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[CJ1145]

So my fortress is growing very quickly. And I'm constantly out of food and drink. I have huge farms, but they just can't grow fast enough. The most food I've gotten at once is butchering a cave croc, but those don't show up often. Any ideas on getting more food?

[Akura]

How many farmers? I've got at most 10(and some of them have other duties), and I'm bringing in crops faster than I can build barrels(which is kind of putting a twist in my booze production ) for a ~40-dwarf fort.

[dennislp3]

Make your fields into full fledged farms...get cows to breed and butcher and in a very tight pinch get yourself an experienced herbalist to harvest plants.

How many dwarfs and field tiles do you have? If I remember correctly, at least in the 40d version, a good ratio was like 5 tiles of farm per dwarf.

As for how many farmers you have that is based mostly on there experience.

When I make a fort the first thing I do is often plot a large farm area and plant a 5x5 farm plot every time I feel like I am not making enough food...seems to work with me (I start with 2 or 3 5x5 plots)

[glueheaded]

If you think your butchers are fast enough, you could always risk 2cat for meat supply.

[bmaczero]

Just go with a breading pair of cows.  No adoption problems and you can milk them and make cheese, too.

[Akura]

Wait, milking is fixed now? In 40d only purring maggots could be milked.

And I've had problems with tame animals being butchered, in that they aren't. Better check to see if any of my idlers are butchers...

[alway]

And of course there are always the FBs who show up occasionally, and supposedly will feed a decent sized fort for a year.

And yes, milking is fixed.

[PopeRichardCorey]

Trading seems to be a good way...  Unless you get too much food and not enough barrels.  In which case you'll run out of booze.  And barrels to make booze.  And you can put all of your carpenters and metal workers into barrel production, and they'll never catch up.  And you'll be helpless to watch as your military loses its minds because you stationed them beneath the water and then ran out of leather for waterskins.

well, not helpless.   I could take them off duty.  But I'm willing to let them go insane.  The massacre will be Fun.

[Kagus]

Stock(p)ile placement -> press '*' a few times to increase the number of "reserved barrels" -> no more booze problems.

This has been around for ages.  Increasing the number of reserved barrels will set aside a certain allotment of barrels that will be kept empty so that they can be used by workshops (I.E., stills).  No more complicated than that.

If you're making vast amounts of sweet pod syrup, then maybe you'd run into some issues...  But it's highly unlikely that you'll be unable to fill at least one barrel with booze, unless you've got ten or so farmer's workshops constantly making syrup.

[Proteus]

I have to agree with Pope Richard...
Caravans  are your most reliable source for booze and food,
if you have enough space to store it and enough trading goods to buy it,
you won´t need any other source of food/drinks

[Nikov]

I'm in a freezing biome with no water ( and the cave is dry too, @#%^ ) and my 14 dwarves live entirely off of food imports, booze and dairy products. I'm even selectively breeding my cattle! I want cream colored cows instead of all these russets to better hide them from predators on the frozen, snowy plains. Also all my cows are roped up around the one cream colored bull and I'm butchering any russet steers. Really, this is awesome. I feel like making a livestock mod.

[2cat]

If you think your butchers are fast enough, you could always risk 2cat for meat supply.

Me?

[Danjen]

Oh you.

[zagibu]

I didn't notice a change in farming compared to 40d. I still manage to feed 80 dwarves with a single 5x5 plump helmet plot and 1 proficient grower.

[Akura]

And yes, milking is fixed.

Urist McCheeseMaker cancels Make Cheese: Handling dangerous animal.

You sure?
Though oddly, that doesn't cancel the workshop task or even skip it.