i cant seem to get my dwarves to cook

[Zorn]

As the title says...i cant seem to get my dwarves to cook food
i produced ladles but they dont seem to equip them ?!?!?

[Xersos]

You have to manualy equip them to the dwarf that has skill cook. It took me 30 minutes to figure it out.

[algieba]

There is a bug whereby dwarves will not equip a ladle with a curved handle. Make one with a regular handle and they will equip it and you will be able to cook.

[Onion]

My cook equipped a ladle with a curved handle but won't use it to cook.

EDIT: Equipped a straight handled ladle and he can now cook

[Terroth]

Originally posted by Onion:

My cook equipped a ladle with a curved handle but won't use it to cook.

I had the same issue when I crafted a ladle with 0 cooking skill.

The game really is not clear about material properties and what professions EXACTLY benefit from preciousness.

I think they leave the wording fairly ambiguous (and the material properties effects) because it's assumed obvious? I still would like clarity with in-game information so I wouldn't have to experiment so heavily.

[Goranz]

nah its buged, wont work for me , dwarfs are idle for 5 min and they cook nothing

[Terroth]

Originally posted by R.m.K Goranz:

nah its buged, wont work for me , dwarfs are idle for 5 min and they cook nothing

I've had to reload saves a few times to unstick the AI routines.

[Goranz]

Originally posted by Onion:

My cook equipped a ladle with a curved handle but won't use it to cook.

EDIT: Equipped a straight handled ladle and he can now cook

worked after a few reloads of the savegame

[☥ Docdra ☥]

I've loaded a save game, and then watched for five minutes as the dwarves ran back and forth with a message that switched between telling me they were going to work and they were out of morale - or something like that. If I hadn't already unlocked and started making beer I'm not sure what would have happened, because that was the only reason they started back working again and even then it was iffy.