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[Arkenstone]

I was considering getting some barrels of blood to bring with me on embark (just because ), and I noticed something very interesting: milk only costs 1 dwarfbuck!  Yes, at half the price of everything else, milk appears to be the best bulk food buy on the market- I'm even considering giving one of my starting dwarves cheesemaker!!! 

[Caffienatedjedi]

Can you even make cheese from milk? Whenever I try to make cheese I get a cancellation message because my cheese maker is currently handling a dangerous animal. I also always find at least 3 animals in the workshop when I go to check why he canceled.

[Arkenstone]

Are they by chance purring maggots?  That's where dwarven 'milk' comes from...  *puking*

[Arkenstone]

I have one more thing to say: -cow's milk roast [50]-

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[immibis]

Minced cow's milk!?

[Arkenstone]

lol, yes!

As I said earlier, it's half the price of minced beer, so it's perfect for importing!

[Boingboingsplat]

Will Milk roasts melt in a dwarf's hands as they eat them like a booze roast?

[arghy]

Will Milk roasts melt in a dwarf's hands as they eat them like a booze roast?

If a dwarf used its hands when eating

[yarr]

I have one more thing to say: -cow's milk roast [50]-

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[Lord Shonus]

Can you even make cheese from milk? Whenever I try to make cheese I get a cancellation message because my cheese maker is currently handling a dangerous animal. I also always find at least 3 animals in the workshop when I go to check why he canceled.

Do you, by any chance, have your jobs set up as

Milk Creature/R
Make/Cheese/R

or similar?

If so, then your cancellation message is because the milking dwarf is moving the milked cow/horse/maggot out of the workshop.

[Dante]

Can you even make cheese from milk? Whenever I try to make cheese I get a cancellation message because my cheese maker is currently handling a dangerous animal. I also always find at least 3 animals in the workshop when I go to check why he canceled.

Do you, by any chance, have your jobs set up as

Milk Creature/R
Make/Cheese/R

or similar?

If so, then your cancellation message is because the milking dwarf is moving the milked cow/horse/maggot out of the workshop.

I think it'll simply be because the animal is caged. It's bugged so that once the milker brings it out, it automatically queues a contradictory 'assign animal to cage' job, and tries to put it back. A fix is simply to let your cattle wander; or it may also work if you temporarily turn off all animal hauling labours.

[Goran]

We need a ranch activity zone. A meeting zone for domestic animals.

[Xehon]

We need a ranch activity zone. A meeting zone for domestic animals.

I haven't checked yet, but can't you restrict animals to a burrow now?

[Sphalerite]

I haven't checked yet, but can't you restrict animals to a burrow now?

No.

What you can do is build chains next to your farmer's workshop and chain the milkable animals up there.  When it comes time for milking, the milker dwarf will unchain the animal, take it to the workshop, milk it, and then return it to the chain.  At least in theory - there's a chance that another dwarf might grab the animal and take it back to the chain in the process, which is why you want to make the chains as close as possible to the workshop.

[lordkrike]

Are there any bugs with cooking milk?

Also, milk comes 100 to a barrel in my experiments, so you get shafted as far as barrels are concerned.  Taking one of every kind of meat as well solves this problem.