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Author Topic: Is there a way to prevent dwarves eating seeds?  (Read 5424 times)

mickel

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Is there a way to prevent dwarves eating seeds?
« on: August 10, 2007, 07:13:00 pm »
Because I would really appreciate it. I tried planting tower caps, with the dwarves suddenly developing a craving for tower-cap spawn, eating them rather than planting me, and leaving me without any crops to grow... This made me a sad fortress administrator.

I'll admit it was a pretty freakish thing to happen, but it'd still be nice to prevent the possibility from occurring again. Ever.

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Re: Is there a way to prevent dwarves eating seeds?
« Reply #1 on: August 10, 2007, 07:17:00 pm »
I'm sorrry but how do you plant tower caps? I thought they grew naturaly in the cave after flooding.

Are you sure your not mixing this up with some other seed?

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mickel

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Re: Is there a way to prevent dwarves eating seeds?
« Reply #2 on: August 10, 2007, 07:27:00 pm »
Yes, I mixed them up. Probably wishful thinking in the lower recesses of my mind. I meant... those other mushrooms... which I completely forgot the name of.

Help, I'm posting at half past two in the morning, and I can't stop.

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Grek

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Re: Is there a way to prevent dwarves eating seeds?
« Reply #3 on: August 10, 2007, 07:30:00 pm »
quote:
Originally posted by mickel:
<STRONG>Yes, I mixed them up. Probably wishful thinking in the lower recesses of my mind. I meant... those other mushrooms... which I completely forgot the name of.</STRONG>

Plump helmets maybe?

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Re: Is there a way to prevent dwarves eating seeds?
« Reply #4 on: August 10, 2007, 07:34:00 pm »
I have never known dwarfs to eat the seeds, even when starving...are you sure there not trying to plant them?
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Tamren

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Re: Is there a way to prevent dwarves eating seeds?
« Reply #5 on: August 10, 2007, 07:39:00 pm »
Dunno if this applies but there is one bug that happens with weather turned on.

It seems that seeds that have been rained on are useless. So the farmer takes the seed to the plot and you get an error message. The seed just goes poof into thin air.

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Re: Is there a way to prevent dwarves eating seeds?
« Reply #6 on: August 10, 2007, 08:55:00 pm »
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Is there a way to prevent dwarves eating seeds?

Dwarves don't eat seeds. However, in the "Z => Kitchen" menu, you have the option to turn off seed cooking. You'll have to remove the cook option of every kind of seeds you possess.

If you have a cook and that he is allowed to cook seeds... It might be the reason why they are disapearing.

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