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[barkalot]

Mad food, plants from my farm, sitting in the food stockpile, but the z screen says no food and all my dwarves are running around looking for vermin. 

New stockpile bug?  Anyone else encountered this?

[barkalot]

the dwarves dont seem to realise food is available if it is in a barrel, unless it is drink

[barkalot]

So im not using barrels, but when animals are slaughtered, they dont seem to be producing any meat.

[slink]

What are you slaughtering?  The smaller animals only produce a skull when butchered.

[barkalot]

cavy boars, that explains it.  but still, all my food is rotting now that i cant seem to use barrels.  I am not even sure that barrels are the problem. 

[slink]

What food do you have?  Some foods must be cooked.  Of the subterranean crops, only plump helmets can be eaten raw.

[barkalot]

Dimple Cups, Sweet Pods, and Cave Wheat

[slink]

Dimple cups are used to make dye.

Sweet pods and cave wheat need to be ground in a quern, which requires a bag for the powder.  Then they have to be cooked.

Send someone, or a few someones, outdoors Gather Plants (d) (p).  If they find some berries those can be eaten raw.

[nttea]

awwww! a newbie! i want to hug you ^_^ first confusing fun of many i assume ?
some good emergency advice for you! you can go into the kitchen screen, enable your seeds for cooking then cook those; it should actually be a faster way to gain food than gathering plants if you need it quickly(which i assume since your dwarves are starving!) Try to make sure to disable it again though before seeds run out, but if you have been brewing cave wheat and sweet pods you should have plenty of those seeds around. or you can butcher a dog or a cat or something

[HiEv]

Dimple Cups, Sweet Pods, and Cave Wheat

Yup, as Slink said, you have no edible foods if that's all you have and you haven't milled or processed any of that.

Your first crop should always be Plump Helmets.  They can be eaten raw, brewed, or cooked directly.

Sweet Pods and Cave Wheat can be brewed into drinks with a Still, but to eat them you'd need to mill them using a Quern or Millstone (you can also process Sweet Pods to a barrel at a Farmer's Workshop, but the Dwarven Syrup you get will be ignored by any cook unless that's all you have left).  You'll then need to cook them into a prepared meal in a Kitchen so they can be eaten.

I'd change the Dimple Cup farm into a Plump Helmet farm ASAP.

I also recommend checking out the Crop article at the wiki.

[Darchitect]

Dimple Cups, Sweet Pods, and Cave Wheat

Yup, as Slink said, you have no edible foods if that's all you have and you haven't milled or processed any of that.

Your first crop should always be Plump Helmets.  They can be eaten raw, brewed, or cooked directly.

Sweet Pods and Cave Wheat can be brewed into drinks with a Still, but to eat them you'd need to mill them using a Quern or Millstone (you can also process Sweet Pods to a barrel at a Farmer's Workshop, but the Dwarven Syrup you get will be ignored by any cook unless that's all you have left).  You'll then need to cook them into a prepared meal in a Kitchen so they can be eaten.

I'd change the Dimple Cup farm into a Plump Helmet farm ASAP.

I also recommend checking out the Crop article at the wiki.

Just to let you know, dwarves *will* use syrup, just so long as the other food near the kitchen is *NOT* in a barrel. I've taken to setting up a series of 8 stockpiles around each kitchen (fish, meat, plants, eggs, cheese, quarry bush leaves, flour and syrup). None of the stockpiles are allowed barrels, except for the syrup pile. My cooks make some mad crazy meals weighing in around 35,000 dwarf bucks, and they do it using syrup.

I keep meaning to add that to the wiki.

[GreatWyrmGold]

Embark with plenty of plump helmets and plump helmet spawn. Set up a four-seasons plump helmet farm. Add a farm with pig tails half the time and...something else (probably more plump helmets) the seasons that pig tails can't grow, and you're good to go.

[HiEv]

Just to let you know, dwarves *will* use syrup, just so long as the other food near the kitchen is *NOT* in a barrel. I've taken to setting up a series of 8 stockpiles around each kitchen (fish, meat, plants, eggs, cheese, quarry bush leaves, flour and syrup). None of the stockpiles are allowed barrels, except for the syrup pile. My cooks make some mad crazy meals weighing in around 35,000 dwarf bucks, and they do it using syrup.

I keep meaning to add that to the wiki.

Thanks.  I added it to the Dwarven Syrup and Cook articles.