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callisto8413

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Giving The Dwarfs A Month Off De-Stress Them?
« on: December 09, 2019, 03:02:01 pm »
I am thinking about taking a page out of Kruggsmash and giving my Dwarfs in the town of CraftRiddle a month off.  Deleting all the jobs, setting the Squads inactive, and letting do what they want.

Will that help a little or will it just give them more to whine about?  "I don't have anything to do!"   "I liked military drill!"  "Now I have 24 hours to complain about my problems!"

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Re: Giving The Dwarfs A Month Off De-Stress Them?
« Reply #1 on: December 10, 2019, 04:35:41 am »
Depends on the individual character. Some will love it others will hate it and go nuts over it.
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Re: Giving The Dwarfs A Month Off De-Stress Them?
« Reply #2 on: December 10, 2019, 04:57:24 am »
Off duty military dwarves will still do "individual combat drills" as long as they have a barracks assigned to their squads so don't worry about them having nothing to do.

Lately I 've been using a "2 months active training - 2 months no orders" loop on my squads and it seems to work alright for me*. This gives them plenty of time to do their praying/socializing and do some wood/bone crafting on the side.

*I'm playing with a custom race that are considerably more resilient to stress than the dwarves are, due to having to endure the constant trauma of getting rained on. While that means that applying that schedule on dwarves effectively will require some tweaking, it stills shows that the 2 off duty months are more or less enough for them to fit in the necessary stress relieving activities.
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Re: Giving The Dwarfs A Month Off De-Stress Them?
« Reply #3 on: December 10, 2019, 04:26:42 pm »
Instead of deleting all the workshop jobs, you can suspend jobs in the workshop or in the jobs menu ('j', then 's' on a workshop job), or you can forbid the workshop itself (forbidding a workshop's first item will prevent dwarfs from using it for anything). When you want the dwarfs to celebrate for a month, this method is easier to reverse, especially if you have many job triggers in the job manager.

Regarding Astrid's post, sometimes a migrant will arrive who has no crafting labors enabled, and almost all dwarfs have a great respect for those who develop crafting skills. This will cause the dwarf to slowly increase stress because they are not participating in crafting. Spending time in the taverns and temples will not help this dwarf and maybe 25% of dwarfs arrive in this condition. (You will need to recognize that a lack of crafting is the problem, enable a labor, and ensure they have some work to do.
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Re: Giving The Dwarfs A Month Off De-Stress Them?
« Reply #4 on: December 11, 2019, 12:10:48 pm »
Quote from: anewaname on December 10, 2019, 04:26:42 pm
Regarding Astrid's post, sometimes a migrant will arrive who has no crafting labors enabled, and almost all dwarfs have a great respect for those who develop crafting skills. This will cause the dwarf to slowly increase stress because they are not participating in crafting. Spending time in the taverns and temples will not help this dwarf and maybe 25% of dwarfs arrive in this condition. (You will need to recognize that a lack of crafting is the problem, draft them into the militia, and march them into the magma.

FTFY.
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