diff --git a/plugins/fortplan.cpp b/plugins/fortplan.cpp
index 969c67d20..4d51f2c99 100644
--- a/plugins/fortplan.cpp
+++ b/plugins/fortplan.cpp
@@ -200,8 +200,10 @@ std::vector<std::vector<std::string>> tokenizeFile(std::string filename) {
 
 command_result fortplan(color_ostream &out, vector<string> & params) {
     auto & con = out;
-    con.print("Fortplan is deprecated. Please use DFHack's quickfort command"
-            " instead. Fortplan will be removed in a future DFHack release.\n");
+    con.print("Fortplan is deprecated. Please move your blueprints to the"
+    " 'blueprints' folder (under your DF installation directory) and use"
+    " DFHack's quickfort command instead:\n  quickfort run example.csv\n"
+    " Fortplan will be removed in a future DFHack release.\n"
 
     std::vector<std::vector<std::string>> layout(128, std::vector<std::string>(128));
     if (params.size()) {