You purchase a BARREL of Food, this barrel could feed 2 dwarves for one week or 1 Dwarf for 2 weeks.
Cool, so we have double the supplies I thought we did. Does this apply to bottles of alcohol also?
Be warned though, the quality of that much food is very very poor, basically its not all that great. Also the quantity of food coming from work at the fort will not for example fill a barrel straight away so while this seems excessive, it might be very wise...
I'll give away this info though, was gonna leave it as a surprise. But say you make a Stew out of the Food, you would use HALF a barrel of 3 different foodstuffs to make 3/4s a barrel of Food while raising the quality of the meal. This change of level of food may also seem excessive, BUT, compared to the taste of the Original food, you will be more full, feel better after the meal and even be more "stronger" from the fuller belly...
Now that I think of it, I never explained how much a bottle gives.... Shit...
Ok I will leave this to you guys. I can't think of a good "amount" atm, so give me Ideas. Please remember though, I didn't fully create this game, so some things are still "broken"
The difference between Group and Personal Basics...
Personal Basics are basically the day to day needs for a single dwarf, it contains; a simple drinking mug, a towel which can be used to dry down when caught in the rain and such and a Carving Knife. The Carving knife can be used to make things like arrows, bolts and even some kinds of wooden crafts. That last bit was a giveaway on something I was hoping someone would notice themselves though. It also has things like eating utensils and small personal belongings that you could think of...
Group Basics contains Building Tools such as Hammers, Nails and other things that would be used by any dwarf Building walls, floors and such as well as a Simple Hatchet for cutting fire wood and other smaller tools. It also contains Cooking tools such as a Cooking Pot, a Ladle and assorted cutting knives as well as other little things. Finally it contains other handy things such as that little hook thing that Sawmill Workers use to aid them in moving the logs and hand sickles/hoes used by farmers. Finally the Group Basics also contains any other small tool that you could think of within reason, its open to it can contain...
As you can see though the contents are quite numerous that when divided it makes obvious sense of who will be getting what...