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[kaffelars]

Hi, I just had some newbie questions related to statues/room quality and dwarf happiness that I hoped someone hyperintelligent could answer:

1. I have a 'royal quality' dining room, which seems to give dwarves very happy thoughts ('dined in a legendary dining room'). Will adding even more statues and valuable stuff to the room improve the happyness of dwarves dining there even more, or is a room's happiness-giving effect capped at a certain level at 'royal quality'?

2. I understand that putting high quality statues in bedrooms etc. will improve the room quality and make dwarves who sleep there happier (to a certain point?). But will putting statues all around the fortress in hallways etc. improve general dwarf happiness, or will dwarves only get happiness from statues in statue gardens, bedrooms, dining rooms etc? Same with smoothing/engraving the floor and walls in random hallways, will that improve dwarf happiness or just total fortress value?

Sorry if these questions have been asked 9999 times before, I tried to search the forums, but perhaps I failed

[Scarpa]

First, you should check the wiki for more comprehensive answers.

1. I have a 'royal quality' dining room, which seems to give dwarves very happy thoughts ('dined in a legendary dining room'). Will adding even more statues and valuable stuff to the room improve the happyness of dwarves dining there even more, or is a room's happiness-giving effect capped at a certain level at 'royal quality'?

Pretty sure that's as good a thought as you're going to get in that case.

2. I understand that putting high quality statues in bedrooms etc. will improve the room quality and make dwarves who sleep there happier (to a certain point?). But will putting statues all around the fortress in hallways etc. improve general dwarf happiness, or will dwarves only get happiness from statues in statue gardens, bedrooms, dining rooms etc? Same with smoothing/engraving the floor and walls in random hallways, will that improve dwarf happiness or just total fortress value?

Random stuff like that will have an effect on dwarves. I'm not sure what quality triggers it but artifacts definitely do. You'll see stuff like 'adminred a fine door lately', etc.

Again, you should study the wiki. It contains vast knowledge. Learn it, live it, love it.

[beekay]

Royal quality, as far as I know, caps out the happy thought for dining/sleeping/whatever.

As far as the statues go; putting a statue in a room will:
1. Improve the quality of the room, leading to the "slept in a very good bedroom recently" thought
2. Give a chance for the dwarf to admire the statue, leading to the "admired a fine statue lately" thought

Putting a statue in the halls will only give bonus #2, but it gets seen by a LOT more dwarves than if you put it in someone's bedroom, so it's still good (and possibly even better).

Note that quality is what cues the admiration, while overall cost (quality and material) is what gives you more valuable rooms. A masterfully crafted oaken statue is better than a superior quality platinum statue in terms of giving dwarves admiring thoughts.

[CaptApollo12]

try making an addamantine wafer depot. It says admired a completely sublime depot lately. If that helps. Royal is not the cap I think.