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[Urist MacNoob]

...And get my dorfs to go in it?

Really, I can't for the life of me figure out how to get them to go into the danger room. It's adjacent to the barracks and has a nice little slot for dodging. Training my dodging is a necessity for keeping my dorfs nice and skilled in the arts of war.

Can you help me out?

[NSKShadow]

First post, after a long time of lingering in the shadows...

Anyway, danger rooms are quite easy to build. First, build your barracks. Usually I just make a 5x5 room which works for me. Then, on one of the walls in the barracks mine 4 blocks in a straight line. On the first one, place a door. You should then have a 1x3 long corridor like room. In this room, place 3 weapon traps that contain 10 wooden training spears each. Connect all three to a level outside. Once this is done, get all your squad armoured up and with their preferred weapons (As this can also level their weapon skills) and station them in there. Station them on the furthest block, inside the room. Make their you set the door to not pet-passable, and any female dwarfs with babies should be removed from the squad.

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T - Training room/Barracks  x - Door  X - Training spears
Station them at the red X.

Once you've done that, set the lever that is connected to the weapons to be pulled on repeat, and let them go for a few minutes. Don't leave it for too long or they may get unhappy thoughts.

[Aslandus]

I've noticed some of my dorfs refuse to enter my danger room, so If you have this problem, add another corridor behind it with a door, it can limit how many can be trained at once, but it can be helpful...

[Urist McRas]

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Then, on one of the walls in the barracks mine 4 blocks in a straight line. On the first one, place a door. You should then have a 1x3 long corridor like room. In this room, place 3 weapon traps that contain 10 wooden training spears each. Connect all three to a level outside.
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Actually, you better make the corridor one tile longer (1 tile for a door and 4 tiles for spears). Stationed dwarfs move to within 3 tiles from their destination, so you want 4 tiles long corridor. Also, you want all other tiles be inaccessible, to force dwarf into the corridor.

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x - Door  X - Training spears  W - wall, or other inaccessible tile
Station dwarfs at the red X.
You don't really need first row and a door to use danger room, but it can greatly reduce number of cat-on-the-spear incidents

There are enough space to train dodging in the design, but you can replace some walls with statues.

Also, beware pets following dwarfs to danger room. Tightly closed doors is not enough to prevent it.

[Aslandus]

First post, after a long time of lingering in the shadows...

In this room, place 3 weapon traps that contain 10 wooden training spears each.

I used upright spears in mine, but I suppose weapon traps would avoid the annoyance of having the room inaccessible because the spears are in the wrong position...

[ShadowHammer]

First post, after a long time of lingering in the shadows...

In this room, place 3 weapon traps that contain 10 wooden training spears each.

I used upright spears in mine, but I suppose weapon traps would avoid the annoyance of having the room inaccessible because the spears are in the wrong position...

I think NSK meant to say upright spears, not weapon traps, because weapon traps don't target dwarves or any other friendlies.

[Bihlbo]

Huh, I don't do it like you guys.

I usually make my danger room somewhere away from things. It's a narrow corridor like you guys, but at the back of it goes a weapon rack, then a door, then 1 upright spike trap filled with training spears, then another door, then a lever. So I guess that's 5 tiles long.

Set the 1st door to internal but locked (s-o-l), then make the weapon rack a barracks and tell the military to train in that room, which will now cover the 1st door and the trap but stop at the 2nd door. The lever is hooked up to the trap. Once they're all inside and happily piled into that one tile where the trap is, the 2nd door is set to locked and the lever is pulled on repeat.

It looks like this:
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The hard part is making sure I never assign a female to the military, or at least relieve the ones with babies from service, and then pen all the war animals. I've lost a lot of dogs and babies to training spear wounds.

[Thormgrim]

I usually have a squad called "basic training" that only trains in my danger room.  The danger room has a single rack or stand, is queried as a barracks and only "Basic training" is assigned to train there.

I also usually have a series of tightly closed doors like airlocks that lead to the danger room.  That usually keeps the pets out, since they get stuck behind one door or another.

When the recruits are sufficiently trained up, I move them to one of my active duty squads elsewhere in the fortress.

[thegoatgod_pan]

Ninja'd by Bihlbo, he already posted this design

Here is the most efficient and perfect danger room there can be. I didn't invent it, but I forget who did. It was someone on these forums.
d-open door
D-Door marked internal and locked forever
T: A single upward spike trap full of 10 training spears
R: Weapon rack
w: walls

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The barracks is designated from the inacessible weapon rack and only covers three tiles: the rack itself, the locked door and the trap.

As such the dwarves can only ever stand on the trap and they only have a single tile and no where to go.

For best results lock the entrance when danger room is operative (will save cats, prevent dodging out)

[Ki11aGhost]

Haven't read all the posts so forgive me if this layout has been suggested, but I personally just put an armor stand in the middle of a 3x3 room. Then I lay out 3 training spears on each of the other spaces, wire them all up to one lever, and have that repeatedly pressed whilst the room is designated as a training area for 1-2 of my squads. This way whole squads can train in it freely, and leave freely as they wish.

Also, I keep my whole barracks and the 5 doors leading up to the danger room inaccessible to pets, as they tend to get in the room and pollute the floors with their blood. Also worth noting is that soldiers with babies will become soldiers without babies.

It also spices up the life of one of my idler dwarfs, constantly pressing one lever in the meeting room, never knowing what it does, not socializing, always imagining.