little help with food and drink and work orders

[VMPKNIGHT]

before playing dwarf fortress i read through the wiki watched several playthroughs etc. i would say my first test run to learn the ropes from my perpective is going well but i have one problem. my dorfs will not stop making food and booze. in the work orders i have it set to if amount of drinks is less than 50 makes me 10 more. currently i have 257 drinks. when checking in the work orders it states it is not satisfied for next check so that means should not be making more but for some reason my dorfs just keep making more i have the exact same issue with food. am i just being dumb please help me i dont want it to get out of control.

[✿ Júlia ✿]

Hi, maybe there's something wrong with the work orders.
What you want to see is:
Brew drink from plant 10
Condittions:
amount of drinks less than 50
amount of unrotten fermentable plants greater than 10
amount of empty food storage items greater than 10

[VMPKNIGHT]

Originally posted by ✿ Júlia ✿:

Hi, maybe there's something wrong with the work orders.
What you want to see is:
Brew drink from plant 10
Condittions:
amount of drinks less than 50
amount of unrotten fermentable plants greater than 10
amount of empty food storage items greater than 10

sorry if this sounds dumb the work orders are taking a bit for me to adjust to. so is this part "amount of unrotten fermentable plants greater than 10
amount of empty food storage items greater than 10" needed for the work orders to function correctly?

[✿ Júlia ✿]

Yes (if you want to use conditions), it's in the conditions tab inside the work orders (math symbols).
The game makes it easy for you, it has buttons that automatically set the condittions correctly for you and you just need to set the amounts.

[VMPKNIGHT]

Originally posted by ✿ Júlia ✿:

Yes (if you want to use conditions), it's in the conditions tab inside the work orders (math symbols).
The game makes it easy for you, it has buttons that automatically set the condittions correctly for you and you just need to set the amounts.

this makes so much sense thank you so much. this is something that is not really explained well in the playthroughs i have watched etc. i really appreciate your response <3

[✿ Júlia ✿]

You're welcome!

[Other]

Originally posted by VMPKNIGHT:

before playing dwarf fortress i read through the wiki watched several playthroughs etc. i would say my first test run to learn the ropes from my perpective is going well but i have one problem. my dorfs will not stop making food and booze. in the work orders i have it set to if amount of drinks is less than 50 makes me 10 more. currently i have 257 drinks. when checking in the work orders it states it is not satisfied for next check so that means should not be making more but for some reason my dorfs just keep making more i have the exact same issue with food. am i just being dumb please help me i dont want it to get out of control.

One thing that catches many new players with drink orders is that the work order will schedule 10 "brew drink" jobs when it triggers, and it will NOT stop part-way through if the conditions are no longer met - it will finish those 10 jobs, and only then look at the conditions to see if it should start another 10. Brew Drink in particular also produces at least 5 and as many as 45 individual drink servings for each job (5 times the number of plants in the stack used; stack size from traders is usually 5, while farming mostly gives stacks of 2-6), so if you only want a small number of drinks on hand, you probably don't want 10 jobs each time, you would reduce it to 2 or even 1 per cycle.

[VMPKNIGHT]

Originally posted by Other:

Originally posted by VMPKNIGHT:

before playing dwarf fortress i read through the wiki watched several playthroughs etc. i would say my first test run to learn the ropes from my perpective is going well but i have one problem. my dorfs will not stop making food and booze. in the work orders i have it set to if amount of drinks is less than 50 makes me 10 more. currently i have 257 drinks. when checking in the work orders it states it is not satisfied for next check so that means should not be making more but for some reason my dorfs just keep making more i have the exact same issue with food. am i just being dumb please help me i dont want it to get out of control.

One thing that catches many new players with drink orders is that the work order will schedule 10 "brew drink" jobs when it triggers, and it will NOT stop part-way through if the conditions are no longer met - it will finish those 10 jobs, and only then look at the conditions to see if it should start another 10. Brew Drink in particular also produces at least 5 and as many as 45 individual drink servings for each job (5 times the number of plants in the stack used; stack size from traders is usually 5, while farming mostly gives stacks of 2-6), so if you only want a small number of drinks on hand, you probably don't want 10 jobs each time, you would reduce it to 2 or even 1 per cycle.

this is really useful information thank you so much for your reply. ^_^