Just looking for opinions :)
I dont have much choice in farming I never have enough wild animals to hunt effectivly enough for my fortress to be fed and fishing gives so little in winter its just easier to farm and adds more fun to other areas like sieges as i dont have to worry about starving to much :confused:
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One dwarf can feed 15 through farming
Hunting had been quite successful for me until the 6th year, when I lost all but two of my hunters to miscellaneous dangers. And I lost all my hunters on the 7th year due to sieges.
Fishing is also absurdly efficient when you have 6 or more fisherdwarves.
my fort is fed entirely by the work of 2 herbalists
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Originally posted by Torak:
<STRONG>I just grow a million pig tails. And cave wheat.</STRONG>
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Originally posted by Fenrir:
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Why would you want to grow pig tails?</STRONG>
Take a guess.
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Originally posted by Torak:
<STRONG>Take a guess.</STRONG>
To make mittens?
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Originally posted by Wiles:
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To make mittens?</STRONG>
I use pig tail for images and bags, kitten leather is used for all clothing means.
normally, yeah I do farm though. It's stupid easy, but fishing is bugged (the dwarves all stand on top of each other to fish making for slow progress) hunting is broken (you get a year, max, of animals before they go away forever) and trading limits your imports which is annoying. I toyed with the idea of catching enough purring maggots that I could survive off cheese alone, but all the chasm creatures lag my fort down too much, plus if I remember right it kills the purring maggot to milk it, so you spend more food catching them then you get from milking them.
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Originally posted by Torak:
<STRONG>Take a guess.</STRONG>
fur eatin lol
Yeah, Fenrir, I'm not really following. Unless you've never embarked on a map without spiders, I don't see why not. Even if you don't make clothing, there are bags, ropes, decoration, crafts (I think?). The elves bring cloth, but then you have to trade with elves.
But, I grow a bit of everything just "for kicks." Not that I seem to be able to keep dwarves alive long enough that they really need to eat much.
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Originally posted by BurnedToast:
<STRONG>My current fort is a no-water glacier/mountain so I can't farm, even if I wanted to. Importing food is not a problem (at all) and my food stocks are quite full even with ~100 dwarves.normally, yeah I do farm though. It's stupid easy, but fishing is bugged (the dwarves all stand on top of each other to fish making for slow progress) hunting is broken (you get a year, max, of animals before they go away forever) and trading limits your imports which is annoying. I toyed with the idea of catching enough purring maggots that I could survive off cheese alone, but all the chasm creatures lag my fort down too much, plus if I remember right it kills the purring maggot to milk it, so you spend more food catching them then you get from milking them.</STRONG>
Maybe you don't have any animals because you're on a freezing glacier/mountain.
I wonder if you can prevent that by having one of each kind of wild animal caged in a zoo in your fortress?
I've never been able to bring myself to slaughter kittens, even digital kittens, so I stick them in metal cages and trade them to the elves. The humans get some dogs and horses, and that's pretty much how I keep my animal pop down.
[ January 20, 2008: Message edited by: Tyrving ]