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[Nonsapient]

I've walled off my fort and am forcing the migrants to fend for themselves.... with a minotaur out there.


Somehow, they're all ecstatic.

Even the one that the minotaur has beaten beyond death, yet somehow still lives.

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What gives?  They're happier than the dwarves in my fort.  Maybe it's true, less is more....

[alexwazer]

Friendship is a luxury commodity in most fortress, making a friend and talking with him/her is enough to compensate the death of a wife and of 1 child or 2 pet cats. Seriously, the whole happiness system is rather nonsensical, some thought have are given too much importance (or not enough). I've had a dwarf that was ecstatic after losing a child to a snatcher and his wife to suicide because... he slept in a fine bed and saw a wonderful door.

[Shurhaian]

At that point I almost wonder if their happiness has somehow wrapped all the way around...

It might have something to do with their migrant status. Maybe they can't be unhappy until they're no longer migrants, and it somehow is breaking their mood logic even afterward. Don't know...

Friends may also be involved, yes, so long as the friends don't actually get killed.

[Nonsapient]

I just love all the injuries.  Also, look at her stats.  Apparently being beaten on makes you stronger?