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[Sanctume]

If you don't have a dining hall, dwarves on break will hang out in their rooms, never building relationships.
Without relationships, there are no dwarf babies.

Rooms?  Dwarfs are supposed to have rooms?  Normally they just hang out at the wagon.  I have to keep the wagon, too, if I don't, then the migrants just stand on the edge of the map until something eats them.  And wagons are no good for making babies.

Wagons are perfect that it also help slow down cave adaptation, unless you put a roof over it

[schlake]

I never realized roofs were a problem!  On the rare occasions that I do provide a place to live, I make my dwarves live in wooden towers, for the light! 

I shall have to rethink things.

Perhaps outdoor bunks, and then I remove the roof later, so they get the full sun while they sleep.

[Eric Blank]

Covering outdoor areas with artificial roofs will not restrict light or cause cave adaptation; it will continue to be considered "above ground, light" even if it becomes "indoors"

[Corona688]

Not true.  Someone else's rigorous experimentation in IRC proved that his 'light' barracks was not fighting cave adaptation at all.  If it's not outside, it doesn't work.

[sirvente]

Dwarves are clearly a race of exhibitionists. They refer to bum beards in dining rooms so that they can maximize the amount of observes and catch a quick snack, but if ush comes to shove they can be put into the mood by the immobile gazes of statues.

[EvilBob22]

Not true.  Someone else's rigorous experimentation in IRC proved that his 'light' barracks was not fighting cave adaptation at all.  If it's not outside, it doesn't work.

My understanding is that "light" stops the worsening of cave adaptation, while "outside" reverses it (in DF 2014).

DF 2012 (and earlier) is (are) a different story, "light" was enough to reverse cave adaptation back then.

[Pirate Santa]

Not true.  Someone else's rigorous experimentation in IRC proved that his 'light' barracks was not fighting cave adaptation at all.  If it's not outside, it doesn't work.

My understanding is that "light" stops the worsening of cave adaptation, while "outside" reverses it (in DF 2014).

DF 2012 (and earlier) is (are) a different story, "light" was enough to reverse cave adaptation back then.

Correct.

"Dark" = Raises cave adaptation by 1 per tick
"Outside" = Reduces cave adaptation by 10 per tick
"Inside Light" = Cave adaptation stays at current level

Building roofs over surface areas will give you Inside Light areas.

[MDFification]

If you don't have a dining hall, dwarves on break will hang out in their rooms, never building relationships.
Without relationships, there are no dwarf babies.

Rooms?  Dwarfs are supposed to have rooms?  Normally they just hang out at the wagon.  I have to keep the wagon, too, if I don't, then the migrants just stand on the edge of the map until something eats them.  And wagons are no good for making babies.

Sounds like it's about time someone heard about the (m)eeting zone...

[Cheedows]

The wagon is a one of a kind majestic being, the true hero of a fortress. Why wouldn't you keep the poor beast alive!?

[Max™]

^This is why I build shrines around them, though I recently figured out how to move them so I could dig out an engraved room inside a mountain for my wagon to reside in. Gotta make sure you change all of the coordinates properly though, I accidentally left the second y value too high once and it stretched the wagon causing it to do the psychadelic flashing stuff.

Also love the idea of exhibitionist dorfs getting in the mood because of statues.

[Insert_Gnome_Here]

Cover the entire embark with wagon.

[Max™]

Cover the entire embark with wagon.

Never go full wagon

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I used gm-editor to change the wagon coordinates from x 48~50 and y 48~50 to x 1~90 and y 1~90 then hit reveal and unpaused.

[variablenonsense]

Never go full wagon

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I used gm-editor to change the wagon coordinates from x 48~50 and y 48~50 to x 1~90 and y 1~90 then hit reveal and unpaused.

So what would happen if you deconstructed it? 

[Cheedows]

The fort will be blessed with wagon wood everywhere?

[Max™]

Let's find out!

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*click*
*unpause*
*dorf finishes job*

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Well crap.