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Author Topic: How to establish a feeling of wellbeing and love in your fortress  (Read 1701 times)

Quietust

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Re: How to establish a feeling of wellbeing and love in your fortress
« Reply #15 on: October 04, 2009, 11:23:35 am »
One possible way to take it one step further - dig a downward ramp at the dead-end and place the meeting area down below.
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Re: How to establish a feeling of wellbeing and love in your fortress
« Reply #16 on: October 04, 2009, 12:34:06 pm »
Smirk, Quietust - I thank you both for your designs. While they are conductive to good friendships, I don't think they have a very positive effect on my dwarves joints though (as far as I know, Twister was a Human game). Thank you both for your attempts to aid me however - and rest assured that if a situation arises where friends amongst dwarves are needed at great costs I shall endeavour to put your plans into action.

May Armok fail to take you both.
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Re: How to establish a feeling of wellbeing and love in your fortress
« Reply #17 on: October 04, 2009, 02:39:42 pm »
Oh, and suggestion for your fort. Unless you do it IMMEDIATELY don't make your meeting all open to the light -_- cave adaption takes a freaking long time to cure and loads of unhappy thoughts. If you DO do it. Make sure the rest of your fortress is freaking amazing.
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Re: How to establish a feeling of wellbeing and love in your fortress
« Reply #18 on: October 04, 2009, 03:50:14 pm »
With high quality engraved native gold floors you can hit legendary in a 3x3 room.  That should be plenty small. 
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Re: How to establish a feeling of wellbeing and love in your fortress
« Reply #19 on: October 04, 2009, 03:59:03 pm »
This might be considered cheating a bit.

I just have a statue sitting outside with the 3x3 garden made out of it.  I then surrounded all the floor space with legendary furniture like grates, levers, and chains.  This lets the dwarves admire all the wonderful things while they socialize/breed.  It also helps prevent cave adaptation.
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Re: How to establish a feeling of wellbeing and love in your fortress
« Reply #20 on: October 04, 2009, 04:09:54 pm »
Quote from: Atarlost on October 04, 2009, 03:50:14 pm
With high quality engraved native gold floors you can hit legendary in a 3x3 room.  That should be plenty small. 
With a single Adamantine-studded wooden chair, you can hit legendary in a 1x1 square of dirt.

I really think there needs to be higher quality rooms.
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Re: How to establish a feeling of wellbeing and love in your fortress
« Reply #21 on: October 04, 2009, 04:43:13 pm »
Some dwarves will spend free time in their rooms rather than in meeting halls.  You can rectify this by eliminating all personal holdings and having a single large barracks which houses your entire population.  If that room is also the only meeting room, then all idle dwarves will spend all their time there.
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Re: How to establish a feeling of wellbeing and love in your fortress
« Reply #22 on: October 04, 2009, 06:01:40 pm »
So many new faces! I'm honoured to meet you all.

I'm off to bed now, but in general - thank you all for your tips for fortress management. Decorating the meeting room with furniture is a move I hadn't considered.
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Re: How to establish a feeling of wellbeing and love in your fortress
« Reply #23 on: October 04, 2009, 09:18:15 pm »
That explains my problem.  I have three separate meeting halls, two of them huge, and in a population of 143, any given dwarf has no more than 8-10 friends.  Then again, it doesn't help that I also keep them constantly busy.

If there was a way to equip a dwarf with a lasher and turn him into a slave driver, so help me...
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Re: How to establish a feeling of wellbeing and love in your fortress
« Reply #24 on: October 04, 2009, 10:22:32 pm »
As the proud owner of a small kobold camp, all my kobolds like to meet up with one another at the brook that runs through our camp. Already two of my ten kobolds are in love, and everyone else is friends with one another.
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Re: How to establish a feeling of wellbeing and love in your fortress
« Reply #25 on: October 05, 2009, 03:51:52 pm »
Doomshifter - Whilst I can't condone your actions to manage the vile kobolds, I wish you all the success as a manager of a settlement.

KenboCalrissian - Yes, originally I had this problem too, with the caveat that many of my dwarves had NO friends at all. Due to aid from kind folk around here I have been able to change this.
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Re: How to establish a feeling of wellbeing and love in your fortress
« Reply #26 on: October 05, 2009, 09:03:54 pm »
Quote from: Kanddak on October 04, 2009, 09:21:21 am
Socialization is inversely proportional to the area of meeting zones.
One time I experimented with making a single 1x1 meeting zone for an entire fort. Within a year or two, everyone had legendary social skills.

When you're crammed into a 5x5 ft. box with a few dozen dwarves, you either learn to get along or you end up in the next batch of mead.
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