Help winter

[TheTacticalNinja]

hello I am new. I have 8 yaks 3 male and rest female. i have 40 food and 10 drinks and I NEED HELP. how do you get Milk??? in beging i had like 100 milk but idk how i got that 100 milk and I need drinks badly

[Tim Chambers]

ok. butcher 2 of the males and put it so you can have max females and only 1 make per pasture. build a well so you have water if you run out of alcohol

[Ishan451]

Originally posted by mattsuperstar2:

how do you get Milk???

Make sure you have a Ranger (or any gnome) with Animal Husbandry activated.

Ranger is the default Class one of your Gnomes starts with. Check if you still have it, if not assign one of your gnomes to the task. Then either select the profession template (in population and there on the Professions Tab) or click on the gnome with Animal Husbandry activated, and search the Job Task Priority Window.

Here you want to move "Pastures" up to near the top spot. This will make your Ranger care for the animals (milk them for milk).

Also its advisable, that, if you have any body of water your gnomes can safely reach, that you construct a well for emergency purposes. A well requires a Block (made by a stone carver) and a barrel (made by a carpenter), and has to have access to a body of water. Construct that, and you'll have an emergency source of water.


Male Yaks do not produce Milk, so you might want to butcher 2 of them, as MeatTheGamer said, since you only need 1 male Yak to breed.

Also consider foraging on the rest of the map, outside your kingdom (which can be dangerous), which can get you fruit you need (strawberries, Apples and Oranges).

Constructing a Brewery to help you turn Fruits into wine. Grain into Beer.

Word of Advise.. you should have 1 Food 1 Drink per Gnome per Day for the Winter + 6 more days in early spring (this should get you to your next harvest). This means to get to the winter you need a stockpile of ~20 food and Drink per Gnome. Also a stockpile of 20 straw/seed (for birds) per Animal or your animals will run away/starve

Butchering the 2 male yaks will get you some meat.

[TheTacticalNinja]

okay but my guys are idole is milk timed? the top do you mean 1 is important and 5 is not?

[DC-GS]

Job priority doesn't have numbers, so you are probably trying to set the priority of the pasture, not the job.
Go population - professions. On the right side you see priority list. First select Rancher job from dropdown, then move pasture to top or at least over workshop, hauling, construction.

[verarticus]

Originally posted by mattsuperstar2:

okay but my guys are idole is milk timed? the top do you mean 1 is important and 5 is not?

Yes, they can only be milked every so often. if you mean Priority then yes 1 is MOST and the larger the number the less important it is. Also if you go to population there should be a tab for jobs and such, you can alter what does job does what there and can make a new job as well. To the right of that there is a list with the same sections, and they also affect priority from top to bottom. (So if you have grove over farming they will always work on tree farms BEFORE they work on regular farms no matter what the priority number is on the farms)