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[CinnibarMan]

I really really like how this was a simple question about, "Can you milk this and make cheese?" and now it is all about, "Let's just try and milk everything, whatever we can't milk lets make milkable anyways."

[Fishbulb]

I've been on an agricultural economy kick lately, building up huge stockpiles of prepared meals and buying out whole caravans. I want to incorporate cheese-making as a key part of that method, but my problem is I can never remember to milk the herd. I always forget that milking is a thing, so I go four or five seasons without making any cheese.

Also, I usually have several kitchens making lavish meals all the time, so more often than not when I do remember to order milking, the milk gets used in roasts before it can be turned into cheese.

If I set milk to be non-cookable in the kitchen screen, does it remember that setting across inventory depletions? That is to say, if I set cow milk to be non-cookable, then use all my cow milk to make cow cheese, will the cow milk be automatically set back to cookable the next time I have some in my stockpile?

[Rowanas]

My research with booze says yes, things reset to their default cooking state when you deplete them. It irritates me, having to re-forbid all of the exotic alcohol every time my dwarves drink it.

WORKAROUND: Dump one unit of every foodstuff/alcohol and ignore them forever. Dumping causes automatic forbidding, so they'll stay that way forever.

[FuzzyZergling]

You know what's good about milking?
It gets water out of the bucket.

Then the milk goes in a barrel, and no more unusable bucket!

[Nyxalinth]

I have to say it....

CHEESE!  FOR EVERYONE!

[Xenos]

If you have problems with the tug-o-war bug then turn off the animal hauling labor for non milkers, (or use burrows to keep non milkers away from the cows/horses/donkeys/purring maggots/camels.)  and if you have 2-3 dwarfs who are dedicated milkers/cheese makers and one workshop for them to milk at, with sufficient animals they will never stop milking.  have another workshop for purely cheese making and you're all set!

[Axecleaver]

Well personally, I think you should dedicate your fort to Cheese. Infact, why not sacrifice all of your coins and fuds to me cheese?

Dedicate a fort to Cheese? Hmm...
Perhaps we should construct the castle walls and exterior with a yellow stone and build it roughly in the shape of a cheese round, with a triangular slice cut out? (Like Cheese's avatar pic)

Six pages of pure Dwarf Fortress cheesiness?
Like that old cheese commercial slogan goes:
"Behold, the power of cheese!"

You know, that'd probably make a good sig...

EDIT: Here's a few of those cheese commercials I mentioned:

Christmas Cheese Commercial
Ahh The Power Of Cheese
Behold The Power Of Cheese!

And while I'm at it, I can't help but mention these vids:

The Cheese Rap
Cheese Song

[Aspgren]

Whenever I buy cheese ... no matter how much I buy ... the dwarves eat it up almost instantly.

They fecking love cheese and I fecking love my dwarves. CHEESE TO ALL!

[Axecleaver]

I thought I'd mention this here for those who may have missed it.
There is a funny toon on the Dwarf Fortress Wiki about cheese:

DF Cheese

[metime00]

Very many funny cartoons about Dwarf Fortress. Now where are those two comic threads...

I've never bothered much with cheese though, I find it's easier to just butcher all animals on migration. Keeps the FPS down and there's no food shortages anyway! I do like to buy it from caravans when I have an overflow of 1000 DBs from all the masterwork stone crafts.

[!!crundle!!]

I suggest we make

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elves

milkable, and finally have a use for them/

mmmmm...

[Dradym]

elf cheese you be too light and fluffy....like a dessert, dwarves want something thick and flavorful...and doubles as a weapon.

elf meat would be good though...prolly with psychedelic properties.  im for making cannibalism a switch to turn on/off in times of famine/woe/spiraling moods