How do I farm D:
I try making farm plots but it dosent work :C
Made farms plots but now im confused with the seed menu thing.
What do I press? There isnt any 'Plant Seed' key.
Oh god, now everyones hungry, dehydrated and unhappy...
What do
NOW EVERYONES THROWING A TANTRUM, INCLUDING ME.
Ive edited this post like 6 times now D: HELP PLEASE
Press a b c and d to switch between the season. Press + or - until the word Plump Helmets is highlighted, then press enter. Everyone with the plant grower task will go and plant plump helmets and automatically harvest them and put them in the food stockpile.
To fix dehydration, build a still and brew some drinks. Plump helmets can be brewed, but don't brew them all or you won't have anything to eat. If you do accidentally brew them all, you can always cook the seeds and wine to make dwarven ale biscuits and plump helmet spawn roasts. Dwarfs won't do this on their own though, and I don't think they'll eat just seeds. Seeds are not normally cookable, press z to bring up the stocks menu, go to the kitchen tab, and turn them on. If you have any more questions it's all on the wiki. Don't forget to turn them off later or they'll bake all your seeds and then you can't plant anymore until you trade for more. Also don't cook away all your booze. Managing food isn't particularly difficult, but once you start cooking seeds and wine you need to make sure you keep track of your stocks or you can end up with nothing to eat or drink.
If you're totally out of food, send everyone you can spare out to gather plants, fishing can help too although they need to be cleaned before they can be eaten.
My fort always goes great until I get around 40 dwarfs, and then my production efficiency goes to the stuffhouse.
Right now I've got 20 idle, and I simply don't know what to do with them.
Smooth and engrave everything (don't engrave rooms you'll need to expand later, the artists get unhappy from having their work defaced if you mine it). Put them on rock clean up duty. Draft them into the military.
