Dwarf Fortress - Quick Tutorial - Tallow Soap 

no need to do that, just remove fat from the kitchen stockpile permissions and make a fat storage stockpile by the soapery

@@Bronimin Different methods. Same outcome. Great game.

One reason i tend to prefer plant soaps, esp when modded plants or themed mods with plants (such as expanded cavern stuff) start popping up again. Tallow for cooking or candles, oil for soap ...plus, who doesn't want their whole fort smelling like lavender?

I tend to prefer plant soaps, anyway (esp with some of the mod plants that will be created just for soaps), but good to know exactly what part is messed up for automating tallow soaps. Had heard there were issues with it but no real details until now

honestly dwarfs not use that much soap , and infirmary uses fractions , if i need more soap i just butcher or kill 1-3 animals i killed forgotten beast today and had 130 fat

I was going to say the same thing... Especially because the kitchen will cook with the tallow they just created almost instantly!

Is there a specific setting for that? For me I need to be lucky enough to have a specific tallow laying around unused, and then disable that type of tallow in the list, as it'll only appear there when I have the tallow.

just disable fat on the stockpile feeding the kitchen and make a food stockpile with only fat allowed by the soap makers

@@Bronimin That assumes you setup your kitchen to be fed by a single stockpile? New players might not have got up to doing that kind of thing yet?

It was a real strategy to keep your dwarves from wasting it and having an emergency supply for when you had medical emergencies. You'd just deconstruct the building for the soap.

It used to be a thing because dwarves wasted soap a lot, so you'd never have enough when an actual medical emergency happened. I built a wall of soap in my hospital, and deconstructed bits of it when needed.

Any time!

I had a Troglodyte v. Batperson war in the caverns of my last fortress and it was fun to watch the gore spread over the floor.

Until Blind makes one, you can check out ENGINEERING 🔅DWARF FORTRESS STEAM🔅 video from Twisted Logic Gaming, the mist generators are described at 9:50

If you look at the Pump stack tutorial you then just need the water to fall through grates into the reservoir that you have the pump stack pumping from (to prevent flooding, if you don't have a drain or circulate the same water it's easy to flood the place.) Any dwarf that walks close enough to that area gets happy thoughts, the safe way to do this is to have the flowing water power the system via water wheels (so you can seal it off or get some power out of it), dig / build everything in the closed off system with Dwarfs able to get to the pumps before you seal them (corridor that you later wall off), and have a Pit/Pond setting to have Dwarfs drop water into the Reservoir until the system is running (you can make another hole into that Reservoir to set a Well on top of if you want to use it for both. If you keep the pond hole you can refill it if it ever starts getting low) I tend to seal off systems like this so that angry Dwarfs don't break things...

if you're on a light aquifer you can just leave the aquifier dripping into the central staircase and it'll make mist as it falls

give the militia time to ewuip after drafting them, it can take a few minutes for them to grab everything. Store all armour and weapons in a stockpile near the barracks.

Then it's just a really clean castle made out of soap where nobody can stand.

Barrel works. I usually make 5-10 lye, then tear down that shop and put up soaper. The lye gets dumped into a barrel from the bucket(s) if you build a stockpile for it that allows barrels. They use it from the barrel in the soaper.

I'm hoping to see that in a sort of extended plant-focused video, talking about pressing, uses for oil, the pressed cakes and so on. Fully expecting it to crop up around the time he tackles either bookmaking or beekeeping, whichever happens first

Same. I want to immediately handle Plump Helmets and Pig Tails when the game opens.

just don't store fats near the kitchen

@@Bronimin I don't? It happens when trying to cook and butcher. Fat gets rendered and picked to cook before it gets moved to proper storage. Just have it same as in classic DF, have a tab for all cookable food types, not just owned.

If you put the butchery father away then that won't happen. Kitchen always grabs the closest stuff.

@@Bronimin but tallow is processed in kitchen to both edible and craftable (soap) form That's the issue, it is then in the inventory of kitchen and gets used up

Can you set a crossbowdwarf to hunt them down? Seems like someone would get happy thoughts after a little hunting.

@@chaotickreg7024 True, but then again it doesn't solve the next problem: major beast entering the fortress. Hence I would like to have some protection.

you can floor over the farm once its been exposed to sun once

Channel down into the ground one or two Z levels and then cover the hole with a floor. Or build walls around it and cover the walls with a floor. You can use this same trick to make a safe meeting area or barracks to keep your soldiers from getting cave-adaptation. I usually make a temple that's outdoor with some fancy statues and engraved walls so it can scratch about 3 or 4 needs at once. They don't even have to be good engravings. Soil layers treated this way will also grow grass for grazers. I like to go down 2 or 3 z-levels so I can put a kitchen on top where miasma won't form and a beehive farm if I'm doing bees. It's also possible to grow surface trees underground if there's enough Z space for them to grow. Once sunlight touches a square inside the cave it becomes flagged "outdoor" for the remainder of its existence regardless of what you build on top of the hole. I've seen a tutorial I thought by blind on this before. It might be Twisted Logic that did it. A pro-tip is to use stone blocks instead of boulders because boulders are heavy and only build one tile of floor whereas stone blocks are lighter and a boulder produces 4 blocks so you get more floor tiles per boulder if you make blocks first. Also if you are REALLY paranoid, build the floor out of fire-safe materials in case you get the random fire-breather.

@@thewalkingcrow8946 Thank you for the explanation and the tips. I wasn't aware of the status never changing. So far, my worst encounter was a weregiraffe leading to 19 dead dwarfes and a few animals. However, some bigger birds kept annoying and killing my animals, so now I need them to have a safe space, too. Therefore I'm really grateful for these tips.

Soap is one of the more complicated blocks to make, so it's just a huge flex.

Soap used to be considered a block, just like the blocks made from wood, stone or metal and was usable in any construction that asked for blocks. So, of course some players made entire forts out of soap... esp those that modded ethics so dwarves were okay with butcheting sentients and would therefore make elf- or goblin-soap fortresses

Was this an evil biome or a necromancer invasion? Different potential responses for each, though the 'easy' one that works for both is 'seal yourself in and kiss the outside world goodbye' (which some players love to do and there have been some pretty amazing stories about)

@@kalaksed I tried to make sure that the embark location was as safe as I could find - no haunted, no towers or tombs around. and it showed up as "siege" / "besieged" as a major even in red. It kills the opportunity for trade, assuming you can survive without some of the resources from the surface at the start.

@@martinez206045 so it is a necromancer invasion, which can actually be a good thing... there is at least one necromancer out there with the undead, possibly more. They're like kobolds, goblin thieves and elven ambushers in that they're invisible until spotted by someone frim your faction (or an allied one) with a high enough observer skill (There at least used to be a sort of cheaty trick to finding them, involving your bookeeper and checking book/artifacts in the bookkeeping screen, as you could find any they were carrying and zoom in on where they were hiding. Dunno if that still works, though) They can get bored and move on to whatever they were originally doing when stumbled across your fort (it's likely they were actually marching to attack something nearby when you started your fort and you just happened to place it in their path), or you could try hit and run tactics to find and kill/capture the necromancer(s). As long as they have boltholes to escape into or you build 'watchtowers' in various locations, a hunter or marksdwarf has a chance to spot the necro while avoiding undead

@@martinez206045 and yeah, stuff like that will kill trade until they are handled or move on (sometimes a trade caravan can be enough to get them moving again) But digging into the caverns should allow your fort to get access to everything it needs to survive except migrants. Some like to try to set up bolt holes near map edges for potential migrants to make it to when they arrive, but others leave them on their own

Gotta make a lotta soap, what can I say?

I can't tallowrate that joke.

Fits with the youtuber mentality upload quantity over quality.

huh, I think he talks kinda slow

People are used to different talking speeds I guess? This doesn't feel super fast to me at all, not slow but not fast. Each to their own.

He talks faster than most RU-vidrs, but I have no problem understanding him, even though English isn't my native Language, so I actually like it that way.

@@Abduckted what do you mean OVER, it high quality explaining step by step, even mentioning other choices like the oil thing or animals, yes he does talk a little fast but it is no less quality