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[RomanGuy]

My idiot baron is constantly traumatized that another dwarf has a better office than he does.  The thing is, all other dwarves that have offices have meager or decent offices and he has an opulent throne room!  I even unassigned all the offices of the other dwarves and he still thinks someone has a better office.  I don't really know how to fix this, all his needs are met and all of his rooms are better than any other dwarf.  Am I missing something?

Also an unrelated question: how do you stop dwarves from collecting eggs so they can hatch?

[Sphalerite]

The problem isn't that another dwarf has a better office than he does.  The problem is that somewhere there is a dwarf with a better office than required.  Nobles tend to get upset any time any dwarf of lesser status than them has any room that his higher than required, even if that room is still inferior to the noble's.

To stop dwarves from collecting eggs, put the nest boxes in a room with a lockable door and lock the door.  You can also go to your food stockpiles and disable eggs and disable cooking of eggs, and/or wait for the eggs to be laid and then immediately forbid them.

[RomanGuy]

Ah, I understand the problem now, thanks.  Stupid nobles

[GoldenShadow]

I just keep mine super happy about everything else so the negative influence about other dwarfs' dwellings don't have much of an impact.

Put furnature made from the materials he likes in his room. Meet all of his mandates and demands. Keep a good cook to make his meals.

[Tirion]

Or just arrange an unfortunate accident. Barons are pretty much useless nowadays, their only unbroken function is that one day the king may come... who, unfortunately, is completely broken (and doesn't ever issue mandates).

[assimilateur]

Keep a good cook to make his meals.

I had a legendary cook for over ten years now and the only dwarves I ever see getting good thoughts about food are the ones that like something I have on hand. So unless they get a thought that isn't actually listed, most dwarves won't actually appreciate a roast worth 300* more than a raw mushroom worth 4*.


One way of dealing with uppity nobles I recommend is never appointing a fortress guard. That way they can bitch and moan about mandates all they like without anyone ever getting punished for it. And your high-quality roasts going unappreciated aside, they should still come out happy enough based on all the furniture they admire (as you yourself said). That should also help them get over other dwarves living above their means (or rather what said nobles consider appropriate), but I'm not sure since I haven't had anyone above a noble at a fortress of mine in ages.

[Aspgren]

My dwarves get happy thoughts from meals all the time... and they're not even good meals!

[assimilateur]

My dwarves get happy thoughts from meals all the time... and they're not even good meals!

Check their preferences. If you find someone enjoying their meals with a preference for food that isn't found in your fortress then that's news to me.

I mean, I'm pretty sure they appreciated meals based on quality back in 40d, but that doesn't seem to be the case anymore.

[Aspgren]

hm.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

"Boneman" likes jabberer and reindeer cheese and he ate "a fine meal lately". I am not sure what his exact meal was but the only cheese I have is llama and Yak cheese and biscuits where yak&llama cheese are ingredients. I don't have any jabberer either.

 Either he ate the last of a rare ingredient that I don't recall collecting (very possible. i buy food from caravans) .. or he just likes cheese in general although that isn't specified.. or something else is in play.

 More confusing; dwarves enjoy great DRINKS much more often than they enjoy fine meals. That must have been what I was thinking about earlier .. the drink appreciation is ten tims more common than food but none of the drinks have any quality modifier! they are all just stacks of drinks in standard quality barrels..
 Yet I read here.. dwarves have had drinks that were pretty decent, drinks that were fine, wonderful and drinks that were truly decadent...

 The favourite drink of all these dwarves is available. I wonder what makes some enjoy theirs while others just kinda appreciates them? I can't see any real similarities in their personalities...

So I'm left with only questions.. and a few observations:
 Dastot likes copper and takes food from a nice copper pot. She doesn't get a happy thought from it.
 Ushrir likes wild strawberries and ate some raw. it was "pretty decent"
 Catten likes plump helmets and ate some well-made plump helmet stew (with the other ingredients being turtles.) It was a "wonderful dish"
 
 If anything you're probably right. I haven't caught a single dwarf in action who get good thoughts from meals that don't contain their prefered food. They definitely like meals better than raw materials though.

 Spoiler because derail.

Or is it fine since the questions have been answered?