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[TinFoilTopHat]

I mean, aside from a bit of IMMERSHUN. Like will a dorf who "Sees engaging in commerce as a high ideal in life" make a better broker, or will a dorf who "finds something humorous in everything, no matter how serious or inappropriate" level up comedian skill quickly?

[Nasty]

If it doesn't all hook in with something yet, I'm sure it is the plan.

I know nervousness and fear definitely affect a dwarves ability to take a corpse to the corpse pile without freaking out, or soldiers propensity for bottling out at the sight of the enemy. I check all my military dwarves for cowardice before I draft them.

It also effects the of the happy/sad modifier from having a thought, like helping someone or being outdoors or whathaveyou. A dwarf who hates helping people more will receive a bigger loss in happiness to one who only mildly dislikes it.

[martinuzz]

I'm trying to get a dwarf who dreams of raising a familiy engaged to a dwarf that actually dislikes family. They've been training on two adjecent screw pumps, have the same room designated as a bedroom, but 3 years of that, and  they're not in a relation yet. Their social skills do go up from being adjecent to each other most of the time.

[Yrael]

I'm trying to get a dwarf who dreams of raising a familiy engaged to a dwarf that actually dislikes family. They've been training on two adjecent screw pumps, have the same room designated as a bedroom, but 3 years of that, and  they're not in a relation yet. Their social skills do go up from being adjecent to each other most of the time.

They gotta be partying, yo. Dwarves can't talk and work at the same time.
Just throw 'em in a burrow together and make sure they don't have anything better to do.
Check it.

[TacoSundae84]

From what I've seen in my current fort, these things affect thoughts at least. The military dwarves with preferences for combat related stuff are all ecstatic with tons of happy thoughts about sparring and joy of slaughter stuff. The ones that don't have that or dislike combat are all content or happy, with their only happy thoughts being civilian things. They don't have any unhappy thoughts since the long patrol duty bug is now fixed though, so they don't seem to get bad thoughts about doing stuff they don't like? This probably carries over into things outside the military, but I haven't paid attention to that stuff nearly as much.

[martinuzz]

I'm trying to get a dwarf who dreams of raising a familiy engaged to a dwarf that actually dislikes family. They've been training on two adjecent screw pumps, have the same room designated as a bedroom, but 3 years of that, and  they're not in a relation yet. Their social skills do go up from being adjecent to each other most of the time.

They gotta be partying, yo. Dwarves can't talk and work at the same time.
Just throw 'em in a burrow together and make sure they don't have anything better to do.
Check it.

Found the problem. Male test subject just got himself a gay lover.

[Gnomeknows]

I'm trying to get a dwarf who dreams of raising a familiy engaged to a dwarf that actually dislikes family. They've been training on two adjecent screw pumps, have the same room designated as a bedroom, but 3 years of that, and  they're not in a relation yet. Their social skills do go up from being adjecent to each other most of the time.

They gotta be partying, yo. Dwarves can't talk and work at the same time.
Just throw 'em in a burrow together and make sure they don't have anything better to do.
Check it.

Found the problem. Male test subject just got himself a gay lover.

Maybe having the male work at a screw pump all day wasn't such a good idea.

[Quietust]

I mean, aside from a bit of IMMERSHUN. Like will a dorf who "Sees engaging in commerce as a high ideal in life" make a better broker, or will a dorf who "finds something humorous in everything, no matter how serious or inappropriate" level up comedian skill quickly?

In previous versions, a number of personality traits were confirmed to have effects on dwarven behavior (e.g. somebody who was "guarded in relationships with others" could not gain Consoler experience but could gain Liar experience, and the Anger/Anxiety/Depression traits influenced whether an insane dwarf would become Berserk/Raving/Melancholy). The exact effects for the current version have not yet been confirmed, but it's a safe bet that they still exist in some form.

[Button]

In 34.11, how much happiness a dwarf got from meeting with the expedition leader/mayor depended on their feelings wrt authority/tradition. Dwarves who disliked these would come out feeling worse than when they went in... and they only meet with the mayor when they're already feeling upset, so... yeah, that didn't always end well.

[Absentia]

Apparently personality types also affect what kind of ghost a dwarf can become. Dwarfs who like violence are more likely to become murderous ghosts, and so on.