Print

Please login or register.
1 Hour 1 Day 1 Week 1 Month Forever
Login with username, password and session length

[CognitiveDissonance]

I started a "Hey, it's 34.07" fort. First two hard coded immigrant waves went by smoothly. Traders came, and left with some amazing rock mugs encrusted with gems.

Next thing I know? 30 migrants arrive. 30!! Is that normal?
I'm not sure I want to try and sort that fort now...

(and I just finished building rooms for my other dwarves...)

[peskyninja]

Once I've received -+81 migrants, 31 of them were children.

[FuzzyZergling]

That's normal.

[Garath]

even in 31.25 my third wave was often 24 - 28. Depends on fort wealth.

[CognitiveDissonance]

Damnit. Guess I'll deal with it. That's what I get for mastercrafted cabinets and gem encrustings, I guess.

This has more than doubled my population. Thanks guys

[Chocolatemilkgod]

Yeah, the spring first migrant wave is usually crazy. I've goten 31 before. New military recruits

[SaberMonk]

I've experienced the same thing several times, where I've just finished (literally just placed the last piece of furniture) making 1x4 bedrooms for each of my dwarves and right then 30+ new dwarves show up. So I'd start making more bedrooms only to have the same thing happen again. After this happened on 2 forts back to back, I decided to give up on bedrooms (except for nobles) and use dormitories until my fort is more established and the population steadies. Plus at that point I'll have more miners and haulers to make the process go much faster.

[Garath]

I usually only start digging bedrooms after the 3rd migration wave, but before I'd get nobles.

[Absentia]

Individual bedrooms are overrated. Unless something else is depressing your dwarfs, sleeping in a dormitory does not generate a dangerous amount of unhappiness. I probably wouldn't bother with them at all except it gives the idle hands something to do.

[Garath]

I kind of use them as a buffer so I can find out what is wrong, or to get animal trainers get over the butchery of their favorite animal.

[KrazyDocK]

The main reason I make individual rooms for my dwarves is so they'll put their damn clothes away instead of leaving them all over the fortress.  A 1x3 room with a bed and a cabinet is what I make.  Really 1x2 would be enough, but I've always kept an extra tile just in case I needed another piece of furniture like a coffer or something.  Anyway, these individual rooms seem to do the trick to keep the clutter down.
KD

[Garath]

not having a bedroom is a minor bad thought, but I found that unhappy dwarfs often go to their rooms to sulk and "slept in their own bed, admired own fine bed, admired own fine cabinet, slept in a grand bedroom" will boost their happiness enough to keep them from tantrumming a bit longer.

[CognitiveDissonance]

Oh, the bedroom thing is a personal preference. I, long ago, decided that all my forts will have 4x4 rooms for each dwarf. So I've been doing that