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[AlienChickenPie]

I think the true challenge in a setting like that would be sustainability. You have to find the sweet spot where all your dwarves are well fed and the environment can handle the abuse.

[Grek]

Or you could start sacrificing people to the deep ones when the food supply runs out.

[Andir]

Geeze, I couldn't imagine trying to keep stock, process the fish and all that.  I thought farming berries was tough.  I jumped on the plump helmet train and never looked back.  I have too much fun building my forts to have to worry about food.  I normally start off by digging a small area 1 level below ground that has my farms, seed plots, huge food plot and a 10x10 farm area (because shift + arrow = 10 )  I build a dining area and get to building my elaborate creations.  Besides.  I'm always too worried about making enough rooms for 200 dwarfs!  My latest attempt uses the entire base of my pyramid for rooms and it only holds 165 (because I made the hallways 3 wide and there's a magma pipe in the middle of it all).
 (http://img248.imageshack.us/my.php?image=pyramidundergroundod7.png if your interested )

[umiman]

You CAN run a fishing only colony.

Trade for your booze. Your dwarves might have to last the first year boozeless (they won't die, just work slowly), but if you request booze from both the humans and the dwarves and if really needed, elves, you can last a damn long time.

Heck, if you request only booze from one of the two main traders, you should get more than you can handle.

Booze is also sufficiently cheap and you can easily buy it out with fish bone craft, fish meals, and whatever else you can scrounge up.

[Karpatius]

You can actually name your fortress "Innsmouth" in the game...

Bonus points for building wood-only cottages and trapping outsiders in an "inn" located in the town.

[Brdn666]

Farming is an almost automated process that can give you a ton of food.

    Only grow plump helmets. Be sure to set the preferences to only brew the god-plant (press z). Then  brew,brew, brew! You will never run out of seeds cause brewing creates seeds and alcohol. If you run out of meals, you can cook the alcohol. It loops itself. If you have enough barrels (or a dedicated carpenter with repeating barrel enabled) all the work you would need to do is to cut down trees for barrels.

    Another food supply you could relay on later are cattle. They are packed with meat, bones and hides. Every fortress I make now has a cattle farm. You pick up at least 2 cows from the embark screen. I usually put them in a cage and put the cage in a lockable room. Then set the cows free and watch them reproduce. I have over 200 cows in just 2 years. They serve as a pretty good emergency food, taking very little time to kill and serve.

   My current fortress is sustained by fishing right now. The immigrant fishers just constantly fish and fish and fish. They then clean the fish. My 100 dwarf fort has 4 fishers and the food stays around 300 all the time. I haven't cooked a single unit of alcohol yet. I have over 6,000 plump helmets.        Its the year 1056

[Karpatius]

Innsmouth does not feature any animals. The villagers cannot keep animals around.
And neither do they have hordes of mushrooms in stocks... not even the unnatural ones growing on the piers...

[tp12]

... Occasionally I struggle with finding enough barrels to hold the liquor, but that can be solved by limiting the number of barrels allowed in your food stockpile, leaving more open for dwarven hooch.

... O_O now why didnd i think of that...

[Flame11235]

Without farming you're not going to have enough food or booze.

Lies. All you need to do is be dependent on the caravans.

[Maggarg - Eater of chicke]

Skilled fisherdwarves are actually pretty fast, and a couple can feed a fortress of dozens.  The reason I wouldn't rely on it is that overfishing can deplete the stock (the game will tell you "There are no more fish in the central swamp"), and I'm not sure how fast they repopulate.<P>And, yeah, you can't brew fish.<P>Feeding your dwarves uncooked fish gets you a few extra bones for training crossbow bolts though, which is always nice.

Fish liquor.
Urk. It's nasty just to imagine the taste.

[LeoLeonardoIII]

Hey Urist, I found a way to get booze!

OMFG GIVE
*slurrrp* ... you bastard, this tastes of turtle!

Yeah, it's Turtle Wine!

... turtle yesterday, turtle today, and blimey if it don't look like turtle again tomorrer ... *slurrrp*

EDIT: Brewing fish would leave you with bone and shell. I like this idea. You could eat turtle stew out of a turtle shell while wearing your turtle shell armor, and drink turtle wine out of a second, slightly different turtle shell.

We would need to mod shell as a material that could be used for constructions and furniture.

[Karpatius]

Fish-scale-wine... the smell must be incredible... Let's just hope the dwarves have a sieve of some sort available... Scales are bad enough in food.

I wonder if coffee wine ( if the game featured coffee beans ) would give a temporary job speed boost at the expense of quality ( caffeine shakes ) or something...


Also, salt from drying up saltwater at an ashery/kitchen could be considered a non-edible cooking ingre... hold on... Salted meat and pickles...
Could this be a minimod...?
I wonder if Toady would hardcode salt causing thirst "injuries"?

[Karpatius]

R'lyeh arise!

[dabbling noob]

Without farming you're not going to have enough food or booze.

Lies. All you need to do is be dependent on the caravans.

yeah that's all well and good till they show up during a seige and get wiped out

[BurnedToast]

yeah that's all well and good till they show up during a seige and get wiped out
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Which is part of the challenge, making it alot more fun then easy farming. Now you have a reason to break sieges and care if your traders get slaughtered!

besides you can easily stockpile enough food to last a few years if you full order it from both humans and dwarves.