Dwarf Fortress Meals
The state of the fortress s food reserves can be seen on the status screen with the 2 important groups being drink and other includes prepared meals.
Dwarf fortress meals. The amount of food that a caravan delivers is impossible to strictly. Both of these fall under the cooking labor. I have a designated barrel stockpile nearby but only 50 of the time do the dwarfs actually bother to put the meat into barrels.
Any sort of accurate count will require a bookkeeper. Rotting food problems i have a butcher shop that keeps generating miasma. Cooks will prepare meals at the kitchen workshop using ingredients available in your fortress.
From dwarf fortress wiki. Cooked meals count as each of their ingredients for the purpose of satisfying your dwarves preferences increasing the. From dwarf fortress wiki.
How long they will go on depends on their personality but dwarves will generally not endanger their lives to finish a job. Dwarves will forgo food drink and sleep for a while to complete tasks they are currently performing. Although some kinds of food can be eaten raw other food resources are ingredients which are only edible when cooked into a meal.
From dwarf fortress wiki. Dwarves without a current job will perform these activities if they are even a little. A kitchen is operated by a dwarf with the cooking labor enabled.
It is used to cook prepared meals and render fat from butchered animals into tallow cooking meals applies a quality modifier to each ingredient which drastically increases the food s value up to 100. Go to a any town inhabited by a race that s friendly with your race try find a pile of food bags each house has about a 1 20 chance of having one so most villages have atleast one a pile of food bags is generally 4 7 wool silk etc bags with fisher berries strawberries rat weed etc. They will also render fat into tallow at the kitchen.
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