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[Callista]

Got a problem. Need a solution.

My dorfs hate their dining room. They will do almost anything to eat anywhere but the dining room. They'll hike ten z-levels down to eat food from the prison stockpile. They'll eat in the Duchess's throne room. They'll break into the manager's office and eat there. Only seldom do they ever eat in my well-decorated legendary dining room. If I see more than five of them in there, it's a pretty sure guess that somebody is throwing a party around the artifact table I have in there.

What gives? How do I get them to actually eat in the dining room?

[Corai]

Kill them all.

[krenshala]

Is it actually a dinning room?

[TigerHunter]

Is it actually a dinning room?

And if so, is it also a meeting hall?

[RAKninja]

Got a problem. Need a solution.

My dorfs hate their dining room. They will do almost anything to eat anywhere but the dining room. They'll hike ten z-levels down to eat food from the prison stockpile. They'll eat in the Duchess's throne room. They'll break into the manager's office and eat there. Only seldom do they ever eat in my well-decorated legendary dining room. If I see more than five of them in there, it's a pretty sure guess that somebody is throwing a party around the artifact table I have in there.

What gives? How do I get them to actually eat in the dining room?

block pathing to any other place to eat.

[Garath]

They feel in their bones that disaster will happen if they all eat in the dining room. Centuries of selective not-breeding of dwarfs that eat in dining rooms finally begins to show results

[Fireborn]

1) Is there an office in the hall that is larger than a single chair? e.g. Bookkeeper/Manager Office that fills the room?

If so, all of those tables/chairs count as theirs' even if a seperate one is marking the room as a dining hall.

2) Are these other places closer to the food?  IIRC, they target food, then target the nearest chair.

After that, I'm out of ideas.

[Morpha]

Like Krenshala said, are you sure it has been designated as a dining room with the entire area selected? It really does sound like this would be the case. Alternatively there's too many pictures of elephants striking down dwarves engraved into the walls.

[ASCIt]

Use traffic designations. Set restricted traffic zones to cost 100, high to cost one, normal - 25, and low 50.

[Gigmaster]

Check for any tables with chairs that aren't marked as belonging to another dwarf. I had this happen repeatedly in my fort with a hospital... I put up a bunch of tables for operations, then I figured "If I put a chair here, the doc will be able to sit and he'll work better!" Wrong; it was a rare day all the tables weren't occupied by dwarves chowing down mere feet from their dying breatheren.

[Garath]

Wow, it's like the kitty drop to desensitize dwarfs but then with dwarfs, a hospital diner. +1 to you, even if you didn't intend it to work like this.

[Morpha]

My dining room will now become the main operating room, in honor of your (un)intended genius

[Garath]

Dining hall ER

*munch munch*

"that his intestines hanging ou?"

*munch munch*

"Yup, and look at that one, his arm is rotting away."

*munch munch*

"Oh, I see Bomrek bled out, poor fellow. Let's get another helping of plump helmets."


I am very much in agreement with this mental picture

[JackOSpades]

dining hall ER? that is just one step away from cannibalism.

I wonder how long til the smell of battle starts making their mouths water?   

[Morpha]

I'll probably end up with an entire fortress of dwarves with the "doesn't care about anything" tag, and the elves will probably come to it to try sneak some fresh dwarf liver knowing them.