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[Name Lips]

I tend to give them all a nickname, like "!MINER!" or "!DOC!" letting me know quickly what that dwarf's purpose is.

I organize my military with "F1" or "M1" nicknames to indicate squads (Fighter Squad 1, Marksdwarf Squad 1, etc).

That way I can quickly sort an influx of a dozen or so migrants into squads, and I don't risk accidentally taking them out of one squad and into another on the recruitment screen.

I give each migrant a job when he arrives. I prefer to base it on their skills, but sometimes that doesn't work out.  I try to grab anybody with military experience straight into the army. If I really can't figure out what to do with somebody I tag them a "!HAULER!" and turn off all activities except hauling. Lets me know they're useless fodder.

Sometimes their color doesn't match the profession I picked, so that's a little confusing. I might set my Grand Master Beekeeper to be a "!CRAFTER!" or something, and it'll be ages before he switches to the right color.

When I get a Legendary dwarf (usually from a mood) I strip off any extraneous jobs (like my aforementioned "!CRAFTER!" who might have all craft skills enabled) and give him the sole job and nickname of his new legendary speciality, and then go through and make sure no other dwarves have that profession enabled accidentally.

But sometimes all the overhead just seems tedious. Do you have any particular tips or strategies?

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Also, a totally unrelated question, what is the fastest way to train up military dwarves? It seems to take them forever to get good, even when I start with skilled migrants who spend all their time training.

[Name Lips]

Related organizational question: Does anybody organize their fort with burrows? Like have a Farming Quarter, with only farmers and kitchen workers and their quarters and stuff?

And the Haulers could go anywhere, moving stuff around to the different burrows, so the specialists can stay close to their workplaces?

Does this actually work? Does it make a fort more efficient?

[Prologue]

Dwarf Therapist really helps with this.

Anyways, I usually play with 100 Dwarfs and I use burrows on most of them. For example, I have 10 masons restricted to a burrow, pumping out stone items. I also have 10 carpenters doing the same thing. Basically, I have 10 masons, 10 carpenters, 10 farmers/buther/cook, 20 metalsmith/furnace operator. With this I just hover over the area where the burrow is and I can find them easily. Also I have at least 30 Dwarfs in the military, and the others are usually haulers/miners/woodcutters.

@Above - Yes, I do this. It's tedious at first, but in the long run it's much easier to manage (for me).

[Loud Whispers]

Pft, never used Dwarf Therapist

That said, everyone's in the military.

And I don't need to do much organising beyond carpenters, masons and farmers.

Above ground forts ftw.

[automaticsquid]

I've been experimenting with using dwarf therapist to set custom professions recently and i really like it. its tedious at first but less so if you keep it up for each migrant wave so you don't have to do a ton at once. mostly it helps me make sure i don't have too many dwarves assigned to a labor that there aren't enough workshops to support and when I do get a spike of idlers find where the issue is faster.