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[klefenz]

I was designing my fort, laying out the rooms and i had an epiphany. We usually put he beds pointing towards the door (often to save space).
This is bad Feng Shui, which eplains why fortresses fail miserably and everyone goes insane.

[IcyTea31]

Hard to say. Because of the abstraction of the tile system, we don't know if everything is always in the dead center, so the beds and doors might well be away from one another. If I play with numbers enough, I find that either they are an infinite distance from each other, or they are right in line, down to the length of a single grain of sand of deviation.

[Keldane]

Solution: T- or L-shaped rooms, with beds in the far corners. No leaky energy!

[BigD145]

It's not about saving space, it's about minimizing steps.

[GavJ]

It's not about saving space, it's about minimizing steps.

In city block distance, these two beds are equally far from the door:

D  .  .  B

D  .  .
       B

It only definitely saves steps if the bed is immediately next to the door, which I guess you could do, but for whatever reason, I can't recall ever seeing a screenshot of, outside of 1x1 rooms. People always seem to center them or put in the back of a line. Maybe they just have intuitive feng shui adherence.

[BigD145]

It's not about saving space, it's about minimizing steps.

In city block distance, these two beds are equally far from the door:

D  .  .  B

D  .  .
       B

It only definitely saves steps if the bed is immediately next to the door, which I guess you could do, but for whatever reason, I can't recall ever seeing a screenshot of, outside of 1x1 rooms. People always seem to center them or put in the back of a line. Maybe they just have intuitive feng shui adherence.

I use 1x3 bedrooms often enough. Bed next to the door. It's usually easier to place them with the layout I use. Fewer key presses.

[Gatleos]

My fractal housing makes the gods of OCD weep with joy. Who needs Feng Shui?

[Soadreqm]

In city block distance, these two beds are equally far from the door:

D  .  .  B

D  .  .
       B

It only definitely saves steps if the bed is immediately next to the door, which I guess you could do, but for whatever reason, I can't recall ever seeing a screenshot of, outside of 1x1 rooms. People always seem to center them or put in the back of a line. Maybe they just have intuitive feng shui adherence.

Dwarf Fortress uses Euclidean distance, or a decent approximation thereof, for diagonal movement. The first bed is three steps from the door, the second bed √2+1.