Help with 0.42

[Pierre'70]

I got the game recently and played the previous version a little. With the new update however, I'm having real trouble keeping my townsfolk fed. Any tips on early game food management?

Also, I played the tutorials again but had a problem with the final one 'Spiders'. I don't seem able to dig below level two to get to the spider level. I managed this in the tutorial for the last version.

Loving the game - it scratches my dwarf fortress itch nicely without requiring a masters degree in micromanagement!

[supermalparit]

Hi Pierre,

try to set all the food tasks at max priority (F3, or mini-button on the right side of the messages panel).

To reach lower levels you have to build ladders and place it in holes (made digging). This way your citizens will reach the underground levels.

[Pierre'70]

Hi Pierre,

try to set all the food tasks at max priority (F3, or mini-button on the right side of the messages panel).

To reach lower levels you have to build ladders and place it in holes (made digging). This way your citizens will reach the underground levels.

I dug a hole on level 2 and placed a ladder on it but was unable to view level 3. It was as if it didn't exist. I managed it on the previous version.

Regarding food - isn't it set as highest priority by default? It seemed to me that my wheat farms just weren't producing enough. I had nine, with 2 mills and a bakery with 2 tables and 2 ovens. The mills and bakery sat idle most of the time, with no spare wheat lying around.

[supermalparit]

Hmmmm, you tried to go to level 3 and mine the zone under the hole?

About farms we just uploaded a patch that fixes some of the food issues.

[Patchumz]

Hopefully 0.42a fixed the food issue, cuz farms are doing nothing, and for me, when there's flour lying on the ground my people nearly REFUSE to bake bread. Even when all food is top priority, they still do other things instead, then starve to death.

[Deedasmi]

You did remember to set bread auto-production right?

[Patchumz]

You did remember to set bread auto-production right?

Of course. I definitely did. Occasionally they'd cook 1/10 that I'd set, only the one making the bread would be fed, while the others died. Then he died eventually.

EDIT: And to note, it's not a 24/7 all the time problem that they refuse to obey their need to feed themselves.

[Ween]

I dug a hole on level 2 and placed a ladder on it but was unable to view level 3. It was as if it didn't exist. I managed it on the previous version.

I have the same problem, I never played before so it's very frustrating. I'm just unable to finish the tutorial, the level 3 just don't exist. I have a hole, a ladder, but nothing beneath. I cannot mine, I cannot see anything, I'm stuck in the two first level of the game

[Xinvoker]

I think that the tutorials have not been updated for the new version.
But the UI is quite good, you should be able to figure it out on your own if you start a normal game.

[Ween]

Yeah, in between I begun a map, and I managed to go to the third level..