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Dwarf Fortress => DF Gameplay Questions => Topic started by: Magmacube_tr on September 15, 2022, 04:23:28 pm

Title: How to make dwarves put giant creature meat into barrels?
Post by: Magmacube_tr on September 15, 2022, 04:23:28 pm

I have bought and butchered about 4 different giant animals for food. But the dwarves, after hauling the meats to the correct stockpile, just completely ignore them. There is a 123 stack of giant moose meat, 56 gigantic panda meat, 31 giant snail meat and 35 giant cougar meat, all unbarreled, and sitting untouched in the food stockpile.

How do I get the dorfs to cook them up instead of asparagus and bayberries?

Title: Re: How to make dwarves put giant creature meat into barrels?
Post by: anewaname on September 15, 2022, 05:32:45 pm

The stacks probably are too big to fit into a barrel.

To get them cooked, link the kitchen to a stockpile that contains only those meats. But, they still won't fit in a barrel.

Title: Re: How to make dwarves put giant creature meat into barrels?
Post by: Ziusudra on September 15, 2022, 09:50:51 pm

Yeah, the limit is 30 meat per barrel (https://dwarffortresswiki.org/index.php/DF2014:Barrel).

Title: Re: How to make dwarves put giant creature meat into barrels?
Post by: Magmacube_tr on September 16, 2022, 12:34:52 am

Okay I solved it. Temporarily banning everything except them from being cooked worked. Dorfs produced some real large stacks of roasts with those.

Title: Re: How to make dwarves put giant creature meat into barrels?
Post by: Salmeuk on September 16, 2022, 04:24:23 am

I like to imagine the moose meat is representative of, like, a big ol moose thigh. so literally unable to fit..

bit of an odd restriction considering how bins work but , well, its DF

Title: Re: How to make dwarves put giant creature meat into barrels?
Post by: Bumber on September 18, 2022, 02:52:40 am

Ingredients closer to the kitchen are chosen first.