Rock nuts are a finite resource?

[[DKS] Killaim]

So i realised that Rock Nuts always return 1 Rock Nut when you process them.
So you can never get "more" Rock nuts out of it. You are replanting 1 seed. and getting 1 seed back...
This is a very weird plant to have no mechanism to expand its population...
Rock nuts should be like super expensive! There exist only so many of them before they vanish from getting eaten by some dwarf who had a bad overlord that forgot to make them stop eating them or cook with them.

And that sweet sweet oil!.
This is weird!

[Fel]

If you have a specialized planter rather than having everyone plant, you will get more than 1 plant per seed planted.
A high level planter can easily get between 3 and 5 plants per seed planted, which leads to a rapid increase in seeds.
Rock nuts are not any different from other plants on that front.

The farm plots built in the "soil" layers right under the surface have a divider on the amount you get so it's better to spread mud somewhere lower and build your farm plots there.

[AlP]

Rock nuts are seeds, so they are limited by the seed cap (200 by default. You can increase that in the settings.

You can fertilize your fields, and get a high skill planter to get more rock nuts.

[[MadTs] Phyrys]

Quarry bushes are one of the rare plants that need to go to a farmer workshop to be processed to bag.

What the game means by "Process plant (to bag)" is that quarry bush are lettuce and they're being... Uh... I don't have the term in english for "Picking every leaf and pile them in a bag". Well while they're at it, they also get DEEZ NUTS out of the underground lettuce.

Lss : You need one step more to get nuts out of quarry bush that isn't "Eating the plant".

[harlequin_corps]

Originally posted by MadTs Phyrys:

Quarry bushes are one of the rare plants that need to go to a farmer workshop to be processed to bag.

What the game means by "Process plant (to bag)" is that quarry bush are lettuce and they're being... Uh... I don't have the term in english for "Picking every leaf and pile them in a bag". Well while they're at it, they also get DEEZ NUTS out of the underground lettuce.

Lss : You need one step more to get nuts out of quarry bush that isn't "Eating the plant".

The steam version will auto process harvested quarry bush to leaves and rock nuts so you don't have to make a work order for it. Just for the pressing for oil, which you really don't have to do if you have tallow on hand.

[AlP]

Originally posted by harlequin_corps:

The steam version will auto process harvested quarry bush to leaves and rock nuts so you don't have to make a work order for it.

It will not. You probably have DFHack on.

In Steam version, crops produce both quarry bush leaves and bushes, so you don't have to process everything to get nuts and leaves.

[harlequin_corps]

Originally posted by AlP:

Originally posted by harlequin_corps:

The steam version will auto process harvested quarry bush to leaves and rock nuts so you don't have to make a work order for it.

It will not. You probably have DFHack on.

In Steam version, crops produce both quarry bush leaves and bushes, so you don't have to process everything to get nuts and leaves.

Odd. I don't have DF hack but I still get rock nuts and leaves. Maybe the kitchen makes the nuts then. Either way I can keep quarry bushes running without any workorders.

[AlP]

Originally posted by harlequin_corps:

Originally posted by AlP:

It will not. You probably have DFHack on.

In Steam version, crops produce both quarry bush leaves and bushes, so you don't have to process everything to get nuts and leaves.

Odd. I don't have DF hack but I still get rock nuts and leaves. Maybe the kitchen makes the nuts then. Either way I can keep quarry bushes running without any workorders.

That's probably the leaves from the farm. You still have to order the bushes to be processed into bags.

[Ranix]

that would explain the lack of seeds, look in your storage for quarry bushes, like entire whole ones. They're probably in a barrel

[harlequin_corps]

Originally posted by AlP:

Originally posted by harlequin_corps:

Odd. I don't have DF hack but I still get rock nuts and leaves. Maybe the kitchen makes the nuts then. Either way I can keep quarry bushes running without any workorders.

That's probably the leaves from the farm. You still have to order the bushes to be processed into bags.

No. I figured it out. I buy all the rocknuts from the trader.