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[gwenbasil]

So I've got a pretty peaceful map, and am pre-gaming my king, building what will be his throne room/palace set up when he arrives.

I've got a lovely engraved room with a tame elk and leopard tied up in it, and platinum and electrum thrones, among other sundries...

Thing is, the platinum throne is growing quite the pile of crap on it, as dwarves come in, sit down with their plump helmet or whatever, munch away, and leave.

>.< What draws them away from the designated Joe Dwarf eating digs? Those are pretty nice too. Do just the ones with a fondness for Platinum thrones come by?

[Moogie]

In my experience, dwarves pick the 'nearest' (even through z-levels) free chair to them when they start the Eat job. I don't know about their seating preferences, though.

[BurnedToast]

Note that once you assign the chair, they will stop using it to eat at so they won't be eating in the king's dining room while he's there. If you don't want them eating there till then, lock the doors or assign the chair to your mayor or something.

[puke]

or unbuild the throne until he shows up.  or forbid the traffic area.

[grelphy]

Changing pathing cost has no effect whatsoever on what dwarves do or where they go. Designating the area around the throne as "restricted" will neither prevent nor even discourage dwarves from using it. Pathing costs are used to direct dwarves that are going somewhere else around some area (i.e., a farm or the ballista firing range), not to decide where they go or what they do.

To solve your problem, you could try forbidding the throne ([t]->select throne->[f]orbid the throne) or deconstructing it and forbidding the throne item.

[Derakon]

I've noticed that dwarves prefer to eat in designated rooms over undesignated ones, regardless of how nice the undesignated ones are and how cruddy the designated ones are. Hell, the first fortress I had that wasn't a total failure, I'd dug some 3x3 rooms out of the sand for nobles' offices, and any time I put a chair and table down in one and made a room out of it, it was pretty much constantly in use from dwarves who didn't want to use my large, smoothed and engraved dining room with statues lining the walls (and plenty of spare chairs and tables).