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[PTTG?]

How often have you wanted to have nice, food-related carvings in the dining hall, but got pictures of dwarves exploding or withering or being stomped on. How about one of these new nobles we hear so much about allow you to suggest topics for your dwarves? For example, carve Decorative tells them to carve "nice" pictures and shapes, while carve Memorial (or something)tells your dwarves to carve violent images of death and so on. Carve Historical makes dwarves carve especially old or important events, and there could be more suggestions for your dwarves as well. This is not so much a command as more of a way to have dwarves act realistically, and not carve pictures of drowning nobles in your nobles' rooms. They also can be used to label levers without making specific carvings. Thoughts?

[Veroule]

I actually do like the idea of carvings corresponding to the room they are in while still being the automatic generation.  That said I think it should be something done entirely in the background by the game.  The way it would be done to my thinking is to check and see if a room is assigned there by bed, table, chair, statue, etc.  It should also look at the ownership of that room at the time.

The owenership would mostly be for nobles, but could be applied based on jobs.  For example the Rash might appeciate more carvings of coffins, while the Bookeeper would want to see carvings of coins.  A carving appropiate to a legendary miners personal dining room might be 'of dwarves and mountains. The dwarves are stiking the mountain, one young dwarf is leading the rest.'

So type of room affecting the things there and ownership.  All automatic behind the scenes so that new players suddenly go wow, how did that happen.  History should play a part in carvings done outside of a defined room, and if the player does things in the wrong order then it still looks neat because many of them will be from recent history.

[Lightning4]

It could go off the preferences of the dwarf the room is engraved for.

Though, one issue. Walls. They only have one engraving per wall, and it is shared between rooms. I suppose this could be resolved by always making two-tile wide walls for whatever you want to engrave, but maybe engravings could cover both (or more) sides of the wall?