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[A_S00]

So, I've got a couple giant dormitories and giant dining rooms left over from before I gave my dwarves their own rooms.  These days, nobody sleeps in the bedrooms, and the dining rooms are only serving as unnecessary extra meeting hall areas, which is keeping my dwarves from socializing (I no longer get migrants, so I want kids, which means I need them to socialize in order to get married).  So I'm left with two giant, engraved areas that I don't know what to do with.

I don't want to turn them into farm plots (I've already got a ton, and removing the engravings would piss off my engravers since lots of them are masterwork).  I've already got a huge tree farm area.  What can I do with a couple big, nicely engraved rooms right near my main stairway that won't just be a huge waste of space?

Thanks for whatever advice you can give me.

[Dolwin]

Statue garden and a zoo?

[Findulidas]

Hospital?

[A_S00]

Hmmm...already got a hospital.  Statue garden I think will just cause more of the "no socializing" problem.  I could make a zoo, though (or at least a goblin-cage collection).

[Tevish Szat]

Do you have a monarch?  If no, can you get one?  If yes to that, do you have rooms prepared?

Zoos (if designated as a room from a built cage) cause the same problem as statue gardens.  If you don't make the cages rooms, though, it should be fine.

How's your stockpile situation?  being right next to the main stairwell, this strikes me as a good place to heap stone if you're not quantum piling it and don't have a stone pile next to your masons yet.  It doesn't make use of the engravings, but then what does?

[Necrisha]

If you don't have [insert noble here] you could see if preparing them for said noble is suitable. Otherwise you could prep them with a variety of booze and lock them when you aren't using them to re-rehabilitate unhappy dwarves. If you have a bunch at one time for some reason (families) it's sometimes a good idea to burrow them in a fairly isolated area from the main group and force them to socialize with each other till they are stable enough to return to society without choosing to tantrum.

[A_S00]

Monarch came, was a vampire, got Hammered, died of infection, no heirs .  I think (?) that's why I don't get migrants anymore.  Mayor is now in very unnecessarily nice and artifact-filled rooms.

I'm quantum stockpiling on my industrial floor (one z level down from here), so no need for more space for that.

[Silverlock]

I used such a room for prisoner executions in one of the succession games here not long ago.  Specifically, I engraved the walls and floor of the room with the pit wherein I threw my hapless victims guests, thus ensuring that the last visions to meet their eyes were glorious scenes of dwarven victories and also the odd cheese.  I also raided my stock of statues to place in the room for the same purpose.

[thegoatgod_pan]

If you make a zoo don't use goblins: gives the bad "saw something unpleasant in a cage" thought. Statue gardens are great for socializing though, dwarves love statue garden parties and if you want marriages, statue garden is the way to go.

The other option is a slab necropolis, decorated with statues of the honorable dead

[A_S00]

I've currently got two 'meeting area' rooms, one an above-ground statue garden (to stave off cave adaptation) with a waterfall in it, the other one defined from a well (artifact chain) with a bunch of high-value stuff (artifact llama bone weapons in traps, etc.) around it.  Both are pretty small (one is 4x9, the other 4x4).  I'm worried that if I add more meeting areas than that, my dwarves will be so spread out when they're on break that they won't talk to each other.  Am I on the right track there, or do I need more space for them to hang around?

[RanDomino]

Fill them with magma.

[Errant Gamer]

Build a mighty edifice to the Dwarven Gods, a Temple to honour your civilization's protectors. Bonus points for having a dais with trapdoor over a 50z drop to a lava pool for sacrifices.

[Naryar]

Stockpiles. You always need moar stockpiles.

Or you can elaborate a temple to armok.

[TheSharkable]

If it's near your entrance, fill it with 50 war bears and get ready to pull a leaver and let them out when the goblins come.

[A_S00]

The friggin' elves won't bring me any female bears >.< .

I think I'm gonna turn them into booze stockpiles; since booze is stored in barrels, it doesn't play nice with quantum stockpiling, which means it's currently cluttering up my stills.