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Author Topic: How Do I Roast?  (Read 448 times)

schlake

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How Do I Roast?
« on: July 19, 2016, 07:05:00 pm »
I've heard that roasts are the way to buy things from caravans.  But for the life of me I can't figure out how.

I gather food up, I tell my dwarves to make lavish meals, the dwarves make lavish meals, then they leave them laying around until they rot.  As soon as they rot someone immediately picks it up and hauls it to the refuse pile.

Obviously I'm missing something important.  I've even tried putting a food stockpile down on top of the kitchen to stop it from rotting.  It didn't help.  The "regular" food stockpile is only 4 steps away!

I have the same problem buying food from the caravan to cook to sell back.  It just lays in the depot and rots, and never gets hauled.

I've tried taking a couple of dwarves and turning off everything except food hauling, but it didn't help.  I've tried warrening the dwarves to be stuck with only food to haul, but they still ignored it.
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forsaken1111

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Re: How Do I Roast?
« Reply #1 on: July 19, 2016, 07:29:49 pm »
Do the stockpiles have prepared meals enabled in their settings? It's an additional option at bottom right, the key is 'u' I believe
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Loci

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Re: How Do I Roast?
« Reply #2 on: July 19, 2016, 07:59:18 pm »
Sounds like you've disabled food gathering in the standing orders menu.
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schlake

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Re: How Do I Roast?
« Reply #3 on: July 19, 2016, 09:31:32 pm »
Quote from: forsaken1111 on July 19, 2016, 07:29:49 pm
Do the stockpiles have prepared meals enabled in their settings? It's an additional option at bottom right, the key is 'u' I believe

This is it.  I haven't played in forever, and I'd forgotten I had to set that!
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