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[The Red Kraken]

Hello everyone! I'm new here, so I apologize for any things a bit to noobish I say.

In my fort, I built a dining hall. It's nice, with lots of stuff. That's where dwarves spent most of their time, until I built the temple. I thought they were spending time at the temple at first because the need for it was high, but now a long time has passed and, while they do visit the dining hall, they spend the majority of free time in the temple. Are dwarves monks, or am I missing something?

[A_Curious_Cat]

How many different places do you have for them to hang out in (taverns, temples, libraries, guildhalls, museums, sculpture  gardens, and/or memorial halls)?

[The Red Kraken]

Oh I see. I suppose they will spread out across them. Thanks!

[A_Curious_Cat]

Also, iirc, if you don’t make our dining room a tavern, then your dwarves will only use it for dining.  I always make my tavern from a dining room (dining rooms can exceed the maximum size of an activity zone), and I don’t hire a poisoner.

[Juxtapoisson]

If I make a lot of meeting areas (library, diningroom, tavern, templeS, etc) I find they are mostly in the tavern. To the point that Tavern is now where I put most of my control levers.
Once I expand to individual temples for various gods, I find temple activity as a whole gets pretty light.

To your title as phrased, and not your actual point, I wish they were more religious (with gradient/variation) such as that it would effect actions and personality.

[callisto8413]

I had a few who had no religion listed.  Though maybe that was from an older version...

[HmH]

Aren't dwarves a bit too religious?

There are no atheists in foxholes.

[Putnam]

Aren't dwarves a bit too religious?

There are no atheists in foxholes.

There are no minds on the planet who fail to erroneously extrapolate their own experience to all of humanity

[Egan_BW]

Are you saying that there are no non-human minds, or that inhuman minds nonetheless all have a conception of 'all humanity' they use to project their experiences onto?

My pedantry concluded I now vanish into a cloud of smoke.

[HmH]

Aren't dwarves a bit too religious?

There are no atheists in foxholes.

There are no minds on the planet who fail to erroneously extrapolate their own experience to all of humanity

Nobody's immune to mistaking an aphorism for a naive over-generalization.

[Putnam]

I'm not mistaking an aphorism for a naive over-generalization, I'm accusing an aphorism of being a naive over-generalization.

[HmH]

I'm not mistaking an aphorism for a naive over-generalization, I'm accusing an aphorism of being a naive over-generalization.

Is there such a thing as an aphorism that is not an over-generalization?