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kuro_suna

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dwarfs won't use dinning room
« on: August 11, 2007, 08:51:00 pm »

although this isn't a particularly import i'v noticed that dwarfs will eat at the closest chair to the food stockpile even if you have a dinning room properly defined from a table, this is rather annoying since now all my dwarf have a "lack of tables" negative thought just because i used spare chairs to increase the vale of a nearby room even though i have a legendary dining room only a few steps farther away
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Shadowlord

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Re: dwarfs won't use dinning room
« Reply #1 on: August 11, 2007, 08:55:00 pm »

Of course they won't eat in a "dinning room!" How are they supposed to know what "dinning" means?

(More seriously, I'm 99.99% certain this was already reported a long time ago, what with it being mentioned on the wiki and all. IIRC, the wiki suggests never placing chairs without tables for this very reason.)

[ August 11, 2007: Message edited by: Shadowlord ]

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kuro_suna

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Re: dwarfs won't use dinning room
« Reply #2 on: August 11, 2007, 09:00:00 pm »

i actually used to have tables but i took them away because i though this would force them to use the dining room and get the "dined in a great dining room" thought but they just kept eating on chairs

what if i have tables but no chairs?

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Istrian

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Re: dwarfs won't use dinning room
« Reply #3 on: August 12, 2007, 03:11:00 am »

quote:
Originally posted by kuro_suna:
<STRONG>

what if i have tables but no chairs?</STRONG>


Then they'd complain about the lack of chairs.

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Goran

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Re: dwarfs won't use dinning room
« Reply #4 on: August 12, 2007, 03:43:00 pm »

Making a big dining room and assigning tables to dwarves works well, even better than it should.
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Pacho

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Re: dwarfs won't use dinning room
« Reply #5 on: August 12, 2007, 04:05:00 pm »

You can do what I do.  Put a small food stockpile next to the dining room.  I suggest you make several dining rooms across your fortress to alleviate traveling time and traffic.
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Re: dwarfs won't use dinning room
« Reply #6 on: August 12, 2007, 05:39:00 pm »

I was wondering about the problem, when a thought occured to me: why would you need undefined chairs?
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