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[Nyxalinth]

Last night, I had a dwarf get a possession mood and turn out a pine statue.  I wasn't displeased--I needed something nice for the meeting hall--but I ended up save-scumming later for unrelated reasons.  This morning I'm playing, and I get another mood--possession again--around the same date that the one last night had happened.

Are mood types pre-determined?  I mean, if say when you get your fort going does the game decide "Okay, we're doing possession, possession, fey, possession, fey, secretive" and then stick to it?  Or did the RNG just feel like being a dick and give me another possession mood?

I'm asking partly out of curiosity, and partly because I'm wondering if it's worth it to save-scum to get something that would actually increase skills.

EDIT: He turned out a really sweet buckler, so I'll keep this one, but would still like to know.

[Vharuck]

I'm pretty sure that moods are random, as in every turn the game goes through each dwarf to determine if he/she will be taken by a mood.  The chance is small, but with enough dwarves and enough time, it'll happen.  So it's just a nice coincidence that dwarves were possessed around the same time and making wooden artifacts both times in two different time lines of your fort.

[peskyninja]

Some moods depend on the happines of the said dorf.

[Nyxalinth]

Some moods depend on the happines of the said dorf.

Well, I did know about fell and macabre moods, but does happiness also affect the other sorts?

[Loud Whispers]

Some moods depend on the happines of the said dorf.

Well, I did know about fell and macabre moods, but does happiness also affect the other sorts?

There might be some other predetermined factors that determine what mood a Dwarf gets, being unhappy from a lack of booze doesn't cause a fell mood e.t.c

[krenshala]

I have no evidence to back this up, but I believe it determines if a dwarf gets a mood, selects the dwarf (if it hasn't already) and only then determines what type of mood the selected dwarf has.  This would explain why unhappy/angry dwarves get macabre/fell moods but happy dwarves don't, anyway.