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[Pandarsenic]

A few searches didn't turn anything up so I'm asking the mentlegen here if they know why all my damn dwarves refuse to haul the stacks of roasts in my kitchens away. I mean, really, it's more about the miasma than the need for food (10400 prepared meals since I converted mainly to mass Quarry Bush production) but it bothers me that my dwarves are being inefficient. What gives?

[Sysice]

Do you have it set, in the orders menu, to ignore food? That seems to be the most likely cause. Maybe they're forbidden, or unaccesible? I'm just throwing ideas out here.

[Vugor]

I have also had this problem in one of my more recent forts, I am interesting into what the has caused the problem since I have check many different things to find the answer.....

[Draco18s]

Do you have empty stockpile locations?

[Pandarsenic]

Ahh, looks like my barrel production started to lag substantially when I deforested my map. I didn't realize I'd filled all my food stockpiles.

[Pandarsenic]

Speaking of food, why are my food stacks tending to be more valuable than about half of the artifacts I've made? >:[

[Sabre_Justice]

Busy chefs tend to get Legendary pretty quickly and start cranking out Masterpiece meals, especially if they're the gourmet kind.

[Pandarsenic]

Especially the kind that have two stacks of Dwarven Cheese and two stacks each of 15+ Quarry Bush Leaves.

Yeah, once I figured out I could irrigate my soil layer to fertilize my 5x10 quarry bush field my food supplies came to the point of "absurd".

[XSI]

Food is just way too expensive right now for balance, and it's really easy to get food enough to feed the world.

The whole food thing is a work in progress, but I can recommend looking at mods since some people took some time to rebalance food, make new crops, balance those, and just make a lot more food items available.

[LeoLeonardoIII]

I've also had problems getting dwarves to bring food from kitchen to stockpile.

1: There is stockpile space
2: The stockpile allows prepared meals
3: There are idle dwarves
4: The idle dwarves have all hauling jobs on
5: Food is not rotten yet
6: Food isn't TSK'd
7: Idle dwarves can path to kitchen
8: Kitchen is underground
9: Hauling orders allow gathering everything from everywhere
10: The idle dwarves are happy to ecstatic
11: The kitchen is not in use
12: Kitchen has no jobs queued or suspended
13: Kitchen is cluttered with prepared food

It bothers me more that I don't know why it happens than that it happens at all.

[Maggarg - Eater of chicke]

I never prepare food. If the dwarves are sober enough to give a shit about what they eat, your booze supplies are too low.

[Grimlocke]

I noticed that my dwarves tend to store prepared meals without using barrels, perhaps the larger stacks simply wont fit?

Am not too sure about this one, but if you have a food stockpile filled with barrels, then that might be it.

[Pandarsenic]

My dorfs have taken up all my barrels with stacks of food that would do just as well on the ground. I'm actually have alcohol production issues because of it.

[shadow_archmagi]

Speaking of food, why are my food stacks tending to be more valuable than about half of the artifacts I've made? >:[

The wiki gives this example of a stack of food:

≡Dwarven wheat flour roast [33]≡

    This is a stack of 33 well-prepared Dwarven wheat flour roast. The ingredients are exceptionally minced Plump helmet, well-minced deer meat, superiorly minced Quarry bush Leaves and minced Dwarven wheat flour.

    Total value: 3102☼

    10 (prepared meal) * 3 (well) == 30
    2 (plant) * 2 (plump helmet) * 5 (exceptional) == 20
    2 (meat) * 1 (deer) * 2 (well-made) == 4
    5 (quarry bush leaves) * 4 (superior) == 20
    20 (dwarven wheat flour) * 1 (no label) == 20
    Subtotal (value of one serving): 94☼

    94 (value) * 33 (quantity) == 3102☼

[Thief^]

I thought a roast was only three ingredients? That's got four.