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While I am in z, ->, enter, (all that is required to access the brew types) it is only tab, tab to see a much more succinct list of drink stocks and then tab, tab to return to change types of drinks for brewing.  Arrows and c to toggle.  No reason (in general) to limit the types to one here, just go for those you want to increase stocks of.  The order 'if drinks less than 1000 then brew 10' (or whatever numbers are wanted) does not need to be touched and remains automated.

Oh I found it! I see now. My bad, as I never use it. It is b toggle, not c toggle. Aaa... Right, c is toggle for cooking. :S I guess you are right. This setup removes some automation though. For now only farming in this chain is utter automation fail. You can give from stockpile only to pile/workshop. Not to a farming plot.

I went with 200 brew units, because of 200 Dwarves. However if some barrels are tagged by drinking job, then those barrels are not counted as existing for purpose of automated brewing. It counts only idle barrels with alcohol.

Also... 3500 Dwarves? How? Did you lift up the 200+20 limit? However it will end fast fps. I see lots of food to support those numbers though. So far my best fps-relief was a) removing all walls from inside of my fortress and b) limiting height of fortress to contrary of the wiki's statement that vertical travels are lighter on fps and b) adding lot of more, stairs then advised 3x3 lift. A lot. Like 4 11x3 corridor stairs radiating from 3x3 middle stairs. Those a,b&c solutions were a huge boost to fps. FPS got like 75%-80% faster.

So far (0.44.12) I am battling new mechanics with rain and cloth-rot insanity. It seems seeing dead body is not as traumatic as getting wet in rain or own xx-xx clothing. Nutz! My Dwarves authentically turned into those fabulous latest fashion dearies and they are not only over dramatic for it, but even going suicidal... Madness.

This is in line of my own suggestions, but it is not coming without economy rework. It will result not only in trade wagons, but also in trading ships. Some say, it is a waiting time of at least 5 years, so who knows... Keep hopes up

1. Your farm plot has a biome incompatible with the seeds you have.

That's the issue! I had it on some embark. In air, you get different biomes. There was some way to find what biomes you have in air. You should look for it and check if there is a level with biome, that allows some agriculture.

Surface tanks never spawn new fish, despite fish being a vermin. Vermin does annoyingly auto re-spawn, but only if it is useless. To my experience only rivers have unlimited fish (and shell). All other sources of fish (and shell) will become depleted after short time (about 1 year). Everyone is turning fishermen job off anyhow. Specially with river access. 2 fishermen can easily feed entire fortress leaving a mountain of shells to deal with. Currently there is a huge unrealistic food overproduction in DF.

Automating brewing maize is achieved by disabling all other plants for brewing, and then make a repeating order of some type.

Z-status, kitchen... tabbing... tabbing... tabbing... tabbing... nothing.
O-set orders, F-forbid... claim... claim... claim... claim... claim... nothing.

Is not?

You set 3x2 stockpile by farming plots. It will accept only seeds for one given plant/fruit and name the stockpile "(plant/fruit) seeds".
You set 12x2 stockpile to accept this plant/fruit, name it "(plant/fruit)". Then you link it to a still.
If harvesting gives other by-products, then you set general cooking ingredients stockpile to receive those.
You name the linked still as "(plant/fruit) wine/beer/ale" and you press Q select shop and click P, to access its profile. Arrow right and you press Q to set order: Brew drink from plant or brew drink from fruit. Set amount to 10. Then press c to edit conditions. Press a for item conditions. Press i to change type to drinks. Press m to change to name of brew. Press "-" to make the check happen repetitiously every season. Press n to set 200. Press q to change equation to "available is less then 200". Then escape, escape, escape and you are set.
Now you need to use z->stocks and check on how many plants and fruits are available and manually order farmers to seed some farming plots to produce some more, if you falling short on ingredients. I keep them about 500 each.

In my current embark of Dwarves going mega insane and criminal due cloth rot, I have 11 alcohols being produced in my fortress. I just check if they got ingredients enough each spring.

This is the only way to automate brewing for multiple alcohols. That is in... unmodified vanilla DF.

I do not have DFHack. I never used DFHack. I play simple vanilla DF. So, what I have is fps death to my fortress instead. Time after time. Because _CLOTHING_ _SYSTEM_ _IS_ _BROKEN_.

Until 0.44.12 I let Dwarves wear their cloths until they rot off from them. I produced 10 new cloths of almost each type (no shirts, no shoes, no tunics, no leggings) every year. But this new psycho system from 0.44.11 system sends Dwarves into spinning depressions, tantrum and insanity because cloths rotting off them. Now, I learn all the clothing needs to be replaced every 2 years to just maybe have some luck for most Dwarves to not experience a clothing rot.

Why clothing industry was not fixed from the very beginning? Why 2 year periods instead of 5 years? Why none complained about too short 2 years length of wear of clothing for all those years to Toady? Why this broken clothing system was linked and connected to yet another well known, unbalanced and still broken psycho system to cause total fortress depression mayhem? This is not only dead bodies there. Even stupid prayer to some god gives same psycho issues. So you give Dwarf time off work and what it does? Does it pray? No, it idles in depression time after time without successful communion.

How about replacing clothing every 5 years instead of 2? It would let fortress live longer and maybe we could get some higher fps as well. Is playing for 12h in one day just to progress Dwarf Fortress for 1 season, a very exciting? You can do those speeds for 1 month at most, before game gets too boring and too unresponsive. Those things directly are impacting play-ability of Dwarf Fortress. Maybe when we are getting patches for bugs with new versions, then maybe some time Toady could spent on actually looking on existing already features and improving their balance and polishing those already existing systems? It surely wouldn't hurt play-ability.

How about letting leather clothing last 2x longer then silk, cloth and yarn clothing? Leather clothing adds +1 in defense checks for a reason. Let leather clothing last 10 years before getting x-x, then next 10 years before getting X-X and next 10 years before getting XX-XX. Does it sounds better, for the clothing industry, to everybody or is it just only me alone utterly harrowed by this nightmare and sinking slowly into dark, deep, bottomless depression...

I used DF wiki to set pit up and I had same problems with pitting like you. I read on forums, I tried a lot of things. Some players were reporting they never hit this bug and they threw goblins down the pit always without accident. Not me. Then by accident I discovered something. I wrote a bug report on it and I hoped this issue was solved by now. It is not. Yesterday, when captured a goblin party I noticed the same thing, so I guess it is not fixed yet for some reason.

https://www.bay12games.com/dwarves/mantisbt/view.php?id=10564

Acknowledged, but still open.

The thing is a still suspiciously blinking war dog on chain after siege ended. Normally war dogs don't blink. Pasturing it and then retying it back to chain fixes issue with pit escaping prisoners. Like a magic.

Though, I build my pit (size 9x9 with 9 hatches) underground. My pit has 2 floors depth and on lowest floor I have 10x9 bridge. Also I have no mud around hatches on my pit or other slippery spills. Hatches are forbidden and not pet passable. Call me paranoid, but my pit works now 100% all the time.

A vat would contain only a single type of booze, which goes against the grain of trying to use as many as possible, and would also result in a need to introduce stack merging logic. It might also become an access bottleneck as each dorf going to get a drink would lock it up while trekking to it (i.e. the same issue barrels have), possibly leading to lots of booze in the vat and lots of thirsty dorfs in a line outside of it.

Pasturing locations could be very good solutions for automation with linked with them farmer workshops and even butchers. Zones are useful, but they need special structures inside too imho and right now installing large instrument in tavern or temple ends with dwarves gaping at them. Though maybe this is artifact-use rather issue.

Tavern locations actually could have multiple vats installed in single tavern. Each with different alcohol. As currently barkeep is force feeding alcohol to guests, why not make him _INSTEAD_ tap 10 mugs of alcohol from each vat and make those available in special "bar cabinet/serving table" structure, there dwarves can come and get their mugs with their favorite alcohol? No queues this way and filled mugs can be stored like inside of cluttered workshop.

Stack merging logic already is implemented for cooking purposes. Those 100+ units stacks of quarry bushes do not ring any bells?