All good points! Sorry it's still quite unclear at the moment, first alpha version and I'll be working on it :)

If you place a granary stockpile, they'll place all the starting seeds into that so you can see what which crops you'll want to place. For the mushroom farm, you'll have to harvest some mushrooms in the wild first, they're only found in caves inside the mountain but some maps start with caves exposed on the minimap. Fishing isn't in yet so I'll remove the profession for now, but it's coming in the not too distant future to help with your food stocks.

Seems like the food does need balancing a bit, if you plant most of the seeds you start with you should be fine, a good rule of thumb is 10 crop tiles per settler. As more join they bring their own seeds and rations which should last until those new crops could be harvested. It's the only challenge in the game right now :)

I made it so I did grow crops, I did have a kitchen and made soup. But the dwarfs didn't eat. What to do next?

And what are the rules with the pillars and sizes of caves?

Running A1.11

My dwarves aren't planting seeds properly. They haven't planted any of my corn seeds, for some reason, and do not plant all available plots when there are enough seeds for it for any of the other seeds. It's frustrating!

I am getting a good supply of food, making dinner etc. I do see dwarfs eat. But then I see one die, or is going to, with it food bar close to zerro and 50 rations still in place.. Is there a special need or is this random? When you implement the dwarfs view it would be grade if you can get a warning or sort the list to see if there are problems..

Thanks for your reply, yesterday I found out that they are broken due unhappiness. I was some years in and everything was working fine. Until I expended a lot at once. The rocks stopped to be processed to stones and I saw the water barrel problem in action, that probably is fixed in 1.15 so will test then my next run because I will start over :) The water problem made a nice chain reaction, because of dehydration some past away, then that triggered -50 unhappiness for seeing a dead body, so more become broken etc.

Hey,

I have a lot of dwarfs now (going to 100 I guess), I have ton's of food in stock, even a lot more new dwarfs will soon, but there is a problem now with the size of the settlement. I have multiple kitchens and feasting hall's. It looks that the breads from all kitchens are served in the last created tables. I expect that they are served close by. And that there is much more prioritation to fill the water barrels, so the chefs will make soup (almost no soup is made) again.

With the current standing dwarfs are drinking river water again, only eating bread and a lot of time is wasted running around. Even from kitchen to kitchen instead of using the tools in one.

Do you know of this issue? Do you want my save game oid?

With the current Alpha 2.1 version, it's tough the get enough food to feed everybody due to not starting with a cauldron. In effect you have to find metals ore and bitumous ore/wooden logs for burning into coke as quickly as possible, while also making sure that all the seeds are getting planted. But having all necessary ressources nearby is very hit-and-miss, might need to balance that a bit.