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I was just reading a post about bedroom designs and was thinking it is worth it. I just build like 20-40 rooms depending on my population but do not assign them. When a dwarf gets tired he rent a room for a night. I never have any happiness issues with the many other ways to generate happiness, is the thought of owning a room give a big happiness boost. What benefits does a room even provide.

As I'm writing this I realizing that people might do it because it looks cool, but I already wrote this, so I'm going to post this anyway.

Thoughts?

Mine is giant ravens, in a couple of forts back I had a giant raven spawn. He would always fly around my noble tower ( I made a big above-ground tower for my nobles ). But this tower also has glass windows. So I always imagined it would be tapping and ever so rapping at my mayor's chamber window. Reenacting the scene from "The Raven", but instead it was a harry dwarf lady and a giant mutant.

But then he killed a goat and we had to turn him into stew. I really wanted to catch him but giant flying things usually prefer not the ground.

So what is your favorite subject of the animal kingdom?

When fishing you are catching vermin fish, not "large creature fish" that would swim in from off map. Simply building a room over the cavern lake and putting some grates as floors, will let your dwarves fish through it in relative safety.

I never thought of that you can fish threw a grate floor?

My fort has been getting bombarded by constant sieges and ambushes and I'm loosing dwarfs with combat skills and will soon have to employ recruits.

So I'm just wondering how far skill vs equipment goes.

Like a full iron recruit vs a copper veteran. Or even a copper legendary.

Thoughts and opinions?

Ha I won!

Well not really...

I waited for my dwarf caravan to leave with a good 9 bodyguards and also put everyone in the military. So as the caravan strolled out I told my army to to charge which of course got the bodyguards involved in the fighting. So the non military acting as human shields and my military decimating their units one by one I killed half of them and the rest fled.   

Now of course half of my population died and started a massive tantrum spiral to finish off the rest and ending the fort. But it was fun and !!fun!! as hell.

Never mind I just transferred my saves to a fresh dwarf fortress and it's fine. 

Fair enough

It happens 3-4 times a year. I get bored and quit dwarf fortress for 2-3 months. But then...this urge starts to build up in me to play DF.

I tried to fight it so that I may function like a healthy human being, it has been almost 5 months but the urge is too strong.

Maybe I'll read some posts to quench the urge, but it only makes it hungrier. Maybe I'll read an article on the wiki, but it only beacons the urge.

But...no matter my attempts the urge won. I started a new fortress about 3 hours ago, and I'm still playing...

May Armok be with me.