making food/dwarf eating question

[Exbeer]

i feel like my dwarfs eat way little, and i feel like they dont eat the prepared meals as often as i like, if this is the case is there something i can do to make them ONLY prepared food and nothing else?

[Rainbow Jeremy]

Build an airlocked kitchen that only takes in unprepared food and only puts out prepared food, and no other food anywhere. With stockpiles and maybe a dedicated cook with their room and workshop configuration such that they have to stay in there doing that.

[Exbeer]

Originally posted by Rainbow Jeremy:

Build an airlocked kitchen that only takes in unprepared food and only puts out prepared food, and no other food anywhere. With stockpiles and maybe a dedicated cook with their room and workshop configuration such that they have to stay in there doing that.

dame, i was hoping there was some setting that made the dwarfs favour or just choose prepared meals if there is any . well thank you for replying.

[Haethei]

I've never had an issue with dwarves eating non-prepared meals instead of the prepared meals. You may want to place a stockpile with prepared meals closer to their eating area and leave the raw materials closer to the kitchen

[Doctor Zalgo]

Have a food stockpile in your dining area that pulls direct from your kitchen and only stores prepared food. Dwarfs are lazy and will eat whatever is closest.

You should also setup a work order that automatically produces prepared meals when they start to run low (just to make sure that you don't run out).

You also want a stockpile of drinks in your tavern and rules to automatically create more when you run low. Also, make sure your tavern has enough mugs, tables, chairs and available tavern keepers to make sure the whole operation is working smoothly.

[AlP]

If a dwarf has a preference for plump helmets, he will go for the plump helmets instead of any prepared meal (unless the meal contains plump helmets).

If you have both cooked and uncooked plump helmets, within the distance of one tile, they will sometimes go for the raw plump helmets.

If there is no preferred food available, they will take anything available.

[Exbeer]

Originally posted by Mazovian Socio-Economist:

Have a food stockpile in your dining area that pulls direct from your kitchen and only stores prepared food. Dwarfs are lazy and will eat whatever is closest.

You should also setup a work order that automatically produces prepared meals when they start to run low (just to make sure that you don't run out).

You also want a stockpile of drinks in your tavern and rules to automatically create more when you run low. Also, make sure your tavern has enough mugs, tables, chairs and available tavern keepers to make sure the whole operation is working smoothly.

ye i have done all this, but i did not specify from a kitchen, witch i am going to do, thanks that i think mite help to ferry the food better over.

[Exbeer]

Originally posted by AlP:

If a dwarf has a preference for plump helmets, he will go for the plump helmets instead of any prepared meal (unless the meal contains plump helmets).

If you have both cooked and uncooked plump helmets, within the distance of one tile, they will sometimes go for the raw plump helmets.

If there is no preferred food available, they will take anything available.

i have taken plump helmets off as food item, only drink item, but that does not matter i guess ? i will tinker some more with it, thanks everyone for replying :)

[Gedsaro]

Originally posted by Exbeer:

Originally posted by AlP:

If a dwarf has a preference for plump helmets, he will go for the plump helmets instead of any prepared meal (unless the meal contains plump helmets).

If you have both cooked and uncooked plump helmets, within the distance of one tile, they will sometimes go for the raw plump helmets.

If there is no preferred food available, they will take anything available.

i have taken plump helmets off as food item, only drink item, but that does not matter i guess ? i will tinker some more with it, thanks everyone for replying :)

You mean the cook or brew in the kitchen menu? yeah, thats only telling them not to COOK the item, they will still eat it raw if they feel like it.

[Exbeer]

Originally posted by Gedsaro:

Originally posted by Exbeer:

i have taken plump helmets off as food item, only drink item, but that does not matter i guess ? i will tinker some more with it, thanks everyone for replying :)

You mean the cook or brew in the kitchen menu? yeah, thats only telling them not to COOK the item, they will still eat it raw if they feel like it.

kk ty :)

[Xcorps]

One thing you could try is setting a prepared food stockpile away from your kitchens, then use the high/low traffic areas to increase the number of tiles the dwarves think they have to walk to get to your food stockpiles.

[AlP]

Originally posted by Xcorps:

One thing you could try is setting a prepared food stockpile away from your kitchens, then use the high/low traffic areas to increase the number of tiles the dwarves think they have to walk to get to your food stockpiles.

Traffic designations don't affect food search.

[Exbeer]

Originally posted by Xcorps:

One thing you could try is setting a prepared food stockpile away from your kitchens, then use the high/low traffic areas to increase the number of tiles the dwarves think they have to walk to get to your food stockpiles.

it looks like adding the workshop to the stockpile works better indeed.