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[Adultratedhydra]

Im probably missing something here that i breezed over in past games. but in my current fort there is a mountain of fish that my dwarves will not touch. it is currently the only food avaliable as my growers seem to have gone on strike and the fort is slowly starving.

have i missed something that tells them to ear fish or what?

[smjjames]

Are you proccessing the raw fish at a fishery?..... They won't eat fish raw.

[Adultratedhydra]

The wiki says otherwise as its the first place i checked. and ive never had to do that before.

[smjjames]

Then someone should fix it, heh.

What page were you looking at? fisheries or just fish?

Edit: Are you talking about vermin fish here or the creature fish?

[Adultratedhydra]

Just fish. doesent mention fisheries anywhere on ther. and im sure ive had them eat fish raw before.

[smjjames]

What version are you using? There may be something with earlier versions, no idea.

[Ohaeri]

All the same, you might try processing the fish first and see if that fixes your problem. You never know.

[Adultratedhydra]

using 40d13 and checking the fishery entry says i do indeed need a fishery for them to eat it. never had that problem before O.o

[smjjames]

If you buy it from merchants, it's already been gutted and cleaned, plus I believe most vermin fish are cookable raw.

[Ohaeri]

using 40d13 and checking the fishery entry says i do indeed need a fishery for them to eat it. never had that problem before O.o

How were you obtaining your fish meat before? Basically, the dwarves will eat raw fish meat, but until it's extracted from the fish, they can't get at it. Kind of like how dwarves will eat raw cat meat, but you have to process the corpse first at a butcher's shop to get the meat off the cat.

[Adultratedhydra]

no idea to be honest. i swear that i used to just have them fish it up and id see them eating it. i rarely buy food of traders for the reason fishing kept my fort goina s much as i needed it.

[smjjames]

I suppouse a desperate dwarf might eat a raw unproccessed fish, but if you have a good or even thriving fish industry, you shouldn't be having any problems with food.

[Adultratedhydra]

well thats that solved. reverted to an older save to fix this oversight. thanks for the help.

[Yanlin]

You need to have a fishery set up with the "Clean fish" task. Raw fish cannot be eaten by non-starving dwarves. You need to clean and gut them.