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[minecartnage]

I've found an incredibly simple method to successfully prevent most tantrum spirals.
If you run the rest of the fort properly, this method can easily make your industries run smoothly while getting dozens of dwarves killed.

The big evil source of all tantrum:

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Meeting halls.

Having no meeting halls prevents tantrum spirals:
-If you have a meeting hall, dwarves will meet.
-When dwarves meet, they become friends.
-When half your population commits to !!science!! or other fun, the remaining half which were friends of them go out of control.

So, it is as simple as this:
-No meeting halls: No meeting.
-No meeting: Limited amount of relationships
-Weak relationships: Low amount of sadness when Urist McScience undergoes an unforeseen lethal event.
-Low amount of sadness: No tantrums

The downside is that you will have idle dwarves wandering outside and in tunnels, solvable by burrows or by physically locking them in with forbidden doors and the like. However: the further they spread out the better!

Combining this with something that makes the dwarves happy, like masterfully engraved personal bedrooms will allow them to take the emotional hit of losing a handful of Urist McSockgrabbers during an ambush without shedding a tear.

Last but not least, have a coffin ready for every dwarf. This limits the emotional impact of deaths substantially.
You will never have enough coffins. If you run out when needing them, it is over. 
Build a few hundred. You are gonna need them.



So:
No meeting -> no friends -> no sadness -> no tantrum.

A lonely dwarf is a happy dwarf.

I must say that sometimes tantrum spirals feel unfair. My last fort that had meeting halls was built in dozens of hours of flawless gameplay until grandpa Urist died of old age and sent the fortress down a tantrum spiral...

Though doing this makes the game too easy... dwarves get killed an nobody cares.
Oh well at least I can focus on megaprojects and science now.

[pisskop]

They do more than make frineds at these areas... this isnt foolproof...

Why would you want healthy, sane dwarfs?

[TheZoomZoll]

They do more than make frineds at these areas... this isnt foolproof...

Why would you want healthy, sane dwarfs?

Because spending 500 hours on a fort just to have Urist McCheesemaker's family die to destroy the whole fort is not cool man,its not!

[weenog]

They do more than make frineds at these areas... this isnt foolproof...

Why would you want healthy, sane dwarfs?

Because spending 500 hours on a fort just to have Urist McCheesemaker's family die to destroy the whole fort is not cool man,its not!

Hell yeah it is.  What's not hilarious about a fortress drowning in its own rage because Urist McGrandpa stubbed his toe and died of infection, his family went a little overboard with the mourning, and everybody else rioted over the property damage?  The clean-up afterward?  That's cool too, you get to play fortress reclaim without having to go through loading and embark that crash most of the time anyway.

[TheZoomZoll]

They do more than make frineds at these areas... this isnt foolproof...

Why would you want healthy, sane dwarfs?

Because spending 500 hours on a fort just to have Urist McCheesemaker's family die to destroy the whole fort is not cool man,its not!

Hell yeah it is.  What's not hilarious about a fortress drowning in its own rage because Urist McGrandpa stubbed his toe and died of infection, his family went a little overboard with the mourning, and everybody else rioted over the property damage?  The clean-up afterward?  That's cool too, you get to play fortress reclaim without having to go through loading and embark that crash most of the time anyway.

BUT THE SENTIMENTAL VALUE  IT IS ALL LOST

[pisskop]

Toady has said only a few days ago he's working on retiring forts. . . if its that important to keep your dwarves alive and still quit.

Think of all the mega-mega-projects one could do!  A channel from one ocean to another, A truely giant statue!  A minetrack that acts like a dwarven train (of death).

[Vodrilus]

Ocean channel: The dwarven populace slowly shifts from one coast to the other due to migration? (But the waters would never actually meet... and even then you'd need trickery.)

[pisskop]

I was indeed pondering this.  I imagine you dig a 3x2 channel that goes from Ocean A to Ocean B.

The minetracks would be much harder, at least on the surface.

There is also the matter of how exactly regions combine.  If I settle adjacent regions C snd D, do they overlap (probly not), sit 'nut-to-butt (perfectly adjacent), or is there some kind of buffer, list land or freeman's land?  I'd imagine in a perfect grid its perfect adjacency, but I've not seen proof to that yet.

Still, my mind can see it, and it excites me.

[Loud Whispers]

No dining hall = no happy thoughts to have eaten in a legendary dining hall.

I'll give you a tip on tantrum damage control; isolate the affected individuals. I've placed 2400 doors so far in my Fort, a decision I have not regretted. Yet.

[GoombaGeek]

Make a corridor fort. The largest rooms are the Siege Workshop and Trade Depot. Stockpiles are linear. No room to interact = no tantrum spirals! Ha!

[TheCoolSideofthePIllow]

Protip: Simply not having Meeting Halls doesn't prevent Dwarves from socializing; it merely prevents PARTIES.

I've run many forts with no meeting halls to prevent parties and keep productivity up; it did not prevent tantrum spirals what-so-ever. If anything, it made them worse because there was no LEGENDARY MEETING HALL for them to get happy thoughts from.

[Jase]

Dwarves are always the cause of tantrum spirals. Having only one dwarf schould solve this problem 
(Maybe an interesting idea for a challenge: One-Dwarf-Challange. Everything have to be done with only one dwarf, all others must be killed as soon as possible.)

[XXSockXX]

Protip: Simply not having Meeting Halls doesn't prevent Dwarves from socializing; it merely prevents PARTIES.

I've run many forts with no meeting halls to prevent parties and keep productivity up; it did not prevent tantrum spirals what-so-ever. If anything, it made them worse because there was no LEGENDARY MEETING HALL for them to get happy thoughts from.

I agree, stacking happy thoughts, also from socializing, prevents tantrum spirals. I had dwarfs still ecstatic after losing 3 relatives in short order.

If you just want to prevent parties you can designate meeting areas from slabs, they don't seem to party there.

If you have a legendary dining room the dwarfs will get happy thoughts from eating there even if it is not designated as a dining room.

[laularukyrumo]

Dwarves are always the cause of tantrum spirals. Having only one dwarf schould solve this problem 
(Maybe an interesting idea for a challenge: One-Dwarf-Challange. Everything have to be done with only one dwarf, all others must be killed as soon as possible.)

Exists already, look up "Hermit Challenge"

[Drazinononda]

Dwarves are always the cause of tantrum spirals. Having only one dwarf schould solve this problem 
(Maybe an interesting idea for a challenge: One-Dwarf-Challange. Everything have to be done with only one dwarf, all others must be killed as soon as possible.)

Another way to look at it is that with only one dwarf, every tantrum is a tantrum spiral, but they always stop after one tantrum-related death.