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[Dunamisdeos]

So I got my cookin' dwarf. He's been making luxurious meals that are worth more than some of my solid gold crafts for about a year now. Now, I look at my meat/fish/plant stores AND THEY ARE ALL GONE and I have my little newby panic attack. Am I correct in assuming that prepared meals are marked under "other"?

[proxn_punkd]

Yes. Look after your drinks, though!

[kardwill]

And cooking all your plants can be bad karma : no seeds.

[kanaak666]

True, but there are various ways of getting new seeds. Plant gathering, caravans... and you can still buy booze form nearly all races that come for trade.

If you want to be absolutely sure that you will never run out of seeds, simply disable cooking certain "brewable" plant (Status -> kitchen) such as pig tails.

[Loud Whispers]

Or keep a seed vault. Just a food stockpile with a lockable door would do. You could even just forbid a stack of seeds, hey presto, no accidental famine.

[Dunamisdeos]

ah i see. i actually forbid seeds and booze completely. is there a reason not to do that? are seedier, more alcoholic roasts somehow better?

[Loud Whispers]

I mean actually forbidding a stack of seeds, not just disallowing them from being cooked on the kitchen menu

[Dunamisdeos]

right right, a failsafe, i gotcha.

I also wall my broker in a little room by himself with a barrel or two of food and booze and a puzzlebox. I only let him out to trade. The tie in is that if my fortress has a sudden, unexpected influx of fun, nothing can get to him and the next wave of migrants can repopulate. Gee I really over-explain things alot. 

[orius]

Yeah, I have a small amount of seeds forbidden just in case.  I recently set my seed stockpiles to cook because I had something like 200 seeds of every type of plant available to me, and my cooks could certainly use the surplus.  But then the dwarf caravan came, and I turned seeds back off because I bought a big load of meat, fish and cheese from them, and that will keep my cooks busy for a while.

Honestly, I think food values are way too high.  It doesn't feel right that I can sell a stack of prepared meals for 25k dorfbucks while my gold crafts are only worth about 2-3k on the average. It is kind of funny that my dorfs are becomming known not for fine weaponry or fantastic jewelry, but rather gourmet meals.

[Loud Whispers]

It makes sense though. Gold? What use have we for that. Food? Now that, is something we need.

[Dunamisdeos]

We dwarves know the TRUE value of stuffing oneself with an endless supply of gourmet one-man banquets. Lesser races just don't understand the importance of such things.

[Loud Whispers]

If you look at the ingredients for lavish meals, you realise just how much food they cram into their food