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[Axe27]

so, my recent (And farthest along fort, ever) fell horribly to a tantrum spiral when the goblins annihlated my military (lesson learned: Wrestlers need A.Better armor. and B. Some kind of weapon), and my people, who lived in the statue garden started killing each other.

So, I've decided in the next fortress: NO FREAKING STATUE GARDENS.

Is that okay, or will it be a giant mess?

[Zorgn]

Never make a statue garden. Everyone becomes good friends, and then loose their minds when someone dies.

[Christes]

But tantrum spirals are fun.

I, however, prefer zoos to stature gardens.

[Zorgn]

But tantrum spirals are fun.

Only if we can go in with riot police and tear gas. Since we can't do this at the moment and my citizenry is a bunch of emo suicidal pansies, they're confined to quarters and kept away from anything sharp when not actively following my orders.

Even if my superdwarvenly badasses catch on fire and start beating dwarves to death, my forts will live on.

[Maltay]

so, my recent (And farthest along fort, ever) fell horribly to a tantrum spiral when the goblins annihlated my military (lesson learned: Wrestlers need A.Better armor. and B. Some kind of weapon), and my people, who lived in the statue garden started killing each other.

So, I've decided in the next fortress: NO FREAKING STATUE GARDENS.

Is that okay, or will it be a giant mess?

Statue gardens, especially very tiny ones, let all of your dwarves boost their social skills into the stratosphere.  This has the effect of making everyone in the fortress strong, tough, and agile.  Unforunately, they'll all be great buddies with one another and possess the emotional fortitude of a five-year old.  One death, and the entire fortress goes into a depression from which it never recovers.

I just do away with statue gardens entirely and use other architectural oddities to keep my dwarves happy.  Social activities are frowned upon and I also work them so hard that my soldiers usually become the most talkative dwarves in the fortress.  Some good distractions from their drudgery are waterfalls, terrariums, zoos, and anything smoothed, engraved, or encrusted.

If getting the attribute boost is still of concern, invest in screwpumps that don't connect to anything.  A year of hard labor and every dwarf in your fortress can be a legendary screwpump operator.

[Hamster Man]

I prefer the 1-tile wide meeting area. All the dwarves stack on top of each other and talk to each other simultaneously. However the net result is the same - friends, tantrum spiral,  etc.

[scribbler]

Who cares if all your friends died? They're engraving the dining room!

[duro]

Sculpture gardens are a great thing if you know how to use them properly.

Within my current fortress, there is only one sculpture garden, located inside the monastery (which non-monks have no access to). So the clerics party and attend orgies all day and night while the virtuous work dorfs pursue their own business. However, should Armok consider commanding his fellow servants to party with him, the monastery is prepared. One monk's death shall be enough to make the others understand that the time for the greatest party of their lives would just have come.