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[Leonidas]

Dormitories apparently don't give happy bedroom-y thoughts, so why create them?

[hops]

What is the point of all those cheap stuffs when you have gems and addies?

[dexxy]

Dormitories apparently don't give happy bedroom-y thoughts, so why create them?

They are useful until you can make lots of bedrooms. It's better than sleeping on the floor.

[Panando]

Dorms as well as making the beds freely available (which beds are anyway be default), also makes dwarves without a bed, sleep on the floor of the dorm. This way you want have dwarves sleeping in random places. Not that it really matters either way, but that's how it works.

[GreatWyrmGold]

"Not that it really matters either way?" You've never had a miner fall asleep in front of an angry giant badger have you? (Or in an aquifer-draining tunnel...or outside in an evil area...or...)

[Garath]

"Not that it really matters either way?" You've never had a miner fall asleep in front of an angry giant badger have you? (Or in an aquifer-draining tunnel...or outside in an evil area...or...)

how did you get a giant badger down in the mines? 

but yeah, that is a reason. I usually have a dormitory in the beginning, but if my metal industry is down a long way, I usually make extra bedrooms (smiths and smelters get assigned a 2nd one there) but also a dormitory for haulers that got to tired to make it back up.

[forsaken1111]

Also an area designated as a dorm will keep the dwarves from claiming beds while unassigned bedrooms will be claimed automatically. Its nice for your laborers who don't really need a designated bedroom and furniture.

[zwei]

I also designate hospital zone over dormitory later on, so in the begining it serves as real dormitory and then just leave it be - beds serving as hospital beds.

[GreatWyrmGold]

"Not that it really matters either way?" You've never had a miner fall asleep in front of an angry giant badger have you? (Or in an aquifer-draining tunnel...or outside in an evil area...or...)

how did you get a giant badger down in the mines? 

I didn't. That's the sad part.

[Telgin]

Did dorms exist back when the economy still existed?  I've never played a version of the game that had the economy, but from what I understand dwarves had to pay rent, and a dorm would either be dirt cheap or free by my understanding.

So maybe it's more of a relic of older days than has a specific purpose these days.

[greycat]

Its purpose is to let dwarves stop sleeping on the floor of the tunnels before you have the resources to set up individual bedrooms.

[GreatWyrmGold]

Did dorms exist back when the economy still existed?  I've never played a version of the game that had the economy, but from what I understand dwarves had to pay rent, and a dorm would either be dirt cheap or free by my understanding.

So maybe it's more of a relic of older days than has a specific purpose these days.

Once the economy's back in, it'll have a good purpose again.

[Azated]

I don't bother with dormitories. A barracks is usually good enough for me.

[ResMar]

Personally I use dorms to house my children, and overlay the hospital over them.

Their purpose is to keep bad thoughts out of new dwarves in waves large enough that you can't give them all beds immediately; to give alternate bedding to exhausted dwarves that don't want to drag themselves all the way to their bed; to serve as hospitals; and to bed dwarves you don't care to give rooms.

[i2amroy]

Did dorms exist back when the economy still existed?  I've never played a version of the game that had the economy, but from what I understand dwarves had to pay rent, and a dorm would either be dirt cheap or free by my understanding.

No, the economy was disabled even back before 40d IIRC (so that was several years ago), where dormitories didn't exist until DF 2010.

Dormitories apparently don't give happy bedroom-y thoughts, so why create them?

Correct, dormitories don't give happy thoughts. They do prevent the bad thoughts of "was forced to sleep on the ground recently" and similar ones though. Basically dormitories are a way to ensure that your dwarves don't suffer bad thoughts from sleeping on the ground until you can get enough bedrooms set up.