There is usually no need for any fences around your fields-your animals are mostly quite obedient and dwarves will return them to their pasture if they do stray. When you unpause the game your dwarves will rush about moving animals to the pasture. Don’t feel heartbroken your dwarves much prefer living pets to dead ones (which, again, can result in unhappy thoughts and the whole skulls-on-poles thing). Animal fodder isn’t usually available deep underground, at least not until you breach the caverns and cave moss spreads. Be ruthless even if your dwarves are keeping pet lambs who adorably follow your dwarves around, assign them to your outside pasture or they will eventually starve to death underground.
Create another large 20×20 pasture outside for these creatures. If your pasture is inside you should not assign grazers such as cows, yaks, horses, or camels to your rocky pen as they will starve to death. Scroll through the list and as you see an animal that isn’t a dog or a cat, press enter to assign it to the pasture. You can then, as you will see from the list of commands at the bottom of the panel, press N to change the zone’s settings. Set this zone to Pen/Pasture using the n key. Once you have created a suitable zone, you will see the right info panel change its header to Activity Zone 1, and it will present you with some options. If you make a mistake, find the zone using i, press x, and then press X to remove it. Find either an outside area near your entrance or the room you have dug out, and then mark out an area of at least 10×10 squares. It won’t be long until we have many little chicks running around being adorable and consuming CPU cycles with their path-calculation requirements. We will then place the nest boxes in the middle of the pasture so that the hens can claim the boxes and lay eggs in them. Let’s get on with specifying a pasture zone and placing all of our chickens in it. You will see alerts along the bottom of the screen if your chickens get aggressive and seem likely in need of more space. Creatures that are crowded become aggressive, and are prone to attacking each other and even your dwarves. For now, a 10×10 room will suffice, but in time you may need a larger space to prevent overcrowding. As such, you can either dig out a large room for them or just use some flat space outside your fortress for their pasture. In order to do that we need to specify an area of ground as pasture for the chickens to scratch around on.Ĭhickens (and all other fowl) don’t need to live outside as they don’t graze on grass. But in order to start our chicken empire we will need to place the nest boxes somewhere that can be accessed by our chickens. Unless those eggs are gathered and placed in a food pile they will eventually hatch into baby chickens so long as a rooster is on the map. Nest boxes will be claimed by our chickens when they go to lay eggs. As you may recall, we built some nest boxes at the Craftsdwarf’s Workshop. Which came first? The chicken, of course, because we embarked with chickens. Take a few bites here and there before returning for seconds. Dwarf Fortress is best treated as a gaming buffet. If something in this chapter doesn’t make sense, come back to it-there are so many interlocking elements in Dwarf Fortress that learning them sequentially can be nearly impossible. In this chapter we will lay the foundations for abundant food production while discussing some alternative and advanced strategies you may consider at a later date. And once we have some food, let’s get all fancy and try our hand at cooking it. To avoid this fate we must farm, harvest, fish, and butcher our way to a healthy food supply. As you would expect, starving to death creates an unhappy thought in a dwarf’s head, and too many unhappy thoughts may turn an otherwise hard-working and industrious dwarf into a homicidal maniac intent on turning his best friend’s skull into a macabre totem (this is literally true). Without it your dwarves will starve, causing them to work poorly and forcing them to consume vermin to survive (at least for a while). Producing food is vital in Dwarf Fortress.
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