Process Plants should have nothing to do with Lye or Milk. Process To Barrel is used soley for creating Dwarven Syrup out of Sweet Pods. The non-container Process is only used to create thread. I'm away from my DF at the moment, but can check that when I get back.
yea i probably mixed them up. but the process to barrel produces a liquid which seems to count as a drink liquid. it seems like any liquid counts as another liquid and thats the overall problem the drink thing is just a symptom. i can deal with 1 or two stills producing drinks. its just the drinks count towards the milk, lye, etc. liquids total. so the solution i found was the changing inputs and/or outputs to create specific liquids and the guy previously answered this but im not interested in putting in 30 different stills each producing one kind of a drink from the fruits and veggies on my map. so if thats the only solution for that specific problem screw it for now and maybe i will change it later when my fort grows. so the main issue is the all liquids counting towards other liquids and it has this effect for other items but i cant think of any at the moment. (im just comming back from a fairly long df break). but earlier today when i went to start my lye production it said i had 30 something liquid already and the only thing i had 30 of was drinks. and to start the process plants to barrel it said i already had 36 liquid something so the job wouldnt start and again all i had was 30 drinks and some milk.
im totally willing to consider this is a me problem if no one else has this problem and i should have taken real notes. but ive had this problem yesterday/today and in the past.
also now i have stacks of feather tree yolks on my trade depot i looked em up and says they are edible when cooked but i cant find the stockpile settings that will allow them to be stored.