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[Oddible]

I have them turned off in the kitchen so they can't be made into food or drink.  I didn't think they were edible otherwise right?  Then where in the world did they go!?  I have no way to mill them yet and I haven't planted any.

[mastahcheese]

I have them turned off in the kitchen so they can't be made into food or drink.  I didn't think they were edible otherwise right?  Then where in the world did they go!?  I have no way to mill them yet and I haven't planted any.

Rock nuts are edible raw, so people will come by and scarf them all down.
Go hide them somewhere, maybe with a locked door.

[Tarqiup Inua]

Vermin could have eaten them, I think.

[Oddible]

Rock nuts are edible raw, so people will come by and scarf them all down.
Go hide them somewhere, maybe with a locked door.

Bah, is there no way to specify that these are not to be eaten but only planted and milled?

[Merendel]

Rock nuts are edible raw, so people will come by and scarf them all down.
Go hide them somewhere, maybe with a locked door.

Bah, is there no way to specify that these are not to be eaten but only planted and milled?

not directly although you can kinda rig the system agianst them being eaten.  Dwarves that get hungry generaly grab the closest food item they can find and then go eat.  if you set up your farms/mills well away from where the rest of your dwarves spend most of their time and have the only stockpile that accepts rock nuts there the chances of a dwarf grabing a rock nut to eat are much lower than if you have them stored in the main food stockpile next to the dining hall.

[Larix]

90% of the above advice is completely useless.

Dwarfs don't eat rock nuts raw.

I even went to the effort of verifying: embarked with no food but seeds, including 20 rock nuts. When dwarfs became hungry for the first time, they didn't eat any seeds, just spammed "cancels give food: no food available"; dumping and reclaiming the seeds didn't change a thing. When a water buffalo was slaughtered, the dwarfs dropped everything they were holding and sprinted to the butchery to grab some meat to eat.

I've no idea where the idea that rock nuts are edible raw comes from, clearly not from observation

[BlackFlyme]

90% of the above advice is completely useless.

Dwarfs don't eat rock nuts raw.

I even went to the effort of verifying: embarked with no food but seeds, including 20 rock nuts. When dwarfs became hungry for the first time, they didn't eat any seeds, just spammed "cancels give food: no food available"; dumping and reclaiming the seeds didn't change a thing. When a water buffalo was slaughtered, the dwarfs dropped everything they were holding and sprinted to the butchery to grab some meat to eat.

I've no idea where the idea that rock nuts are edible raw comes from, clearly not from observation

Rock nuts have [EDIBLE_RAW]

But dwarves won't eat seeds anyways, at least that I know of, so it doesn't matter.

Might want to check your stock menu, and see if you can zoom to any of the seeds. A great number of things could have happened to them, ranging from a dwarf carrying them back to a stockpile, making them unusable until they are put down, to them somehow falling into a murky pool or down a waterfall.

[Larix]

Ah, so that's why. Interesting. There are a few items that have the EDIBLE_RAW flag, but will not be eaten raw - royal jelly, honey, dwarven sugar and syrup, and, of course, rock nuts. Seems that a dwarf will only try to eat items raw when they belong in the PLANT, FISH or MEAT categories, everything else is ignored.

[warwizard]

Perhaps you are planting too late in the season and when the season changes to one that does not allow quarry bushes, all your rock nuts in the plot die. Try setting the field to be fallow the season before and the season after (2 crops a year per field) so that there is nothing stopping them from planting at the start of the season.