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[LegendaryTyper]

Hello urists

Over the course of my playtime I've become mesmerized by my dwarfs "special" tastes.
My current desert fortress survives on egg sandwiches, egg stews and occasionally the critically acclaimed +egg roast+  .
Thus I began to wonder what "special" dishes do other forts survive on?
Reply your forts national dish! Craziest one wins!

[steel jackal]

raw plump helmets and dwarven wine most of the time.

though whenever possible i embark in a good biome for the sun berries, i rely on what lies beneath for the fun

[vekar]

My last fortress the dwarven cooks had a real hard on for making barley bread (roasts) out of barley and wine. Other than that they kept cranking out vegetable roasts, had an "underground above-ground" farm cranking out barley, strawberry wine and vegetables.

I think my dwarves mostly survive on pottage otherwise, my cooks usually just hock a bunch of random gunk into a pot and boil it down. It is of little surprise my dwarves eat raw plump helmets and berries rather than touch the *beep*ing *beep* the cooks crank out. Out there somewhere though some poor bastard in another fort or human city just opened a barrel of dwarven MRE's and dropped dead of fright.

[Goatmaan]

My duchess was borderline tantrum, looking at the things she liked, there was only one thing I could provide.
Hemp seed oil.
Getting her to actually consume it wasn't fun.

*side note : Since she was upset, she wouldn't meet with the elven diplomat, wich eventually broke the tree treaty, allowing for the (re)clearcutting of the map. THAT was fun!

   Goatmaan

[Fleeting Frames]

Meat salad, I guess? Mainly, d-p over the whole map, with occasional sources of meat from hunters, few livestock or traps.

[Dunamisdeos]

I always have below ground for staples like plump helmets and weavable plants.

I also always have an above ground farm to produce fruits and veggies for variety. They tend to produce more than an underground farm.

[Daris]

Scrambled roc egg with a honey bee royal jelly glaze is the specialty of most of my forts.

[Urist McVoyager]

My habit of embarking with pigs and turkeys usually winds up with bacon and turkey egg biscuits ruling the fortress menu. Plus the starting animals' various parts. Plus whatever big livestock I can buy from a caravan. Since cooking plants destroys the seeds, I usually reserve my vegetable matter for brewing or other processing.

[vekar]

My dorfs discovered hardtack. We will be needing dentists now. Hardtack made of alcohol and flour.... Mmmmm... A million years from now someone is going to dig up a fort, find the dining hall and find mass piles of teeth and these little hockey pucks that nothing grows near.

[steel jackal]

My dorfs discovered hardtack. We will be needing dentists now. Hardtack made of alcohol and flour.... Mmmmm... A million years from now someone is going to dig up a fort, find the dining hall and find mass piles of teeth and these little hockey pucks that nothing grows near.

a million years in dwarf fortress? im pretty sure the real world will suffer heat death before THAT ever happens

[LegendaryTyper]

 Hah lol a year in df is like only about an hour or so, but it still feels like forever
Pottage sounds like a really industrial achievement congrats on starting an industrial revolution

[steel jackal]

 Hah lol a year in df is like only about an hour or so, but it still feels like forever
Pottage sounds like a really industrial achievement congrats on starting an industrial revolution

well yes, but over time the lag will become so great that your only getting one frame every few days.
most really long forts drop in fps by a significant amount at about 200 years, and thats even with lag reduction methods.
after a million years in df there would probably only be one frame ever year or so.
unless today gets multithreading done and somebody were to put df on a government supercomputer and run it at the highest priority

[Ahrimahn]

Usually some combination of egg and puppy, I try to let my fortress develop a food supply based heavily on animals that need little care.

[Fleeting Frames]

@steel jackal: At 1 frame per year, it would take 403 200 years to simulate 1 in-game year. While 403 billion years does sound like a lot, this is not significant amount at all compared to the time it takes for heat death of the universe.

[steel jackal]

@steel jackal: At 1 frame per year, it would take 403 200 years to simulate 1 in-game year. While 403 billion years does sound like a lot, this is not significant amount at all compared to the time it takes for heat death of the universe.

hmm fair point, though i do think that somebody should make a self sustaining fort and graph the fps drop as time goes on as to see how long 1million years really would take