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Cheese

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Cheese is a food item made from milk at the Farmer's workshop with the cheesemaking labor. It can be eaten as is or cooked into prepared meals. It appears that all types of milk can be used to make cheese, though dwarves have a particular fondness for purring maggot cheese.

A single "Make cheese" job will take a barrel of milk to the workshop and produce several stacks of cheese of size 5 or less - for example, a barrel containing 17 units of milk will produce 3 stacks of 5 cheese and 1 stack of 2 cheese.

Counterintuitively, while milk in a barrel won't rot, cheese outside of a food stockpile will.

Some Useful Information About Cheeses
Name Price Dwarven Trade Good Human Trade Good Elven Trade Good
Dwarven Cheese (purring maggot) 20☼ No1 No No
Any other Cheese 10☼ Yes Yes No

1: By default, you can't get dwarven milk or cheese from embarkation or dwarven caravans Bug:1449. See this section for a workaround.

The milk of every milkable animal can be converted to cheese. A non-exhaustive list of such animals: Donkey, Horse, Two-humped camel, One-humped camel, Pig, Yak, Water buffalo, Alpaca, Llama, Reindeer, Goat, Sheep, Cow.

Milking purring maggots has a few bugs. See the purring maggot page for details.