Dwarf fortress trading meals install#

'there is no fish left in X body of water' can be safely ignored.For every three dedicated fisherdwarves, one dedicated fish cleaner is needed for the highest efficiency and every fish cleaner needs his/her own fishery.Here's a tip: dig out a channel some distance away from a main water source and channel a water source into that. Sometimes you're not getting any shells from fishing, just lots of shads and trout and cave fish.You need to process it at the fishery first, which increases the time needed to get from rod to plate. The catch with fishing though is that the catch (ahaha - horrible pun) is not immediately edible. You will also get some bones if the fish is eaten uncooked. You can improve on supplementing your dwarves' diet with their likes, and turtle or lobster shells are important for moods. If you can't provide a safe place like a walled-in pool or underground river (assuming you cleared that one out first), being outside and near carp is a steady risk. Having a kitchen is helpful as a few of the plants you gather may be inedible raw.įishing will give a steady food supply, but the return on time spent is low. You need a food stockpile, but you will have one anyway. Of course bringing a proficient gatherer on embark improves early yield a lot. Keep in mind that heavy gathering, like logging, will cause your dwarves to go increasingly long distances until they find shrubs, reducing yield per time.Īctivate the plant gathering labor on one or more dwarves, designate an area to be gathered in a similar way to how you designate trees for felling, and you're good to go. Gathering is risky in locations with nasty wildlife, or during goblin ambushes. Seeds obtained after eating gathered plants allow you to start farming above ground plants that you can't buy seeds for on embark. Unskilled gatherers will find frustratingly little, but will train up rather fast. The higher your dwarf's herbalist skill, the more food you get per time spent.

You can also farm most plants you gather with a similar amount of work and higher output, so outside a shortage gathering is more of a flavour than a sensible choice. But you won't get much, and you'll need to establish another method before you run out of bushes to harvest unless you're on a big, fertile map. I've gotten food pots worth 10k that were prepared by a +5 legendary cook, using ingredients from 4 different biomes.This is the quickest way to resolve a food shortage.

It almost feels like an exploit but I always end up getting more food made than is needed and I have make space somehow. I do personally usually go the prepared meals route, though. Silver is a mid value material, but there's also usually more of it and silver serrated discs are worth so much. Gold is also great for offices, dining areas, etc and it's also just fun to build things out of solid gold unnecessarily.

I have one going where I have 100 or so bedrooms that make the dwarves say that they have a bedroom 'like a personal palace.' Granted that has more to do with size and engraving than gold, but gold is another way to get there and it will save space. If all your dwarves have 2 gold chests and 2 gold cabinets in their bedrooms they will be pretty pleased with themselves. The big reason not to use gold is that you can't use it for your fort. Kitfox Discord #modding-discussion channelīronzemurder and Oilfurnace (illustrated)

Dwarf fortress trading meals install#

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