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[profit]

At a bare minimum...

The place you are adapted to decides where you are happiest.  This is indisputable.  A dwarf who is cave-adapted is, by definition, more accustomed to caves than one who is not, and will be happier there.

Also note, while we're being logical:  Cave adaptation obviously should not be irreversible.  In fact, a month or two with regular exposure to the outside should quickly reverse it.  Eventually, you get used to the sky again.

Cave adaptation can be reversed..   I had some troops stationed in my entrance way that I cut out of the rock to make it ourside and keep my dwarvs from entrance way dancing in the path of arrows.    They were vomit fests at first... but eventually the cave adaptation went away and they were fine with the outdoors *especially because I have weather off to give me those 2 more precious FPS.

[LegoLord]

When (if) lighting ever finds its way in ,then this would be a good way to circumvent cave adaption. Itll expose dwarves to the light gradually and will eventualy cure them of cave adaption. Lampposts, glowing rocks, lamps, torchs etc would be good for this. Also non cave adapted creatures should be able to get lost in the dark.

A good sense of direction has nothing to do with lighting.  A human with a good sense of direction should have just as much chance of getting lost in the dark as a cave adapt dwarf with the same sense of direction.

[RAM]

Someone who has experience telling one tunnel from another is more likely to find their way through tunnels. Just as someone who spends their time telling one tree from another is likely to be drowned in magma...

[zchris13]

Pull lever.  *rumble rumble* *screams* *deranged laughing*