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I started a fortress in an Untamed Wilds biome in the hopes of supporting my dwarves with nothing but hunting.  And indeed, the first year or so of my fort was extremely profitable in that regard.  I have over seven pages of dead wildlife on my unit list!

And all that from a single hunter, mind you  

Unfortunately, though, the supply of meat seems to be drying up.  It's now been a full year since I've seen any wildlife at all.  Is it possible to hunt them all to extinction?  Has anyone else experienced a sudden lack of wildlife?

No, I'm not running any sort of mod.  Only the latest version (33e) of Dwarf Fortress.

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since my farms never seem to produce enough or much. I also can't ever brew anything even though it seems that I have the right items (though I can't grow them).

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What are you trying to grow, and how big is your farm plot?  A single farm ought to supply plenty of food (and drink) for a large population of dwarves.  Plump helmets and pig tails are your staple crops.  Quarry bushes have great yield, but you need bags and an extra processing step.  For simple plants, the process goes like this:

Start with seeds, a few empty barrels
Plant seeds -> Produces plump helmets / pig tails
Brew drink -> Produces dwarven wine / ale, and seeds
Cook dwarven wine / ale -> Produces Dwarven ale roast / wine roast, empty barrel(s)
Replant seeds

You must, however, make sure that your kitchen does not cook the raw plants.  Go to 'z' > 'Kitchen' to set cooking preferences.

[ December 14, 2007: Message edited by: RogerN ]

I would love a feature that ordered all civilians to report to (and stay at) the nearest designated meeting area...

Building a 2nd floor is tricky.  You cannot build a wall on top of a manually constructed floor.  You can only build walls on top of other walls, or over open spaces.  You may need to remove existing floor tiles in order to build new walls.  Be careful removing the floors, though - your dwarves will fall through at least one level.  Usually they'll be stunned for a second and then be fine.

This might not be a bug  because I didn't see exactly what happened.

I was constructing my Tower Of Power: a massive stone tower, currently about 6 z-levels tall.  Next door is a smaller tower which is only accessible via a bridge from the first tower (on the 3rd floor).  There are no entrances on the ground floor.

Somehow, I ended up with three dead mountain goats and a dead mule on the TOP level of my 2nd tower.  Note that the ONLY way to get into this tower is via a bridge from the first tower.  The first tower has a single entrance on the ground floor, which is in turn only accessible through a narrow passageway filled with about 8 traps.

How the heck did a bunch of dead animals appear on the top of my tower?!  Is it possible that one of my dwarves just decided to carry them up there for some reason?  There's not a butcher workshop or anything near there...

Unfortunately, the game crashed shortly after I noticed the dead animals appearing...  The tower was fun while it lasted, though    The base was 13x13 tiles, so I was getting very close to having used 1,000 stone (if you count the sister tower also).