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[SkyRender]

 I've noticed this happen in more than a few forts: about 2 or 3 years in, suddenly my Dwarves will declare that there are no Pig Tail seeds left.  It's always Pig Tail seeds, never any other type.  They're always set as forbidden for cooking, the farmers aren't having mass failed plantings, and the seeds are getting produced when they brew the Pig Tails into booze.  Where are the seeds disappearing to?  And why is it always, always the Pig Tail seeds?

[USEC_OFFICER]

Are you brewing plump helmets as well?

[SkyRender]

 Yes.  I brew all available crops.  Veggies are always forbidden for cooking, as are all seed types.  I don't see why that'd matter, unless somehow Plump Helmets interfere with Pig Tails in a way that's never been explained.

[jaxad0127]

Edit: nevermind.

[USEC_OFFICER]

Well, in my experince, the amount of plump helmets could be affecting whether pig tails are brewed. How about you disable brewing all plants except pig-tails, and then check to see whether brewing leaves behind any seeds?If it does, then they just aren't being picked for brewing.

[SkyRender]

 Oh they're definitely getting picked and brewed.  I tracked it once, and here's what happened: one season, there were about 190 Pig Tail seeds.  The next season, bam: no Pig Tail seeds at all.

 I'm wondering if there's not an overflow error going on here.  Most seeds cap at 200 on hand (extras get discarded beyond that amount automatically), suggesting the seed counts are stored in a single-byte variable.  If Pig Tails aren't properly capped like other seed types are, they'd reset to 0 as soon as you gathered 256 of them.

[Funtimes]

How many pig tails do you have?

[SkyRender]

 I usually grow a 1x3 patch of them, which get regularly harvested and converted into alcohol.  They never get a chance to sit there and rot if that's what you're wondering, nor do I plant anywhere near 190 a season.

[Zaik]

a farm plot generates a "Plant xxx seeds" job for every available tile that can be planted on, if you're getting that a lot it means there are no free, accessible pig tail seeds. Either you actually literally ran out of the seeds, or more likely you are backed up on hauling jobs and you have all your remaining seeds sitting under a workshop that will get moved sooner or later. They'll show up on the stockpile screen but your farmers can't use them until the haulers that claim to be moving them get caught up with what they are actually doing and then move them to a stockpile.

[arzzult]

When they are stored in your stock pile are there enough bags so they get put into barrels so vermin won't eat them?

[Xenos]

a farm plot generates a "Plant xxx seeds" job for every available tile that can be planted on, if you're getting that a lot it means there are no free, accessible pig tail seeds. Either you actually literally ran out of the seeds, or more likely you are backed up on hauling jobs and you have all your remaining seeds sitting under a workshop that will get moved sooner or later. They'll show up on the stockpile screen but your farmers can't use them until the haulers that claim to be moving them get caught up with what they are actually doing and then move them to a stockpile.

or until you manually search out those seeds and cancel the hauler's task with them.  (assuming that is the case.)

If there are truly no longer any pig tail seeds within your fortress, try ordering more then seeing if they still will disappear. 

Also, since when have seeds capped at 200?    I have so many seeds in my fortress that I need to assign some to cooking to dispose of them...I grow each underground crop on their own farm plot when they are in season and have two above ground plots each growing whip vines or sun berries.  This produces much much much more food than I can eat or export.  In the process I get near 2k seeds with many being cooked away.  PH, WV, and SB seeds are each about 400-600...

[SkyRender]

 My forts usually are overloaded with idlers that have all hauling labors enabled (idlers until I give them busywork to do, that is).  I run an efficient fort like that, where more than 25 working Dwarves per 50 living there is excessive.  So there aren't any hauling back-ups causing it.  As I stated, the Pig Tail seeds literally VANISH ENTIRELY from the cooking and Z-Stocks menu after a while, even though there were previously close to 200 of them on hand not one season prior and only one 1x3 plot is getting planted.

 I think the byte overflow explanation makes the most sense here.  Since I grow such a small amount (relatively speaking), it'd be more likely to happen since only 12 Pig Tails would be getting processed per full-field harvest at most (more likely 3 to 6).

[veok]

Do you have a dwarf who "prefers to consume pig tail seeds"?

[Vehudur]

Do you have a dwarf who "prefers to consume pig tail seeds"?

Dwarves like this should meet very unfortunate ends very early.

[fivex]

My forts usually are overloaded with idlers that have all hauling labors enabled (idlers until I give them busywork to do, that is).  I run an efficient fort like that, where more than 25 working Dwarves per 50 living there is excessive.  So there aren't any hauling back-ups causing it.  As I stated, the Pig Tail seeds literally VANISH ENTIRELY from the cooking and Z-Stocks menu after a while, even though there were previously close to 200 of them on hand not one season prior and only one 1x3 plot is getting planted.

 I think the byte overflow explanation makes the most sense here.  Since I grow such a small amount (relatively speaking), it'd be more likely to happen since only 12 Pig Tails would be getting processed per full-field harvest at most (more likely 3 to 6).

If there was a byte overflow you would have to have a absolutely ridiculous amount of seeds, considering the seeds were NEVER capped and still not