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NTJedi

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Battling Loneliness for dwarves
« on: September 30, 2018, 08:50:32 pm »
The biggest issue for unhappiness is loneliness when playing and I have the main dining room as a meeting hall, temple for praying and garden statue all near each other to help with socializing, yet no luck.  Has anyone found a method which works for handling these bad loneliness issues for dwarves?
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Shonai_Dweller

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Re: Battling Loneliness for dwarves
« Reply #1 on: September 30, 2018, 10:03:36 pm »
There are various workarounds. Giving everyone the month off usually helps sort out being with people loneliness. Being away from family is incurable if there are no family in the fortress. Best you can do is send the dwarf away to look for their family someplace else.

Being away from friends is hard to fix due to bugs right now (besides the starting 7, dorfs don't devote any time to friend making). Cramming people together with nothing to do but chat and make friends for long periods of time seems to kind of work. But that's being worked on, we'll see how it looks after a couple more updates.
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Re: Battling Loneliness for dwarves
« Reply #2 on: October 01, 2018, 01:15:29 am »
If the dwarf is unmarried, away from family, and willing to start one, you can convince them to just get married with two seasons of isolation with a compatible dwarf.

There's been reports that no-furniture (distractions) meeting halls with two dwarves per tile works well for socialization. Might try that?
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Re: Battling Loneliness for dwarves
« Reply #3 on: October 01, 2018, 01:58:45 am »
As this is kind of a buggy feature I'm looking into modding it myself. Currently the fix seems to have something to do with the "[PERSONALITY:STRESS_VULNERABILITY:0:45:100]" entry in the raws. The middle number seems to relate to short term stress and the last number seems to relate to long term stress. There's not much information on how significant these values are so it's going to take some experimenting. I think to start I'm going to drop them both by 10 and see what happens.
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Re: Battling Loneliness for dwarves
« Reply #4 on: October 01, 2018, 02:14:04 am »
Nah, those are min/median/max values for stress vulnerability, i.e. best/typical/worst dwarves. Personality values predate memory entirely.
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NTJedi

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Re: Battling Loneliness for dwarves
« Reply #5 on: October 01, 2018, 05:28:37 am »
Thanks everyone for the ideas 
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