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[Skelodwarf]

So currently 39 of my 42 dwarves are ecstatic.

They have no rooms, no furniture, they sleep on the ground, and their diet consists of a lot of berries, some more meat recently since I had to butcher some cats and cows for a mood, but over all they're roughing it.

So why are they so happy?
What magical mushroom have they been eating?

Oh, no, I just have a meeting area next to the ocean. They spend their free time getting misted by the sea. And they love it.

This is actually making the game kinda easy. In my last fort I had this set up, someone died, and naturally, he was friends with everyone. And then HIS friend died, who was also friends with everyone. Did anyone care? Well, maybe a bit, but they were still content.

[Qinetix]

seems like the mist made them ecstasyc

[rephikul]

Ya it's very easy to keep people happy. The stories you read on the wiki or seldomly in the forum are extreme cases and unless you are doing something very very out of ordinary it wont ever occur. In example dwarves would be happy just from talking with each other even if they are starving, have no water and no where to sleep. Or if you atomsmash 5 out of your 7 initial dwarves which are all friends of each other, the chance of the remaining 2 surviving the miserable thought is actually above 50%

[Bordellimies]

Countless of pet cats and wardogs (I do have the door set so pets won't be able to open it, but they stalk the dwarves outside...) and some babies have died in my danger room, still nobody ever is unhappy.
Only time Canyonown has had more tha none unhappy dorf is when I ran out of booze. And this lasted only for couple of minutes, since a caravan came.

[Namfuak]

This is why people joke that dwarves are bi-polar:  they either are ecstatic or extremely unhappy, and very rarely anything in between.

[EddyP]

I've never had a dwarf go beserk or melancholy. It's easy enough to keep them happy; just give them a huge dining room.

[Cassicotca]

I've never had a dwarf go beserk or melancholy. It's easy enough to keep them happy; just give them a huge dining room.

1 room meeting hall would fix that. 1 year and everyones best friends with everyone untill a couple die in a ambush. Instant FUN 

[Darvi]

I've never had a dwarf go beserk or melancholy. It's easy enough to keep them happy; just give them a huge dining room.

And a variety of trash  for their moods. Had lost a few dorfs because of that.

[SkyRender]

 I tend to find that my forts are all pretty happy too.  About the only occasionally unhappy ones are the idiot cat hypnosis victims whose precious fluffy gets "accidentally" speared on the danger room's training spears.  And even they get over it pretty quick.  Danger rooms, incidentally, are great cat control since cats wander compulsively into any and every area they can.  Just be careful of your multi-cat owners; they really will get distraught if two of their fluffy brainwashers get skewered too closely to one another.

[Skelodwarf]

Yeah, this is just the first time I've seen mass ecstasy in my dwarfs.
Probably because I usually replay the first 3-5 years, where they don't have beds or chairs or tables.
I just seem to really make double helix descending ramps.

But I mean, seriously? I have 40+ Dwarves with one THOUSAND happiness points each. That... just can't be right.

[ChairmanPoo]

I've only gotten one tantrum spiral, ever. And it took twenty dead in a siege, constant ghost sightings, and an overzealous fortress guard keeping it going.

[thegoatgod_pan]

I agree for the most part, but tantrum spirals do happen without doing anything unusual (atomsmashing dwarves etc.).  I weathered two in my current fortress--one initiated by a mother and two children catching a goblin raid while hunting (she was a good hunter...), the next by a F.B. plague that killed many many dwarves. Now they are all ecstatic again.

[FrisianDude]

But I mean, seriously? I have 40+ Dwarves with one THOUSAND happiness points each. That... just can't be right.

Lots of romances, births and marriages?