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[LordSharpe]

So I am on my first stable fortress, (unfortunately version .13, so no invasions are coming). In any case, my population is about 95, and I am drowning in food. Plants, meat, everything, I can never get my food stockpile large enough, and I need to keep my carpender repeatedly making barrels just to keep up demand.

Doesn't help that I can't even dig out areas for more food storage, because all the stone clutters up the area, making a food stockpile impossible. Whats the best way to handle this? Just disable all hunting, farming, etc, for the next little while on all my dwarves? I'm pretty sure, at this point, half my meat is rotting before it even gets eaten. Is there a way to compact my food so that it takes less space? The only thing I really need to keep active is my still.

Can I throw a feast or something? Can I prioritize what the dwarves eat, to get rid of some of the old meat?

[Sheb]

Make lavish meal, it'll take less space and won't rot.

[Dwarf]

Mass-produce stone into blocks (can be stored in bins). Mass-produce blocks into Epic Megaproject.

[Naina]

Mass dump the stone (d>b>d), turn off food production for a bit, cook your foodstuffs into lavish meals and sell those meals at a ridiculous profit to the traders.

Honestly, I don't even make export crafts anymore, exceptionally-cooked meals can buy out a trade caravan in the first year.

[BigJake]

If the meat is in a stockpile, it won't rot.  Make more barrels.  Make prepared food.  Dig stockpiles in soil, if you've got it; won't leave stones.  Make more barrels.

[Dariush]

When I saw the thread title, I thought about either dorfs drowning in *masterwork dog roast*s or drowning while standing on aforementiones roast... You disappointed me.

[KaguroDraven]

I was hopeing for the same Dariush.

But on topic, perhaps you could wall off a cavern and use that free space for a food stockpile.

[Akura]

Or, in an older version, drowning in Dwarven Wine Roasts... but then again, they wouldn't be drowing, they'd be breathing.

[Shoku]

You definitely reach a point where you can grossly overproduce food without trying.

I thought that they used stockpiles without caring if you had stones on them now though.

[FleshForge]

Yeah food stockpiles seem to behave that way, although not all types (e.g. wood and refuse do not).

[cog disso]

HedonismBot is not amused.

[Quietust]

I thought that they used stockpiles without caring if you had stones on them now though.

That only works with bins and barrels, which will get stored on a stockpile square even if there's something else already there; any other objects must be placed on an empty tile.

[fyy0r]

So I am on my first stable fortress, (unfortunately version .13, so no invasions are coming). In any case, my population is about 95, and I am drowning in food. Plants, meat, everything, I can never get my food stockpile large enough, and I need to keep my carpender repeatedly making barrels just to keep up demand.

Doesn't help that I can't even dig out areas for more food storage, because all the stone clutters up the area, making a food stockpile impossible. Whats the best way to handle this? Just disable all hunting, farming, etc, for the next little while on all my dwarves? I'm pretty sure, at this point, half my meat is rotting before it even gets eaten. Is there a way to compact my food so that it takes less space? The only thing I really need to keep active is my still.

Can I throw a feast or something? Can I prioritize what the dwarves eat, to get rid of some of the old meat?

I'm still pretty new to the game, but I've noticed this too.  My food stockpiles seem to grow constantly regardless of whether or not the dwarven population increases or decreases, even with barrels; which in turn requires a progressively larger and larger food stockpile.  From what I can tell, the meat and drink stocks increase/decrease like normal but the prepared meals and seeds seem to get out of control.  I think something else might too, because the "Other" in the Food Stores menu always gets huge.

[Vattic]

This is because farming and butchering is too easy and both give lots of food.

Once I get a nice hoard of meals and booze I let the farms fallow some seasons or stop them completely. Often if I have nothing else from the caravans I order expensive food and booze. I like having good food for my dwarves. The large stocks act as a buffer allowing me to see if my fort can support less farms and time to start them back up if I'm running low.

[Gnauga]

You should keep a closer eye on your booze, however. Getting complacent with your booze can lead to lots of Fun indeed.