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[Duke 2.0]

 Why, hello B12 community! While previous topics i have made here were ignorant to the restraints of the DF universe, I think I might know something possible.

 Alright, so I want to make a European middle-ages castle. Using humans and the default human crops, I start...

 And I think to myself "Jeez, there is way too much food here!" so I try something better than strawberries and prickle berries. Langland grass for flour and rope reed for drinks and cloth. Worked fine, but now I have too many bags of flour. Jeez...

 Then there is the problem of the shacks. I don't want to use my valuable wood on roofs, but i need them to make them into rooms(And, you know, to have roofs). So here are my questions:

 How do I make fields output a stupidly low amount of food? I assume we can only change the duration it takes for a crop to grow, but what should I set it to?

 Is it possible to make a type of material called Longland Straw, which I could use as a construction material? I know it would be made at the forges, I'm fine with that. I just need to know how to turn Longland Grass into roof tiles.

[Deon]

1) Add to your matgloss_metal.txt
[MATGLOSS_METAL:METAL_LONGLAND]
[NAME:longland straw][ADJ:longland straw][COLOR:0:6:1]
[VALUE:3]
[SPEC_HEAT:500]
[MELTING_POINT:12106]
[BOILING_POINT:13968]
[SOLID_DENSITY:1850]
[BRITTLE]

2) Add to your reaction_standard.txt
[REACTION:MAKE_STRAW]
[NAME:make longland straw]
[SMELTER]
[REAGENT:5:PLANT:NO_SUBTYPE:GRASS_LONGLAND:NO_MATGLOSS]
[PRODUCT:5:BLOCK:NO_SUBTYPE:METAL:METAL_LONGLAND]

You can tweak input and output numbers to your liking.
You'll have to generate a new world for reactions to appear.

[Duke 2.0]

 Ah, danka. That is perfect.

 What about crops themselves? How can I make them more difficult to grow large quantities? I know some things are hard coded so we cannot make crops much more difficult, but I would like to know the options when it comes to plants.

[Boksi]

IIRC, one season has a GROWDUR of 1008.

So give them high GROWDUR and remove [AUTUMN] and [WINTER]. Much harder to farm them now.

[Duke 2.0]

 Indeed. Already removed those months.

 Although in a test run, I noticed problems with setting the whole season required for farming. I suppose you need time to plant the seeds in the first place. Hmm...

 Wait, if a plant can survive in every season and they have a GROWDUR at the max, what problems will happen? I only tested this in Summer, so...

[Boksi]

It... shouldn't have a problem, I think, but I don't know.

[Rysith]

 Wait, if a plant can survive in every season and they have a GROWDUR at the max, what problems will happen? I only tested this in Summer, so...

Nothing bad. They just need to be growable in both their planting and harvesting seasons. Thus, I've got farmable wood with a growdur of just over 8000 (two years) active in all seasons, and Sun berries with a growdur of 4032 active only in summer. Both work fine (though you obviously can't use the sun berry field for anything else the other seasons).

[Granite26]

 Wait, if a plant can survive in every season and they have a GROWDUR at the max, what problems will happen? I only tested this in Summer, so...

Nothing bad. They just need to be growable in both their planting and harvesting seasons. Thus, I've got farmable wood with a growdur of just over 8000 (two years) active in all seasons, and Sun berries with a growdur of 4032 active only in summer. Both work fine (though you obviously can't use the sun berry field for anything else the other seasons).

Props...

[Vucar Fikodastesh]

I've found that giving plants a growdur of Two and one half seasons works pretty good for balance purposes, just make sure you bring plenty of seeds. Of course they will need [SPRING][SUMMER][AUTUMN].

[Duke 2.0]

 Huzzah! So setting it to force you to plant in the spring in the key, eh? This is perfect!

 Now to get my middle-ages on!

[Untelligent]

 Wait, if a plant can survive in every season and they have a GROWDUR at the max, what problems will happen? I only tested this in Summer, so...

Nothing bad. They just need to be growable in both their planting and harvesting seasons. Thus, I've got farmable wood with a growdur of just over 8000 (two years) active in all seasons, and Sun berries with a growdur of 4032 active only in summer. Both work fine (though you obviously can't use the sun berry field for anything else the other seasons).

Holy carp, this is an awesome find!

[Rysith]

 Huzzah! So setting it to force you to plant in the spring in the key, eh? This is perfect!

 Now to get my middle-ages on!

You can't plants if they would become harvest-able in an unsuitable season. Thus, setting growdur to 2.5 seasons and active seasons to spring and autumn (not summer!) would force you to plant them in the first half of spring for harvest in late fall. You might, however, be able to plant in the first half of fall for harvest in late spring, but you'd still be limited to a single harvest for the year. To prevent that, you could set a growdur of three seasons and be active spring/winter only, which would be planting in the spring and harvesting in the winter. You might not like that, though, I'm not sure.

If you allowed summer, you could possibly get off two harvests a year: plant in mid-summer, harvest +2.5 seasons later in early spring, then plant a new crop in the early spring to harvest in mid-late autumn. There would be some years when the re-planting or re-harvesting would fall in winter, but you'd be able to get some multi-harvest years if your dwarves were fast about it.

[Flaede]

Deon, I can't recall, but I'm assuming from your post that you can't make metal burn? Because burning straw would be better than melting/vaporizing straw. Coal Burns, afterall, and it's a 'bar'. If so, It would only take adding IGNITE_POINT info to match Bit. Coal.

[IGNITE_POINT:11440]

If not, blocks of ''thatch'' might work to make it flammable.

cribbing heavily:

1)  Add to your matgloss_stone_mineral.txt
[MATGLOSS_STONE:STONE_LONGLAND] compressed straw.
[NAME:thatch][STONE_NAME:longland thatch][COLOR:0:6:1][TILE:240]
[BASIC_COLOR:6:0]
[VALUE:3]
[SPEC_HEAT:500]
[IGNITE_POINT:11440]
[MELTING_POINT:NONE]
[BOILING_POINT:16708]
[SOLID_DENSITY:1850]

2) Add to your reaction_standard.txt
[REACTION:MAKE_THATCH1]
[NAME:make longland thatch]
[SMELTER]
[REAGENT:5:PLANT:NO_SUBTYPE:GRASS_LONGLAND:NO_MATGLOSS]
[PRODUCT:5:BLOCK:NO_SUBTYPE:STONE:STONE_LONGLAND]

[i2amroy]

If this is actually grass then, you would probably want a lower ignite point, preferably something that won't combust in high heat deserts, but if there is a fire then it should combust.

[Vucar Fikodastesh]

Amazing, I never knew that you could plant so that it would go through unplantable seasons. I had always assumed that it wouldn't work. It seems that exactly two and a half seasons might not give you enough time to plant, when i was testing it cut off halfway through early spring.