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[lemondegrasse]

Are there any downsides to using several smaller dining rooms instead of one large one?

[VerdantSF]

The room value for the single one will be higher and dwarves will get a bigger happiness boost.

[chris_strain]

I find having multiple dining rooms to be handy, especially when placed on different levels. It gives dwarves a shorter trip.. especially if each has a small food/drink stockpile.

[Uggh]

Several rooms decrease the chance of dwarves meeting each other and building up relations which I consider desirable.

[Larix]

I think in order to moderate socialising, you need to set up multiple _meeting places_. Dwarfs don't idle that much in communal dining rooms unless they're also defined as meeting halls ('h' option in the item menu). Setting up extra dining rooms not allowed for parties can be helpful when parts of the fort are very far away from the central hub - e.g. metal workshops down by the magma sea. A nearby dining hall with adjacent food/drink storage will attract the hungry and thirsty metalworkers and haulers, so they don't spend days travelling up to the central dining/drinking area and back. Just make sure that dining room is also of royal quality, which shouldn't be too hard to achieve - metal workshops are a good source of expensive furniture.