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[sweitx]

I always like to engrave every wall of my dwarves' bedrooms, so I leave a two-tile thick gap between all the walls. I just created this fractal bedroom plan while playing around in MS Paint. Each iteration is four copies of the last one, with each copy missing a corner, from which the stump connects to the center. The number of rooms you get with this fractal on the nth iteration is 4*3^n - the fifth iteration gives over 300 identical 2x3 rooms. The self-similar aspect ends up wasting a bit of space, but you can fill that in if you actually use this design...which I know I won't.

Looks nice... but seems to be very space inefficient.  Instead of removing one area completely, try removing only the smallest aesthetically/structurally/functionally necessary.

[Dwarfaholic]

I try to make as much use of the z-axis in my fortresses as I can.

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Key:
# Wall
B Bed
D Door
X Stair
W Workshop

Below:

#################
#  B#B  #  B#B  #
#   #   #   #   #
#  D#D  #  D#D  #
#### ####### ####
    X       X
#### ####### ####
#  D#D  #  D#D  #
#   #   #   #   #
#  B#B  #  B#B  #
#################


Above:

#################
#WWW#WWW#WWW#WWW#
#WWW#WWW#WWW#WWW#
#WWW#WWW#WWW#WWW#
#WWW#WWW#WWW#WWW#
####X#######X####
#WWW#WWW#WWW#WWW#
#WWW#WWW#WWW#WWW#
#WWW#WWW#WWW#WWW#
#WWW#WWW#WWW#WWW#
#################


The dwarves won't sleep well due to workshops being so close, but they get to work efficiently.

I also place a storage level over the workshops, and a dining room beneath the rooms.

[AngryToad]

I have a 3 by 3 room with the bed in the middle and the furnishings usually in the corners.

I know it seems a bit much, but considering how little I get done by the first immigrant wave, having a lot of bedrooms isn't an issue.

[wallish]

I try to incorporate my exploratory mining strategy with my housing.  Basically, using Shift+Arrow while designating mining you jump ten spaces.  So I make a grid like such:

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#############
#           #
# ######### #
# ######### #
# ######### #
# ######### #
# ######### #
# ######### #
# ######### #
# ######### #
# ######### #
#           #
#############
  = mined out space, a hallway 11 x 11 (10x10 inside)
# = unmined
as it'll expose most veins that are present.  Each square in the grid can then hold 4 3x3 housing units.  Since I usually mine out entire Z-levels like this that leave more than enough squares for housing or any other needs.  You end up with this:

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#############
#           #
# ######### #
# #   #   # #
# +  8#8  + #
# #   #   # #
# ######### #
# #   #   # #
# +  8#8  + #
# #   #   # #
# ######### #
#           #
#############

# = unmined, + = door,   = mined, 8 = bed

Now imagine a HUGE amount of these taking up an entire z level and you could house at least 500 dwarves.

[Seizures]

I like giving my dwarves nice rooms, helps keep tantrums in check. I usually divide my fortress into quarters. Housing, food/dining, workshops, and noble quarters.

Never, EVER have a less than 3 wide hallways, anywhere in the fortress. That is just begging your dwarves to crawl over each other constantly to get somewhere.

Easy enough to expand, and when it goes past a 3 x 3 block of this I start digging down to add rooms. Don't want those dwarves having to move way too much just to get to work/sleep/eat.

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>>>+++++++++>>>
>>>+++++++++>>>
>>>+++++++++>>>
+++##D###D##+++
+++#+++#+++#+++
+++D+++#+++D+++
+++#++B#B++#+++
+++#########+++
+++#++B#B++#+++
+++D+++#+++D+++
+++#+++#+++#+++
+++##D###D##+++
>>>+++++++++>>>
>>>+++++++++>>>
>>>+++++++++>>>


[Phoenyx]

I try to make as much use of the z-axis in my fortresses as I can.

The dwarves won't sleep well due to workshops being so close, but they get to work efficiently.

I also place a storage level over the workshops, and a dining room beneath the rooms.

One idea I've been tinkering with is placing the storage level and dining rooms/office level(s) between the workshops and the bedrooms. Because they run on similar up/down stairs, the distance isn't that much farther. But then you also get some noise reduction for the sleepers. For even more reduction, create a level that is just the stairwells. (I think it was said that you want a 5 level difference?)

 I have been putting storage above (normally in the soil levels).. but found that I wanted the prepared food stored between the kitchen and dining areas. Plus, as the furniture is normally used in the bedroom/dining/office levels, you will want that stored there as well.

[Doppel]

5 level difference as in three levels between the workshop level and the bedrooms level? I always used 4 between the two. Dunno.

[Phoenyx]

I was thinking you needed to have 5 levels between them, thus why I had a few "stairs only" levels. But it seems I was off by one.

http://www.dwarffortresswiki.net/index.php/Noise

So.. If you want to stack the fortress on a few common stair cases, Your looking at a layout similar to this.. for noise reasons.

Access, farms, outside storage (tradables, cookables, craftables.)
Workshops.
Inside storage (cooked food, drinks, furnature, armor/weapons?)
Dining / meeting areas
Office areas
Stairs-only (or coffins.. hrm..)
Bedrooms.

Or just move the bed rooms farther away. Sure they have to walk.. but how often do they head back to their rooms?

[magikarcher]

I make a room that has half the amount of beds as there is dwarves. Then for the noble dwarves I make quarters packed with statues and an artifact.

[Dwarfaholic]

The noise penalty isn't that big, really. It's easily cancelled out by a huge dining room, and I usually have a dining room the size of a Z-level.

Also, I sometimes stack several complexes on top of each other, like this:

Military
Entry
Storage
Workshops
Bedrooms
Dining Room
Bedrooms
Workshops
Storage
Noble's Rooms
Exploratory Mining Shafts

[sweitx]

My current design uses a bunch of 3x3 room.  Although to prevent dwarf economy from getting them evicted, I build most room in a dormitory style, namely have 2 beds per room (or 3 if you want to drive them down further).  That way they can share a coffer and cabinet.  Now even if they're poor, they still get a room (shared with 1 or 2 others) a cabinet and a coffer (again, shared).

[Eatnobles4breakfast]

I've herd it's good to have rooms and workshops with doors, so crazy deprived moody people can just starve themselves...so, i have star shaped rooms taking up 13 spaces per dwarf, any number high would work, and i fill in the spaces with noble rooms and offices, though i guess i could just put offices in the rooms...

[Tnx]

I had a nice setup that I kinda tried to copy from a fractal design on the wiki.  It ended up looking like a swastika... :\

[vagel7]

well im gonna make a whole floor into the resitental area.my workshops are on the -1 resitental area somewhere in -4 or so so i have stone to garve into,also all the rooms will be 3x3 and have a bed,coffer and a chair in them.

[MC Dirty]

My design is like this:

Turquoise = bedroom
Green = door
Red = stairs
Pink = dining room
Yellow = table
Blue = chair/throne

It might not be very space efficient, but I can stack them above each other quite easily and I like it when the dining room is already implemented in the design. I could also just don't make a dining room and make a food or furniture stockpile instead. It works really well and it's easily extendable.

Yes, I love symmetry.

Edit: Imageshack often changes the links to the actual image, so here's the link.