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[Elliott_Thinas]

My fort has a small patch where we grow sun berries to distill into delicious sunshine for the dwarves to drink and occasionally to generously offer to the mountainhomes in hope the King will come visit us (I have more expensive stuff but I always feel nice offering him delicious booze). Anyways, ever since the economy hit us my lazier workers cannot afford my delicious dwarven syrup roasts and the rivers have run out of turtle so come summertime the cheapest food seems to be my sun berries! They eat so many they're killing my industry! Obviously I could plant more sunberries but I like to keep a small operation. Exception being magma (I know someone will suggest this) is there any way I can increase the prices of the sun berries so no one will eat them. My trader has their price at 143% which seems higher but can I push this higher?

[Jim Groovester]

Trying growing a cheaper food as an alternative.

If there's food that a dwarf can't afford, they'll get the cheapest food and won't have to pay for it, which in your case, is your precious sunberries. So plant some plump helmets or something.

[Lamp]

Elliot's right, you could also try planting some rat weed plants, I can't remember if they are eatable raw, though.

[forsaken1111]

Step 1: Build a self-contained dwarven monestary far from the rest of the fortress with its own food and water source and legendary dining hall.
Step 2: Assign several dwarves bedrooms there. Once they enter, lock the door.
Step 3: Create a chamber with doors on both sides which can easily be locked/unlocked. Possibly use an alternating floodgate system.
Step 4: Put a booze stockpile there.
Step 5: Grow and brew the sunberries in the completely self-contained monestary, have the monks transport the booze to the stockpile. When you have enough to ship to the main fortress, open outer door and close inner door.
Step 6:
Step 7: Profit!

[Grendus]

Elliot's right, you could also try planting some rat weed plants, I can't remember if they are eatable raw, though.

Rat weed is edible raw. The downside is, it has the same plant value as sun berries, so it won't stop them from eating your booze plants. They will eat fewer of them though, as they will have a chance to choose rat weed instead. Try growing some Prickle Berries and Rat Weed alongside your Sun Berries and see how that works.

It may be possible to get cheaper food by booze cooking Prickle Berry Wine or Sewer Brew with unskilled cooks. I'm not sure how cooking effects food value though, if it only increases value via skill multipliers you'll end up with stacks of 50 Prickle Berry Wine Biscuits worth only 1 dwarfbuck each. If cooking adds value innately, it may not work. The wiki doesn't cover this, I cook stuff because it's a great space saver.

[forsaken1111]

Elliot's right, you could also try planting some rat weed plants, I can't remember if they are eatable raw, though.

Rat weed is edible raw. The downside is, it has the same plant value as sun berries, so it won't stop them from eating your booze plants. They will eat fewer of them though, as they will have a chance to choose rat weed instead. Try growing some Prickle Berries and Rat Weed alongside your Sun Berries and see how that works.

It may be possible to get cheaper food by booze cooking Prickle Berry Wine or Sewer Brew with unskilled cooks. I'm not sure how cooking effects food value though, if it only increases value via skill multipliers you'll end up with stacks of 50 Prickle Berry Wine Biscuits worth only 1 dwarfbuck each. If cooking adds value innately, it may not work. The wiki doesn't cover this, I cook stuff because it's a great space saver.

I believe cooking works the same as any other crafting which means the quality level multiplies the base value of the foods.

[Skorpion]

Plump helmets are the solution. Plump helmets are always the solution.

EDIT:
Except for when the solution is magma.

[forsaken1111]

Now to crossbreed plump helmets with magma...

[Judas Maccabeus]

Now to crossbreed plump helmets with magma...

Yum!  *chomp*.... OH GOD MY MOUTH IS ON FIRE!  LITERALLY!

[forsaken1111]

Now to crossbreed plump helmets with magma...

Yum!  *chomp*.... OH GOD MY MOUTH IS ON FIRE!  LITERALLY!

Magma Caps! It's the crop bred especially for troublesome noble dwarves.

[Kulantan]

[MATGLOSS_PLANT:MUSHROOM_MAGMA_CAPS]
[TILE:130][COLOR:5:0:0]
[NAME:Magma Cap][NAME_PLURAL:Magma Caps]
[GROWDUR:300][VALUE:2]
[DRINK:!!dwarven wine!!:5:0:0]
[DRINKVALUE:2]
[SEEDNAME:Magma Cap spawn][SEED:4:0:1]
[GENPOWER:2]
[SPRING][SUMMER][AUTUMN][WINTER]
[FREQUENCY:100]
[CLUSTERSIZE:5]
[EDIBLE_VERMIN]
[EDIBLE_RAW]
[PREFSTRING:fiery rounded tops]
[WET][DRY][BIOME:SUBTERRANEAN_WATER]
[HOMEOTHERM:40000]

Please say this works...

[forsaken1111]

I think they would boil into nothing the instant they finished growing.

Which rocks.

[Judas Maccabeus]

I can't say for the rest of it, but the homeotherm part doesn't work, unfortunately... at least I put that in to regular plump helmets, made a new world, and grew one... it didn't boil away, or even set anyone on fire when they picked it up.

[forsaken1111]

Can you give a fixed temp to a plant?

[Judas Maccabeus]

Can you give a fixed temp to a plant?

I guess not.  The answer must be, then:

MAGMA HELMET MONSTERS.