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[AllThingsLive]

I've done such things as give individual rooms with cabinets and such, engraving just about everything, placing statues all over, producing a variety of foods, and building mostly masterpiece furniture, but are there any other things that will increase dwarf happiness?
And while we're here, how do you think I should go about defending my fortress?
I have 2 entrances, each with a dwarf atom smasher ( Draw bridge ) and a HUGE line of Cage traps.
So yeah, any other ideas? Maybe a hallway with tons of spike tracks all linked to one lever which gets pulled a ton of times when an enemy is on it?

[CapnUrist]

A legendary dining room (I make mine 15x15) and mist generators in the hallways. Keep dwarves from being ripped apart in attacks, as well as their pets.

The only dwarves in my fort who aren't ecstatic are the babies who aren't impressed by such things, and they're just constantly content.

[Jacob/Lee]

You could build a drowning trap, such as using a system of drawbridges to make a giant box on a bridge when it is raised, and then filling the box with water. Then you could lower one of the sides and flush the bodies/water/loot down a pit and pump out the water. That's what I did, I killed a megabeast, two sieges, a few dozen ambushes and some merchants with it.

[Max White]

Try to specilise them into working on a single task over and over, in a single workshop. I find that makes them most pleased with there work.

[AngleWyrm]

Build a danger room, and train up a squad of steel clad axe lords. As a bonus, you get to keep your soldiers, which means no bad thoughts from deaths recently.

You'de be surprised how many players think it's a good idea to use poorly trained/equipped immigrants for their first line of defense. All that does is waste experience and rack up negative thoughts.

[AllThingsLive]

Okay, so how should I go about speed training my soldiers then? I find that when I set them to train they just take an eternity and a half to even become "Skilled" in anything.

[Jacob/Lee]

Make a Danger Room. Although you should give them armor first, even wooden spears can horribly mangle somebody.

[ImaDwarf]

Make a Danger Room. Although you should give them armor first, even wooden spears can horribly mangle somebody.

Forget armor, normal clothes shield enough.   

[ext0l]

Make a Danger Room. Although you should give them armor first, even wooden spears can horribly mangle somebody.

Forget armor, normal clothes shield enough.   

Make sure they have some hat-type item though. Otherwise, you'll get a lot of brains smashed through skulls.

[ImaDwarf]

Make a Danger Room. Although you should give them armor first, even wooden spears can horribly mangle somebody.

Forget armor, normal clothes shield enough.   

Make sure they have some hat-type item though. Otherwise, you'll get a lot of brains smashed through skulls.

The freaking cloaks have saved my Militia Leader's ass in the danger room so many times.

[AllThingsLive]

Alright then, sounds good
( Except that armor is a huge pain in the ass to make, especially since my map lacks a magma pipe )

[ImaDwarf]

Give them armor, a new recruit just took a spear to the head, and was saved by his hood, so, import some or something, because they can save a life.

[jaxad0127]

Leather?

Mist is really good for dwarven happiness. The wiki has some designs for water falls and generators. Public artifacts help. Build nice public rooms (meeting halls, statue gardens, zoos, ...). Good and various food and drink helps a lot.