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[Urist Mchateselves]

Add in a ways for dwarves to fulfill their basic needs that reduce the amount of micro-managing for the player to do. For example you could assign a workshop and associated stockpile for “leisure crafting” and dwarves that would get the “craft object” need would then use this workshop as a way to entertain themselves during their free time. You could assign a zone as a “roaming area” so that dwarves with the “wander” need could go to when when they’re on break. You could even have the family members of your dwarves visit occasionally from time to time, that way the dwarves with the “be with family” need would actually get to see their loved ones every once in a while. You could add some sort of sparring gym for dwarves with the “martial training” or “fight” need to go distract themselves, instead of having to manually assign each bored dwarf to a military squad with all the associated repercussions, and so forth. All of this would lessen the amount of micromanagement as well as make the fortress more lively.

[Eric Blank]

These are all great ideas

[A_Curious_Cat]

I’m pretty sure the first one has been suggested before.  For the second one, I think it’d be better to just have the idle unit walk to the within a certain distance (perhaps sight distance) of the furthest revealed map edge of the closest surface or cavern layer to where they are at when they get the urge.  I don’t have any problems with the rest.

[crazyabe]

assign each bored dwarf to a military squad with all the associated repercussions

'_' what "repercussions"? assigning *every* dwarf to, at the very least- bi- or tri-monthly Wrestling training is just a good investment, it alone can fulfill half a dwarf's needs, making them far more productive then they would be otherwise!

[Urist Mchateselves]

assign each bored dwarf to a military squad with all the associated repercussions

'_' what "repercussions"? assigning *every* dwarf to, at the very least- bi- or tri-monthly Wrestling training is just a good investment, it alone can fulfill half a dwarf's needs, making them far more productive then they would be otherwise!

On smaller forteresses, it can slow productivity down quite a bit. Obviously, this wouldn’t be a replacement to assigning dwarves to their own military squads, but an alternative.

[Urist Mchateselves]

I’m pretty sure the first one has been suggested before.  For the second one, I think it’d be better to just have the idle unit walk to the within a certain distance (perhaps sight distance) of the furthest revealed map edge of the closest surface or cavern layer to where they are at when they get the urge.  I don’t have any problems with the rest.

Having the dwarves wander at random areas in the map would probably increase the amount of random dwarves who wander into “deathclaw the absolute destroyer of dwarves the steel forgotten beast” quite a bit. That’s why I suggested that it should be confined to a zone instead.