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That worked perfectly, thank you!

This is a pretty common problem, but thankfully clever stockpile management can fix it.  Provide 4 1x1 stockpiles, with different food types enabled at each, and barrels disallowed so there can only be one stack of food at each stockpile,  Link these piles to give to the kitchen, and take from the main food stockpile.  When he tries to make a meal, he only has 4 ingredients to choose from, all different.  This can be used to force the creation of very specific meals.

Unfortunately, you need some extremely prompt hauling to refill the feeder stockpiles before the chef wants more ingredients, if he's any good, so if you leave cooking on repeat you will get cancellations.  You could make sure that there are dedicated food haulers on hand, burrowed so they will be close by, but that's kinda a pain.

You can also make a larger number of small stockpiles, since there are more than 4 ingredient types, or use 1x2 and 1x3 stockpiles if you don't mind a few duplicate ingredients making their way in occasionally.

This is a neat idea, I'm going to try it. It might increase the chance of a dwarf grabbing a meal with a preferred ingredient, unless they're coded to do that anyway.

Regardless, you can get past the cancellation spam by using a manager and work orders. You'll still get the spam messages but the jobs will automatically re-queue themselves until the order is finished.

Hey all.

I have this problem all the time when setting up a stockpile for butchers to use. No matter how many times I figure out how to do it, I always end up forgetting again. Basically I want to set up a custom stockpile that only accepts butcherable corpses for my dwarves to use, so as not to waste meat. Otherwise, in my experience, anything not a living tame animal or something dragged in by a hunter will be ignored and go to waste.

If someone could please just remind me of the correct settings so that I have a permanent written record of it to refer to next time, that'd be just great.

Cheers!

I don't know, as an avid player of both Eve and DF I have to say they are both challenging in different ways. in DF you have to puzzle your way through endless, counter-intuitive menus, overcome occasionally baffling game mechanics, and deal with the myriad problems and issues that arise with attempting to control 200 drunken, insane baby-killers. But you can happily just click away, see what happens and laugh at the incredible combat reports that ensue. Eve is very different, you can join a large coalition and be told what to fly, where to fly and who to shoot and get kills and be "successful". It's easy and a lot of people like it. But if you really dig into the underlying mechanics, how different ships and modules interact, spend some time out in solo or small gang pvp it's a very different animal.

I guess my point is that I've known a lot of people who couldn't figure out one game or the other (or both) and called them too challenging and quit. Personally I love both games because they are so challenging. It forces you to explore the world you've been given and think outside the box in order to conquer it. I think of both as worlds rather than true video games, literal sandboxes for me to play in and utilize imagination and often sheer bloody-mindedness to forcefully extract fun from them.

I guess the only real difference is in eve you're inflicting misery on real people instead of elves. Yay misery!

It's easy really, make a one tile stockpile and set it to only allow artifact quality items, of the type and material of what you want in it. Make sure other stockpiles for mundane versions of that item type have artifact quality disabled. And be sure to disable bins if you want to actually see the item. Add traps, drawbridges/floodgates as a vault door maybe some guards at the door... gotta find something to keep the fortress guard busy! Or some captured monsters... whatever, go nuts! It'll give your adventurers something to aim for.

I've had some very large migrant waves early on, even without much in the way of value in the fort. Have you created a large amount of meals? Meals get a quality modifier which can give them potentially very high values with decent ingredients/large stacks of ingredients.

It's an axe. I'll just be better off with my masterwork steel weapons. The kobolds can have the artifact.

Yeah that makes sense. At some point I may trawl through the legends and see if anything pops up.

Thanks!