How To Butcher An Animal Dwarf Fortress

Affiliate 4. Filling Dwarf Bellies

Producing food is vital in Dwarf Fortress. Without it your dwarves volition starve, causing them to work poorly and forcing them to consume vermin to survive (at to the lowest degree for a while). Equally you would expect, starving to death creates an unhappy idea in a dwarf'due south head, and too many unhappy thoughts may turn an otherwise difficult-working and industrious dwarf into a homicidal bedlamite intent on turning his all-time friend's skull into a macabre totem (this is literally true). To avoid this fate we must farm, harvest, fish, and butcher our way to a good for you food supply. And once we have some food, let'southward go all fancy and endeavor our hand at cooking information technology.

In this chapter we will lay the foundations for abundant nutrient production while discussing some alternative and advanced strategies yous may consider at a later date. If something in this affiliate doesn't make sense, come back to it—there are so many interlocking elements in Dwarf Fortress that learning them sequentially can be nearly impossible. Dwarf Fortress is best treated as a gaming buffet. Take a few bites here and there before returning for seconds.

Chickens and Eggs

Which came start? The chicken, of course, because we embarked with chickens. At present allow's get them producing. As you may recall, nosotros built some nest boxes at the Craftsdwarf's Workshop. Nest boxes will exist claimed by our chickens when they go to lay eggs. Unless those eggs are gathered and placed in a food pile they will eventually hatch into baby chickens and so long as a rooster is on the map. But in society to showtime our craven empire we will need to identify the nest boxes somewhere that can be accessed by our chickens. In order to do that we need to specify an expanse of ground as pasture for the chickens to scratch around on.

Chickens (and all other fowl) don't demand to alive outside as they don't graze on grass. As such, you can either dig out a big room for them or just use some flat infinite outside your fortress for their pasture. For now, a x×10 room will suffice, but in time you may need a larger space to prevent overcrowding. Creatures that are crowded become aggressive, and are prone to attacking each other and even your dwarves. Yous will meet alerts forth the bottom of the screen if your chickens get aggressive and seem likely in demand of more space.

Permit'due south get on with specifying a pasture zone and placing all of our chickens in information technology. We will then place the nest boxes in the heart of the pasture so that the hens tin can merits the boxes and lay eggs in them. It won't be long until nosotros accept many little chicks running around existence adorable and consuming CPU cycles with their path-calculation requirements.

Permit's first by pressing i for Zones . Notice either an outside surface area well-nigh your entrance or the room yous accept dug out, and then mark out an surface area of at least x×10 squares. If yous make a error, notice the zone using i , printing x , and then press Ten to remove it. Once y'all have created a suitable zone, you lot will meet the correct info console alter its header to Activity Zone i , and it will present you with some options. Set up this zone to Pen/Pasture using the n central. You can then, as you will meet from the list of commands at the bottom of the panel, press N to change the zone's settings.

Y'all should at present see a list of animals. Scroll through the list and as you see an animal that isn't a dog or a cat, printing enter to assign it to the pasture. If your pasture is inside you should not assign grazers such equally cows, yaks, horses, or camels to your rocky pen as they will starve to death. Create some other large 20×20 pasture outside for these creatures. Be ruthless; even if your dwarves are keeping pet lambs who adorably follow your dwarves around, assign them to your outside pasture or they will eventually starve to death underground. Animal fodder isn't commonly available deep hush-hush, at to the lowest degree not until you breach the caverns and cave moss spreads. Don't feel heartbroken; your dwarves much prefer living pets to dead ones (which, once more, can consequence in unhappy thoughts and the whole skulls-on-poles thing).

When you unpause the game your dwarves will blitz virtually moving animals to the pasture. There is normally no need for any fences around your fields—your animals are more often than not quite obedient and dwarves will render them to their pasture if they do stray. Nevertheless, your livestock can exist popular targets for whatsoever invaders, so somewhen you may desire to wall in your pasture, build ditches, or movement your pasture deep underground.

If you do program to keep a number of grazing animals for your food supply, keep in mind that fifty-fifty large pasture tin hands exist grazed bare past only a few animals. If you have more than than a dozen grazing creatures, consider creating several pastures for your animals and spreading them around. The last affair y'all want is an enraged yak crushing a beloved lamb's skull.

With your chicken pasture established, it is fourth dimension to build your nest boxes. Press b-N , which will let you lot to select where to place your showtime nest box. The middle of the craven pasture makes sense, so place your first nest box there and echo the procedure until all remaining nest boxes are placed. When yous resume the game the boxes will be installed and should the chickens experience in an egg-laying mood, they will exist claimed past hens. As eggs have been forbidden from being kept in your food stockpile the eggs will sit at that place until they hatch. You can examine the contents of the nest boxes using t , if you wish.

With each nest box placed you should have one box per chicken in the pasture. As yous enhance hens to maturity you should identify more nest boxes to provide room for your chickens to lay eggs. One box per chicken is ideal; less may result in fewer eggs laid and bachelor to your dwarves.

Tip

Other egg-laying creatures may merits your nest boxes. Alligators, giant eagles, and even dragons have been known to claim nest boxes and lay eggs.

Once your first batch of eggs hatch and y'all take a dozen or more chicks running nigh you may chose to re-enable eggs in your nutrient stockpile by revisiting it, pressing q , then s , selecting Food , finding Egg , and pressing p for Permit Eggs . Alternately, wait until you have a fifteen to twenty matures hens—more than enough to provide your fortress with a good supply of food in improver to what you will be growing in your farms. Note that you only need i rooster, and so any surplus roosters can be butchered for their meat, bones, and skin, a topic we'll cover later in this chapter.

Harvesting eggs, while relatively like shooting fish in a barrel, is simply the first footstep in turning them into nutrient for your dwarves. Dwarves adopt their eggs cooked, which requires us to build a Kitchen. We volition examine Kitchens more closely later in the chapter.

Information technology is important to annotation that chickens aren't the only egg-laying creatures available to you lot in Dwarf Fortress. The total list of egg layers is enormous, but in terms of poultry that Dwarves are able to commence with, ducks, geese, turkeys, republic of guinea fowl, and bluish peafowl are likewise an choice for fortress managers. Each has their own advantages and disadvantages (explained in Table 4-1), simply suffice to say the choice of which to farm is up to you. It has been suggested that embarking with ii different types of poultry can be useful every bit information technology is piece of cake to ban, say, chicken eggs while farming duck eggs, and then once the chicken population has grown, switching information technology around and farming craven eggs while hatching more ducks. In this mode your dwarves can enjoy eating eggs shortly after your fortress is founded, reducing the gamble of early starvation.

Table iv-1. Poultry pointers

Poultry	Notes
Blue Peafowl	Low number of eggs laid per bird. One yr to maturity.
Chickens	Average number of eggs laid per bird. Two years to maturity.
Ducks	Large number of eggs laid per bird. Two years to maturity.
Geese	Depression number of eggs laid per bird. One year to maturity.
Guinea fowl	Average number of eggs laid per bird. Ane yr to maturity.
Turkeys	Large number of eggs laid per bird. Two years to maturity.

Growing Crops Above Ground

The staples of a dwarf'southward diet are likely to be the crops you grow on farms both aboveground and underground. Farming also provides a steady supply of materials to procedure into dye ingredients and materials for the cloth-making industry. Fortunately, we embarked with everything we demand to get a few farm plots under way.

Surreptitious farming tin be somewhat involved, so permit'due south come up to grips with the basics with an aboveground farm first. Observe a squeamish clear, grassy space (hopefully free of trees by now) near your fortress entrance, and press b-p for Farm Plot . You will go a placement X , along with a bulletin lament almost a lack of mud or soil. But so long as the 10 is green, we will take no trouble building our farm. For the farm footprint to be green, you need to place it over a patch of grassy or muddy basis. The lesser of the right panel also gives us instructions for increasing the size of our subcontract plot. If y'all press u or k , the size of the plot volition abound, while h or thou will shrink the plot. Create a 4×v plot footprint and so identify information technology using enter . It is probable that your farm plot volition take holes in information technology due to rocks or trees, but don't worry, a few gaps won't be a problem.

Tip

As your farmer dwarves increase in skill they will plant faster and their plants will produce more food at harvest time.

The farm plot will now flash until a dwarf comes along to build it. Building the plot will merely take a few seconds and once consummate, it is time to specify what gets planted each flavour. Press q and move the cursor over the farm plot. It volition and so flash and a new menu will appear in the right panel. At the top, the panel lists what plants can be grown that season, and below, the season can exist selected (amidst other settings). Showtime by pressing a for Bound and review your planting options. You are aiming to set a simple food to be produced, and so plants such as wild strawberries, fisher berries, swollen tubers, sun berries, and rat weed are platonic. Press enter on a crop of selection; you get bonus points for selecting i you recognize from your earlier exploration of the map with the k , cardinal. With Spring's ingather selected, you lot should bike through the other seasons using b , c , and d , and set a establish for each. So long as there are available seeds, farmer dwarves will plant and harvest the crops as they grow and mature. If y'all are curious well-nigh what product each plant provides a full list is available on the Dwarf Fortress Wiki.

You should have seeds for some of these plants, and can sentry dwarves busy themselves planting your offset crop (Effigy 4-1). If y'all have no planting options you lot may need to wait a short while for your dwarves to eat some of the gathered plants, which will release their seeds for planting (dwarves are silent on the question of whether the seeds are gathered before or some fourth dimension after the nutrient is consumed). Revisit your plot regularly—when yous exercise detect planting options available, use the secondary carte du jour keys to select the found you wish to grow and press enter . If you practice not encounter dwarves moving to constitute seeds (and the farm plot tiles changing equally the seeds are planted), endeavour returning to the ingather selection menu and choosing a different plant type. You should find something that the dwarves will plant relatively rapidly. In the future, you will learn how to use the z ( Status ) bill of fare to await at your fortress stocks, which will make selecting plants for which y'all have seeds much easier.

Effigy 4-i. Iii outside subcontract plots tended by a dwarf

It volition have some time for each plant to abound but when it is prepare for harvesting a dwarf volition come collect the ripe institute and move it to your stockpiles. With outdoor farming firmly in your grasp you may want to build 2 more modest farm plots to ensure that yous have several food plants growing at all times. Note that it may take fourth dimension to build upwards a seed stock that volition keep your farm plots filled, but it volition happen eventually. Each farm square takes one seed simply produces several plants, each of which produces a seed when brewed, eaten or processes (but not when cooked!). In this way, you can use the products of a modest institute harvesting venture to eventually feed your entire fortress if you wish.

Although outdoor farming is a great way to kick off some early nutrient production it does come up with a few risks and potential bug. First of all, your dwarves are exposed to the sun, non snug deep beneath the world where all proficient, honest, hard-working dwarves belong. 2d, your dwarves are far too close to wildlife and invading goblins. Finally, equally your fortress develops, you will naturally movement storage, production, and housing facilities deeper underground, resulting in very long, inefficient hauling routes for your farmers.

There are a few ways we tin can become around these problems while maintaining varied food production. Some of these techniques rely on structure and management skills you will learn later, but information technology is worth bringing them up at present for you to think about. Offset, you could take the aboveground farming deep downwards into your fortress by earthworks a deep shaft, open to the sun, that ends close to your production and storage floors. Farming at the bottom of this shaft will count as farming outside. Second, you could create a burrow (we volition look at these later) for your aboveground farmers, and force them to live their lives close to the food they are tasked with producing and processing, leaving the task of moving the food hole-and-corner to other dwarves. Third, you lot could simply accept that aboveground farming is a risky endeavor and alive life on the border! In all of these scenarios amalgam walls around your farms and private entrances to your fortress can protect the fields and your dwarves from random encounters with dangerous invaders, and placing a floor over the farms will add protection from flight invaders while, curiously, preserving the subcontract plot's "outside" status.

The final option is to ignore aboveground farming entirely and to focus solely on hole-and-corner farms. You will miss out on a few crops that would add multifariousness to the food and alcohol produced by your fortress, but this won't cause any problems for you other than the occasional dwarf missing out on a chance to drink their favorite exotic booze. In the end, you do not need vast swathes of country defended to farming in lodge to feed your fortress. Thirty farm squares busy with food product, a few chickens, and maybe a dwarf or ii fishing should provide more than enough food for even a large fortress. How y'all split up your farming between aboveground or underground farms is entirely a matter of personal preference.

Growing Crops Underground

Over the many years people have been playing Dwarf Fortress 1 of the most frequent complaints from new players centers around the difficulty of establishing sustainable hush-hush farming. Underground farming tin can be a challenge, just if we take on the task step-by-pace, it won't be long until we're knee-deep in plump helmet mushrooms and other delicious treats.

If you lot have built productive aboveground farms and your chickens are laying eggs, in that location is no need to immediately establish an underground farm. Y'all may wish to expect until you have worked through Chapter 7 earlier tackling the job of searching for soil or muddying some rock. That being said, information technology doesn't injure to try if you're feeling brave!

Finding Dirt

Before nosotros can brainstorm, it is of import to understand that clandestine farms must exist placed on dirt or muddied stone. If the only space you have for farming is a stone floor you are going to take to muddied the stone by spreading water beyond it or y'all are going to have to dig around to expect for soil. Muddying the floor can be accomplished through controlled flooding (something nosotros will expect at in Chapter eleven) or we can instruct our dwarves to booty water in buckets and to dump the water where we desire our farm to be built (covered in Affiliate 7).

The easiest way to begin underground farming is to identify the farm on soil that you lot have uncovered through digging. Chances are you've already discovered soil as you dug your initial tunnels into the hill. Using g for Expect Around encounter if you tin notice any underground terrain marked sand, clay, loam, silt, or peat. All of these terrains will support a farm plot without any fiddly irrigation. If y'all find a suitable location dig out some space and connected to your fortress and so apply b-p and place a subcontract plot or two on the ground. Once placed, use the techniques yous have learned before to assign crops to your fields, focusing on Plump helmets for all seasons.

If you have dug straight into the lower levels of a large hill it is likely that the first couple of squares around your fortress entrance are a suitable terrain type but that the rest of the footing is rock and non suitable for easy underground farming. If you don't want to experiment with irrigation but do desire to farm indoors, yous now have two choices. Get-go, you could notice an area of flat grassland, printing d-h for Channel , and then press enter over a foursquare of basis near your fortress entrance. This will consequence in your miners channeling a ramp downwardly to the layer merely below the grass and trees. This should be a suitable soil blazon, and you tin at present utilise d-d on that lower level to carve out a infinite for your dwarves to farm on. If you lot do this, be sure not to dig out the ground effectually your ramp, as ramps unconnected to neighboring rock, soil or a constructed wall will plummet or become unusable.

Another pick is to dig upwards from within your fortress to endeavour to notice soil on layers above your fortress archway. Press d-u for Upward Stairway and designate an upward stairway in an un-dug wall of your fortress, peradventure at the end of your first corridor. If you then move the view up one level, you tin can designate an Upwards/Downwardly Stairway using d-i directly higher up where the upwards stairway is on the level beneath. This, once dug, will provide your miners access to the level to a higher place your fortress archway flooring. If you dig around this new level, you may find soil. If not, designate another upwardly/downwardly stair in a higher place the ane y'all only dug, and endeavour once more. Keep digging up until yous observe soil. If you accidentally breach the top of your colina and worry nigh invaders, build a flooring tile on top of the entrance stair using the structure instructions in Chapter seven.

Once you have dug out a suitable location simply place a farm plot as you would with exterior farming. A single 20-square plot will probably suffice at this point, but if y'all're able to build several plots and accept a few unlike crops running at any one time, you will keep your farmers busy. In Figure iv-2, I take found a corner of my world where there is enough dirt to first two small underground farm plots. The larger is set to only grow plump helmets (a delicious mushroom), and the other has a mix of cave wheat, hog tails, and sweetness pods, crops which can be processed into farther useful goods.

Figure 4-ii. Underground farming on soil

If yous lack suitable soil or wish to subcontract deep hugger-mugger, you will be forced to make a rocky surface muddied before yous can place your farm plots. Surfaces are made muddy past assuasive water to wash across them and so leaving the h2o to evaporate. Using dwarven engineering and machinery, this job can be accomplished relatively painlessly, but it does require some advanced skills (which we will tackle in Chapter eleven). The alternative to flood gates, levers, and mechanisms is to tell our dwarves to carry buckets of water from a water source to the area we need muddied. The "bucket brigade" arroyo to irrigation is covered in Chapter 7.

Fishing

When nosotros equipped and trained our dwarves in Chapter ii, we gave one some skill in angling. Chances are that this dwarf has been spending fourth dimension, when not otherwise engaged, wandering around the water sources on your map line-fishing. Fortunately for usa our dwarves don't need to mess around with nets, rods, or reels. Instead, dwarves but pull the fish right out of the rivers and ponds. How they do this is a mystery, but I like to imagine that they dip their muddied, nutrient-encrusted beards into the water and simply wait for seafood to get tangled in them.

Unfortunately, dwarves don't like to eat raw fish. To procedure the fish we need to build a Fishery, which is a workshop where fish are cleaned and processed into chopped-up candy raw fish. Once we have processed fish nosotros will need to melt the fish for it to exist palatable to our dwarves and we will also need to ensure that we have enough barrels (constructed at the Carpenter's Workshop) or rock pots (constructed at a Craftsdwarf's Workshop) to store the cooked food.

Permit'south gear up up a Fishery. Detect a articulate space handy to your food stockpiles (dig out more room if you demand to) so printing b-westward-h for Fishery (it is on the second page of workshops; use the alternate scroll keys to have a look if you wish). Place the workshop and wait for it to be built. Fish preparation tasks will be automatically added to your Fishery every bit required and dwarves with the Fish Cleaning labor enabled will work in the Fishery to prepare fish for cooking. If the "fish" are turtles, lobsters, oysters, or other shelled marine-life, shells volition also exist recovered. These items are often called for by dwarves in "Strange Moods" and and so running a modest fishing manufacture ensures you always have a few to hand.

Unless migrants with the Fish Cleaning labor enabled bring together your fortress it is possible that your fisher dwarf will spend all their fourth dimension line-fishing and no time cleaning and preparing the fish for cooking. The angling labor seems to take some precedence over the cleaning labor. You tin piece of work effectually this problem by temporarily turning off the fishing labor for your line-fishing dwarf (there'due south more than information on dwarf labors in Affiliate 6), or by dedicating an immigrant to the Fish Cleaning labor.

Line-fishing adds another useful food blazon to your fortress stockpiles and is easy (if dwarf labor-intensive) to gather and process. It does come with some risk: fishing dwarves will often need to roam well beyond your fortress walls, where danger and strife await. Once you are confident that your other food production systems are running well, you lot may wish to consider disabling fishing and using fisher dwarves for other tasks.

If you lot become truly enamored with fishing then yous tin create a secure line-fishing ground by establishing a zone dedicated to line-fishing in an secret pool you've created or explored. Simply place a zone next to the pool using i , and then press f to dedicate the zone to fishing. You and so demand to modify your dwarves' standing orders so that they prefer fishing zones over searching out their own fishing spots. Press o-w-f to switch to zone-only fishing.

Hunting

Information technology is possible to start the game with a dwarf who is equipped to hunt the local wild animals and some hunters are likely to plow up as migrants. Embarking with ane or two dwarf hunters, along with a few dogs that can exist trained to hunt, tin can provide not simply a source of protection for your fortress but too a supply of meat and other goods to feed your dwarves.

Dwarves you want to commence with as hunters should accept Ambusher set as their highest skill. They will and then exist given free armor and a crossbow, a quiver, and some crossbow bolts. In addition to the Ambusher skill, hunters do good from skill in Crossbowman , Hammerman , and Wrestler , all of which volition aid them on the hunt. Once yous are building your fortress, hunter dwarves will automatically pick an animal on your map and so stalk information technology before sneaking in for the kill. They will continue hunting as long as the Hunting labor is enabled. Animals killed by hunters volition be carried by the hunter to a Butcher'southward Shop, where a dwarf with the Butcher labor enabled will process the carcass into meat, basic, skin, and other products.

Butchering Livestock

Raising animals for the pot is one way of feeding your dwarves, but it tin can be catchy to establish reliable meat-based nutrient product. First of all, you need a skilful source of animals, either farm-raised or game your dwarves have hunted down. Adjacent, you lot demand a series of workshops and stockpiles designed to plough a fauna first into meat, bones, peel, fatty, and other products—and and so into food and appurtenances based on these inputs. As if this isn't circuitous enough, the various jobs required to achieve these tasks need to exist completed relatively apace or the animal material will first to rot.

Fortunately, as we have seen, there are other ways to feed your fortress. If yous take nonetheless to heighten numerous chickens or other animals then there is no need to follow along with these instructions at this time. Return to this department when you are fix to chop up some kittens!

Beginning past pressing z to pull upwards the Status carte du jour. The Status carte provides a proficient summary of the current status of your fortress. Printing enter (the Animals tab is already selected) and you should now encounter a list of creatures, their sex activity, their proper name (if they are a pet), if they are endemic, and their preparation level.

Tip

Dwarves will adopt and name some animals on their ain. Except for cats. Cats cull their owners.

Creatures with a name are tame and cannot exist sent to the butcher's cake. Indeed, if the pets of an already-depressed dwarf are killed, it may push the doting possessor over the edge into axe-wielding mania. Dwarves truly exercise alive on a sanity knife-edge; difficult-working one minute (admitting, fueled by booze and mushrooms), axe murderers the next. A dwarven fortress is much like "Called-for Human" meets "Psycho".

With the fauna stock tab displayed, scan the list using the cursor keys. Creatures fix to Unavailable are not the sort of critter your dwarves will adopt as a pet. Those marked Uninterested have nonetheless to be made a pet. Any uninterested or unavailable animate being can exist marked for slaughter by pressing the b key. Every bit a rule, yous will want to slaughter males of a species, every bit you only need 1 of them to impregnate all the available females on the map. If you have managed to hatch and raise a few chickens, now would be a proficient time to have a look through all of your chickens and set all simply one or two of the roosters for slaughter. Unless you are desperate for food expect for a creature to be fully grown before slaughtering it—you volition gain more resources from a mature animal than from a baby one.

If you lot are concerned virtually an eventual catsplosion (an endless number of pet cats breeding endless more pet cats), then you might wish to break the above rule and regularly choose the kittens filling your fortress halls. Puppies, on other hand, eventually grow into dogs that can be productively trained to assistance your hunters or soldiers, and so you may desire to keep dogs around.

With a few creatures selected for slaughter nosotros should fix our Butcher's Shop. You can either set information technology outside (shut to your livestock) and prevent the chance of miasma build-upward, or put the butcher shop within, perchance in its own dedicated room where a door will keep any miasma generated inside. Whichever you lot chose, b-westward-u for Butcher's Shop volition let y'all place the building. In one case built, a Slaughter Animal chore volition be added automatically to the Butcher's Store job listing and will remain there until all the set animals are butchered. You should also build a Tanner'south Store using b-w-due north . This volition result in a Tan a hibernate task beingness automatically added once an fauna with a tannable pare is butchered. For the workshop to be built and hides to be tanned, a dwarf will need to take the Tanning labor enabled. Labors and jobs are further explained in Chapter half dozen.

Caution

Miasma is a build upwards of stench and gas from rotting or spoiled plant or beast fabric. Dwarves encountering miasma volition experience an unhappy idea. There is no risk of miasma outside.

Even if you're not relying on meat to feed your dwarves you will nevertheless find use in keeping a few animals for the pot, or but butchering stray ones. Meat, basic, hides, and prepared organs (delicious!) are all useful to you, from providing resources for os ammunition production through to materials for backpacks, waterskins, strange moods, and fine meals.

Which Animals Should I Farm?

Food animals can be placed into iii broad categories. There are egg-laying fowl, grazing livestock, and non-grazing livestock. Unless you are willing to spend time managing pastures, you volition desire to raise animals that don't graze. Grazing animals demand large areas of grassland (or mossland) to survive and providing enough secure pasture for them can be a challenge.

Which animals graze and which do not? Well, the list of possible animals yous volition be able to buy, embark with, or capture is simply too huge to reproduce here. Suffice to say that what applies in the real world is likely to apply in Dwarf Fortress. For example, cows, sheep, and horses graze, whereas pigs, fowl, bears, cats, and dogs do not.

If you are looking to add together creatures in addition to egg layers at your embark so pigs brand an fantabulous improver to any fortress. They can be milked (salary-flavored milk, yum!), pastured anywhere every bit they exercise not graze, and provide substantial goods when butchered. At the embark screen female person pigs are called sows and males, boars. As they are expensive yous will need to cutting down on embark points spent elsewhere. One option is to reduce the points spent on raising the mining and wood cutting skills. These skills will rise quite chop-chop on their own through constant employ and a somewhat slower get-go due to slower mining and tree feeling is usually not a problem.

Cooking and the Kitchen

Cooking is a neat way to turn piles of inedible foodstuffs into meals your dwarves can relish. However, cooking tin can besides very hands destroy your seed stocks equally cooking plants destroys seeds (brewing, conversely, does not). To prevent this, start past heading back to the Condition carte using z , then use the cursor keys to move the highlight to Kitchen , and and so press enter to review the options.

Confronting each food blazon, yous volition see a number and the available permissions. Cherry-red ways that cooking or brewing that nutrient is forbidden, while blue signals that it is permitted. If there is no option, then brewing or cooking that particular isn't possible. Y'all will also come across a number, often with a question marker adjacent to it. The question mark indicates the best guess of your dwarves every bit to the number of that ingredient in the fortress stores. In one case you fix a bookkeeper dwarf (meet the section Nobles in Chapter half-dozen), more accurate stock counts should be common.

Whorl through the ingredients using the cursor keys, and when you get to Plump Helmets , press c to turn off cooking for this plant. The word Cook will modify color to bespeak that this plant volition no longer exist considered a potential ingredient in the Kitchen. Ensure that the kitchen settings preclude cooking all other bachelor plants, seeds, and booze. We exercise not want to accidentally plow all of our seed and booze stockpiles into fine meals; dehydration is a terrible curse! Once you lot have a bookkeeper providing accurate counts of your nutrient and beverage stocks, you may wish to re-enable alcohol and institute cooking to help provide a wider diversity of meals for your dwarves. Now that you accept adjusted the Kitchen settings, allow's build our Kitchen!

Notice a likely spot, preferably close to your food stockpiles, and press b-w-z for Kitchen . Place the Kitchen, and in one case it has been constructed, check the options available to piece of work with using q then a for Add new chore . At a Kitchen, you can order the Kitchen to prepare easy, fine, or lavish meals, and to render any available fat (from butchered animals) to tallow (a useful soap-making ingredient). You tin safely ignore the Render Fatty option for now, as this task is automatically added to the product queue by your dwarves when fat becomes available.

The meal-cooking options decide how many ingredients your dwarves volition use in the production of a meal. Like shooting fish in a barrel meals take ii ingredients and are referred to in-game as biscuits. Fine meals are made of iii ingredients and are named stews. Lavish meals are made of four ingredients and are called roasts. Each meal generates a number of repast portions equal to the number of ingredients—cooking does not waste material nutrient.

Caution

If you are doing a lot of cooking simply also wish to make lather be sure to plow off cooking tallow in the stocks menu once tallow is bachelor.

If you lot have engaged in a spot of animal slaughtering make sure to keep some easy meals queued up in the Kitchen to ensure that the raw meat and organs are quickly converted into more easily stored and valuable cooked goods (easy meals are made a lot more rapidly than the other meals). Poorly stored animal products will rot.

Beekeeping

Raising bees for their honey, wax, and royal jelly can be a overnice supplement to your food and alcohol product. Beekeeping is relatively easy and so allow's get right into information technology! For starters, head to the Craftsdwarf'due south Workshop and a add a grand , Rock , job; then use the secondary whorl keys to observe Make Stone Hive . Add together 4 to the chore listing.

Once the hives are built, find a serenity, outside surface area away from your animals and dwarves and press b for Building and and so alt and h for Hive . Place your hives in a group. One time they are built, press q and review the options each hive presents you lot with. There are two settings you lot tin conform: showtime, c toggles whether or not a bee colony can be installed in a hive or not. Go out that one be: we desire colonies to exist placed in these hives. The side by side option is g ( Get together any products ). This we should toggle off on each hive and then they are all set to Do non gather products .

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Bees volition sting. Bee stings don't cause whatsoever existent harm (although a unmarried bee dies in the procedure), and generate no unhappy thoughts (except maybe in the bee!).

What will happen side by side is that if a dwarf has the Beekeeping labor turned on it volition try to discover a wild beehive on your map and split it, placing one-half of the swarm in one of your hives. In time the swarm volition grow, and it will once more be available for splitting or harvesting. Due to our setting choices, the swarm will be split instead of harvested, and half of the swarm will be placed into an empty hive. One time your four hives are filled, you take a choice: you tin can either toggle ii of the hives to Gather any products with m —so long as you accept made some rock jugs, ii hives will have their bee colonies destroyed, and honeycomb and majestic jelly will be placed into two jugs. Alternatively, build four more hives and leave these new hives toggled to Gather whatever products , and in this way your iv original hives volition produce colonies that will somewhen be split, placed in the new hives, and so harvested.

Once you lot have jugs (easiest built at a Craftsdwarf'south Workshop out of stone) filled with honeycomb and royal jelly, you can either cook or trade the regal jelly and you can process the honeycomb at a Screw Press. Build one near your food stockpile using b-w-p for Screw Press . A Screw Press needs 2 mechanisms that can be built at a Mechanic's Workshop if required. Once congenital the Screw Press will nowadays yous with two options when you q over it. The Press liquid from paste option refers to turning rock nut paste (made at a Mill Stone or Quern) into stone nut paste oil and rock nut press cake. The Press beloved from honeycomb task is the task we're interested in, and it will be carmine until some honeycomb is available. Once the task is available, you lot are able to set a job to turn honeycomb into honey (which tin can be cooked, eaten raw, or brewed into mead at the Still) with wax as a byproduct (used to make wax crafts). Y'all will, again, need jugs for the pressing procedure, so ensure that your Craftsdwarf's Workshop has produced a surplus.

Milking

It is possible to milk livestock that you own and and then process the milk into cheese. Although you lot are unlikely to ever feed a fortress with just milk or cheese, they provide even so more ingredients that can exist cooked into meals or used as raw food. If you have likely female livestock (cows, camels, donkeys, goats, sheep, reindeer, yaks, pigs, llamas, etc.), the Milk Creature task can exist ready from a Farmer's Workshop ( b-w-w ).

Your dwarves volition need spare buckets, barrels, or pots for the milking job and for milk storage. Once all is in place your dwarf will go fetch the animal and and then milk it at the workshop. Once you accept a supply of milk, yous can set a Make Cheese chore at the same workshop and your milk will be processed into delicious cheese. Farmer'due south Workshops are important for all mode of nutrient- and found-processing jobs. You are likely to need three or four in a decorated fortress to go along up with milking, cheese-making, and found-processing tasks.

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