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[obsidian razor]

Okay... this is getting annoying...

I have the ingredients to brew some nice booze, however, I can't since all my dwarves use my barrels to store food as soon as they come out of the carpenters shop!!

Can I do anything about it without stopping my food production?

[Max White]

Encrust the food with gems and sell it?

[obsidian razor]

Wait, what?

[Max White]

Well if you encrust the food with gems then sell it, it free up some barrels.

[Astramancer]

Not sure if it's in exactly the same spot in the new release, but I don't see why it wouldn't be.

In the stockpile menu (where you choose which kind you're gonna make) there's an option for Reserve Barrels.  Set this to a non-zero number.  This makes it so that dwarves will ignore a certain number of barrels when deciding to store food.

Specific Tasks which require barrels (i.e. brew drink, process plant to barrel, ect) still use them, but general stockpiling doesn't.

[obsidian razor]

That did the trick!

Thanks!

[Marconius]

You are also able to set up the maximum number of barrels/bins used in stockpiles for each stockpile.

[Steely Glint]

I suggest using a separate prepared food stockpile with no barrels, since prepared food doesn't rot in a stockpile. I'm not sure if vermin will eat it though, so be sure you have a cat.

[Satarus]

Vermin will eat unprotected food.  They'll also eat protected food eventually.  Metal barrels offer better defense than wood.  Of course a few cats will solve that.  Plus you will have far fewer bad thoughts from seeing the vermin.  Just gotta have a way of disposing the remains.

[gtmattz]

I personally split up my food into 3 stockpiles; Booze/liquids, Seeds, Prepared Meals,  Everything else.  The only stockpiles allowed barrels are the seed and booze stockpiles, the other 2 have barrels set at 0 so that all barrels are reserved for booze making.

[darkflagrance]

I personally split up my food into 3 stockpiles; Booze/liquids, Seeds, Prepared Meals,  Everything else.  The only stockpiles allowed barrels are the seed and booze stockpiles, the other 2 have barrels set at 0 so that all barrels are reserved for booze making.

I do this as well

Vermin will eat unprotected food.  They'll also eat protected food eventually.  Metal barrels offer better defense than wood.  Of course a few cats will solve that.  Plus you will have far fewer bad thoughts from seeing the vermin.  Just gotta have a way of disposing the remains.

Usually I can make so much food that even allowing the vermin to run amok without cats or trappers, I'm still scrambling to dump excess roasts on the traders. I sacrifice the mild unhappiness of my dwarves for the saved effort in micro. Besides, if a monster starts tearing through the fort, a small bit of happiness won't really make the difference in the long run.

[BigD145]

Make your stockpile, hit "q", and change reserved barrels with e and r.