6 Farming Tips for Dwarf Fortress

hey there I'm further reading today we're going to talk about farming and caring for your animals my first tip is that floors are see-through by this I mean light can travel through them for example you'll see here we've got a block floor if I go down one level we'll see we have some firm plots you might notice already that we've got some grass here graphs should only grow on the surface but because this is under a floor it can go here as well if I click on the phone plot you can see that I'm growing grape lines in this one and I'm going rope breeds in this one these are normally surface plants and right next to them I've got this big farm plant and if they click this you can see that I am going pigtails and I only have access to stuff I can grow on the ground so even though these are all on the same Z level because this is normal ground and this is a floor tile discount is having light and this counts as being dark the value of this mechanic isn't just for farming though you'll see here in my other parts if I scroll down I have this area at the bottom of a pit with a channel leading up to the surface this is my food production area and this whole area now is going to be in sunlight this is quite helpful because when items watch if they are in sunlight they don't create miasma sometimes my dwarves can be busy and after they butcher an animal or they cook a meal they might not have time to move it into one of my many Quantum stockpiles in this area so by putting it at the end of this pit it means that if anything does end up going bad it's not going to never be impact by dwarves as much my next tip is how you can set which foods can be brewed and cooked for this you want to go down to your labor menu which is down here the picture of the hammer or you can press y on your keyboard once it's open go here to the kitchen section this tablets all the raw ingredients in your fort right now and what the permissions are so for example here I've said pigtails to not be bootreds because I use pigtails for making cloths I don't want to waste them on Naked drinks while here with my plump helmets I've set them to not get cooked Rich important things you should check here are the seeds tab make sure you're not cooking with any seeds because you want to be planting the seeds you won't be cooking with them go to your drinks Tab and you'll see here I have set a bunch of these to cook with which is a mistake I am going to go and get rid of a bunch of these because again I want these for drinking not for cooking and then here in meat fish and others a very important thing you want to check for is any Tallow want to make sure your Tallow is set not to be cooked with this is because Tallow is used for making soap it can be quite tricky though to actually make sure that you set this properly because again this only shows ingredients that exist right now in your fart Tallow is created when the kitchen does the vendor fat action so if your kitchen is also cooking meals I might cook with it straight away you want to keep an eye out when butchering new animals I'll give more details on how you should do this when I do my soap guys later this week for the next tip you should make sure to pasture animals down here we have a couple of goats these are grazing animals and you can see that they're hungry they keep talking about chicken legs go to the chicken legs they eat grass and because it's not pasture it's not going to eat any grass even though there's a lot of grass they can wander into in order to serve a pasture you go to your zones menu you go to pan pasture and you draw a box and there you go now it's been made you press accept after you make it you have to tell your dwarves to put animals into this area so if you press this plus next to a rabbit it's going to list all of your animals it's got a squirrel to make sure you find any animals who should be grazing so for example you could see here these are our billy goats and Rams I just want to make sure that they are put into a pasture otherwise they will not eat any grass and they will starve at the start of any Fortress you're gonna have to put your crazy animals either outside or down below one of these roof tiles as I mentioned earlier because then the grass is going to grow and they can eat that eventually actually you will preach the caverns and when you do that it's actually going to send fungus and Moss up through your fart at this point you can actually have your breathing animals put anywhere whether it's a muddy or a soil floor because that is going to grow fungus and Moss which they can eat but craving animals aren't the only animals each a pasture here in my food production area I have created a pasture and this pasture contains a bunch of cats the reason for this is cats are going to kill Vermin and Vermin might try to eat your raw or prepared meals so by just having a couple of cats anywhere where there's food you can protect your stocks from any sort of vermin another tip is you can use dogs to protect your base from any sort of Thieves thieves can either be agents of a villain trying to steal artifacts or there could be goblins trying to steal your babies by having dogs at your entrance anyone's trying to sneak in will be seen the hunting dogs in particular are have a better detection range than normal dogs so I tend to have a mix of hunting dogs and War Dogs at my entrances then when a thief comes in the dogs will spot them and the thieves are particularly Brave or particularly foolish they'll run in and just get 200 shreds to shreds you say as for how to get war dogs and hunting dogs you have to train them train them you want to go with the livestock menu to get to it you go to Citizens menu either by clicking here or pressing you go to pets livestock and scroll down to any animals that need to be trained once found the options are to give them to a specific trainer to train them for war or train them for hunting a war animal is better at killing stuff a hunting animal is better at seeing stelted foals other options on the site include make an animal available as a pet butcher an animal and for male animals you can Guild them these are just a few tips for farming and animal use there's a lot more the game is quite deep and I'll be going to more detail on some of these in future videos I also just want to thank everybody for all of the positive responses in the last couple of videos I've been absolutely blown away and I'm glad I could have so many people get started in the game if you want to catch more of me uh feel free to like And subscribe check my Twitch down below where I stream to our Fortress live four days a week and also check out any of the videos on screen right now

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Length: 6min 34sec (394 seconds)

Published: Mon Dec 12 2022