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[ShunterAlhena]

Hi all,

I recently made a huge, fully smoothed and engraved, beautifully sculptured dining room for my dwarves (too bad they're still sleeping in a filthy common barracks) and this raised the following question:

#1
If I decide to smooth and engrave the floor of another room, I cannot engrave tiles on which there is already furniture. Now, does this affect the room's quality adversely? For example, is a 2×2 room with all floor tiles engraved and a statue on one tile worth more than the same room with 3 tiles engraved, but with the tile under the statue still Rough Siltstone Floor?

Next one. During the construction of Siltstone Table (as my dwarves insist on calling that palatial dining room) there was a goblin siege, first I ever saw in my life. I was mortified but luckily the Mountainhomes caravan was right there and the goblins were splashed all over the mountain by the guardsdwarves. This raised the importance of the military.

#2:
Now, they have a room with armor stands and racks, designated as barracks, but if I put beds in there, all that civilian trash keeps going in, having a rest in the army men's beds and then complaining they were disturbed by noise (sparring and archery). Is there a way, short of individually assigning beds to each soldier, to make a barracks "army-only"?

And finally. Later, the fortress was beset by thieves. A goblin bitch made the mistake of being discovered right in the meeting hall, where about half of the off-duty army was chilling out. She ran but was peppered by arrows or had her ribcage broken in by a proficient wrestler, I don't know.

#3:
She's unconscious but not dead. Is there a way to encage the filth? It'd make a perfect decoration for Siltstone Table, or it'd also look lovely in the Rotting Room (storeroom behind the butcheries with piles of decomposing fox corpses, rotten skins, skulls, perpetual miasma and a stupid stray muskox that's going to die in there).

Regards,
SA

[Skanky]

1. You can smooth and engrave under tables, chairs, etc. Statues on the other hand need to be removed before smoothing / engraving the floor they are on. Smoothing and engraving increases the value of the room. If some squares are rough rock, they don't add as much value as they would engraved. From your example, the 2x2 room with 4 engraved tiles and a statue would be worth more (if all else equal).

2. Give the civilians beds of their own. If you don't want to give them their own proper rooms, build a civilian 'barracks' and assign the civilians a bed each. Don't actually assign the room as a barracks though, as the military will try to sleep there too.

3. Its probably too late for that one. Still, there are plenty more where that one came from. A cage trap near your entrance will get you something for entertainment.

[PresidentEvil]

If you have the time, you can build a cage trap on the goblin.