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[Cosmonot]

Many of my dwarves are annoyed by noise at night. What causes excessive noise and how can I prevent it?

[Toady One]

Almost every job causes noise.  Placing sleeping areas at least 4 squares away from work shops to be safe.  Building constructions/destruction is particularly annoying for them and can travel up to 16 squares.

[ August 13, 2006: Message edited by: Toady One ]

[Aquillion]

Whoops.  That should probably be in the section of the manual on sleeping quarters somewhere...  It's something that is sort of difficult to fix if you discover it later on, when you have bazillion dwarf rooms in bad places.

[Cosmonot]

Aw, shucks. I guess the ideal dwarven fortress would have a residential area and an industrial area, with a buffer zone of relatively quiet storage rooms? Next time, I guess.

[Toady One]

Maybe we need an acronym, like Yet Another Manual Oversight.  I put in some text for this.

This word is fun (dictionary.com)

o-ver-sight, n.:

1. An unintentional omission or mistake.
2. Watchful care or management; supervision.

[Aquillion]

Another advantage to putting the dwarf rooms somewhere out of the way is that you can expand them easily (as long as nobody's sleeping, I guess.)  A bigger room makes dwarves happy, doesn't it?

I know I was able to deal with one of my tantruming dwarves by detailing their room, but expansion would be a lot faster...

[ August 13, 2006: Message edited by: Aquillion ]

[Cosmonot]

I know that when you make a really big room, the dwarves seem to like it, even if it has rough walls and low-quality stuff in it.

[Toady One]

Each room square is worth something -- dwarves, being subterranean scuttling type things, also give more points for walls.  So if you have a 3x5 room with a 1x3 super detailed wall in the center, they'll like that -- but super masterpiece furniture in those squares is even better, especially if it is things they like.  Dwarves give double points for stone/exposed ore/gems that they like in their [vpz].

Also important:  dwarves like enclosed rooms.  Leaving open squares on the boundary (except doors and windows) devalues the room.  Dwarves HATE sharing.  The [r] screen reds out shared rooms, and their value is quartered.

[ August 13, 2006: Message edited by: Toady One ]