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[martinuzz]

I just noticed a dwarf sleeping on the ground. She has a personal room with a nice bed.
Why does she not use it?

[kaijyuu]

Might not be able to path to it, might've been on the way but became too exhausted and collapsed, might've been affected by a sleep inducing syndrome.

I've had dwarves fall asleep on single tile bridges since a tree spontaneously grew and blocked their movement.

[PatrikLundell]

As mentioned, pathing is one cause: miners can easily start the job of channeling a shaft for a few levels and decide that it's time for a nap halfway through. Sometimes they climb out, and sometimes they go to sleep where they stopped working.

Another common reason, according to the forum, is dorf with the hunting job. For some reason (travel time?) the tend to sleep on the ground (I don't use hunters, so I have no personal knowledge of it).

[martinuzz]

I guess she fell asleep underway to her bed then. Pathing is not an issue, she's not a miner, she's not a hunter and there's no breached caverns yet or any other syndrome inducing possibilities.

Strange though. It's a 5 season young fort, there's nowhere to go that's even remotely far away from the bedrooms, it's not like she would have had to walk half the map to get to bed.

EDIT: 3 of my 10 dwarves are sleeping on the floor now even though they have rooms with beds.

[anewaname]

Dwarfs try to finish their current job before checking if they need sleep. An unskilled dwarf can take a long time to finish some workshop jobs. Then, they might need to eat, drink, and sleep at the same time. Eating and drinking receive priority and then the dwarf passes out.

[martinuzz]

My farmer is asleep on the fields. She's a Great grower. No other jobs, and she barely needs to plant anything.
Never seen this before.

[anewaname]

Maybe unassign her room and see if she reclaims it.

[martinuzz]

I unassigned all bedrooms and kept a close watch.

They don't even claim them, all my dwarves just sleep on the floor.
They are in a squad, but that is set to sleep in room at will, so that is not the issue either.
Looks like bedrooms are broken for me.

I did notice, at embark, after I build them 7 temporary beds, that they didn't use those either.
Or rather, one dwarf slept on a bed, the rest on the floor.

EDIT: correction, 1 dwarf claimed a room, the rest is sleeping on the floor.

[Sarmatian123]

You should be careful about building rooms without assigning them. Dwarves, due traits, will sleep in such not-created rooms on available build beds and then complain they didn't sleep in proper room. Even, if they have rooms assigned. Then we have ranger Dwarves, who will sleep wherever and not complain at all. This is why I always build and then asap create rooms, which are manually assigned to each Dwarf. This solves this issue. To keep in mind is, when you put stressed Dwarf into euthanasia, you need to remove the assigned room and remove bed asap too. To simplify raids, make sure to create squads sleeping rooms in easily found clusters. I hope it helps some.

[martinuzz]

They all had assigned rooms but didn't use them.
Well, 2 seasons later, 4 rooms on one floor have been claimed, the other 6 dwarves have not claimed a room and are sleeping on dirt.
Hmm.. ranger you said.. Does having ambusher skill interfere with sleeping in beds?I did make a ranger guild, and gave my starting dwarves some ambush skill.
They don't have ranger jobs enabled though.

EDIT: <double checks>

OH!! The dwarves that didn't sleep in beds had hunting enabled.. I was sure I disabled it on everyone but apparently not.
That, or hunting gets auto enabled when a dwarf trains ambush in the guild hall, will need to keep an eye on that.