Dwarf Fortress - Quick Tutorial - Farming and Brewing

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[@therealexodus8462]

I litterally just looked you up on KZbin just for this exact video

[@austinnewell9791]

I was watching his vids last night and wondering “where’s a farming and brewing video?” Because most all of the other basics had been covered lol this guy is a godsend

[@pilzwigder17te]

how to make barrels?

[@minaitse7113]

Yes just that

[@Lexandritte]

Blind for ten tutorials in a row: "Something is fighting in the basement... Troglodytes again... doesn't matter, here's how you kick mining carts, ignore the ghost notification." Blind in this tutorial: "So the last fortress got destroyed by troglodytes."

[@zaidanesem6635]

Just another Monday for him

[@kingdomh2lover]

My first fort had 4000 food and 10-30 drinks for 4 years . They were cooking everything and not leaving any seeds to make plants and brew. I didn't know about the plump helmets so I'll keep it in mind for next time

[@BlindiRL]

You probably just had plenty of options and were harvesting other plants. *that is what you are supposed to do.

[@adammccraw7379]

Blind, your speech cadence and annunciation are impeccable. I listen to your videos on 1.5 speed and I can understand everything you're saying. A complement to your well-honed speech pattern and excellent tutorials; I've learned so much while watching you. Thank you for your time and effort.

[@JudgementalAle]

Just want to say ditto on this. Your audio and narration is really just a genuine 10/10. And this is in a world where streamers unknowingly terrorizing their audience with a spendy mic setup is almost the rule.

[@commiecat5879]

I love this series because instead of a meandering rant about an entire fortress its concise and covers one system with a practical model. Very good tutorial man

[@rachelboughton9061]

I cannot tell you how grateful I am for your quick tutorial series! As a brand new player, your work has demystified a lot of the mechanics of the game that I've been getting hung up on, and organizing them into bite-sized, concise videos focused on a single subject makes them so easy to reference as needed! I thought I had farming pretty much figured out, and then you mentioned that cooking plump helmets into food gets rid of the spawns and it was like my third eye opened to the secrets of the cosmos. I'll be subbing to your patreon, keep up the great work!

[@snapydapy]

Binge watching all your tutorials, you're awesome! Thank you so much for everything and allowing people to get into the game and enjoy it with less confusion! Can you cover a tutorial about cloth and leather perhaps? And the different metals/where to find/what to use for?

[@JohnnyBsKillz115]

I have been having so much trouble with the plump helmet issue. I could not find the kitchen menu for the life of me. Thank you so much! Sincerely, you have saved my fortress.

[@WAXTER_XIII]

Thank you for all your hard work and quick tutorial series, they're really helpful! After you're finished with the basics I'd love to see a series of advanced tutorials and even advanced builds (like a dam or how to block the river, magma to surface pump and other stuff like that)!

[@magnus0017]

Just watched Tekkud's farming tutorial a few days ago, and while out of date I would still suggest it until it gets updated as there are some good design ideas in it for building larger farms. Still good stuff here too, keep them coming Blind. ^_^

[@NathanWind99]

THANK YOU! It was driving me crazy when I run out of seeds and don't know how to get more other than trading. Life changing advice!

[@evilbob840]

Solid video, easy to follow and these basics will keep your fort running for quite a while.

[@tanknolasco6096]

dude you kick ass, New dwarf here and imm toooo drunkk to understand this farming thing, thanks for making this easy to understand

[@Rayon13]

These tutorials are lifesavers and have been pretty much on loop while I play the game

[@r7ndom]

Funny that I'm listening to this video today. You mentioned Tekkud the other day so I checked him out on Twitch today. I ended up watching over two hours of him planning a glass workshop today.... Perfectly optimized is a good description of his play style.

[@stewartgames6697]

Besides your Dwarfs cooking all your plants (the most common way to lose all your seeds), there are a few other ways you can lose your entire food supply early on: 1. You planted too much, and don't have enough workers to harvest all the crop in time. Crops can rot if left "on the vine" for too long. Focus on food production and ignore cloth or dyes at first, and don't plant huge farms, until you have enough dedicated farmers to gather your crops quickly. A small fort can last on just a single tile of farm for some time, no need to go 5x5 or larger early in the game. 2. You planted too late, and the season changed, killing a crop that cannot grow in, say, the Winter. This one can be difficult to avoid, as it requires a lot of micromanagement to prevent (you have to watch your crops and switch to "leave fallow" after the first harvest of the season, then swap it back manually when the seasons change). Another way to deal with it is to just take the hit to production and leave the crop fields fallow on the second season of their cycle - for example, only plant Cave Wheat in Summer and leave the fields Fallow in Fall, so that you won't plant Cave Wheat too close to Winter and lose all your seed. Sadly, this was once easily avoidable because crops would get flagged red for planting if it was too close to the season change, but a bug took out that feature and it has yet to be fixed. 3. Vermin got into your seed or food stores, and caused the seeds to rot away. Cats can help a bit with this as they kill some vermin, as can putting your farms behind doors so that flies and other flying insects have a hard time getting into your food storage. Chickens are also capable of eating insects, though there is some debate over whether or not the chickens will eat crops (they have the ability to eat plants, but seem to rarely need to eat to the point that they won't ever need enough nutrition to consume an entire crop plant). Note that Pigs tend to generate lots of vermin, so should be kept far away from farms. They do this because they can "graze" on any floor, including stone, and doing so spawns Vermin. Chickens also have the ability to spawn Vermin, but since they also have the ability to eat Vermin they tend to clean up after themselves. 4. Lack of bags for seed storage. When dwarfs brew or eat a raw plant, the seed falls on the floor wherever the action happens. If a seed is not quickly stored into a bag, it rots and disappears. So there can be issues if you either do not have an empty or available bag for storing the seed, or the dwarfs who would collect those seeds are given too many jobs and unavailable to do the work of seed collecting. Basically be wary of over-extending your Haulers around harvest time, and always keep up with bag production. 5. Quarry Bushes in particular are a real pain to grow, and not really worth bothering with. I honestly think they are bugged out - I've seen both the leaves and the entire bush get harvested (as in the item "Quarry Bush" gets put into my food stockpile...), the "raw" leaves are supposed to be processed by putting them into bags with the "Process into Bags" command at the Farm workstation before being cooked but can be cooked without the bagging (probably because they have too similar a name? one is called "quarry leaves", and the other is a bag full of "quarry leaves", but the two items are supposed to be different...), and even if you somehow manage to get some rock nuts before the dwarfs cook them all the main use of them (milling them for oil) destroys the seed of the plant and leaves you without a way to plant again as is. I mean I love this game, but Quarry Bushes are the thing that got me the closest to rage quitting multiple times over the years.

[@beccab9788]

Would love to see a video on how to pick a starting area. I think that is what I have been struggling with the most and have had to restart a few times due to bad decisions.

[@inccubusdaniel9249]

Honestly, even for greybeards, these are pretty useful as refreshers at the very least, but I've been personally watching these as a way to get a better feel for the steam version. Now, I've not quite gotten to the point yet where I'm doing it in my current fortress, but I must ask, when will you do the tutorials on the !!!FUN!!! stuff like GCS silk farms, or lava lake utilisation? I'm very much looking forward to seeing other people's take on those things, as my own attempts often lead to a mantra-esque repeat of DF's motto.

[@ghod2114]

Thanks. Tried to understand why I run out of seeds and now I know why

[@quinniferlawrencegayrights400]

Thank you! Your tutorials are top notch and up to date, better than anyone else's tutorials that I've found so far. You might not see the big difference between a new tutorial and an old tutorial as someone who's played this game for a while, but speaking as a new player the non-steam version tutorials are basically unwatchable because I don't know what I'm looking at.

[@any1alive]

1-7 is enough for 100 dwarfs with jsut 2 levels in growing, with potaash, and near max level the 1-7 tile plump helmet si enough for makign both wine, and makign the wine into lavish meals

[@SoldSoul4VB]

this is perfect for where im at. thankyou very much :)

[@lyndonjohnson1238]

dude you're the goat with these quick tutorials

[@NKGerydos]

These quickies are really cool! Thanks for making them. I'll start my DF adventures a lot more prepaired when i have the time.

[@AmishMinister]

I always got about armored up and my seeds were gone. Never knew they were made into food too, let alone that Kitchen menu. thank you.

[@DanielCoffey67]

Since I played old-DF with a tileset rather than ascii, one thing with the Steam DF tileset has caught me out a few times... Farm Plots that have seeds in them are still shown with the same appearance as a fallow tile. Since there was no visual clue, I found myself wondering if anyone had actually planted seeds or had I run out? I do know that when you click on a Plot you get to see what is inside it so you can actually see the seeds but old-DF with tilseset had a different appearance for those squares. Was ascii-DF the same with the tileset spoiling me or do you think this is an oversight in Steam DF?

[@OCinneide]

I've had the same confusion as you.

[@KrossFire330]

Yeah thats a shame, but I'm sure there will be graphics updates, and at the very least there will be TONS of graphics mods from the community. So this won't be an issue we have to deal with for very long at all

[@addictedfoolgamer1970]

Pretty sure the words "plump", "helmet" and "Plump helmet" have just been trippled in the amount of times they've gone through my brain in my lifetime.

[@Qwertzqwertzqwert]

This is EXACTLY what I need. Why do you make the rooms in such a special shape and not just strict rectangular? Just for the look?

[@smfisch]

i was wondering this too, maybe just aesthetic

[@MrMaltavius]

It's just for looks

[@marshallq]

Can you make a tutorial on nest boxes, peahen and eggs? Like do you need to forbid the eggs in the nestboxes to avoid them from being cooked and getting more animals?

[@rreece90]

For me now there are simultaneously 2 best video games of all time: 1. "play once from A to Z" type: The Witcher 3 2. "endless sandbox" type: Dwarf Fortess (Steam Edition)

[@CallumBradbury]

You don't actually lose the spawn if they're cooked into meals, but you don't get the spawn back until the meals are eaten

[@valinra1289]

Quick, I like. I sub'd due to that alone. Thank you Blind

[@CamKull]

Hey man just wanted to say your help has enabled me to enjoy this game on a different level. Keep up the good work. I would love to see a tutorial revolving around the various animal types and how to utilize them most efficiently. Having trouble getting my butcher to work or geld anything.

[@adamteashaw9441]

Using this tutorial, I managed to get a farm and a stable supply of drink so yay. But my main question is, why is deep farming better than not-deep farming?

[@luisgiraldo8848]

Commenting since you are so helpful!

[@ArawnNox]

I wish I knew about the brewing/cooking of plump helmets with my tutorial fort. I burned through my supply with no spawn to spare, totally unaware of that setting. Luckily there's plenty of other sources for brewing.

[@Dtyn8]

Hi! Been playing DF for a while now but super curious, why no barrels in the seeds stockpile? Thanks, loving the new tutorials!

[@Bronimin]

barrels mean your haulers hog the seed bags for longer while they perform inventory tetris with seeds inside bags inside barrels

[@Dtyn8]

@@Bronimin Ahh okay, thanks - that makes sense.

[@PureRok]

Wish this covered farming on stone. Apparently I have to make it into mud? I have no idea how to do this and I have no soil available to me to make a simple farm like this.

[@its_radit]

thank you so much!!!

[@BlindiRL]

You're welcome!

[@jessefraser9826]

There is a new change making underground farming less effective at surface levels. Now you need to reach cavern level to farm.

[@wegmier1621]

I did this except my dwarves ran out of Plump helmet seeds after a few weeks. Any tips?

[@doc-holliday-]

The only option for my farm is "leave fallow" despite the fact i have a bunch of seeds of different kinds.

[@justinb2824]

No matter what I do, above or below ground I am not able to select any seeds to place in a farm. Only leave fallow is an option.

[@TheVillainCity]

2:30 may I get an explanation as to why you no like barrels for seeds?

[@skidmech2909]

Thanks a lot! I have been wondering how to manage the seeds issue

[@ivanpickles]

plz, do a video with hunting and fishing (all process)! ty for the videos!

[@hannahbriarly4192]

Thanks my first fortress has been out of drinks for like a year now and I didn't know how to get the seeds back

[@MrMaltavius]

I just can't understand why Tarn has Plump Helmets set to allow Cooked as a default after all these years and the first thing everyone always do is to turn it off.

[@CaptainSloose]

I love this! "perfectly optimized tutorials for crazy people" made me laugh a little harder than it should have. much love.

[@dhauz___7855]

I've had that barrel bug happen to me in my stills. Question is, do they happen on other workshops? Kitchens, fishery, eggs etc?

[@inigo137]

Could you e xplain why we remove the barrels?

[@Bronimin]

its not really a big deal, but when a grower wants to plant seeds he needs to be able to get the bag with the seeds inside. If a barrel has space for a bag of seeds then a hauler may decide to stick your growers seed bag into the barrel and reserve the bag for the hauling task. This means the grower can no longer plant anything until the hauler is done shuffling bags around.

[@inigo137]

@@Bronimin but isn't that solve by having 2 storepiles for seeds and one feeding the other?

[@peterstedman6140]

@@inigo137 i think. Check out the Tekkud video for a better explanation

[@Mel-mu8ox]

my dwarves keep getting hit by trees when felling them. is this due to their lack of ability with trees? do they look up to see if its going to fall on them before they chop? and move?

[@TommyLikeTom]

lol I have 65 pop and I never restricted anything, constantly running out of seeds. Nobody is starving or thirty though, somehow I manage

[@oliooilo]

I tried making barrels, then jugs, and then goblets but no matter what I do I can't brew my plump helmets because it [Requires empty food storage item]. How do I brew then?

[@uaputte]

This is a good base but can you do a tutorial on how to save the seads and plants to get new, and not only the plump helmets. I dont reraly understand how its works. I aways run out of planting materials!

[@laurynasg9932]

Is there a way to see how long left until the harvest? In rimworld you could see plants and their stages on the field, here plants just pop out when they are fully grown.

[@BlindiRL]

dwarffortresswiki.org/index.php/DF2014:Farming#Yield_and_fertilization Not in game. Also these numbers are out of date as the wiki has not been updated yet.

[@user-wd6ti9kl2w]

dang, didn't know about the meals, I just cooked meals all the time, And i was always without seeds to plant :(. so have alot of food but almost no drink.

[@jinhong91]

I find quick tutorials for DF is very helpful Not everyone is willing to sit through and watch a 40 minute tutorial video with some other information sprinkled in. Sometimes you just want to find out about a topic and it's nice to have a video talking about that only

[@samhorder2259]

My dwarfs wont brew anything. Ample barley and other brewing ingredients stored in barrels. I've tried linking the stockpiles.

[@ChaoticHeretic]

I've looked around but cant find an answer. when one of my miners drops their pickaxe, thats it, no one will pick it up.. and i'll be stuck with one miner... I have 4 Dwarves asigned to miners yet none will use the dropped pickaxe.

[@Mirality]

If it has x around its name that means it's worn out and they can't use it any more. That's usually the only reason (other than getting a better one) that they'd stop using it. You'll need to make or trade for a new one.

[@Peter_Parker69]

How come I can never find big areas of dirt when I dig down or sometimes at all?

[@MoobsLikeJaggerGGN]

Would love a video about Monarchs! My dwarf was named heir and I have no idea what to do

[@yourikhan4425]

Why "circle"? What's wrong with rectangles? I've done this and all my seeds are gone now. I don't get it.

[@marknesbitt6073]

I followed the video to a T and still ran out of seeds for plump helmets.. having to rotate through other berries/seeds seasonally to keep up with brewing drinks for dwarves. Lost a whole group to dehydration :(.. going to create a new world and try again to confirm I didn't miss a step

[@kiwidemon8555]

Can't wait for a video about squads training equipment e.c.t keep up awesome content

[@therealexodus8462]

Could not figure out how to farm

[@BlindiRL]

did this help?

[@therealexodus8462]

Very much so

[@isfren5482]

Hay so I was looking around at the old dwarf fort and I would like know if the changed how stacks work apparently you could only stack things if the were made at the same time Is this still true for the new version cause stacking things seems important for space

[@Noxxvel]

Heh and why i dont need use barrels ? Barrels are cool isnt they ? What food sourse i sould use for colony if not this caps ? And how to farm it ?

[@slaughterhouserock]

Can you plant above ground plants underground if the plot is exposed? Say I dig a 5x5 channel down 10+ z levels, nothing but open air above it, would that work?

[@Giantkiller130-t]

I have no idea how I’ve watched almost all your videos and haven’t subbed. Have now corrected this mistake.

[@easterbunny3850]

So, you need to dig to soil layer?

[@ZeroG]

My dwarves can never find the barrels. It always says no empty food storage item could be found

[@BlindiRL]

My solution to this is make more barrels and a finished goods stockpile.

[@adrianlaube9564]

Thank you! Would you like to consider makig a tutorial about deep farming (without touching caverns)?

[@BlindiRL]

Its on my extremely long list, but stuff has slowed down so I can take care of myself. The initial output of these was not physically sustainable.

[@EmilyAliceTempest]

What would be the more optimal way to farm in DF? How do you do it in lower layers and how do you get water there?

[@RuneChaosMarine]

@4:27 see im not underground. i guess i cant plant the shrroms on the surface.

[@BlueCyberPhoenix]

FYI, Tekkud hasn't done anything regarding farming for the Steam version. The one, and only, Steam version he did was roughly a month after you posted this video, and they just tell you what Dwarf Fortress is.

[@thebrcopy260]

Oh gosh, so that's the motive why i was lossing seeds xD

[@lyagushkha8490]

Would you care to make an in-depth tutorial video about making dwarves happy? Or at least not miserable, in my fort most of my dwarves are very unhappy, it almost makes me cry when I think of how bad they are feeling, especially when I can see what's bothering them but do not know how to help.

[@Connorlowwhistle]

what's the better way to farm ?

[@Charlieandp]

how do youmake a farm plot bigger with out making a new farm plot?

[@HernandoFarias]

Thank you so much for this, I have one question, I've been following your tutorial, but I happen to not be able to find usable soil even near a river, I started a new run on a forest with a light aquifer, everything seems nice, but I'm struggling to get food and drink in the early game. is there any recommendation to follow in order to get a proper farm going?

[@nicholasnetto]

I want to know if there is a way to manufacture mud or move it to another location. I have seen that flooding an area of land works, but in areas with only sand like deserts only getting Muddy Sand which the game says is not good.

[@JoaoNeto-up8zi]

you currently can`t tho it would be awesome, specially for fillinf unwanted spaces in the soil

[@banditgolum9027]

A tutorial to dig through aquifers pls.. As a new player I am having a hard time with this.

[@kadnhart6661]

"Huh, there's fighting in the basement." "They're still fighting troglodytes in the caverns." "The the war with the troglodytes continues!" ... "So my last fort got overrun with troglodytes." Lmao, love it

[@ellisneel3588]

Do I have to set up the seasons of what I want planted every year? Or is there some way to automate?

[@Official_Nocturne]

so what layer is the best for farming?

[@user-eu2yf6ij2t]

no matter how many barrels I have, I can't brew. They're all empty and I have no idea what I'm doing wrong but I have a bunch of sober dwarves getting rather moody.

[@Razmatschannel]

How do you make it so bags are not used in the seeds stockpile? I need my bags for other uses and just want my seeds on the ground but dwarves will always use bags even though bags are refused in the refuse menu on the stockpile?

[@BlindiRL]

Make more bags Is my Strat

[@wowser4life]

whenever i try to do this it just tells me i need mud

[@michaelroy7754]

I can't make staircase for some reason I keep getting told I have explored the level above or beneath me.... which is the point of the staircase vase

[@BlindiRL]

Sounds like you've hit the bottom unless I'm missing something? what layer is this.

[@michaelroy7754]

@@BlindiRL elevation level 20, I found out my mistake though, I wanted to make a staircase in a room I'd already minded out to the floor above using the construction tool. Thanks for the reply

[@ДмитрийФедорович-г6и]

Please make a video about animal keeping and breeding!

[@chonky2129]

Now I want to know how to farm trees

[@lautarotrefilio4773]

how do stockpiles actually work?

[@oOPTICKZz]

I have so many questions lol. once im out of plumphead seeds, how do i get more (cause i made meals lol), and it when i make a barrel, it doesnt show in the still to use, ive made like 10

[@ubwcolt]

I kept making wood barrels and even verified that some were empty but could always got "requires an empty container" message when trying to brew. Then I made some rock pots and I was able to - any idea why I might be having this issue?

[@BlindiRL]

Are you cooking food? Cause brews are not the only things that go into barrels.

[@ubwcolt]

@@BlindiRL No, not yet.

[@Bronimin]

Probably had haulers putting other stuff in the barrels

[@wigger1337]

My hunter keeps hunting animals but sometimes does not haul them to the fortress and the dwarves refuse to haul the corpse to the stockpile or the butchering station. How do I force my dwarves to haul corpses that are outside my fortress?

[@Bronimin]

corpse pile is just for sapients, hunted animals go to refuse piles.

[@grottoguru6473]

Does brewing as well as eating the plump helmets raw give you the spawn to plant?

[@filletmignon5221]

Why tho . Need to know what the barrel issue is

[@IlPane1505]

What's the difference between brew and extract?

[@Borhamus]

I have to mine 57 floor under the ground to find no water or mud floor xD i think mi entire group of dwarfs are going to dead by starbing or deshidratación*