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[martinuzz]

I always thought that the only way to stop a party prematurely is to deconstruct the item the party room is made from..
But just now, I made a room from a cage (with a goblin elite bowman in it), and set my expedition leader as it's owner.
Soon, another dwarf decided to throw a party there, even though it was not his room.
Normally I don't mind parties, but just then, I had some important hauling tasks to be done.

I (q)ueried the cage, and (f)reed the room. Instantly, the party stopped. No deconstruction, just freeing the room did the trick.

[Shades]

Freeing the room always works in my experience. The only thing people might have been confused by is that dinning rooms have a meeting hall toggle, toggling this off doesn't stop parties but freeing the room does.

[martinuzz]

Yes, that must be my confusion. I did notice before indeed that toggling the meeting hall status did not stop a party.
This was actually only my 2nd time in my whole DF history that I stopped a party. I don't like stopping parties. My dwarves deserve them.

[Dorf3000]

Yes, that must be my confusion. I did notice before indeed that toggling the meeting hall status did not stop a party.
This was actually only my 2nd time in my whole DF history that I stopped a party. I don't like stopping parties. My dwarves deserve them.

The only parties my dwarves get are started by children.  I just can't keep them occupied enough with deconstruction jobs.

And of course I check who is attending and break it up if its my legendary carpenter or somebody important.  I'm a cruel, cruel master.

[Ubern00b]

I never get parties. As i set a meeting zone not a meeting hall.

Zones dont support parties

[DennyTom]

I flush them with water. They tend to start party in the drained room again, but it is satisfying.

[Shrike]

Well, this could also be done by placing a single cage in the party-prone room, putting a goblin thief (No bag or weapon inside, and hooking it up to a lever.

So long as there's one dwarf not at the party, you can pull the 'emergency stop'.

Oh, hey. You could also build a ring of fortifications, doors (or one-tile drawbridges), and another layer of fortifications. Pull the lever, the doors open/bridges lower, and children are frightened.

Use a GCS for the added benefit of webbing!

[Biag]

The only parties my dwarves get are started by children.  I just can't keep them occupied enough with deconstruction jobs.

In my last fortress, nobody threw parties because I kept them from having friends through massive amounts of work. There were two children, though, who would throw parties all the freakin' time, but every time I checked who was in attendance, it was always just those two kids.

Then, of course, they were murdered by the humans who conquered my fortress.

[Shrike]

The only parties my dwarves get are started by children.  I just can't keep them occupied enough with deconstruction jobs.

In my last fortress, nobody threw parties because I kept them from having friends through massive amounts of work. There were two children, though, who would throw parties all the freakin' time, but every time I checked who was in attendance, it was always just those two kids.

Then, of course, they were murdered by the humans who conquered my fortress.

That'll learn 'em to throw parties instead of developing their jaws to insane strength.

[Beanchubbs]

I usually let my dwarves throw parties unless they get 50% or more of my active military partying with them. When that happens, it always seemed like I got sieges, ambushes, and thiefs.

[Aspgren]

Soon, another dwarf decided to throw a party there, even though it was not his room.

That's odd. I made a castle once, complete with battlements and everything. The baron had his own statuary garden in there, but all the riff-raff of the population went and danced around admiring his friggin statues. and since they were close to his personal food stockpile they just went and helped themselves as well.

 It stopped immediately once I assigned the statuary garden to him. Literally the ENTIRE POPULATION just went and left the room alone - They never throw parties in private rooms for me. Ever.

[martinuzz]

It could be that is because the dwarf I assigned the room to was no noble...

I designated it to him, because I also thought that would prevent any dwarf but him from throwing a party there. I was just as surprised to see another dwarf use it to throw a party.