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::Better than getting hammered to death for punching a baby while in a tantrum.  --[[User:Smartmo|Smartmo]] 19:35, 16 January 2009 (EST)
 
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== Ending Breaks ==
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Ending a break by drafting into the military creates an unhappy thought usually. You can avoid this while still ending the break if you cause some other interruption such as a released goblin or having the meeting area be a shower of mist and water which fluctuates between 3 and 4 depth. At 3 depth, dwarves will pathfind in to start their break and enjoy the mist. At 4 depth they will cancel their break to swim to safety. This also keeps dwarves clean and trains swimming for everyone, which is useful for skill boosts and because it will let them swim up out of rivers or pools they happen to fall into. --[[User:Rkyeun|Rkyeun]] 12:25, 22 January 2009 (EST)

Revision as of 17:25, 22 January 2009

Not sure if this page makes any sense to keep in the Wiki.
a) Spelling not okay
b) Insulting wordings
c) no useful information
d) "Holiday" is not a game concept; the Wiki should stick to DwarfFortress terminology
unsigned comment by Samyotix

I think it needs to be either turned into a more reference article or the humour improved. But it would be nice to know how often a dwarfs status becomes On break, and how long the break is inclined to last, and is there anything you can do (in improving efficiency) to make the breaks shorter and less frequent.GarrieIrons 09:40, 8 June 2008 (EDT)
Changed the wording a bit, hope that's better. --AlexFili 04:05, 9 June 2008 (EDT)
Ick. While this page is currently useless, Garrie does make a good point. It does need to be moved to On break, though. --Savok 09:31, 9 June 2008 (EDT)
YATTA! Move successful. Kudos to Savok! Lord of the Wiki! --AlexFili 10:53, 9 June 2008 (EDT)

The good parts of breaks

If you ever get huge waves of unhappiness in a fort (meaning about 3/4 of the population is unhappy to SOME extent, generally after a few friendly dwarves die), you should know that matters get really difficult since dwarves are randomly tantruming, going berserk and murdering others, or becoming melancholy/stark, raving mad (making themselves useless). So I tried making all the unhappy dwarves have no jobs at all, so they are free to do nothing. Some took breaks, and their unhappiness decreased fairly well (like from miserable to unhappy).--Stinhad Limarezum 06:06, 28 October 2008 (EDT)

Well, but when you seriousl need a job done and your only semi-skilled dwarf is currently on break which is going on for over one week, it's annoying SanDiego 16:11, 2 December 2008 (EST)
Better than getting hammered to death for punching a baby while in a tantrum. --Smartmo 19:35, 16 January 2009 (EST)

Ending Breaks

Ending a break by drafting into the military creates an unhappy thought usually. You can avoid this while still ending the break if you cause some other interruption such as a released goblin or having the meeting area be a shower of mist and water which fluctuates between 3 and 4 depth. At 3 depth, dwarves will pathfind in to start their break and enjoy the mist. At 4 depth they will cancel their break to swim to safety. This also keeps dwarves clean and trains swimming for everyone, which is useful for skill boosts and because it will let them swim up out of rivers or pools they happen to fall into. --Rkyeun 12:25, 22 January 2009 (EST)