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[Vayre]

I'm pretty sure i've seem dwarves go insane from extreme unhappiness, such as a king given no rooms while everyone else has awesome rooms, or injured dwarves going beserk

[smjjames]

Yea, the problem is that you have to keep them in that state long enough for a mood to happen while trying to keep them from going insane, but moods are random in what dwarf gets chosen (though not the skills and there is quite a bit known about it, but it still has a big random element to it).

In fact, the only time that you are guaranteed that a mood will happen is shortly after you hit 20 population.

I usually get hit on average, two moods a year, but its possible to have a stretch with no moods when not much is happening.

[Hyndis]

You could create smoke by periodically dumping a piece of coal into magma near a traffic area, such as between the tiny plump helmet farm and the slave labor workshops.

[roger123275]

So, similar to

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East/west Headshoots?

[Vayre]

Slightly, though Headshoots was to save the fort, whereas this just wants some Dwarf Leather Pants

[100killer9]

Keep them mostly inside, and send them outside only after they have servers cave adaptation. If they make a masterpiece, destroying it instantly will plummet them to miserable.

[Tcei]

You'll definately want something to bring th mood up every now and then on the "bad" side of town, as they will off theirselves and/or others if they get too unhappy. Maybe make a not-quite legendary dinning room and activate it everyonce in a while to up their moods?

[KenboCalrissian]

I've seen nobles throw tantrums because of a lesser's pretentious so-and-so, but I haven't seen a regular worker throw a tantrum for mere unhappy thoughts alone.  Then again, I regularly use mist generators which are practically like a cheat code for happiness, so I wouldn't know.

There's a theory that moods are triggered by digging out X number of tiles, and in my experience it appears to be true.  I have absolutely no moods when I'm not digging, but when I start digging again I'll get them.

Be sure your good side has no relatives on the bad side in case a tantrum spiral does erupt!  I almost saw a tantrum spiral start in a young fort because a wolf ate the mother of two/wife of a family that was immigrating in, and her husband started throwing tantrums because I only had plump helmets and wine at the time.  Eventually, her two sons grew to become co-mayors of the fort (every year, one or the other would always be elected.  They would trade ownership of the fort without fail.  Kind of a touching story, really.)

[EagleV]

If you want to put a lot of work in this, you can confine the unhappy dwarfs in pairs.That way, if one of them goes insane, only 2 will die, though if one has a mood, he still has a companion to  butcher.

Hell, I like this game

[Dwarf fort 27]

Make them wood cutters  it adds a gruesome tantrum spiral