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[TerryDactyl]

Not entirely sure how this happened...

but I made a 'Cave Lobster Roast' [28], of minced two-hump camel cheese, well-minced cave fish, minced cave fish, well-minced alpaca cheese, minced cow cheese, and minced cave lobster.

I thought lavish meals were 4 ingredients. My other dishes seem to reinforce this notion...

[Brilliand]

Planespacked variant?

[joeclark77]

I have heard there are some circumstances under which a dwarf will pick up a prepared meal and use it as an ingredient in another prepared meal.  I don't know if anyone has nailed down exactly how you replicate this bug, though... maybe it's a planepacked type thing.

[Drazinononda]

I have heard there are some circumstances under which a dwarf will pick up a prepared meal and use it as an ingredient in another prepared meal.  I don't know if anyone has nailed down exactly how you replicate this bug, though... maybe it's a planepacked type thing.

If this could be figured out and used consistently...

 

Think of the stack sizes!

[Larix]

I have heard there are some circumstances under which a dwarf will pick up a prepared meal and use it as an ingredient in another prepared meal.  I don't know if anyone has nailed down exactly how you replicate this bug, though... maybe it's a planepacked type thing.

If this could be figured out and used consistently...

 

Think of the stack sizes!

You mean like this:

"This is a stack of 142 exceptional prepared quarry bush leaves roast. The ingredients are [masterfully/exceptionally minced] quarry bush leaves, quarry bush leaves, quarry bush leaves, quarry bush leaves, quarry bush leaves, quarry bush leaves [...] and masterfully minced quarry bush leaves."

A total of eleven listed ingredients, all of them quarry bush leaves. The whole stack is quoted at 124960 dwarfbucks. I'm pretty certain that's not even my record food stack...
I've no idea how and when it happens, my cooks produce so much food i never dare monitor them. Quarry bush leaves _do_ crop up suspicously often in those oversized stacks, though.

[Repseki]

Maybe the cook grabbed an entire bag of leaves as a single ingredient? All I know is making crazy expensive food is very easy.

[vjek]

Maybe the cook grabbed an entire bag of leaves as a single ingredient? All I know is making crazy expensive food is very easy.

I know if the stack is too large to fit in a barrel/pot, but on the stockpile, it'll be used as a single ingredient.  In particular forgotten beasts that can be butchered, their meat is almost always like this.  258 Forgotten Beast Meats or similar, and it's the primary ingredient.

[Larix]

Hmm, so could this be exploited by using a setup similar to the method for cooking liquids? Place a food stockpile around the kitchen which takes only prepared food and doesn't use barrels, make sure there are no barrel-contained cookables around (take all other potential ingredients out of barrels, exclude the rest by disabling or using give orders from the desired stockpiles to the kitchen), order some meals. If prepared meals are used as regular solid ingredients under these circumstances, it should be possible to consolidate all of a fort's food into a single unholy abomination of a 4000-item pile of roasts with 500 ingredients or so. Imagine an entire supermarket's inventory of food combined into a single stew.

This needs testing.

Edit: no, doesn't work. Prepared meals are _normally_ not recognised as ingredient; setting the links so that the meals are the only available resource (even after a 'solid' like quarry bush leaves have already been picked up) instantly causes the cook to cancel with 'needs unrotten cookable item'. Might be a size thing or something else entirely.

[Hommit]

Imagine an entire supermarket's inventory of food combined into a single stew.

steeeeeew, you mean 

[Belvita]

Yeah, if your legendary cooks use dragon meat as the primary ingredient, stuff can get really expensive - I once had a stack of 490 dragon meat roasts, totalling about 500000 U.

By the way, does anyone know the exchange rate of Urists to dollars?

[Ranalcus]

The legends repeated by generations are true!
Bathtub sized 'Happy Meal"... Probably with diet Sunshine and Elvish Fries. Toy included.

McUrist - The biggest Fast Food company in DF, now in your fort!

[Gargomaxthalus]

......and this game continues to horrify me.

[Button]

I've seen meals using seeds with descriptions that page off the screen.

"Masterfully prepared sunberry seeds, masterfully prepared sunberry seeds, masterfully prepared sunberry seeds, masterfully prepared sunberry seeds, masterfully prepared sunberry seeds, masterfully prepared sunberry seeds, masterfully prepared sunberry seeds, masterfully prepared sunberry seeds, masterfully prepared sunberry seeds, masterfully prepared sunberry seeds, masterfully prepared sunberry seeds, masterfully prepared sunberry seeds, masterfully prepared sunberry seeds, masterfully prepared sunberry seeds, masterfully prepared sunberry seeds, masterfully prepared sunberry seeds, masterfully prepared sunberry seeds, masterfully prepared sunberry seeds, masterfully prepared sunberry seeds, masterfully prepared sunberry seeds, masterfully prepared sunberry seeds, masterfully prepared sunberry seeds, masterfully prepared sunberry seeds, masterfully prepared sunberry seeds, and exceptionally prepared plump helmet spawn."

[Brilliand]

Maybe only meals consisting of a single ingredient (i.e. all quarry bushes) are eligible for re-cooking?