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[Azated]

There's only one answer to unhappiness.

Money waterfalls. Drop as much water as your computer can handle down a central stairway and out a grate at the bottom, possibly to be recycled for later waterfall use. This is a 100% guaranteed ecstatic happiness machine.

However, in the ever so rare case your dwarves are not happier, replace water with magma for the best results.

[i2amroy]

There's only one answer to unhappiness.

Money waterfalls. Drop as much water as your computer can handle down a central stairway and out a grate at the bottom, possibly to be recycled for later waterfall use. This is a 100% guaranteed ecstatic happiness machine.

If you really decide to go the mist route, consider using a Mist generator instead of a giant (but dwarfed) waterfall in the event of total computer failure. It will let you have your mist at a much smaller computing cost.

[GreatWyrmGold]

I find the best way of dealing with tantrum spirals is preventing them from ever happening in the first place. After you have a huge dining room with good furniture, individual bedrooms for everyone, and high quality meals available to be eaten, I've found that I can easily lose over 50% of my population and the others don't even break the "unhappy" mark.

Also put metal statues EVERYWHERE, that will definitaly solve your problem. Or just masterwork stone ones.

Next fortress dead due to all paths to food blocked by statues.

Seems like an easily avoidable issue...

[Rutilant]

Seems like an easily avoidable issue...

Enjoying TVTropes?

[GreatWyrmGold]

Obviously. I quite often link to tropes in my posts. It's like a hobby.

[GaxkangtheUnbound]

-snip for the sake of sanity-

How could you even think of doing this to us?! Years of my life have been wasted on the lifesink that is TvTropes!

Spoiler: HOW COULD YOU?! (click to show/hide)

*Ahem*
For greatest tantrum spiral stopping power, I suggest a royal dining room, as well as the mist generator mentioned beforehand.

[Blucher]

I find the best way of dealing with tantrum spirals is preventing them from ever happening in the first place. After you have a huge dining room with good furniture, individual bedrooms for everyone, and high quality meals available to be eaten, I've found that I can easily lose over 50% of my population and the others don't even break the "unhappy" mark.

This, Frankly, it doesn't sound like you were taking enough care of your dwarves.  It's important to keep them ecstatic as much as possible during the good times, to weather the storms when they come.

[misko27]

Obviously. I quite often link to tropes in my posts. It's like a hobby.

Why do you hate productivity?

[GreatWyrmGold]

Sorry, I won't link to TV Tropes anymore. Because that's terrible.

Warning: Post may contain tropes. Follow links at your own risk.

[Sutremaine]

The madness is spreading. I went from TV Tropes to SPC to katana videos on Youtube.

Edit: SCP. And I was reading a discussion page complaining about that mistake too. :/

[GreatWyrmGold]

TV Tropes has done its promise.

[Triaxx2]

Pointless. I'm playing Dwarf Fortress. I no longer have a life left, except guiding my tiny dwarven minions to ever greater heights of glory and despair. Typically one following the other.

I have yet to experience a Tantrum spiral. I'm proud to say all my forts have been lost entirely to my own utter incompetence.

That said, smooth all bedrooms, and have at least one 'rehab' suite, containing waterfalls, a food and booze supply, a small but expensive dining room, and a minecart going full tilt back and forth, so that when they want to end it, they need only step into the dwarven particle accelerator and it will end quickly.

Bonus points for filling the cart with Masterwork Adamantine Serrated Discs.