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[Katsuun]

You guys all cook your tallow? I find it a pretty scarce resource for soap...

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How do I minced wine?

but then all your mincing is rotten plump helmet

Leave it out in the air until what's left is a solid mess and mince that?

Technically, you are eating nothing, in that case. However, this is Dwarf Fortress, so I assume Dwarves have the ability to sustain themselves with nothing if they think its food.

"Air chewing"

[Aspgren]

"Air chewing"

Urist McDwarf cancels eat: Winded.

[Porpoisepower]

You guys all cook your tallow? I find it a pretty scarce resource for soap...

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Since, at the moment, soap is useless(unless making a 10z level high castle out of kitten tallow soap), I'm more than happy to make tallow biscuits.

[Chromie]

At the early stages of a fort, my dwarves eat turtle and my humans eat raw puppy meat. I forbid the good meals for trading. At the later stages, they tend to eat cheese/meat/longland flour/whatever useless seeds I buy from traders to get the bags roasts.

[Zaranthan]

Turtles for the first year, then mainly cooked meat with the odd turtle here to maintain my bone and shell supply. Remember: real men dwarfs mod plump helmets into uselessness!

[Porpoisepower]

Turtles for the first year, then mainly cooked meat with the odd turtle here to maintain my bone and shell supply. Remember: real men dwarfs mod plump helmets into uselessness!

You mean I shouldn't mod plump helmets to produce bones, shell, and fat?

[Katsuun]

Turtles for the first year, then mainly cooked meat with the odd turtle here to maintain my bone and shell supply. Remember: real men dwarfs mod plump helmets into uselessness!

You mean I shouldn't mod plump helmets to produce bones, shell, and fat?

You should actually figure out how to mod them to kill the dwarfs. True dwarfs die.

[BurnedToast]

My dwarves eat whatever random berries, meat, and fish the traders happen to bring.

I usually keep 50 or less dwarves these days so the traders bring PLENTY without me having to even specifically ask for extra food.

If I bother producing food, it's usually via hunting till that's gone, then a huge pile of dwarven syrup roasts. Takes a bit more effort then plump helmets but you get enough food from one season to feed them for decades.

[vagel7]

all kinds of fish and plump helmet beer.

[Jeff Carr]

I usually have 8 5x5 farms, 4 above ground, 4 below, and am completely buried all kinds of roasts.

I buy everything brought in every caravan by selling food, and can't even put a small dent in the ridiculous amounts of masterwork roasts that I have.

So my dwarfs eat relatively well...  Unfortunately, This requires a nearly full time barrel and bin maker...

[dornbeast]

You guys all cook your tallow? I find it a pretty scarce resource for soap...

Dwarves don't need soap.  They need booze.  I'd rather cook the tallow than the alcohol.

[Skorpion]

You guys all cook your tallow? I find it a pretty scarce resource for soap...

Soap? But...
It's taking food ingredients away from the kitchens. Strike one.
Soap requires lye, which comes from ash, which comes from wood. Wood which is better used for fuel and carbon for metallurgy. Strike two.
The ash is better made into potash for moar booze. Strike three.
Soap is manufactured rock. I have plenty of rock. I can even make obsidian! Strike four.
Tallow is cheap, cheap, cheap! I don't trade food, so tallow biscuits edible by joe the hauler are just fine.

I just hope I don't have to provide nutritional diets.

[mjo625]

They always seem to go for raw meat first, raw plump helmets second. The hundreds of roasts I have lying around made of various mixtures of tallow, sugar, syrup, flour and leaves go untouched. I can't imagine why.



So how do you guys organize your food production?

I have 5 dogs roped up near by butchers shop, puppies get slaughtered immediately. I have 4 6x6 farm plots, whose crops are:
              1                   2                   3                     4
spring      sweet pod      fallow              fallow               quarry bush
summer    sweet pod      cave wheat      pig tail              fallow
autumn    dimple cup      cave wheat      pig tail              quarry bush
winter      fallow            plump helmet    plump helmet      fallow

I do most of my plant processing and milling in the winter, and rendering fat/cooking in spring, unless I have an immediate need for something. Each season I check drink levels, and whatever's lowest I only allow brewing of that drink and set up 10 brew drink jobs. Repeat drink check 2 more times per season.

[Jeff Carr]

Mine are organized:

               1                       2                       3                       4
spring        sweet pod      sweet pod          plump helmet       quarry bush
summer      sweet pod      cave wheat           pig tail               sweet pod
autumn      plump helmet   cave wheat           pig tail               quarry bush
winter        plump helmet   dimple cup          plump helmet      dimple cup

[Fossaman]

I use a single 5x5 field planted with sweet pods for spring and summer, followed by pig tails or cave wheat in autumn, and plump helmets in winter. The sweet pods get split into syrup and booze, and the other crops all go to booze. So my dwarves pretty much just eat dwarven syrup.