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[Psilobe]

Finally got some immigrants, unfortunately they came at a time of a major food shortage. Got some farms growing stuff but it seem neither them or my stillery seems to be working. I havent gotten a single drop of alcohol left and people has started to starve to death, I must have forgotten something, something important and now my fortress is doomed! Doomed I say! 

[Aspgren]

Quick! Get ALL immigrants to gather plants! strawberries! grass! anything!

Edit: oh and about the farms. not all plants are edible or brewable. did you grow pig tails?

[Psilobe]

May have grown some oink tale 

I just choose what to grow at random. XD well, going to go on a massive gathering then, pick the entire land clear. Good I live in a massive forest.

[A-chana]

For the food problem, try sending everyone who's not gathering plants to hunt down cute animals (I've had food issues before, and the solution always seemed to involve groundhog genocide). Unless the "cute animals" are all hippos or skeletons or something. Have some people who are prepared to butcher the animal corpses before they rot almost as soon as the corpses get to the butchery.

[Aspgren]

May have grown some oink tale 

Atleast you'll have a tale to tell the younglings eh? and also, if you want to read up - here's the wikipedia article on the crops: http://dwarf.lendemaindeveille.com/index.php/List_of_crops

I personally don't t ... huh .. pig tail is brewable? neat.

[Count Dorku]

Yeah, you have to be careful with your food supplies. I once nearly had a heart attack when I checked the supplies of my 150+ Dwarf fort and realised that I hadn't brewed a drink in so long I now only had 5 units of booze left. I'm just glad I had several stills and had been mass-producing barrels for about three years.

[Satarus]

Also make sure you actually got the seeds to plant the stuff.  If you didn't embark with it or buy them from the caravan you won't be able to grow them.  The game won't stop you from trying to designate underground crops that you don't have seeds.

[Derakon]

For emergencies, you can brew the pig tails and then cook the booze. This is pretty exploity, though.

[Nadaka]

for emergencies you can also cook off excess seeds