just wait. If you haven't messed with the .ini, your fortress wealth just isn't high enough, or is high enough and Goblins are more than likely already stalking your map.

[TheIcelandicManiac]

And once you make those into clothes, make them available to your dwarves. They will chew through a good 50 socks and shoes and what not quicker than you'd think.

how do you do that?

[Psieye]

Just wait. If you haven't messed with the .ini, your fortress wealth just isn't high enough, or is high enough and Goblins are more than likely already stalking your map.

That assumes goblins aren't extinct in his world and they can travel to his site.

[Naryar]

I am also overflowing in food as well. I think it tends to happen to most late forts.

Anyways, sell your food to the dwarven caravan and buy steel with it.

[Psieye]

Stop the hunting. That solves the meat intake issue. Tell the clothiers to prepare enough ropes to make a tapestry mega-project.

[Lectorog]

Digging can solve all of your problems. Just keep digging. Designate more miners if you want. Make sure to dig down plenty, but also explore horizontally for metals.