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[Kraftwerk]

Whenever I embark, and I try to farm, I have no seeds to plant. Why?

[Broadsword]

You need to make sure you have plump helmet spawn at the embark screen. Then once you make a farm plot and irrigate it you need to make sure you have plump helmet highlighted all year round.

[Kraftwerk]

You need to make sure you have plump helmet spawn at the embark screen. Then once you make a farm plot and irrigate it you need to make sure you have plump helmet highlighted all year round.

Ahh alright. What are my alternatives to farming, since i've embarked with a good fortress sans the farm?

[ISGC]

butchering and (new with this addition) milking!
a dairy is far more recyclable then butchering, but it takes a bit of work to set up
for the time being, butcher any starting animals, as migrants come with plenty.
alternatively, set up a manager and take a look at your seed stocks to see if you have any seeds that aren't going to use

[Kraftwerk]

butchering and (new with this addition) milking!
a dairy is far more recyclable then butchering, but it takes a bit of work to set up
for the time being, butcher any starting animals, as migrants come with plenty.
alternatively, set up a manager and take a look at your seed stocks to see if you have any seeds that aren't going to use

Thank you, and forgive me for my newbishness, but how do I  designate an animal for butchering?

[Kza]

butchering and (new with this addition) milking!
a dairy is far more recyclable then butchering, but it takes a bit of work to set up
for the time being, butcher any starting animals, as migrants come with plenty.
alternatively, set up a manager and take a look at your seed stocks to see if you have any seeds that aren't going to use

Thank you, and forgive me for my newbishness, but how do I  designate an animal for butchering?

z brings up the stocks menu. Go to animals and press b on any UNOWNED animal.

Also, plump helmets leave seeds behind when you eat them (I THINK) or brew them (I know), so you SHOULD be able to farm.

[ISGC]

we all had to start somewhere
use [V]iew like you would view a dwarf, go to the [P] screen and press [S)laughter.  Your dwarf with the butcher labor enabled (which you likely will have to assign) will take it to your butcher work shop (which you must build) and cut it into pieces, which can be eaten or made into meals with a kitchen workshop.  The other components you get out of butchering are also helpful, bones which can be made into crafts, arrows, crossbows or decorations, fat which can be rendered and made into soap (which is possible to make, but has to be done through the [J]obs menu, rather then the soapmaker's workshop), hides which can be made into leather and some others which I am probably forgetting.

EDIT: sorry about the strike

[Kraftwerk]

we all had to start somewhere
use [V]iew like you would view a dwarf, go to the [P] screen and press laughter.  Your dwarf with the butcher labor enabled (which you likely will have to assign) will take it to your butcher work shop (which you must build) and cut it into pieces, which can be eaten or made into meals with a kitchen workshop.  The other components you get out of butchering are also helpful, bones which can be made into crafts, arrows, crossbows or decorations, fat which can be rendered and made into soap (which is possible to make, but has to be done through the [J]obs menu, rather then the soapmaker's workshop), hides which can be made into leather and some others which I am probably forgetting.

I cannot TELL you how helpfull you are

I did that, but now nothing is happening

[Absentia]

If you run out of animals, you can also use herbalism to get food from surface shrubs (enable the labor for one or more dwarves, then (d)esignate an area of shrubs for gathering). After these are eaten/brewed, most produce seeds that can be planted on the surface without seasonal restrictions or the need for muddy ground. As long as you're in a biome that has shrubs (i.e. not a glacier, desert, or wasteland) you can easily sustain your fort this way.

Disclaimer: Surface farming can cause side effects including pointy ears, wooden weapons, cannibalism, tree-hugging, and a tendency to be covered in magma.

[ISGC]

make sure you have a butcher shop, animals to butcher and a butcherer, then he will haul an animal to his shop and you will get "so and so cow has been struck down" and its various components will be moved to their various stock piles and bins.  if you have not created stock piles/bins, you should probably get on that as the items will rot and release miasma if left in the butcher shop (undergound)

[Psieye]

Once the next DF2010 version is released, the fishing bug will be fixed so fishing will be a viable way to feed your fort again. Trading for food supplements your supplies but ideally should not be relied on to be your main food income. Make sure all food is moved to stockpiles, else they will rot away.

[Sphalerite]

Whenever I embark, and I try to farm, I have no seeds to plant. Why?

Actually, you almost certainly do have seeds to plant.  What you are seeing is a bug in DF2010 in which underground soil needs to be irrigated before it can be farmed, even if it's soil or loam or sand or something similar.  Un-muddied underground farm plots give you the "no seeds for this location" message.  You need to dig out a space for a farm, then arrange for water to muddy it (via pumping or bucket brigade or channeling or whatever), then make the farm there.  Once you do that you will be able to plant and grow food.

[Flaede]

how is that a bug? It kind of makes sense, since underground there is no rain.

[Sphalerite]

how is that a bug? It kind of makes sense, since underground there is no rain.

It's a bug in that it's unintentional.  Underground farms on soil didn't need irrigation in previous versions, and weren't intended to in this version, but something in all the many changes since 40d unintentionally changed that.  It may actually make more sense this way (although I would argue that underground farms don't make sense at all) but it's still a bug, and will probably be fixed in a future release.

[Satarus]

If your plot lists no crops, yet you have seeds, its because you didn't irigate.  If you have no seeds, just get more on embark.  Default embark only gives like 5 seeds.  You should get a large number.  They are 1 point each so you have no excuse not to bring many.  Plus if you bring an odd number like 21, you'll get a free bag.