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[[File:Dyed thread.png|thumb|right|44x40px|[[Rope reed]] fiber threads]]

[[Plant fiber]]s, [[wool]], and [[web]]s can be turned into weavable '''thread'''. Such thread can then be woven into '''cloth''', which can be used to create a variety of textile products such as [[bag]]s, [[clothing]], [[rope]] or [[craft]]s. ''(For a full discussion of the process and possibilities, see [[textile industry]].)''

A [[dwarf]] with the [[thresher]] [[labor]] enabled can process plants (any plants with THREAD_PLANT_TEMPLATE in the raws) into '''thread''' at a [[farmer's workshop]] with the "Process Plants" job order. Wool is collected from sheep, alpacas and llamas by the "Shear creature" job; the resulting "stacks" of wool must then be processed to yarn with the "Spin thread" job. These jobs also take place at the farmer's workshop and require the [[shearer]] and [[spinner]] labors. With a [[loom]], any dwarf with the [[weaver]] [[labor]] enabled will ''automatically'' collect any spider [[silk]] [[web]]s that are on the ground, turning them into thread.

Animal hair that is produced from a butchered animal can be spun into '''hair thread''' at a [[farmer's workshop]] using the "Spin Thread" order, but cannot be used for the production of '''cloth''' or related items.

Any '''thread''' can be used at a Hospital to suture any wounds shut and to bind books. This is the only use of threads made from the hair of non-shearable creatures, as they cannot be spun into [[yarn]].

All types of thread, weavable or not, can be [[dyer|dyed]].

[[Adamantine]] strands are treated as thread, too: they can be dyed, used to suture wounds and woven into cloth. However, most adamantine strands are quickly turned into wafers, among others to avoid such usage. Especially the use of adamantine for a [[suturer]]'s job is widely seen as a frivolous waste of a rare and precious resource.

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Bedroom design

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There are many ways to design the layout of [[bedroom]]s. Simplicity, ease of designating, efficiency, and aesthetics are all important factors in designing dwarven housing. The ability to modify the design to enlarge, improve, or add rooms can be important as well. Proximity of the rooms to [[noise]] should also be considered.

The simplest approach resolving dwarven sleeping requirements is to have all your dwarves sleep in a large communal [[dormitory]]. The smallest ''bedroom design'' possible is a corridor with notched spaces for beds.

Players frequently want designs which maximize positive thought and minimize the path distance between a dwarf's food, drink, job and home. For these purposes, nothing holds a candle to the ease, simplicity, and efficiency of [[#The_multiply-overlapping_single_bedroom|overlapping bedrooms]] in a single large carved out area. In the current version, the main benefits of individualized rooms are for roleplaying purposes. Historically, room design was further complicated when the [[dwarven economy]] kicked in, and a wide range of "[[Room#Specific room quality grades|room qualities]]" were needed, and poor dwarves were kicked out of over-priced quarters (the dwarven economy is currently disabled). To this end, a number of solutions, some surprisingly elegant, have been produced.

Many of the designs shown here were taken from [http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=16901.0 this forum post].

=Minimalism=

Sometimes, simpler is better... not always, but sometimes...

=== 1x1 bed only, no walls ===

By far the most minimal design is to take a bed, place it anywhere you want, then set it as a 1x1 room. This bed 'room' can be assigned to a dwarf early on, and will at least serve the bare minimum purpose of avoiding unhappy thoughts from the lack of a room. It will not, of course, leave the dwarves with any space to store any possessions at all. However, it requires the absolute minimum work to set up; all you need is existing empty space, preferably with no noise nearby, and a bed to place in it.

Alternatively if you are building compact merely to save space or improve framerate, a 1x1 bedroom on a smoothed, engraved floor can have quite a high room value.

=== Communal dormitory ===

The simplest form of dwarven housing. Stick a bunch of beds in a room, designate a [[dormitory]] from one of them (do not assign the bed to anyone), and voilà, instant flophouse. On maps with no [[tree]]s, this is pretty much your only option for sleeping quarters before breaching a cavern or importing large amounts of wood. (Dwarves will sleep on the floor of the dormitory if no beds are available, which at least keeps them from sleeping in the wilderness.)

This setup only causes a single negative thought ("slept without a proper room recently"), although you miss out the benefit of the happy thoughts generated by personally-owned furniture. However, as long as you compensate by offering your dwarves high-quality [[food]] and [[alcohol]], an expansive [[dining room]], and other luxuries, your dwarves will remain happy enough to be productive throughout the life of a fortress. (You may still wish to give [[noble]]s their own rooms, however; they tend to [[mandate|get]] [[demand|upset]] when their [[Noble#Room Requirements Summary|requirements]] are not met)

More than one dormitory can be built in a fortress; if they do not own their own bedroom, dwarves will gravitate to the nearest empty bed when it is time for them to sleep.{{verify}}

Communal dormitories are more appealing in .34 due to the presence of [[vampire]]s among fortress populations, as it increases the likelihood of the offending bloodsucker being caught. If unhappy thoughts are a concern, individual spaces around the beds may be assigned as bedrooms instead (and optionally, furniture built on those spaces).

=== Plain square design ===
[[Image:square_bedroom.png|right]]
If it is 2×2, 3×3 or more, square designs are probably the first choice of many players. Easy to plan, easy to put in place, this kind of design is one of the best when the player values his playing time instead of the overall layout of his fortress. While square designs are easy to reproduce en masse, most are not optimized either for beauty or space efficiency, two aspects that other designs excel at.

=== Line design ===
[[Image:line_bedroom.png|right|thumb| '''Line design''', laid out (left) and finished (right)]]
Line designs have the advantage of being very space efficient and very adaptative. From 1×1 to 1×4 and longer, it can fit almost anywhere, can be upgraded later on as long as you have the space behind your first original line and do not need excessive corridor space for the bedroom access. Simply dig a few lines out of an access tunnel already in use in your fortress and voilà, you have new living quarters. This kind of minimalistic design was particularly useful when the economy kicked in, as it could be adapted in a flash to meet the needs of low-wage citizens.

===Decentralized living===
In larger fortresses, one of the bigger problems is traffic. Dwarves have a tendency to all get hungry, thirsty, and tired in waves, and a crowd of 50 of them storming your centralized food stockpiles, one big dining room, and dormitory tunnels can cause a lot of lost time while the hordes shuffle by each other. A good solution to this is decentralized architecture, incorporating most of the essentials of every day life into numerous smaller areas. This isn't to suggest that you shouldn't have a legendary dining hall set as a meeting area, capable of holding half your fortress at once. You definitely should! But decentralizing from that dining hall relieves a lot of congestion in the halls surrounding the main dining hall, and makes it easier for dwarves just to pass through.

[[image:Living.GIF|right]]
In this image, the access stairwell (blue fields in the center), spread out in all directions to a public dormitory and dining room for poorer dwarves on the left/right and to 3x3 private rooms on the top/bottom. The design allows for two small stockpiles of food (gray fields) to minimize the walk to a dining hall.

There are also built-in areas for impressive things like [[Main:statues|statues]] and [[Main:cages|cages]] (for zoos) to keep dwarves admiring your handiwork. The 3x3 rooms are easy to get up to decent or higher to keep your most useful dwarves happy as clams. They're also convenient for impromptu noble housing, since you can just knock out a wall between two rooms and convert one into a dining room for a whiny noble. You could even expand the corner rooms a bit more on both the X and Y axes to make four 3x3 rooms to give the noble a dining room, tomb, and office all in one area. This is especially useful for the mayor, who gets replaced every so often. When a new Mayor is elected, one can reassign all the trappings to the new mayor in one go. If you want an even more decentralized and calm traffic pattern, put tables and chairs in all the private rooms; dwarves will prefer to eat in their quarters. The walls between the doors leading to the dormitory and Dining Room allow for 2 entrances and 2 exits to each predictably higher-traffic room while leaving a pillar of rock for an engraving. The main corridor also allows you to branch off into 4 restraints per floor in a private 1x2 prison. Since it's flanked by an animal cage and a statue (or alternatively, 2 statues. This may be better because Statues block movement and it's effectively the same as surrounding the prisoner with walls). Additionally, in an area you want smoothed and engraved to begin with, it gives prisoners a leg upon their happiness immediately and -- once again -- prevents traffic jams from convicts being brought food and water in larger prisons.

Another option for maximizing traffic throughput is to put a 1x3 line of upward stairwells on one end of the blue field, and a 1x3 line of downward stairwells on the other. This simulates a 3-wide vertical corridor without the safety risks of up/down stairwells.

You may also, at your discretion, knock out the statues and cages near the stairwell to make the entire plan a little more compact (though you lose the easy prisons in this case). This plan can stretch on the x axis as much as you like, but note that the 1 wide corridors leading to individual rooms can get crowded if more than 10 dwarves are living along each one. Even with the given layout, though, one floor supports 26 private rooms and as many as 14 public beds. This works out quite nicely since one floor is enough to handle most immigrant waves, while existing floors' public beds can handle a decent amount of overflow. The public dormitory rooms can also be converted into prisons very easily (just put chains next to every bed) if you decide not to go with the main design.

=== High density single floor housing ===

[[Image:Housing_by_Marble_Dice.png|thumb|244px|This is the 61x61 housing plan]]

This fractal-inspired design combines space efficiency with wider access hallways to alleviate traffic jams. Stairs are placed in the middle, and the design can expand indefinitely. To decrease the size, remove the outermost perimeter hallway, and all connected bedrooms. To increase the size, use the picture as a guide and follow the same radial pattern.

{| class="wikitable" style="padding:"
|-
! style="text-align:left;" | Size
! style="text-align:left;" | Capacity
! style="text-align:left;" | Max walk distance from center
|-
| style="padding-right:26px;" | 29x29 tiles
| style="padding-right:26px;" | 48 dwarves
| style="padding-right:26px;" | 23 steps
|-
| style="padding-right:26px;" | 45x45 tiles
| style="padding-right:26px;" | 120 dwarves
| style="padding-right:26px;" | 39 steps
|-
| style="padding-right:26px;" | 61x61 tiles
| style="padding-right:26px;" | 224 dwarves
| style="padding-right:26px;" | 55 steps
|-
| style="padding-right:26px;" | 77x77 tiles
| style="padding-right:26px;" | 360 dwarves
| style="padding-right:26px;" | 71 steps
|}

 

=== The multiply-overlapping single bedroom ===

A variation on the dormitory can produce large numbers of cheap, high quality bedrooms, very easily. Start with a large room, perhaps 20 x 20 tiles, and put many beds in it. From each of those beds, create a bedroom that covers the entire room. Each of the rooms overlaps the other rooms, and therefore suffers a quality modifier, but the room is large enough that its size can dominate the quality calculation. The quality hit for overlapping rooms is only applied once; your room either overlaps or it does not. With any reasonable amount of beds, it is easier and cheaper to furnish the one room with high quality items (at a penalty) than it is to carve out and furnish dozens of rooms separately. In addition, side by side beds in an open room is by far the most efficient use of space and walking distance. A room this size with a couple hundred beds in it, and some combination of smoothing, engraving, or multiple pieces of cheap furniture, can be of any quality level that is desired, from modest to royal.

=== Staggered Doorless Rooms ===

Dwarves suffer no penalties for having other Dwarves travel through their bedrooms even when they are sleeping. They also don't require doors. Therefore, you can take advantage of diagonal pathing in room design for high-density, non-overlapping, multi-tile rooms.

The following diagram shows a 3x1 layout surrounding a 3x3 stairwell. The design can be repeated outwards as far as necessary.

<pre>
---.B.---.B.---
.B.---.B.---.B.
---.B.---.B.---
.B.---XXX---.B.
---.B.XXX.B.---
.B.---XXX---.B.
---.B.---.B.---
.B.---.B.---.B.
---.B.---.B.---
</pre>

Dwarves will navigate from the stairwell diagonally through rooms, while bedroom sizes can be applied at 3x3 (without the area leaking to adjoining rooms) allowing for some level of furnishing.

=High density,single floor, quick housing=

[[Image:Dwarf-bedroom-simple.jpg|thumb|250px|This is a 35x35 housing plan]]

This design is nice in that it is very quick to lay since using shift to move the cursor moves in steps of 11 tiles. It is also very easy to increase or decrease their value by adding or removing [[furniture]]. Each 1-tile wide walkway is shared by 10 dwarves reducing congestion and each room can fit a bed, a chest and a cabinet leaving 1 free space for any miscellaneous items such as a statue for legendary dwarves, the free space is in the back of the room for the reason that it allows you to place blocking items that cannot be moved over there without sealing your dwarves in/out.

=High density, multi-level=

Optimizing space, minimizing walking distance, these are good things... for some...

===Magical Multi-way Doors===

The main point of this design is that it squeezes six bedrooms in a space of 9x8 squares (including walls) by using two-way doors. It's meant to be built across several Z-levels, making it take up a minimal amount of practical space. It can be easily mirrored, although that requires a wider corridor (or the use of four bedrooms instead of six on the other side).

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Level -1 ¦ Level 0 ¦ Level 1
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+-+.¦.+-+ ¦ +-+.¦.+-+ ¦ +-+.¦.+-+
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¦..¦X¦..¦ ¦ ¦..¦X¦..¦ ¦ ¦..¦X¦..¦
¦---D---¦ ¦ ---+.+--- ¦ ¦---D---¦
¦...¦...¦ ¦ ......... ¦ ¦...¦...¦
+-------+ ¦ ¦ +-------+}}

'''Alternate layout:'''

This is a simpler (though slightly less compact) design using three-way doors.

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+---+---+
¦...¦...¦
+---+---D---+
¦...¦XXX¦...¦
+---D---+---+
¦...¦...¦
+---+---+}}

One apartment "unit" gives you 6 rooms using only 2 doors and it fits within a 13x7 space (including walls). Access to the apartments in the unit is through the 1-3 up/down stairwells in the center. This design can be expanded by repeating the same pattern one level down and/or by tiling together multiple units together on the same level.

Both designs mean that you have to build less doors per bedroom, which helps save time and materials.

===Sandwich===

A design to move bedrooms vertically spread across many unused Z levels easily. The rooms can be preferentially scaled up or down depending on needs. If space is reserved serves well for expansion of each bedroom as suitable.

The sandwich basically consists of a three tile wide hallway or wider. Up/Down Stairways are evenly distributed in increments which lead to one or more bedrooms as needed. [[Floor hatch]]es can be used between the individual bedrooms like vertical doors, but, unlike doors, owned floor hatches can generate happy [[thought]]s.

[http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=118751.0 Recent science] has established that having any "holes" in a room's walls reduces the apparent [[room value]]; this design is therefore particularly well-suited to producing high-value rooms.

{{diagram|spaces=yes|\
Level -1 ¦ Level 0 ¦ Level 1
+-----------+ ¦ ¦ +-----------+
¦B.¦B.¦B.¦B.¦ ¦ ¦ ¦B.¦B.¦B.¦B.¦
¦..¦..¦..¦..¦ ¦ ------------- ¦ ¦..¦..¦..¦..¦
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¦--+--+--+--¦ ¦ ............. ¦ ¦--+--+--+--¦
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¦..¦..¦..¦..¦ ¦ ------------- ¦ ¦..¦..¦..¦..¦
¦B.¦B.¦B.¦B.¦ ¦ ¦ ¦B.¦B.¦B.¦B.¦
+-----------+ ¦ ¦ +-----------+}}

The bedroom design can be copied several times further up and down starting from Level 1 or -1 to exploit available space in neighbouring Z levels. The design is excellent as the space surrounding the hallway can be used for directly tying to the dining/meeting hall.

===6-room clusters===

[[File:ClusterBedrooms.png|thumb|350 pix|'''6-room clusters''' ''(click to enlarge)'']]
This one is quite dense. There are six bedroom clusters. They can be built close to each other.

There are 7 6-room clusters here. If 5 Z-Levels of this are built, that's 5*7*6=210, which is plenty for most any fortress.

=== Living Pods (Residential Flats) ===

This design is compact and allows for a large number of rooms. Each room has 3 tiles plus a door. To add to the complex build an apartment level one level above or below the lobby - the stairs allow direct access. The design can be stretched to make the rooms 3x2 or 3x3, or to allow more rooms per floor, depending on your preference. Though not as visually impressive as the fractal patterns it is very efficient in that it can allow for large numbers of dwarves to easily access the main hallway. The pods are very quick to deploy as the interior (mined out) width of the pods exactly equals one {{k|Shift}}+move of the cursor. Highlight a full square with a horizontal shift+move then a vertical. Then ''un''mark the 3 internal walls in both horizontal and vertical directions (each also 1 shift+move distance long), and finally mark in the four staircases. Sixteen bedrooms with extremely efficient pathing laid out in as many seconds.
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Upper/lower
Apartment Level: Lobby Level:
+-----------+ +-----------+..
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¦.+-+.¦.+-+.¦ ¦.+-+.¦.+-+.¦.. l
¦..¦..¦..¦..¦ ¦..¦..¦..¦..¦..
+-----------+ +-----------+..}}

==== Pod variant ====

This is an example of varying the above to suit personal taste. Three significant changes have been made:

:1) 2 pair of vertical access stairs feed upward, instead of one horizontal hallway.

:2) The entire design has been expanded (to 15x15, vs 13x13 above), but rooms have not been expanded to fill all available space - not yet. That will be done if/as need arises, and many of the 3-tile rooms can become 5- or 7-tile1, or two joined together to become 12-tile suites2.

:3) Allow for a central waterfall with drain system*.

<pre>
Upper Apartment Level(s*): Lobby Level: Lower Apartment Level(s*):
+-----+ +-----+ +-----+ +-----+ +-----+ +-----+
¦..¦..¦ ¦..¦..¦ ¦..¦..¦ ¦..¦..¦ ¦..¦..¦ ¦..¦..¦
¦.+-+.¦ ¦.+-+.¦ ¦.+-+.¦ ¦.+-+.¦ ¦.+-+.¦ ¦.+-+.¦
¦-¦X¦-¦ ¦-¦X¦-¦ ¦-¦X¦-----¦X¦-¦ ¦-¦X¦-----¦X¦-¦
¦.+¦+.¦ ¦.+-+.¦ ¦.+¦+.OOO.+-+.¦ ¦.+¦+..¦..+-+.¦
¦..¦..¦ ¦..¦..¦ ¦..¦.......¦..¦ ¦..¦.+---+.¦..¦
+--+-------+--+ +--¦..###..¦--+ +--¦.¦~~~¦.¦--+
¦XX#~#XX¦ ¦<<#~#<<¦ ¦-¦~¦~¦-¦
+--+-------+--+ +--¦..###..¦--+ +--¦.¦~~~¦.¦--+
¦..¦..¦ ¦..¦..¦ ¦..¦.......¦..¦ ¦..¦.+---+.¦..¦
¦.+-+.¦ ¦.+-+.¦ ¦.+-+.OOO.+-+.¦ ¦.+-+..¦..+-+.¦
¦-¦X¦-¦ ¦-¦X¦-¦ ¦-¦X¦-----¦X¦-¦ ¦-¦X¦-----¦X¦-¦
¦.+-+.¦ ¦.+-+.¦ ¦.+-+.¦ ¦.+-+.¦ ¦.+-+.¦ ¦.+-+.¦
¦..¦..¦ ¦..¦..¦ ¦..¦..¦ ¦..¦..¦ ¦..¦..¦ ¦..¦..¦
+-----+ +-----+ +-----+ +-----+ +-----+ +-----+</pre>Legend:
:X = up/down stair
:< = up stair
:~ = flowing water, in waterfall and drain
:<nowiki>#</nowiki> = [[grate]] or floor [[bars]] over drain
:¦ = solid block at base of waterfall
:O = [[statue]]s (though a [[zoo]] or booze stockpiles could work as well)

Notes:
:1) Expanding out one more tile can create size 5-11 rooms, or size 19 if two are connected.
:2) A size 15 room is ample for any noble, with the possible exception of a [[king|king/queen]].

:<nowiki>*</nowiki> The floor plan for the waterfall/drain system may vary from floor to floor, and by personal taste. Eventually it can be routed off and out one side, and the full interior area of all levels below that reserved for apartments.

''(Note - It's easy to [[flood]] an area with a waterfall such as this - be sure you are familiar with the technique before risking an entire dormitory (or the lower parts, at least) on it.)''

=== Greek Cross design===
[[image:VaniverGreek48.png|right|thumb| 48 tile design]]
Minimizing walking distances requires good use of vertical space. This plan is simple, scalable, and only takes up a few floors - 6 if you have 32 per floor, 4 if you have 48. The maximum walking distance should be less than 20 (walking up/down stairs counts as one distance.).[[image:VaniverGreek32.png|center|thumb| 32 tile design]]
A Quickfort blueprint for the 32 tile Greek Cross design is available [http://www.mediafire.com/download/yfeoeo0qj38vw24/Greek_Cross_Design_Blueprint.zip here]

=== Shaft design ===

[[Image:Shaft_bedroom_design.gif|thumb|Shaft bedroom design with a few possible variations.]]

The Shaft design allows various options for entry direction and central "shaft" use. The central shaft may be altered to create dining rooms and offices for minor nobles, "deluxe" bedrooms, hospital beds, or simply more bedrooms. The design can easily accommodate several different room sizes while maintaining efficiency. However, the design utilizes Z-levels for efficiency, and you must build several levels of Shaft designs to accommodate a fully grown fortress.

The Shaft design can fit 20 2x2 rooms, or 30 1x1 rooms.

=== Tileable shaft design ===

The tileable shaft design is a further expansion of the general shaft design above, coming in somewhere between the simple geometric designs and the vastly more complex fractal designs. These are designs that can be symmetrically tiled, that means concatenated in all six directions and are thus suited both for manual design as well as macro-automation. They allow the user to extend the same pattern over very large areas and to easily extend the available space per room up to a given size by tearing down just a few walls. Additionally, they can be suited for bedrooms as well as work and storage.[[Image:tileable_shaft_big.png|thumb|Tileable shaft design with a few possible variations.]]

The downsides are that they're not especially optimized for walking distance or large hallways, and the necessity of the main access shaft on the z-level (stairs) having to be in the central-most tile (marked red in the examples) to allow z-level stacking.

=== Modified Windmill Villas ===

This is the most efficient method I have seen, and it keeps the central staircase as well.

(Calculations use 8 levels)
*Dwarfs per level = 28
*Levels needed for 200 = 7.1
*Max distance (including Z) = 15
*Average distance = 10.2
*Average distance per level = 5.4

[[Image:Modified_Windmill_Villas.png|Modified windmill villas]]

=== Squarified Tri-way Doors ===

Four "tri-way doors" patterns adjacent to each other, squarified with 4 normal rooms and 2 noble rooms.

This results in 30 bedrooms in a 21x15 rectangular space (counting all walls, including external ones). Can be repeated multiple z-levels, accessed from a lobby hallway.

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+---+---+---D-+-+-+D¦
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+---+---+---+-------+}}

=== Large Squarified Tri-way Doors ===

By playing with the basic building block of the above design, and a 25x25 space, you can get this elegant square and symmetrical design:

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╚═╩═╩═══╩═╩═╩═╩═╩═══╩═╩═╝}}

This is the most space-efficient design when aiming for bedrooms with exactly three tiles of space which are accessible without crossing another bedroom. It uses only 9 tiles per bedroom overall, an amazing feat, since the mathematical minimum for the problem given is 8 tiles per bedroom! Such bedroom allocations are not in any way required, however: normal citizens are perfectly happy with an [[#The_multiply-overlapping_single_bedroom|overlapping bedroom]] in a large hall packed to capacity with beds.

=Repeating patterns & fractals=

Art for art's sake... and if it's functional, so much the better...

=== Blossom ===
[[Image:blossom.png|300px]]

Not truly fractal, but inspired by other fractals with a more aesthetic appeal. A slightly stripped down quickfort version of this is available [http://www.mediafire.com/view/?wx3g4373422u02r here].

=== Tessellated Apartments ===

[[File:Tessellatedrooms.jpg]]

Access can be from above and/or below by the stairs, or a hallway can be run into the dining room level by removing the bedroom at one of the cardinal points. This design can be repeated as far as desired in the X, Y, and Z directions.

===Noble Hive Pods===

A geometric pattern for Noble housing trying for interesting aesthetics and high mobility. The basic tiling pattern is shown on the left; one possible way to join them, involving surrounding corridors and a central staircase and a jillion doors, on the right.

[[File:Noblehive.png]]

=== Fractal designs ===

Betting on design beauty and on geometrical symmetry first, fractal designs can also be, at the same time, very space and walk efficient. They however require a lot of time and space both to plan and execute and are most likely out of reach of all but the most serious players. Fortunately, most of the designs displayed below would be avoided by the most serious players, due to their lack of serious Z-level access and incongruity with almost any general access plan. Most players however agree that they are the most incredible of all the designs around, if not for the sheer challenge of successfully executing something as complex, as for the extra touch it gives to the fortress as a whole once it is done.

[[image:Raynard_square_delight1.png]] [[image:Raynard1.png]]

[[image:Raynard_whirlpool_housing.png]]

[[image:Hactar1_3_branch_tree.png]] [[image:Hactar1_Mandelbrot_Tree.png]]

[[Image:SavokisLeaf08a032.png]]

[[image:Andrelius_Windmill_Villas.png]]

[[image:4bh0r53n_h-fractal.jpg]]

More fractal bedroom designs based upon the H-Tree (pictured above) can be found at [[User:Tenebrous|this user page]].

===Fractal modified for 3d===
This was created by palin88 from [http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=17784.msg17413 Bay12Games forum] in order to make a three-dimensional version of Raynard's Fractal Design.

[[File:Palin88_Bedroom_Design.png]]

===Hallway with office===

+---------+╤¦ ¦b+---------+
¦B¦B¦B¦B¦B¦╥¦ ¦r¦B¦B¦B¦B¦B¦
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Legend: 
B: Bed 
D: Door 
X: Staircase 
╥: Chair 
╤: Table 
c: Chest or Bag 
k: Cabinet 

An interesting design made to consume less space but still look pretty. It can be repeated infinitely, or at least as far as your embark square goes. One may also decide to use the stairwells as noble offices or rooms, or put the staircase somewhere else and put a well where the staircase would be.

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There are many ways to design the layout of [[bedroom]]s. Simplicity, ease of designating, efficiency, and aesthetics are all important factors in designing dwarven housing. The ability to modify the design to enlarge, improve, or add rooms can be important as well. Proximity of the rooms to [[noise]] should also be considered.

The simplest approach resolving dwarven sleeping requirements is to have all your dwarves sleep in a large communal [[dormitory]]. The smallest ''bedroom design'' possible is a corridor with notched spaces for beds.

Players frequently want designs which maximize positive thought and minimize the path distance between a dwarf's food, drink, job and home. For these purposes, nothing holds a candle to the ease, simplicity, and efficiency of [[#The_multiply-overlapping_single_bedroom|overlapping bedrooms]] in a single large carved out area. In the current version, the main benefits of individualized rooms are for roleplaying purposes. Historically, room design was further complicated when the [[dwarven economy]] kicked in, and a wide range of "[[Room#Specific room quality grades|room qualities]]" were needed, and poor dwarves were kicked out of over-priced quarters (the dwarven economy is currently disabled). To this end, a number of solutions, some surprisingly elegant, have been produced.

Many of the designs shown here were taken from [http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=16901.0 this forum post].

=Minimalism=

Sometimes, simpler is better... not always, but sometimes...

=== 1x1 bed only, no walls ===

By far the most minimal design is to take a bed, place it anywhere you want, then set it as a 1x1 room. This bed 'room' can be assigned to a dwarf early on, and will at least serve the bare minimum purpose of avoiding unhappy thoughts from the lack of a room. It will not, of course, leave the dwarves with any space to store any possessions at all. However, it requires the absolute minimum work to set up; all you need is existing empty space, preferably with no noise nearby, and a bed to place in it.

Alternatively if you are building compact merely to save space or improve framerate, a 1x1 bedroom on a smoothed, engraved floor can have quite a high room value, particularly if the beds are packed into a mined out vein of valuable metal or gemstones.

=== Communal dormitory ===

The simplest form of dwarven housing. Stick a bunch of beds in a room, designate a [[dormitory]] from one of them (do not assign the bed to anyone), and voilà, instant flophouse. On maps with no [[tree]]s, this is pretty much your only option for sleeping quarters before breaching a cavern or importing large amounts of wood. (Dwarves will sleep on the floor of the dormitory if no beds are available, which at least keeps them from sleeping in the wilderness.)

This setup only causes a single negative thought ("slept without a proper room recently"), although you miss out the benefit of the happy thoughts generated by personally-owned furniture. However, as long as you compensate by offering your dwarves high-quality [[food]] and [[alcohol]], an expansive [[dining room]], and other luxuries, your dwarves will remain happy enough to be productive throughout the life of a fortress. (You may still wish to give [[noble]]s their own rooms, however; they tend to [[mandate|get]] [[demand|upset]] when their [[Noble#Room Requirements Summary|requirements]] are not met)

More than one dormitory can be built in a fortress; if they do not own their own bedroom, dwarves will gravitate to the nearest empty bed when it is time for them to sleep.{{verify}}

Communal dormitories are more appealing in .34 due to the presence of [[vampire]]s among fortress populations, as it increases the likelihood of the offending bloodsucker being caught. If unhappy thoughts are a concern, individual spaces around the beds may be assigned as bedrooms instead (and optionally, furniture built on those spaces).

=== Plain square design ===
[[Image:square_bedroom.png|right]]
If it is 2×2, 3×3 or more, square designs are probably the first choice of many players. Easy to plan, easy to put in place, this kind of design is one of the best when the player values his playing time instead of the overall layout of his fortress. While square designs are easy to reproduce en masse, most are not optimized either for beauty or space efficiency, two aspects that other designs excel at.

=== Line design ===
[[Image:line_bedroom.png|right|thumb| '''Line design''', laid out (left) and finished (right)]]
Line designs have the advantage of being very space efficient and very adaptative. From 1×1 to 1×4 and longer, it can fit almost anywhere, can be upgraded later on as long as you have the space behind your first original line and do not need excessive corridor space for the bedroom access. Simply dig a few lines out of an access tunnel already in use in your fortress and voilà, you have new living quarters. This kind of minimalistic design was particularly useful when the economy kicked in, as it could be adapted in a flash to meet the needs of low-wage citizens.

===Decentralized living===
In larger fortresses, one of the bigger problems is traffic. Dwarves have a tendency to all get hungry, thirsty, and tired in waves, and a crowd of 50 of them storming your centralized food stockpiles, one big dining room, and dormitory tunnels can cause a lot of lost time while the hordes shuffle by each other. A good solution to this is decentralized architecture, incorporating most of the essentials of every day life into numerous smaller areas. This isn't to suggest that you shouldn't have a legendary dining hall set as a meeting area, capable of holding half your fortress at once. You definitely should! But decentralizing from that dining hall relieves a lot of congestion in the halls surrounding the main dining hall, and makes it easier for dwarves just to pass through.

[[image:Living.GIF|right]]
In this image, the access stairwell (blue fields in the center), spread out in all directions to a public dormitory and dining room for poorer dwarves on the left/right and to 3x3 private rooms on the top/bottom. The design allows for two small stockpiles of food (gray fields) to minimize the walk to a dining hall.

There are also built-in areas for impressive things like [[Main:statues|statues]] and [[Main:cages|cages]] (for zoos) to keep dwarves admiring your handiwork. The 3x3 rooms are easy to get up to decent or higher to keep your most useful dwarves happy as clams. They're also convenient for impromptu noble housing, since you can just knock out a wall between two rooms and convert one into a dining room for a whiny noble. You could even expand the corner rooms a bit more on both the X and Y axes to make four 3x3 rooms to give the noble a dining room, tomb, and office all in one area. This is especially useful for the mayor, who gets replaced every so often. When a new Mayor is elected, one can reassign all the trappings to the new mayor in one go. If you want an even more decentralized and calm traffic pattern, put tables and chairs in all the private rooms; dwarves will prefer to eat in their quarters. The walls between the doors leading to the dormitory and Dining Room allow for 2 entrances and 2 exits to each predictably higher-traffic room while leaving a pillar of rock for an engraving. The main corridor also allows you to branch off into 4 restraints per floor in a private 1x2 prison. Since it's flanked by an animal cage and a statue (or alternatively, 2 statues. This may be better because Statues block movement and it's effectively the same as surrounding the prisoner with walls). Additionally, in an area you want smoothed and engraved to begin with, it gives prisoners a leg upon their happiness immediately and -- once again -- prevents traffic jams from convicts being brought food and water in larger prisons.

Another option for maximizing traffic throughput is to put a 1x3 line of upward stairwells on one end of the blue field, and a 1x3 line of downward stairwells on the other. This simulates a 3-wide vertical corridor without the safety risks of up/down stairwells.

You may also, at your discretion, knock out the statues and cages near the stairwell to make the entire plan a little more compact (though you lose the easy prisons in this case). This plan can stretch on the x axis as much as you like, but note that the 1 wide corridors leading to individual rooms can get crowded if more than 10 dwarves are living along each one. Even with the given layout, though, one floor supports 26 private rooms and as many as 14 public beds. This works out quite nicely since one floor is enough to handle most immigrant waves, while existing floors' public beds can handle a decent amount of overflow. The public dormitory rooms can also be converted into prisons very easily (just put chains next to every bed) if you decide not to go with the main design.

=== High density single floor housing ===

[[Image:Housing_by_Marble_Dice.png|thumb|244px|This is the 61x61 housing plan]]

This fractal-inspired design combines space efficiency with wider access hallways to alleviate traffic jams. Stairs are placed in the middle, and the design can expand indefinitely. To decrease the size, remove the outermost perimeter hallway, and all connected bedrooms. To increase the size, use the picture as a guide and follow the same radial pattern.

{| class="wikitable" style="padding:"
|-
! style="text-align:left;" | Size
! style="text-align:left;" | Capacity
! style="text-align:left;" | Max walk distance from center
|-
| style="padding-right:26px;" | 29x29 tiles
| style="padding-right:26px;" | 48 dwarves
| style="padding-right:26px;" | 23 steps
|-
| style="padding-right:26px;" | 45x45 tiles
| style="padding-right:26px;" | 120 dwarves
| style="padding-right:26px;" | 39 steps
|-
| style="padding-right:26px;" | 61x61 tiles
| style="padding-right:26px;" | 224 dwarves
| style="padding-right:26px;" | 55 steps
|-
| style="padding-right:26px;" | 77x77 tiles
| style="padding-right:26px;" | 360 dwarves
| style="padding-right:26px;" | 71 steps
|}

 

=== The multiply-overlapping single bedroom ===

A variation on the dormitory can produce large numbers of cheap, high quality bedrooms, very easily. Start with a large room, perhaps 20 x 20 tiles, and put many beds in it. From each of those beds, create a bedroom that covers the entire room. Each of the rooms overlaps the other rooms, and therefore suffers a quality modifier, but the room is large enough that its size can dominate the quality calculation. The quality hit for overlapping rooms is only applied once; your room either overlaps or it does not. With any reasonable amount of beds, it is easier and cheaper to furnish the one room with high quality items (at a penalty) than it is to carve out and furnish dozens of rooms separately. In addition, side by side beds in an open room is by far the most efficient use of space and walking distance. A room this size with a couple hundred beds in it, and some combination of smoothing, engraving, or multiple pieces of cheap furniture, can be of any quality level that is desired, from modest to royal.

=== Staggered Doorless Rooms ===

Dwarves suffer no penalties for having other Dwarves travel through their bedrooms even when they are sleeping. They also don't require doors. Therefore, you can take advantage of diagonal pathing in room design for high-density, non-overlapping, multi-tile rooms.

The following diagram shows a 3x1 layout surrounding a 3x3 stairwell. The design can be repeated outwards as far as necessary.

<pre>
---.B.---.B.---
.B.---.B.---.B.
---.B.---.B.---
.B.---XXX---.B.
---.B.XXX.B.---
.B.---XXX---.B.
---.B.---.B.---
.B.---.B.---.B.
---.B.---.B.---
</pre>

Dwarves will navigate from the stairwell diagonally through rooms, while bedroom sizes can be applied at 3x3 (without the area leaking to adjoining rooms) allowing for some level of furnishing.

=High density,single floor, quick housing=

[[Image:Dwarf-bedroom-simple.jpg|thumb|250px|This is a 35x35 housing plan]]

This design is nice in that it is very quick to lay since using shift to move the cursor moves in steps of 11 tiles. It is also very easy to increase or decrease their value by adding or removing [[furniture]]. Each 1-tile wide walkway is shared by 10 dwarves reducing congestion and each room can fit a bed, a chest and a cabinet leaving 1 free space for any miscellaneous items such as a statue for legendary dwarves, the free space is in the back of the room for the reason that it allows you to place blocking items that cannot be moved over there without sealing your dwarves in/out.

=High density, multi-level=

Optimizing space, minimizing walking distance, these are good things... for some...

===Magical Multi-way Doors===

The main point of this design is that it squeezes six bedrooms in a space of 9x8 squares (including walls) by using two-way doors. It's meant to be built across several Z-levels, making it take up a minimal amount of practical space. It can be easily mirrored, although that requires a wider corridor (or the use of four bedrooms instead of six on the other side).

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Level -1 ¦ Level 0 ¦ Level 1
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'''Alternate layout:'''

This is a simpler (though slightly less compact) design using three-way doors.

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+---+---D---+
¦...¦XXX¦...¦
+---D---+---+
¦...¦...¦
+---+---+}}

One apartment "unit" gives you 6 rooms using only 2 doors and it fits within a 13x7 space (including walls). Access to the apartments in the unit is through the 1-3 up/down stairwells in the center. This design can be expanded by repeating the same pattern one level down and/or by tiling together multiple units together on the same level.

Both designs mean that you have to build less doors per bedroom, which helps save time and materials.

===Sandwich===

A design to move bedrooms vertically spread across many unused Z levels easily. The rooms can be preferentially scaled up or down depending on needs. If space is reserved serves well for expansion of each bedroom as suitable.

The sandwich basically consists of a three tile wide hallway or wider. Up/Down Stairways are evenly distributed in increments which lead to one or more bedrooms as needed. [[Floor hatch]]es can be used between the individual bedrooms like vertical doors, but, unlike doors, owned floor hatches can generate happy [[thought]]s.

[http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=118751.0 Recent science] has established that having any "holes" in a room's walls reduces the apparent [[room value]]; this design is therefore particularly well-suited to producing high-value rooms.

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Level -1 ¦ Level 0 ¦ Level 1
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+-----------+ ¦ ¦ +-----------+}}

The bedroom design can be copied several times further up and down starting from Level 1 or -1 to exploit available space in neighbouring Z levels. The design is excellent as the space surrounding the hallway can be used for directly tying to the dining/meeting hall.

===6-room clusters===

[[File:ClusterBedrooms.png|thumb|350 pix|'''6-room clusters''' ''(click to enlarge)'']]
This one is quite dense. There are six bedroom clusters. They can be built close to each other.

There are 7 6-room clusters here. If 5 Z-Levels of this are built, that's 5*7*6=210, which is plenty for most any fortress.

=== Living Pods (Residential Flats) ===

This design is compact and allows for a large number of rooms. Each room has 3 tiles plus a door. To add to the complex build an apartment level one level above or below the lobby - the stairs allow direct access. The design can be stretched to make the rooms 3x2 or 3x3, or to allow more rooms per floor, depending on your preference. Though not as visually impressive as the fractal patterns it is very efficient in that it can allow for large numbers of dwarves to easily access the main hallway. The pods are very quick to deploy as the interior (mined out) width of the pods exactly equals one {{k|Shift}}+move of the cursor. Highlight a full square with a horizontal shift+move then a vertical. Then ''un''mark the 3 internal walls in both horizontal and vertical directions (each also 1 shift+move distance long), and finally mark in the four staircases. Sixteen bedrooms with extremely efficient pathing laid out in as many seconds.
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Upper/lower
Apartment Level: Lobby Level:
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==== Pod variant ====

This is an example of varying the above to suit personal taste. Three significant changes have been made:

:1) 2 pair of vertical access stairs feed upward, instead of one horizontal hallway.

:2) The entire design has been expanded (to 15x15, vs 13x13 above), but rooms have not been expanded to fill all available space - not yet. That will be done if/as need arises, and many of the 3-tile rooms can become 5- or 7-tile1, or two joined together to become 12-tile suites2.

:3) Allow for a central waterfall with drain system*.

<pre>
Upper Apartment Level(s*): Lobby Level: Lower Apartment Level(s*):
+-----+ +-----+ +-----+ +-----+ +-----+ +-----+
¦..¦..¦ ¦..¦..¦ ¦..¦..¦ ¦..¦..¦ ¦..¦..¦ ¦..¦..¦
¦.+-+.¦ ¦.+-+.¦ ¦.+-+.¦ ¦.+-+.¦ ¦.+-+.¦ ¦.+-+.¦
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¦.+¦+.¦ ¦.+-+.¦ ¦.+¦+.OOO.+-+.¦ ¦.+¦+..¦..+-+.¦
¦..¦..¦ ¦..¦..¦ ¦..¦.......¦..¦ ¦..¦.+---+.¦..¦
+--+-------+--+ +--¦..###..¦--+ +--¦.¦~~~¦.¦--+
¦XX#~#XX¦ ¦<<#~#<<¦ ¦-¦~¦~¦-¦
+--+-------+--+ +--¦..###..¦--+ +--¦.¦~~~¦.¦--+
¦..¦..¦ ¦..¦..¦ ¦..¦.......¦..¦ ¦..¦.+---+.¦..¦
¦.+-+.¦ ¦.+-+.¦ ¦.+-+.OOO.+-+.¦ ¦.+-+..¦..+-+.¦
¦-¦X¦-¦ ¦-¦X¦-¦ ¦-¦X¦-----¦X¦-¦ ¦-¦X¦-----¦X¦-¦
¦.+-+.¦ ¦.+-+.¦ ¦.+-+.¦ ¦.+-+.¦ ¦.+-+.¦ ¦.+-+.¦
¦..¦..¦ ¦..¦..¦ ¦..¦..¦ ¦..¦..¦ ¦..¦..¦ ¦..¦..¦
+-----+ +-----+ +-----+ +-----+ +-----+ +-----+</pre>Legend:
:X = up/down stair
:< = up stair
:~ = flowing water, in waterfall and drain
:<nowiki>#</nowiki> = [[grate]] or floor [[bars]] over drain
:¦ = solid block at base of waterfall
:O = [[statue]]s (though a [[zoo]] or booze stockpiles could work as well)

Notes:
:1) Expanding out one more tile can create size 5-11 rooms, or size 19 if two are connected.
:2) A size 15 room is ample for any noble, with the possible exception of a [[king|king/queen]].

:<nowiki>*</nowiki> The floor plan for the waterfall/drain system may vary from floor to floor, and by personal taste. Eventually it can be routed off and out one side, and the full interior area of all levels below that reserved for apartments.

''(Note - It's easy to [[flood]] an area with a waterfall such as this - be sure you are familiar with the technique before risking an entire dormitory (or the lower parts, at least) on it.)''

=== Greek Cross design===
[[image:VaniverGreek48.png|right|thumb| 48 tile design]]
Minimizing walking distances requires good use of vertical space. This plan is simple, scalable, and only takes up a few floors - 6 if you have 32 per floor, 4 if you have 48. The maximum walking distance should be less than 20 (walking up/down stairs counts as one distance.).[[image:VaniverGreek32.png|center|thumb| 32 tile design]]
A Quickfort blueprint for the 32 tile Greek Cross design is available [http://www.mediafire.com/download/yfeoeo0qj38vw24/Greek_Cross_Design_Blueprint.zip here]

=== Shaft design ===

[[Image:Shaft_bedroom_design.gif|thumb|Shaft bedroom design with a few possible variations.]]

The Shaft design allows various options for entry direction and central "shaft" use. The central shaft may be altered to create dining rooms and offices for minor nobles, "deluxe" bedrooms, hospital beds, or simply more bedrooms. The design can easily accommodate several different room sizes while maintaining efficiency. However, the design utilizes Z-levels for efficiency, and you must build several levels of Shaft designs to accommodate a fully grown fortress.

The Shaft design can fit 20 2x2 rooms, or 30 1x1 rooms.

=== Tileable shaft design ===

The tileable shaft design is a further expansion of the general shaft design above, coming in somewhere between the simple geometric designs and the vastly more complex fractal designs. These are designs that can be symmetrically tiled, that means concatenated in all six directions and are thus suited both for manual design as well as macro-automation. They allow the user to extend the same pattern over very large areas and to easily extend the available space per room up to a given size by tearing down just a few walls. Additionally, they can be suited for bedrooms as well as work and storage.[[Image:tileable_shaft_big.png|thumb|Tileable shaft design with a few possible variations.]]

The downsides are that they're not especially optimized for walking distance or large hallways, and the necessity of the main access shaft on the z-level (stairs) having to be in the central-most tile (marked red in the examples) to allow z-level stacking.

=== Modified Windmill Villas ===

This is the most efficient method I have seen, and it keeps the central staircase as well.

(Calculations use 8 levels)
*Dwarfs per level = 28
*Levels needed for 200 = 7.1
*Max distance (including Z) = 15
*Average distance = 10.2
*Average distance per level = 5.4

[[Image:Modified_Windmill_Villas.png|Modified windmill villas]]

=== Squarified Tri-way Doors ===

Four "tri-way doors" patterns adjacent to each other, squarified with 4 normal rooms and 2 noble rooms.

This results in 30 bedrooms in a 21x15 rectangular space (counting all walls, including external ones). Can be repeated multiple z-levels, accessed from a lobby hallway.

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+---+---+---+-------+}}

=== Large Squarified Tri-way Doors ===

By playing with the basic building block of the above design, and a 25x25 space, you can get this elegant square and symmetrical design:

{{diagram|spaces=yes|\
╔═╦═╦═══╦═╦═╦═╦═╦═══╦═╦═╗
║ +X+ ║ ║ ║ ║ ║ +X+ ║
║ ╠═╬═╦═╣ ║ ║ ║ ╠═╦═╬═╣ ║
║ ║ ║ ║ ║ ║ ║ ║ ║ ║ ║ ║ ║
╠═╣ ║ ║ ╠═+═╬═+═╣ ║ ║ ╠═╣
║ ║ ║ ║ ║X║ ║ ║X║ ║ ║ ║ ║
║ ╠═+═╬═+═╣ ║ ╠═+═╬═+═╣ ║
║ ║X║ ║ ║ ║ ║ ║ ║ ║ ║X║ ║
╠═+═╣ ║ ║ ╠═╩═╣ ║ ║ ╠═+═╣
║ ║ ║ ║ ║ ║ ║ ║ ║ ║ ║ ║
║ ║ ╠═╩═╬═╣ ╔═╩═╬═╩═╣ ║ ║
║ ║ ║ ║X+ ║ ║ ║ ║ ║
╠═╬═╬═══+═╩═╬═╦═+═══╬═╬═╣
║ ║ ║ ║ ║ +X║ ║ ║ ║
║ ║ ╠═╦═╬═╦═╝ ╠═╬═╦═╣ ║ ║
║ ║ ║ ║ ║ ║ ║ ║ ║ ║ ║ ║
╠═+═╣ ║ ║ ╠═╦═╣ ║ ║ ╠═+═╣
║ ║X║ ║ ║ ║ ║ ║ ║ ║ ║X║ ║
║ ╠═+═╬═+═╣ ║ ╠═+═╬═+═╣ ║
║ ║ ║ ║ ║X║ ║ ║X║ ║ ║ ║ ║
╠═╣ ║ ║ ╠═+═╬═+═╣ ║ ║ ╠═╣
║ ║ ║ ║ ║ ║ ║ ║ ║ ║ ║ ║ ║
║ ╠═╬═╩═╣ ║ ║ ║ ╠═╩═╬═╣ ║
║ +X+ ║ ║ ║ ║ ║ +X+ ║
╚═╩═╩═══╩═╩═╩═╩═╩═══╩═╩═╝}}

This is the most space-efficient design when aiming for bedrooms with exactly three tiles of space which are accessible without crossing another bedroom. It uses only 9 tiles per bedroom overall, an amazing feat, since the mathematical minimum for the problem given is 8 tiles per bedroom! Such bedroom allocations are not in any way required, however: normal citizens are perfectly happy with an [[#The_multiply-overlapping_single_bedroom|overlapping bedroom]] in a large hall packed to capacity with beds.

=Repeating patterns & fractals=

Art for art's sake... and if it's functional, so much the better...

=== Blossom ===
[[Image:blossom.png|300px]]

Not truly fractal, but inspired by other fractals with a more aesthetic appeal. A slightly stripped down quickfort version of this is available [http://www.mediafire.com/view/?wx3g4373422u02r here].

=== Tessellated Apartments ===

[[File:Tessellatedrooms.jpg]]

Access can be from above and/or below by the stairs, or a hallway can be run into the dining room level by removing the bedroom at one of the cardinal points. This design can be repeated as far as desired in the X, Y, and Z directions.

===Noble Hive Pods===

A geometric pattern for Noble housing trying for interesting aesthetics and high mobility. The basic tiling pattern is shown on the left; one possible way to join them, involving surrounding corridors and a central staircase and a jillion doors, on the right.

[[File:Noblehive.png]]

=== Fractal designs ===

Betting on design beauty and on geometrical symmetry first, fractal designs can also be, at the same time, very space and walk efficient. They however require a lot of time and space both to plan and execute and are most likely out of reach of all but the most serious players. Fortunately, most of the designs displayed below would be avoided by the most serious players, due to their lack of serious Z-level access and incongruity with almost any general access plan. Most players however agree that they are the most incredible of all the designs around, if not for the sheer challenge of successfully executing something as complex, as for the extra touch it gives to the fortress as a whole once it is done.

[[image:Raynard_square_delight1.png]] [[image:Raynard1.png]]

[[image:Raynard_whirlpool_housing.png]]

[[image:Hactar1_3_branch_tree.png]] [[image:Hactar1_Mandelbrot_Tree.png]]

[[Image:SavokisLeaf08a032.png]]

[[image:Andrelius_Windmill_Villas.png]]

[[image:4bh0r53n_h-fractal.jpg]]

More fractal bedroom designs based upon the H-Tree (pictured above) can be found at [[User:Tenebrous|this user page]].

===Fractal modified for 3d===
This was created by palin88 from [http://www.bay12games.com/forum/index.php?topic=17784.msg17413 Bay12Games forum] in order to make a three-dimensional version of Raynard's Fractal Design.

[[File:Palin88_Bedroom_Design.png]]

===Hallway with office===

+---------+╤¦ ¦b+---------+
¦B¦B¦B¦B¦B¦╥¦ ¦r¦B¦B¦B¦B¦B¦
¦k¦k¦k¦k¦k¦H¦ ¦H¦k¦k¦k¦k¦k¦
¦c¦c¦c¦c¦c¦ ¦c¦c¦c¦c¦c¦
¦D¦D¦D¦D¦D¦ ¦D¦D¦D¦D¦D¦
X
¦D¦D¦D¦D¦D¦ ¦D¦D¦D¦D¦D¦
¦c¦c¦c¦c¦c¦ ¦c¦c¦c¦c¦c¦
¦k¦k¦k¦k¦k¦H¦ ¦H¦k¦k¦k¦k¦k¦
¦B¦B¦B¦B¦B¦╥¦ ¦╥¦B¦B¦B¦B¦B¦
+---------+╤¦ ¦╤+---------+

Legend: 
B: Bed 
D: Door 
X: Staircase 
╥: Chair 
╤: Table 
c: Chest or Bag 
k: Cabinet 

An interesting design made to consume less space but still look pretty. It can be repeated infinitely, or at least as far as your embark square goes. One may also decide to use the stairwells as noble offices or rooms, or put the staircase somewhere else and put a well where the staircase would be.

{{Buildings}}
{{Category|Design}}

Tholtig

2016-05-17T08:41:27Z

Abdulijubjub: fixed link

{{D for Dwarf}}

[[File:Tholtig.jpg‎|300px|thumb|right|"Tholtig" by burningpet.]]

'''Tholtig Momuzidek Lelumdoren''', or Tholtig Cryptbrain the Waning Diamonds, was the heroine of the greatest Dwarven [http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=42702.0 epic] to have ever come out of [[Legends]] mode: a [[queen]], a [[Soldier#Heroes_and_Champions|champion]], locked by fate in a genocidal war with the [[elves]] that laid waste to both their civilizations, and holder of the known record for elves (or any sentient warrior) slain by a single [[dwarf]] in any mode of the [[Dwarf Fortress|game]]:[[Tholtig#Tholtig's Kills|see here]].

== The History of Dwarven Ragnarok ==

The world in which this legend came to be was known as the Everlasting Dimensions, and its chief distinguishing feature were [[megabeast|megabeasts]] modded to [[size]] 70, save in the case of [[hydras]], which weighed in at size 140 to balance out their many-headed weakness.

The dwarf who would become Queen Tholtig's grandfather rose to power after driving off a size 70 [[titan]] that had slain the previous leader. This same dwarf began the eternal war against the elves, unwilling to tolerate their [[ethics|abhorrent]] cannibalism, and the resulting bloodstained history has been passed down under various names: by the dwarves, Gemesh Giken, the Conflict of Lightning; by the elves, Vesifa Relimi, the Conflict of Martyrs. The war was fought by a sprawling elven empire of [[site#forest retreats|forest retreats]] on many fronts, against the [[humans]] and [[goblins]] as well as the dwarves. Its full tale is told [http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=42702.0 here].

== The Record of Heroes ==

[[File:231.jpg‎|300px|thumb|right|"A Mother Loses Her Child" by igorgitirana.]]
[[File:ahumbleoffering.png|300px|thumb|right|An example for all elite soldiers, by PlutoniumApe]]

Listed here are the greatest heroes of the Conflict of Lightning.

Meng Freshportal the Brutal Rot of Scarring, grandfather of Tholtig, king of Circletower, defeater of the titan Kashez Evudluk Gethid "Washey Monkinsight the Oaken Pages" - 91 kills

Goden Leadybridges the Talon of Shooting, scion of the first ruler of Circletower - 294 kills

Tosid Stockadefortunes the Lined Friend, married Goden Leafybridges - 146 kills

Goden Routedgates the Jade Planes of Braving - 23 kills

Mestthos Baldedchanneled the Ruin of Speaking, mother of Tholtig, queen of Circletower - 101 kills

Alath Paigeplaited the Circular Tongs, father of Tosid - 60 kills

Olon Orblabors the Fenced Sandal of Shadow, brother of Alath, diplomat - 118 kills

Unib Lancemet the Way of Boiling, sister of Alath and Olon - 8 kills

Mafol Drilledhammer the Violence of Forests, son of Tholtig, prince of Circletower - 5 kills

Urist Joinedrings the Permanent Scars, daughter of Tholtig, princess of Circletower - 176 kills

Erush Racktoned the Rough Miseries of Quiescence, daughter of Tholtig, crown princess of Circletower - 1007 kills, slain by Washey the titan, returned after 100 years to again plague the dwarves

Obok Willbolt the Drinks of Ruining, only grandson of Alath - 1654 kills

Logem Shaketomes the Hoary Men-larks, brother of Alath, Olon, and Unib, husband of Tholtig, king-consort of Circletower - 1955 kills

Tholtig Cryptbrain the Waning Diamonds, last queen of Circletower - 2341 kills

== Tholtig's Kills ==

[[File:2430_and_a_cyclops.png‎|600px|thumb|center|Don't forget the cyclops]]

== Death Toll ==

Over 8000 elves died in the Conflict of Martyrs (not counting those who fell in the concurrent wars with the humans and goblins). The number of deceased dwarves came down to less than 500. In the end, the dwarves only lost because their champions died one by one to old age, until there was only Tholtig left alone against their onslaught, before old age forcibly separated her spirit from her weapons as well.

== Hope? ==

A story is told by the dwarves to their children, that one day, when demons rise from the underworld to bring about the world's end, Queen Tholtig will lead out her clan of heroes from their tombs under the mountain, as well as a horde of the skeletons of elves slain by her and her people, and the ensuing clash will tear the surface of the earth asunder.

A different legend is told by the elves. They say that Tholtig's spirit is still walking the realm and possessing elves, causing moods and forcing them to perform depravities like chopping trees to make wooden rings, amulets, and bins...

== External Links ==

* [http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=42702.0 Forum topic]

[[Category:Humor and stories]]

User:Abdulijubjub

2016-05-14T02:57:53Z

Abdulijubjub: wargarbl

wargarbl

Clay

2016-05-13T11:06:13Z

Abdulijubjub: Edited bug number to actually reflect the issue, rather than the old bug that was fixed

{{quality|exceptional|14:12, 9 August 2014 (UTC)}}
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'''Clay''' is one of the many types of [[soil]] that can be found in Dwarf Fortress. [[Aquifer]]s are never present in clay layers.

==Ceramics==
Five different soil types are classified as clay - [[clay]], [[clay loam]], [[sandy clay]], [[silty clay]], and [[fire clay]]. Each of these can be gathered for use in [[Ceramic industry|Ceramics]]. If your [[embark]] site has at least one type of clay, it will be shown as ''Clay'' or ''Shallow Clay'' in the embark screen's biome viewer.

The gathering and use of clay is done from a [[kiln]] or [[magma kiln]] and behaves similarly to most material production, but includes elements similar to [[glass]] production. In order to gather clay, a [[activity zone#Clay Collection|gathering zone]] must first be designated over a clay-bearing tile (note that clay can be collected from adjacent clay walls, even diagonally), much like with [[sand]]; however, gathering clay creates a clay "boulder" (the same as raw stone) and does not require a bag. These clay boulders are stored in a Stone stockpile and may be used to build [[workshop]]s and [[construction]]s, but constructed clay floors '''cannot''' be used in place of natural soil. As with sand, clay can be gathered indefinitely from a single tile. Any dwarf with item hauling [[labor]] enabled can collect clay.

Clay can be made into pots, [[block|bricks]], [[statue]]s, [[hive]]s and [[Finished goods|craft]]s. Small pots, called [[jug]]s, function similar to bags and waterskins, while large pots are treated like barrels. Creating any object from clay requires a unit of fuel.

Clay can also be used in Jewelcrafting like any other stone or ore, allowing for an infinite source of materials for practicing cutting gems with. However, clay cannot be fired from a [[catapult]], loaded into a [[stone-fall trap]], or used in place of stone at a [[mason's workshop]].

Before an [[earthenware]] pot (large or small) can hold liquids, it must be '''glazed'''. Glazing is performed at a [[kiln]] and requires either a unit of [[ash]] or a unit of [[cassiterite]] ([[tin]] ore), plus a unit of fuel. [[Stoneware]] and [[porcelain]] pots do not need to be glazed.

When an underground plant ([[tree|trees]], [[shrub|shrubs]], [[grass]] or moss) grows on a muddy stone floor tile (after discovering a [[Caverns|cavern]]) and is either trampled, gathered, cut down or removed via building a dirt road on top of it, the floor tile turns into a soil type appropriate to the [[biome]] - for biomes which lack soil layers altogether (such as mountains and glaciers), a random soil type will be selected, which might sometimes be clay.

[[Grass]], [[tree|sapling]]s and [[shrub]]s can grow on clay soil, which causes the underlying clay to be temporarily unavailable for collection, giving the message "Urist McBagger cancels Collect Clay: Clay vanished" if the job is in progress, or "Urist McBagger cancels Collect Clay: Need valid, active clay collection zone" if the job is new. You can easily remove the grass ''and'' prevent it from growing back by building a dirt [[road]] ({{K|b}}-{{K|o}}) over the grass. You can also put a floor [[grate]] over a clay floor to prevent growth while allowing clay to be collected, but you must first remove the grass/sapling/sapling; you can do this by placing a dirt road ({{K|b}}-{{K|O}}) over it.

Occasionally it is possible to cultivate clay by channeling down into the lowest normal layer of the cavern, revealing a "[[Semi-molten rock|magma flow]]" above a floor [[semi-molten rock]] (and a [[ramp]] on the level below, if the square had not previously been revealed). If a [[floor]] is constructed over the flow, then deconstructed, a natural floor of clay or [[sand]] may be left behind. In some cases this may be the sole domestic source of clay for a fortress.

== Bugs ==

* It is possible to "cut" clay at a jeweler just like any other stone. These clay gems are treated like a normal gem and can be used to encrust the standard materials, but do not have a visible entry in gem stockpiles. It can only be forbidden or allowed in gem stockpiles with Block All and Allow All respectively.{{Bug|9749}}

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Clay

2016-05-13T08:45:52Z

Abdulijubjub: fixing language

Clay

2016-05-13T08:44:57Z

Abdulijubjub: Fixed stockpile mention

{{quality|exceptional|14:12, 9 August 2014 (UTC)}}
{{soillookup/0}}
{{av}}

'''Clay''' is one of the many types of [[soil]] that can be found in Dwarf Fortress. [[Aquifer]]s are never present in clay layers.

==Ceramics==
Five different soil types are classified as clay - [[clay]], [[clay loam]], [[sandy clay]], [[silty clay]], and [[fire clay]]. Each of these can be gathered for use in [[Ceramic industry|Ceramics]]. If your [[embark]] site has at least one type of clay, it will be shown as ''Clay'' or ''Shallow Clay'' in the embark screen's biome viewer.

The gathering and use of clay is done from a [[kiln]] or [[magma kiln]] and behaves similarly to most material production, but includes elements similar to [[glass]] production. In order to gather clay, a [[activity zone#Clay Collection|gathering zone]] must first be designated over a clay-bearing tile (note that clay can be collected from adjacent clay walls, even diagonally), much like with [[sand]]; however, gathering clay creates a clay "boulder" (the same as raw stone) and does not require a bag. These clay boulders are stored in a Stone stockpile and may be used to build [[workshop]]s and [[construction]]s, but constructed clay floors '''cannot''' be used in place of natural soil. As with sand, clay can be gathered indefinitely from a single tile. Any dwarf with item hauling [[labor]] enabled can collect clay.

Clay can be made into pots, [[block|bricks]], [[statue]]s, [[hive]]s and [[Finished goods|craft]]s. Small pots, called [[jug]]s, function similar to bags and waterskins, while large pots are treated like barrels. Creating any object from clay requires a unit of fuel.

Clay can also be used in Jewelcrafting like any other stone or ore, allowing for an infinite source of materials for practicing cutting gems with. However, clay cannot be fired from a [[catapult]], loaded into a [[stone-fall trap]], or used in place of stone at a [[mason's workshop]].

Before an [[earthenware]] pot (large or small) can hold liquids, it must be '''glazed'''. Glazing is performed at a [[kiln]] and requires either a unit of [[ash]] or a unit of [[cassiterite]] ([[tin]] ore), plus a unit of fuel. [[Stoneware]] and [[porcelain]] pots do not need to be glazed.

When an underground plant ([[tree|trees]], [[shrub|shrubs]], [[grass]] or moss) grows on a muddy stone floor tile (after discovering a [[Caverns|cavern]]) and is either trampled, gathered, cut down or removed via building a dirt road on top of it, the floor tile turns into a soil type appropriate to the [[biome]] - for biomes which lack soil layers altogether (such as mountains and glaciers), a random soil type will be selected, which might sometimes be clay.

[[Grass]], [[tree|sapling]]s and [[shrub]]s can grow on clay soil, which causes the underlying clay to be temporarily unavailable for collection, giving the message "Urist McBagger cancels Collect Clay: Clay vanished" if the job is in progress, or "Urist McBagger cancels Collect Clay: Need valid, active clay collection zone" if the job is new. You can easily remove the grass ''and'' prevent it from growing back by building a dirt [[road]] ({{K|b}}-{{K|o}}) over the grass. You can also put a floor [[grate]] over a clay floor to prevent growth while allowing clay to be collected, but you must first remove the grass/sapling/sapling; you can do this by placing a dirt road ({{K|b}}-{{K|O}}) over it.

Occasionally it is possible to cultivate clay by channeling down into the lowest normal layer of the cavern, revealing a "[[Semi-molten rock|magma flow]]" above a floor [[semi-molten rock]] (and a [[ramp]] on the level below, if the square had not previously been revealed). If a [[floor]] is constructed over the flow, then deconstructed, a natural floor of clay or [[sand]] may be left behind. In some cases this may be the sole domestic source of clay for a fortress.

== Bugs ==

* It is possible to "cut" clay at a jeweler just like any other stone. This Clay is treated like a normal gem and can be used to encrust the standard materials, but it does not have a visible entry in gem stockpiles. It can only be forbidden or allowed with Block All and Allow All respectively.{{Bug|5275}}

{{gamedata}}

Clay

2016-05-13T06:25:02Z

Abdulijubjub: Added mention of strange stockpile behavior for cut clay.

{{quality|exceptional|14:12, 9 August 2014 (UTC)}}
{{soillookup/0}}
{{av}}

'''Clay''' is one of the many types of [[soil]] that can be found in Dwarf Fortress. [[Aquifer]]s are never present in clay layers.

==Ceramics==
Five different soil types are classified as clay - [[clay]], [[clay loam]], [[sandy clay]], [[silty clay]], and [[fire clay]]. Each of these can be gathered for use in [[Ceramic industry|Ceramics]]. If your [[embark]] site has at least one type of clay, it will be shown as ''Clay'' or ''Shallow Clay'' in the embark screen's biome viewer.

The gathering and use of clay is done from a [[kiln]] or [[magma kiln]] and behaves similarly to most material production, but includes elements similar to [[glass]] production. In order to gather clay, a [[activity zone#Clay Collection|gathering zone]] must first be designated over a clay-bearing tile (note that clay can be collected from adjacent clay walls, even diagonally), much like with [[sand]]; however, gathering clay creates a clay "boulder" (the same as raw stone) and does not require a bag. These clay boulders are stored in a Stone stockpile and may be used to build [[workshop]]s and [[construction]]s, but constructed clay floors '''cannot''' be used in place of natural soil. As with sand, clay can be gathered indefinitely from a single tile. Any dwarf with item hauling [[labor]] enabled can collect clay.

Clay can be made into pots, [[block|bricks]], [[statue]]s, [[hive]]s and [[Finished goods|craft]]s. Small pots, called [[jug]]s, function similar to bags and waterskins, while large pots are treated like barrels. Creating any object from clay requires a unit of fuel.

Clay can also be used in Jewelcrafting like any other stone or ore, allowing for an infinite source of materials for practicing cutting gems with. However, clay cannot be fired from a [[catapult]], loaded into a [[stone-fall trap]], or used in place of stone at a [[mason's workshop]].

Before an [[earthenware]] pot (large or small) can hold liquids, it must be '''glazed'''. Glazing is performed at a [[kiln]] and requires either a unit of [[ash]] or a unit of [[cassiterite]] ([[tin]] ore), plus a unit of fuel. [[Stoneware]] and [[porcelain]] pots do not need to be glazed.

When an underground plant ([[tree|trees]], [[shrub|shrubs]], [[grass]] or moss) grows on a muddy stone floor tile (after discovering a [[Caverns|cavern]]) and is either trampled, gathered, cut down or removed via building a dirt road on top of it, the floor tile turns into a soil type appropriate to the [[biome]] - for biomes which lack soil layers altogether (such as mountains and glaciers), a random soil type will be selected, which might sometimes be clay.

[[Grass]], [[tree|sapling]]s and [[shrub]]s can grow on clay soil, which causes the underlying clay to be temporarily unavailable for collection, giving the message "Urist McBagger cancels Collect Clay: Clay vanished" if the job is in progress, or "Urist McBagger cancels Collect Clay: Need valid, active clay collection zone" if the job is new. You can easily remove the grass ''and'' prevent it from growing back by building a dirt [[road]] ({{K|b}}-{{K|o}}) over the grass. You can also put a floor [[grate]] over a clay floor to prevent growth while allowing clay to be collected, but you must first remove the grass/sapling/sapling; you can do this by placing a dirt road ({{K|b}}-{{K|O}}) over it.

Occasionally it is possible to cultivate clay by channeling down into the lowest normal layer of the cavern, revealing a "[[Semi-molten rock|magma flow]]" above a floor [[semi-molten rock]] (and a [[ramp]] on the level below, if the square had not previously been revealed). If a [[floor]] is constructed over the flow, then deconstructed, a natural floor of clay or [[sand]] may be left behind. In some cases this may be the sole domestic source of clay for a fortress.

== Bugs ==

* It is possible to "cut" clay at a jeweler just like any other stone. This Clay is treated in all respects like a normal gem and can be used to encrust the standard materials, although it will be stored in any gem stockpile regardless of settings.{{Bug|5275}}

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Giant tortoise

2016-05-13T01:52:45Z

Abdulijubjub: Added mention of archery target

{{Quality|Exceptional|17:56, 9 June 2013 (UTC)}}
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'''Giant tortoises''' are the "mundane" version of [[gigantic tortoise]]s. They appear in groups of 5-10 in tropical areas, and can live up to 200 years. When fully grown, male giant tortoises are roughly as large as a common [[donkey]], and twice the size of female giant tortoises. All giant tortoises are equally slow, moving at less than a third of the default [[speed]].

Tortoises are also extremely benign, and will nearly always react to threats by retracting into their shells, rather than fighting. Because of this, they nearly never frighten worker dwarves, and since they do not move when in their shell, you can freely build a cage trap directly underneath a tortoise in their shell. When retracted into their shells, they are impervious to unarmed attacks (from dwarves who are not Mighty) and also wooden bolts, making them excellent training dummies for the Observer skill and Archery.

Giant tortoises can be [[tame]]d and kept as low-value [[pet]]s, farmed for [[egg]]s, or bred for a [[meat industry]]. With 5-10 eggs in a clutch, they are poor for egg industry, but for the meat industry, they are born in larger numbers than most larger creatures. They produce a moderate amount of meat without tying up your [[pasture]]land, and their [[shell]]s can prove valuable for fulfilling [[strange mood]] requests. Note, however, that giant tortoises require five years to reach full adult size.

Interestingly, only [[male]]s seem to produce nose cartilage when butchered (which currently has no real use, and there are far better ways to determine gender).

[[Image:Giant-Tortoise-Santa-Cruz.jpg|thumb|center|400px|[[preference|Admired]] for their ''great size''.]]
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Giant warthog

2016-05-11T02:50:07Z

Abdulijubjub: Added butchering returns, based on 2 samples (male and female)

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Clay

2016-05-11T02:11:16Z

Abdulijubjub: Clay can be made into shaped gems, although it still doesn't make sense.

{{quality|exceptional|14:12, 9 August 2014 (UTC)}}
{{soillookup/0}}
{{av}}

'''Clay''' is one of the many types of [[soil]] that can be found in Dwarf Fortress. [[Aquifer]]s are never present in clay layers.

==Ceramics==
Five different soil types are classified as clay - [[clay]], [[clay loam]], [[sandy clay]], [[silty clay]], and [[fire clay]]. Each of these can be gathered for use in [[Ceramic industry|Ceramics]]. If your [[embark]] site has at least one type of clay, it will be shown as ''Clay'' or ''Shallow Clay'' in the embark screen's biome viewer.

The gathering and use of clay is done from a [[kiln]] or [[magma kiln]] and behaves similarly to most material production, but includes elements similar to [[glass]] production. In order to gather clay, a [[activity zone#Clay Collection|gathering zone]] must first be designated over a clay-bearing tile (note that clay can be collected from adjacent clay walls, even diagonally), much like with [[sand]]; however, gathering clay creates a clay "boulder" (the same as raw stone) and does not require a bag. These clay boulders are stored in a Stone stockpile and may be used to build [[workshop]]s and [[construction]]s, but constructed clay floors '''cannot''' be used in place of natural soil. As with sand, clay can be gathered indefinitely from a single tile. Any dwarf with item hauling [[labor]] enabled can collect clay.

Clay can be made into pots, [[block|bricks]], [[statue]]s, [[hive]]s and [[Finished goods|craft]]s. Small pots, called [[jug]]s, function similar to bags and waterskins, while large pots are treated like barrels. Creating any object from clay requires a unit of fuel.

Clay can also be used in Jewelcrafting like any other stone or ore, allowing for an infinite source of materials for practicing cutting gems with. However, clay cannot be fired from a [[catapult]], loaded into a [[stone-fall trap]], or used in place of stone at a [[mason's workshop]].

Before an [[earthenware]] pot (large or small) can hold liquids, it must be '''glazed'''. Glazing is performed at a [[kiln]] and requires either a unit of [[ash]] or a unit of [[cassiterite]] ([[tin]] ore), plus a unit of fuel. [[Stoneware]] and [[porcelain]] pots do not need to be glazed.

When an underground plant ([[tree|trees]], [[shrub|shrubs]], [[grass]] or moss) grows on a muddy stone floor tile (after discovering a [[Caverns|cavern]]) and is either trampled, gathered, cut down or removed via building a dirt road on top of it, the floor tile turns into a soil type appropriate to the [[biome]] - for biomes which lack soil layers altogether (such as mountains and glaciers), a random soil type will be selected, which might sometimes be clay.

[[Grass]], [[tree|sapling]]s and [[shrub]]s can grow on clay soil, which causes the underlying clay to be temporarily unavailable for collection, giving the message "Urist McBagger cancels Collect Clay: Clay vanished" if the job is in progress, or "Urist McBagger cancels Collect Clay: Need valid, active clay collection zone" if the job is new. You can easily remove the grass ''and'' prevent it from growing back by building a dirt [[road]] ({{K|b}}-{{K|o}}) over the grass. You can also put a floor [[grate]] over a clay floor to prevent growth while allowing clay to be collected, but you must first remove the grass/sapling/sapling; you can do this by placing a dirt road ({{K|b}}-{{K|O}}) over it.

Occasionally it is possible to cultivate clay by channeling down into the lowest normal layer of the cavern, revealing a "[[Semi-molten rock|magma flow]]" above a floor [[semi-molten rock]] (and a [[ramp]] on the level below, if the square had not previously been revealed). If a [[floor]] is constructed over the flow, then deconstructed, a natural floor of clay or [[sand]] may be left behind. In some cases this may be the sole domestic source of clay for a fortress.

== Bugs ==

* It is possible to "cut" clay at a jeweler just like any other stone. This Clay is treated in all respects like a normal gem and can be used to encrust the standard materials.{{Bug|5275}}

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DF2014 Talk:Giant tortoise

2016-05-09T13:02:29Z

Abdulijubjub:

All civilians in the fort (18, at the time) attacking a giant tortoise trained to legendary Observer in roughly one season, without damaging the tortoise. Considering that the wild ones that you can attack can live for 100 years, these may be a little OP at training dummies.

Abdulijubjub 13:01, 9 May 2016 (UTC)

DF2014 Talk:Giant tortoise

2016-05-09T13:02:17Z

Abdulijubjub: spacing

DF2014 Talk:Giant tortoise

2016-05-09T13:01:59Z

Abdulijubjub: Observer training

Giant tortoise

2016-05-09T12:46:49Z

Abdulijubjub: mentioned observer training dummies

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'''Giant tortoises''' are the "mundane" version of [[gigantic tortoise]]s. They appear in groups of 5-10 in tropical areas, and can live up to 200 years. When fully grown, male giant tortoises are roughly as large as a common [[donkey]], and twice the size of female giant tortoises. All giant tortoises are equally slow, moving at less than a third of the default [[speed]].

Tortoises are also extremely benign, and will nearly always react to threats by retracting into their shells, rather than fighting. Because of this, they nearly never frighten worker dwarves, and since they do not move when in their shell, you can freely build a cage trap directly underneath a tortoise in their shell. When retracted into their shells, they also make excellent training dummies for the Observer and Discipline skills, as any number of unarmed citizens can attack a tortoise simultaneously without it taking damage.

Giant tortoises can be [[tame]]d and kept as low-value [[pet]]s, farmed for [[egg]]s, or bred for a [[meat industry]]. With 5-10 eggs in a clutch, they are poor for egg industry, but for the meat industry, they are born in larger numbers than most larger creatures. They produce a moderate amount of meat without tying up your [[pasture]]land, and their [[shell]]s can prove valuable for fulfilling [[strange mood]] requests. Note, however, that giant tortoises require five years to reach full adult size.

Interestingly, only [[male]]s seem to produce nose cartilage when butchered (which currently has no real use, and there are far better ways to determine gender).

[[Image:Giant-Tortoise-Santa-Cruz.jpg|thumb|center|400px|[[preference|Admired]] for their ''great size''.]]
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Bedroom design

2016-04-09T02:12:40Z

Abdulijubjub: Removed "mined out vein of minerals or gemstons" since it longer applies in the new version

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There are many ways to design the layout of [[bedroom]]s. Simplicity, ease of designating, efficiency, and aesthetics are all important factors in designing dwarven housing. The ability to modify the design to enlarge, improve, or add rooms can be important as well. Proximity of the rooms to [[noise]] should also be considered.

The simplest approach resolving dwarven sleeping requirements is to have all your dwarves sleep in a large communal [[dormitory]]. The smallest ''bedroom design'' possible is a corridor with notched spaces for beds.

Players frequently want designs which maximize positive thought and minimize the path distance between a dwarf's food, drink, job and home. For these purposes, nothing holds a candle to the ease, simplicity, and efficiency of [[#The_multiply-overlapping_single_bedroom|overlapping bedrooms]] in a single large carved out area. In the current version, the main benefits of individualized rooms are for roleplaying purposes. Historically, room design was further complicated when the [[dwarven economy]] kicked in, and a wide range of "[[Room#Specific room quality grades|room qualities]]" were needed, and poor dwarves were kicked out of over-priced quarters (the dwarven economy is currently disabled). To this end, a number of solutions, some surprisingly elegant, have been produced.

Many of the designs shown here were taken from [http://www.bay12games.com/forum/index.php?topic=16901.0 this forum post].

=Minimalism=

Sometimes, simpler is better... not always, but sometimes...

=== 1x1 bed only, no walls ===

By far the most minimal design is to take a bed, place it anywhere you want, then set it as a 1x1 room. This bed 'room' can be assigned to a dwarf early on, and will at least serve the bare minimum purpose of avoiding unhappy thoughts from the lack of a room. It will not, of course, leave the dwarves with any space to store any possessions at all. However, it requires the absolute minimum work to set up; all you need is existing empty space, preferably with no noise nearby, and a bed to place in it.

Alternatively if you are building compact merely to save space or improve framerate, a 1x1 bedroom on a smoothed, engraved floor can have quite a high room value.

=== Communal dormitory ===

The simplest form of dwarven housing. Stick a bunch of beds in a room, designate a [[dormitory]] from one of them (do not assign the bed to anyone), and voilà, instant flophouse. On maps with no [[tree]]s, this is pretty much your only option for sleeping quarters before breaching a cavern or importing large amounts of wood. (Dwarves will sleep on the floor of the dormitory if no beds are available, which at least keeps them from sleeping in the wilderness.)

This setup only causes a single negative thought ("slept without a proper room recently"), although you miss out the benefit of the happy thoughts generated by personally-owned furniture. However, as long as you compensate by offering your dwarves high-quality [[food]] and [[alcohol]], an expansive [[dining room]], and other luxuries, your dwarves will remain happy enough to be productive throughout the life of a fortress. (You may still wish to give [[noble]]s their own rooms, however; they tend to [[mandate|get]] [[demand|upset]] when their [[Noble#Room Requirements Summary|requirements]] are not met)

More than one dormitory can be built in a fortress; if they do not own their own bedroom, dwarves will gravitate to the nearest empty bed when it is time for them to sleep.{{verify}}

Communal dormitories are more appealing in .34 due to the presence of [[vampire]]s among fortress populations, as it increases the likelihood of the offending bloodsucker being caught. If unhappy thoughts are a concern, individual spaces around the beds may be assigned as bedrooms instead (and optionally, furniture built on those spaces).

=== Plain square design ===
[[Image:square_bedroom.png|right]]
If it is 2×2, 3×3 or more, square designs are probably the first choice of many players. Easy to plan, easy to put in place, this kind of design is one of the best when the player values his playing time instead of the overall layout of his fortress. While square designs are easy to reproduce en masse, most are not optimized either for beauty or space efficiency, two aspects that other designs excel at.

=== Line design ===
[[Image:line_bedroom.png|right|thumb| '''Line design''', laid out (left) and finished (right)]]
Line designs have the advantage of being very space efficient and very adaptative. From 1×1 to 1×4 and longer, it can fit almost anywhere, can be upgraded later on as long as you have the space behind your first original line and do not need excessive corridor space for the bedroom access. Simply dig a few lines out of an access tunnel already in use in your fortress and voilà, you have new living quarters. This kind of minimalistic design was particularly useful when the economy kicked in, as it could be adapted in a flash to meet the needs of low-wage citizens.

===Decentralized living===
In larger fortresses, one of the bigger problems is traffic. Dwarves have a tendency to all get hungry, thirsty, and tired in waves, and a crowd of 50 of them storming your centralized food stockpiles, one big dining room, and dormitory tunnels can cause a lot of lost time while the hordes shuffle by each other. A good solution to this is decentralized architecture, incorporating most of the essentials of every day life into numerous smaller areas. This isn't to suggest that you shouldn't have a legendary dining hall set as a meeting area, capable of holding half your fortress at once. You definitely should! But decentralizing from that dining hall relieves a lot of congestion in the halls surrounding the main dining hall, and makes it easier for dwarves just to pass through.

[[image:Living.GIF|right]]
In this image, the access stairwell (blue fields in the center), spread out in all directions to a public dormitory and dining room for poorer dwarves on the left/right and to 3x3 private rooms on the top/bottom. The design allows for two small stockpiles of food (gray fields) to minimize the walk to a dining hall.

There are also built-in areas for impressive things like [[Main:statues|statues]] and [[Main:cages|cages]] (for zoos) to keep dwarves admiring your handiwork. The 3x3 rooms are easy to get up to decent or higher to keep your most useful dwarves happy as clams. They're also convenient for impromptu noble housing, since you can just knock out a wall between two rooms and convert one into a dining room for a whiny noble. You could even expand the corner rooms a bit more on both the X and Y axes to make four 3x3 rooms to give the noble a dining room, tomb, and office all in one area. This is especially useful for the mayor, who gets replaced every so often. When a new Mayor is elected, one can reassign all the trappings to the new mayor in one go. If you want an even more decentralized and calm traffic pattern, put tables and chairs in all the private rooms; dwarves will prefer to eat in their quarters. The walls between the doors leading to the dormitory and Dining Room allow for 2 entrances and 2 exits to each predictably higher-traffic room while leaving a pillar of rock for an engraving. The main corridor also allows you to branch off into 4 restraints per floor in a private 1x2 prison. Since it's flanked by an animal cage and a statue (or alternatively, 2 statues. This may be better because Statues block movement and it's effectively the same as surrounding the prisoner with walls). Additionally, in an area you want smoothed and engraved to begin with, it gives prisoners a leg upon their happiness immediately and -- once again -- prevents traffic jams from convicts being brought food and water in larger prisons.

Another option for maximizing traffic throughput is to put a 1x3 line of upward stairwells on one end of the blue field, and a 1x3 line of downward stairwells on the other. This simulates a 3-wide vertical corridor without the safety risks of up/down stairwells.

You may also, at your discretion, knock out the statues and cages near the stairwell to make the entire plan a little more compact (though you lose the easy prisons in this case). This plan can stretch on the x axis as much as you like, but note that the 1 wide corridors leading to individual rooms can get crowded if more than 10 dwarves are living along each one. Even with the given layout, though, one floor supports 26 private rooms and as many as 14 public beds. This works out quite nicely since one floor is enough to handle most immigrant waves, while existing floors' public beds can handle a decent amount of overflow. The public dormitory rooms can also be converted into prisons very easily (just put chains next to every bed) if you decide not to go with the main design.

=== High density single floor housing ===

[[Image:Housing_by_Marble_Dice.png|thumb|244px|This is the 61x61 housing plan]]

This fractal-inspired design combines space efficiency with wider access hallways to alleviate traffic jams. Stairs are placed in the middle, and the design can expand indefinitely. To decrease the size, remove the outermost perimeter hallway, and all connected bedrooms. To increase the size, use the picture as a guide and follow the same radial pattern.

{| class="wikitable" style="padding:"
|-
! style="text-align:left;" | Size
! style="text-align:left;" | Capacity
! style="text-align:left;" | Max walk distance from center
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| style="padding-right:26px;" | 29x29 tiles
| style="padding-right:26px;" | 48 dwarves
| style="padding-right:26px;" | 23 steps
|-
| style="padding-right:26px;" | 45x45 tiles
| style="padding-right:26px;" | 120 dwarves
| style="padding-right:26px;" | 39 steps
|-
| style="padding-right:26px;" | 61x61 tiles
| style="padding-right:26px;" | 224 dwarves
| style="padding-right:26px;" | 55 steps
|-
| style="padding-right:26px;" | 77x77 tiles
| style="padding-right:26px;" | 360 dwarves
| style="padding-right:26px;" | 71 steps
|}

 

=== The multiply-overlapping single bedroom ===

A variation on the dormitory can produce large numbers of cheap, high quality bedrooms, very easily. Start with a large room, perhaps 20 x 20 tiles, and put many beds in it. From each of those beds, create a bedroom that covers the entire room. Each of the rooms overlaps the other rooms, and therefore suffers a quality modifier, but the room is large enough that its size can dominate the quality calculation. The quality hit for overlapping rooms is only applied once; your room either overlaps or it does not. With any reasonable amount of beds, it is easier and cheaper to furnish the one room with high quality items (at a penalty) than it is to carve out and furnish dozens of rooms separately. In addition, side by side beds in an open room is by far the most efficient use of space and walking distance. A room this size with a couple hundred beds in it, and some combination of smoothing, engraving, or multiple pieces of cheap furniture, can be of any quality level that is desired, from modest to royal.

=== Staggered Doorless Rooms ===

Dwarves suffer no penalties for having other Dwarves travel through their bedrooms even when they are sleeping. They also don't require doors. Therefore, you can take advantage of diagonal pathing in room design for high-density, non-overlapping, multi-tile rooms.

The following diagram shows a 3x1 layout surrounding a 3x3 stairwell. The design can be repeated outwards as far as necessary.

<pre>
---.B.---.B.---
.B.---.B.---.B.
---.B.---.B.---
.B.---XXX---.B.
---.B.XXX.B.---
.B.---XXX---.B.
---.B.---.B.---
.B.---.B.---.B.
---.B.---.B.---
</pre>

Dwarves will navigate from the stairwell diagonally through rooms, while bedroom sizes can be applied at 3x3 (without the area leaking to adjoining rooms) allowing for some level of furnishing.

=High density,single floor, quick housing=

[[Image:Dwarf-bedroom-simple.jpg|thumb|250px|This is a 35x35 housing plan]]

This design is nice in that it is very quick to lay since using shift to move the cursor moves in steps of 11 tiles. It is also very easy to increase or decrease their value by adding or removing [[furniture]]. Each 1-tile wide walkway is shared by 10 dwarves reducing congestion and each room can fit a bed, a chest and a cabinet leaving 1 free space for any miscellaneous items such as a statue for legendary dwarves, the free space is in the back of the room for the reason that it allows you to place blocking items that cannot be moved over there without sealing your dwarves in/out.

=High density, multi-level=

Optimizing space, minimizing walking distance, these are good things... for some...

===Magical Multi-way Doors===

The main point of this design is that it squeezes six bedrooms in a space of 9x8 squares (including walls) by using two-way doors. It's meant to be built across several Z-levels, making it take up a minimal amount of practical space. It can be easily mirrored, although that requires a wider corridor (or the use of four bedrooms instead of six on the other side).

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Level -1 ¦ Level 0 ¦ Level 1
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¦---D---¦ ¦ ---+.+--- ¦ ¦---D---¦
¦...¦...¦ ¦ ......... ¦ ¦...¦...¦
+-------+ ¦ ¦ +-------+}}

'''Alternate layout:'''

This is a simpler (though slightly less compact) design using three-way doors.

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One apartment "unit" gives you 6 rooms using only 2 doors and it fits within a 13x7 space (including walls). Access to the apartments in the unit is through the 1-3 up/down stairwells in the center. This design can be expanded by repeating the same pattern one level down and/or by tiling together multiple units together on the same level.

Both designs mean that you have to build less doors per bedroom, which helps save time and materials.

===Sandwich===

A design to move bedrooms vertically spread across many unused Z levels easily. The rooms can be preferentially scaled up or down depending on needs. If space is reserved serves well for expansion of each bedroom as suitable.

The sandwich basically consists of a three tile wide hallway or wider. Up/Down Stairways are evenly distributed in increments which lead to one or more bedrooms as needed. [[Floor hatch]]es can be used between the individual bedrooms like vertical doors, but, unlike doors, owned floor hatches can generate happy [[thought]]s.

[http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=118751.0 Recent science] has established that having any "holes" in a room's walls reduces the apparent [[room value]]; this design is therefore particularly well-suited to producing high-value rooms.

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Level -1 ¦ Level 0 ¦ Level 1
+-----------+ ¦ ¦ +-----------+
¦B.¦B.¦B.¦B.¦ ¦ ¦ ¦B.¦B.¦B.¦B.¦
¦..¦..¦..¦..¦ ¦ ------------- ¦ ¦..¦..¦..¦..¦
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¦--+--+--+--¦ ¦ ............. ¦ ¦--+--+--+--¦
¦X.¦X.¦X.¦X.¦ ¦ .X..X..X..X.. ¦ ¦X.¦X.¦X.¦X.¦
¦..¦..¦..¦..¦ ¦ ------------- ¦ ¦..¦..¦..¦..¦
¦B.¦B.¦B.¦B.¦ ¦ ¦ ¦B.¦B.¦B.¦B.¦
+-----------+ ¦ ¦ +-----------+}}

The bedroom design can be copied several times further up and down starting from Level 1 or -1 to exploit available space in neighbouring Z levels. The design is excellent as the space surrounding the hallway can be used for directly tying to the dining/meeting hall.

===6-room clusters===

[[File:ClusterBedrooms.png|thumb|350 pix|'''6-room clusters''' ''(click to enlarge)'']]
This one is quite dense. There are six bedroom clusters. They can be built close to each other.

There are 7 6-room clusters here. If 5 Z-Levels of this are built, that's 5*7*6=210, which is plenty for most any fortress.

=== Living Pods (Residential Flats) ===

This design is compact and allows for a large number of rooms. Each room has 3 tiles plus a door. To add to the complex build an apartment level one level above or below the lobby - the stairs allow direct access. The design can be stretched to make the rooms 3x2 or 3x3, or to allow more rooms per floor, depending on your preference. Though not as visually impressive as the fractal patterns it is very efficient in that it can allow for large numbers of dwarves to easily access the main hallway. The pods are very quick to deploy as the interior (mined out) width of the pods exactly equals one {{k|Shift}}+move of the cursor. Highlight a full square with a horizontal shift+move then a vertical. Then ''un''mark the 3 internal walls in both horizontal and vertical directions (each also 1 shift+move distance long), and finally mark in the four staircases. Sixteen bedrooms with extremely efficient pathing laid out in as many seconds.
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==== Pod variant ====

This is an example of varying the above to suit personal taste. Three significant changes have been made:

:1) 2 pair of vertical access stairs feed upward, instead of one horizontal hallway.

:2) The entire design has been expanded (to 15x15, vs 13x13 above), but rooms have not been expanded to fill all available space - not yet. That will be done if/as need arises, and many of the 3-tile rooms can become 5- or 7-tile1, or two joined together to become 12-tile suites2.

:3) Allow for a central waterfall with drain system*.

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Upper Apartment Level(s*): Lobby Level: Lower Apartment Level(s*):
+-----+ +-----+ +-----+ +-----+ +-----+ +-----+
¦..¦..¦ ¦..¦..¦ ¦..¦..¦ ¦..¦..¦ ¦..¦..¦ ¦..¦..¦
¦.+-+.¦ ¦.+-+.¦ ¦.+-+.¦ ¦.+-+.¦ ¦.+-+.¦ ¦.+-+.¦
¦-¦X¦-¦ ¦-¦X¦-¦ ¦-¦X¦-----¦X¦-¦ ¦-¦X¦-----¦X¦-¦
¦.+¦+.¦ ¦.+-+.¦ ¦.+¦+.OOO.+-+.¦ ¦.+¦+..¦..+-+.¦
¦..¦..¦ ¦..¦..¦ ¦..¦.......¦..¦ ¦..¦.+---+.¦..¦
+--+-------+--+ +--¦..###..¦--+ +--¦.¦~~~¦.¦--+
¦XX#~#XX¦ ¦<<#~#<<¦ ¦-¦~¦~¦-¦
+--+-------+--+ +--¦..###..¦--+ +--¦.¦~~~¦.¦--+
¦..¦..¦ ¦..¦..¦ ¦..¦.......¦..¦ ¦..¦.+---+.¦..¦
¦.+-+.¦ ¦.+-+.¦ ¦.+-+.OOO.+-+.¦ ¦.+-+..¦..+-+.¦
¦-¦X¦-¦ ¦-¦X¦-¦ ¦-¦X¦-----¦X¦-¦ ¦-¦X¦-----¦X¦-¦
¦.+-+.¦ ¦.+-+.¦ ¦.+-+.¦ ¦.+-+.¦ ¦.+-+.¦ ¦.+-+.¦
¦..¦..¦ ¦..¦..¦ ¦..¦..¦ ¦..¦..¦ ¦..¦..¦ ¦..¦..¦
+-----+ +-----+ +-----+ +-----+ +-----+ +-----+</pre>Legend:
:X = up/down stair
:< = up stair
:~ = flowing water, in waterfall and drain
:<nowiki>#</nowiki> = [[grate]] or floor [[bars]] over drain
:¦ = solid block at base of waterfall
:O = [[statue]]s (though a [[zoo]] or booze stockpiles could work as well)

Notes:
:1) Expanding out one more tile can create size 5-11 rooms, or size 19 if two are connected.
:2) A size 15 room is ample for any noble, with the possible exception of a [[king|king/queen]].

:<nowiki>*</nowiki> The floor plan for the waterfall/drain system may vary from floor to floor, and by personal taste. Eventually it can be routed off and out one side, and the full interior area of all levels below that reserved for apartments.

''(Note - It's easy to [[flood]] an area with a waterfall such as this - be sure you are familiar with the technique before risking an entire dormitory (or the lower parts, at least) on it.)''

=== Greek Cross design===
[[image:VaniverGreek48.png|right|thumb| 48 tile design]]
Minimizing walking distances requires good use of vertical space. This plan is simple, scalable, and only takes up a few floors - 6 if you have 32 per floor, 4 if you have 48. The maximum walking distance should be less than 20 (walking up/down stairs counts as one distance.).[[image:VaniverGreek32.png|center|thumb| 32 tile design]]
A Quickfort blueprint for the 32 tile Greek Cross design is available [http://www.mediafire.com/download/yfeoeo0qj38vw24/Greek_Cross_Design_Blueprint.zip here]

=== Shaft design ===

[[Image:Shaft_bedroom_design.gif|thumb|Shaft bedroom design with a few possible variations.]]

The Shaft design allows various options for entry direction and central "shaft" use. The central shaft may be altered to create dining rooms and offices for minor nobles, "deluxe" bedrooms, hospital beds, or simply more bedrooms. The design can easily accommodate several different room sizes while maintaining efficiency. However, the design utilizes Z-levels for efficiency, and you must build several levels of Shaft designs to accommodate a fully grown fortress.

The Shaft design can fit 20 2x2 rooms, or 30 1x1 rooms.

=== Tileable shaft design ===

The tileable shaft design is a further expansion of the general shaft design above, coming in somewhere between the simple geometric designs and the vastly more complex fractal designs. These are designs that can be symmetrically tiled, that means concatenated in all six directions and are thus suited both for manual design as well as macro-automation. They allow the user to extend the same pattern over very large areas and to easily extend the available space per room up to a given size by tearing down just a few walls. Additionally, they can be suited for bedrooms as well as work and storage.[[Image:tileable_shaft_big.png|thumb|Tileable shaft design with a few possible variations.]]

The downsides are that they're not especially optimized for walking distance or large hallways, and the necessity of the main access shaft on the z-level (stairs) having to be in the central-most tile (marked red in the examples) to allow z-level stacking.

=== Modified Windmill Villas ===

This is the most efficient method I have seen, and it keeps the central staircase as well.

(Calculations use 8 levels)
*Dwarfs per level = 28
*Levels needed for 200 = 7.1
*Max distance (including Z) = 15
*Average distance = 10.2
*Average distance per level = 5.4

[[Image:Modified_Windmill_Villas.png|Modified windmill villas]]

=== Squarified Tri-way Doors ===

Four "tri-way doors" patterns adjacent to each other, squarified with 4 normal rooms and 2 noble rooms.

This results in 30 bedrooms in a 21x15 rectangular space (counting all walls, including external ones). Can be repeated multiple z-levels, accessed from a lobby hallway.

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+-------+---+---+---+
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=== Large Squarified Tri-way Doors ===

By playing with the basic building block of the above design, and a 25x25 space, you can get this elegant square and symmetrical design:

{{diagram|spaces=yes|\
╔═╦═╦═══╦═╦═╦═╦═╦═══╦═╦═╗
║ +X+ ║ ║ ║ ║ ║ +X+ ║
║ ╠═╬═╦═╣ ║ ║ ║ ╠═╦═╬═╣ ║
║ ║ ║ ║ ║ ║ ║ ║ ║ ║ ║ ║ ║
╠═╣ ║ ║ ╠═+═╬═+═╣ ║ ║ ╠═╣
║ ║ ║ ║ ║X║ ║ ║X║ ║ ║ ║ ║
║ ╠═+═╬═+═╣ ║ ╠═+═╬═+═╣ ║
║ ║X║ ║ ║ ║ ║ ║ ║ ║ ║X║ ║
╠═+═╣ ║ ║ ╠═╩═╣ ║ ║ ╠═+═╣
║ ║ ║ ║ ║ ║ ║ ║ ║ ║ ║ ║
║ ║ ╠═╩═╬═╣ ╔═╩═╬═╩═╣ ║ ║
║ ║ ║ ║X+ ║ ║ ║ ║ ║
╠═╬═╬═══+═╩═╬═╦═+═══╬═╬═╣
║ ║ ║ ║ ║ +X║ ║ ║ ║
║ ║ ╠═╦═╬═╦═╝ ╠═╬═╦═╣ ║ ║
║ ║ ║ ║ ║ ║ ║ ║ ║ ║ ║ ║
╠═+═╣ ║ ║ ╠═╦═╣ ║ ║ ╠═+═╣
║ ║X║ ║ ║ ║ ║ ║ ║ ║ ║X║ ║
║ ╠═+═╬═+═╣ ║ ╠═+═╬═+═╣ ║
║ ║ ║ ║ ║X║ ║ ║X║ ║ ║ ║ ║
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║ ║ ║ ║ ║ ║ ║ ║ ║ ║ ║ ║ ║
║ ╠═╬═╩═╣ ║ ║ ║ ╠═╩═╬═╣ ║
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This is the most space-efficient design when aiming for bedrooms with exactly three tiles of space which are accessible without crossing another bedroom. It uses only 9 tiles per bedroom overall, an amazing feat, since the mathematical minimum for the problem given is 8 tiles per bedroom! Such bedroom allocations are not in any way required, however: normal citizens are perfectly happy with an [[#The_multiply-overlapping_single_bedroom|overlapping bedroom]] in a large hall packed to capacity with beds.

=Repeating patterns & fractals=

Art for art's sake... and if it's functional, so much the better...

=== Blossom ===
[[Image:blossom.png|300px]]

Not truly fractal, but inspired by other fractals with a more aesthetic appeal. A slightly stripped down quickfort version of this is available [http://www.mediafire.com/view/?wx3g4373422u02r here].

=== Tessellated Apartments ===

[[File:Tessellatedrooms.jpg]]

Access can be from above and/or below by the stairs, or a hallway can be run into the dining room level by removing the bedroom at one of the cardinal points. This design can be repeated as far as desired in the X, Y, and Z directions.

===Noble Hive Pods===

A geometric pattern for Noble housing trying for interesting aesthetics and high mobility. The basic tiling pattern is shown on the left; one possible way to join them, involving surrounding corridors and a central staircase and a jillion doors, on the right.

[[File:Noblehive.png]]

=== Fractal designs ===

Betting on design beauty and on geometrical symmetry first, fractal designs can also be, at the same time, very space and walk efficient. They however require a lot of time and space both to plan and execute and are most likely out of reach of all but the most serious players. Fortunately, most of the designs displayed below would be avoided by the most serious players, due to their lack of serious Z-level access and incongruity with almost any general access plan. Most players however agree that they are the most incredible of all the designs around, if not for the sheer challenge of successfully executing something as complex, as for the extra touch it gives to the fortress as a whole once it is done.

[[image:Raynard_square_delight1.png]] [[image:Raynard1.png]]

[[image:Raynard_whirlpool_housing.png]]

[[image:Hactar1_3_branch_tree.png]] [[image:Hactar1_Mandelbrot_Tree.png]]

[[Image:SavokisLeaf08a032.png]]

[[image:Andrelius_Windmill_Villas.png]]

[[image:4bh0r53n_h-fractal.jpg]]

More fractal bedroom designs based upon the H-Tree (pictured above) can be found at [[User:Tenebrous|this user page]].

===Fractal modified for 3d===
This was created by palin88 from [http://www.bay12games.com/forum/index.php?topic=17784.msg17413 Bay12Games forum] in order to make a three-dimensional version of Raynard's Fractal Design.

[[File:Palin88_Bedroom_Design.png]]

===Hallway with office===

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Legend: 
B: Bed 
D: Door 
X: Staircase 
╥: Chair 
╤: Table 
c: Chest or Bag 
k: Cabinet 

An interesting design made to consume less space but still look pretty. It can be repeated infinitely, or at least as far as your embark square goes. One may also decide to use the stairwells as noble offices or rooms, or put the staircase somewhere else and put a well where the staircase would be.

{{Buildings}}
{{Category|Design}}

DF2014 Talk:Magma crab

2016-03-30T18:55:07Z

Abdulijubjub:

== What does this mean? ==

"magma crabs are quite resilient, but they can be killed relatively easily"

In what ways are they resilient? - [[User:AnnanFay|AnnanFay]] ([[User talk:AnnanFay|talk]]) 01:42, 30 January 2015 (UTC)

"Can magma crabs be used for permanent weightloss? I will be updating if I can after Science.
--Abdulijubjub 18:55, 30 March 2016 (UTC)

v0.34 Talk:Vampire

2013-06-24T00:59:38Z

Abdulijubjub: Adding confirmation for vampire attribute gain/rust

So I did some !!SCIENCE!! by accident when trying to optimize my labour / hauling...

If using burrows it appears that Vampires only will feed on sleeping dwarfs that are in the same burrow as themselves. Setup was like this: 2 burrows, 1.st one (lets call it The Fortress) containing your whole fort and all the beds, 2nd one (lets call that one Vampire Prison for obvious reasons) containing nothing except your Vampire(s). I forgot to lock the door to said vampire prison and only noticed it when i wanted to reopen it to put a second vamp in there. The first one just sat in his little 5x5 burrow for 3 years without ever killing one dwarf. (or doing anything at all since i disabled all his labours) Can anyone confirm this?

== Lets improve this article ==

I think it might be a good idea to divide this into two parts, one for adventure mode and one for fortress mode, since it is quite a difference.
I'm not very good at wikis, so i dont really want to do anything wrong, but this would be usefull to be added:
* Do vampires actually sustain your fort if everybody else dies?
* vampires usually have tons of sentient creature bone crafts on them in adventure mode
* vampires are often found in high positions in adventure mode
* potential (dwarfy) uses marked d for dwarf

et cetera. just some ideas here, would be happy if somebody did this. --[[User:Miauw62|Miauw62]] 14:19, 20 February 2012 (UTC)

:In regards to fortress mode, from my own fortress I have observed the following:
:* Vampires in fortress mode also wear lots of bone jewellery which can be used to identify them.
:* Vampires in fortress mode are not necessarily highly skilled/ranked (e.g. a peasant in my case).
:
:Also, it should perhaps be noted that due to their lack of thirst or hunger, vampires can be happily locked into a room and used by resourceful players for menial tasks such as lever-pulling, work-managing or bookkeeping.
:I believe that vampire skills are frozen, and thus are not particular useful as soldiers unless already skilled - could someone confirm this?
:--[[User:Flobulon|Flobulon]] 16:31, 20 February 2012 (UTC)

:* Vampires tend to have been part of a lot of forts
:* Vampire skills may be frozen but if so it's at bite time and I got a dwarf turned in an existing fort since I leveled his weapon skills extensively in a danger room... no way of knowing pre/post vampirism.
[[User:Shadus|Shadus]] 18:41, 20 February 2012 (UTC)
::Vampires' attributes are frozen. Vampires continue to gain (and lose) skill. --[[User:Vasiln|Vasiln]] 00:17, 6 March 2012 (UTC)
::This is info from the first patch, but I imagine it hasn't been changed. Vampires don't drink but are still alcohol dependent. This is reflected in the article by mentioning that "s/he really needs a drink", and is because they haven't had any alcohol since they entered your fort. I'm pretty sure this results in the vampire being an immensely poor worker despite never needing to stop to eat/drink. I noticed that a vampire that was jailed and then isolated into a sealed off area became perpetually tired; I think this might be unrelated to the sobriety but I'm not sure. -- [[User:Qazmlpok|Qazmlpok]] 18:50, 20 February 2012 (UTC)
:::34.07 - a weak vampire came as an immigrant, i made him a miner - now he is mighty (as written in v mode). In adv. mode 34.07 i also managed to become a vamp flom almost very start: powerlevelling as a vampire also worked perfectly, all the stats increased the same way as if my hero was a non-vamp. The single bad thing in adv.mode is that vamp has a speed-cap of about 1300, even if an elf with maxed 2k speed becomes a vamp, the speed is instantly set to a vamp's cap of ~1300. (there are three exact constant cap's depending on the race, yet all are 1300+-)
::::I can confirm this. The NO_PHYS_ATT_GAIN and NO_PHYS_ATT_RUST tags do nothing at the moment. Confirmed vampire (several years in a box, then watched him suck the life from 6 people in a row when released) had his strength go from no description to 'strong' after about 6 months of mining duty, then back to no description when I took him off. (unmodded 0.34.11) --Abdulijubjub 00:59, 24 June 2013 (UTC)

Do you mean sobriety from booze or blood? --[[User:Headjack|Headjack]]
:From booze. They need to drink alcohol to avoid the negative effects any other dwarf would experience but do not drink alcohol. The "tired" status was probably from not getting enough blood, but the status message is from alcohol. -- [[User:Qazmlpok|Qazmlpok]] 13:20, 21 February 2012 (UTC)

I've tested the "s/he really needs a drink"/"s/he has not had a drink in far, far too long" Vampire Identification Methodtm and found it to be pretty much useless in vampire CSI. Have updated the page to reflect this new discovery. --[[User:CantankerousTank|CantankerousTank]] 22:12, 21 February 2012 (UTC)

Fixed text to reflect uncertainty [[User:Headjack|Headjack]] 03:28, 22 February 2012 (UTC)

A few things on my mind:
Do vampires actively marry/reproduce?
Do vampires have vampire kids?
How often do vampires create new vampires through biting & how likely is it?
[[User:Headjack|Headjack]] 08:00, 22 February 2012 (UTC)

: I had a vampire who had a wife in my fort. They also had a children. However, according legends, it seems that vampire was married and got children before he was cursed to be a vampire. His child was not vampire. [[Special:Contributions/80.247.245.72|80.247.245.72]] 13:51, 26 February 2012 (UTC)

: Vampires have the "Sterile" tag added to them. I'm assuming this means they can't have children. [[Special:Contributions/205.178.83.139|205.178.83.139]] 10:34, 14 June 2012 (UTC)

--Hey, could someone confirm this for me? I'm finding that vampires cant display custom profession or nicknames given to them. Its happening on my end but I wanna get someone else to back this up; it might be the best way to CSI yet.
[[User:Headjack|Headjack]] 08:34, 22 February 2012 (UTC)
:It is true. However, it will also be fixed in the next version. [[User:Knight Otu|Knight Otu]] 10:52, 22 February 2012 (UTC)

-New to dwarf fortress and new member: Just found my third vampire with a fortress of 240+ dwarves, and I was able to confirm all 3 by changing their nickname and checking the deity. One thing that I did notice was that all three had something attached to the end of "He/She needs alcohol to get through the working day" that always started with "and". One was "and can't remember the last time she had some" and the other two were something along the lines of "and drinks a lot". The first two had a fairly long history, but the third had a shorter history than some of my other dwarves. I'd also like to note while searching some of the actual dwarves didn't mention food/drink/sleep when I was looking through the thoughts (seemed like mainly fishers and hunters). 21:43 CT 8/16/12 -[[User:bgreen|bgreen]]

-------Do they have strange moods? technically they should but i'm not sure
- They do indeed get strange moods, had to let a vampire out of its enclosure for one

-Just found another possible way to identify vampires. A dwarf in my fortress that I'm pretty sure is a vampire is displaying a completely different name ingame from what is being displayed for him in the current Dwarf Therapist. Not sure if someone else more experienced wants to test this and/or update the page, this is my first contribution here. [[User:Tombozo|Tombozo]] 03:14, 23 February 2012 (UTC)

-Thats probably another iteration of the name bug
[[User:Headjack|Headjack]] 20:02, 23 February 2012 (UTC)

-Dwarf Therapist identification can also lead to false positives
:- Nice try, vampire. --[[User:IC Pandemonium|IC Pandemonium]] 06:26, 13 April 2012 (UTC)

Somebody on Reddit said that zombies won't attack vampires in your fortress. Can anyone confirm/deny this? [[User:FatherLatour|FatherLatour]] 00:36, 24 February 2012 (UTC)

-I don't know, I am now 3 for 3 vampires positively identified in my fortress, none of whom have names that match the name that Dwarf Therapist shows for them. I wouldn't doubt that this is related to the nickname bug, but it wouldn't surprise me if this (at least the DF part) were intentional behavior. It makes sense - a vampire who lived in 10-20 forts in the past, changes names every time they move. It is possible that the name Therapist shows is their original name, and the name shown ingame is a new alias; this could be the source of the nickname bug - the player can't give the vampire a new name, because the vampire has already given himself one. [[User:Tombozo|Tombozo]] 01:58, 26 February 2012 (UTC)

-I have a new immigrant that seems suspicious. Every single thing in her wound menu is inhibited or broken. I'm able to nickname her but she doesn't show up on Dwarf Therapist. I'm going to keep an eye on her... Has anyone seen anything like this?
:I've had several immigrants like this, so far they've turned out to be 'normal' and, if you save and reload, DT discovers them. My current theory, based on a large number of missing ears, is elven raiders jealous of dwarven ears.

-This page doesn't specify whether vampire dwarves will specifically target living dwarves or if a vampire will feed on another vampire. Has anyone ever observed this?
:Vampires only feed on sleeping creatures. Vampires never sleep. Therefore, Vampire never feed on vampires. --[[User:Timrem|Timrem]] 19:31, 29 February 2012 (UTC)
::Vampires will rest if wounded. I'm pretty sure I've seen vampires feed on resting dwarves, not just sleeping. Could be worth testing at least. -- [[User:Qazmlpok|Qazmlpok]] 13:41, 1 March 2012 (UTC)

I can confirm that vampires and undead will not attack each other in fortress mode. During an undead siege I sent my vampire pikeman outside and closed the bridge. Both parties ignored the other, however the undead did fight back after giving an explicit attack order. You could use a single vampire to fight off an undead horde if your fort is sealed, but issuing attack orders to 80+ undead is a pain, and if you seal off your fort it's simply more fun to use magma. It should be possible to use this fact to quickly flush out a vampire. Build a contained area next to a critical hallway that every dwarf will pass through. Use fortifications to allow viewing the area while preventing (most) crossbowdwarves from shooting in, and a bridge so it can be turned off. Place an undead creature in the area and lower the bridge. As each dwarf passes by the undead, they should panic and ran away - unless they are a vampire. I imagine that this would quickly filter out any vampires in your fort, but I haven't tested any of it. -- [[User:Qazmlpok|Qazmlpok]] 13:41, 1 March 2012 (UTC)

- Mass kill designation might help a bit with that. -- [[User:Frogwarrior|Frogwarrior]] 15:07, 3 March 2012 (UTC)

Do vampires produce ghosts if improperly memorialized? Considering converting my fortress into vampires with a tainted well. --[[User:Introprospector|Introprospector]] 01:17, 5 March 2012 (UTC)
:Yes, they do. -- [[User:Qazmlpok|Qazmlpok]] 03:05, 5 March 2012 (UTC)

<strike>Page also doesn't say if Vampires will feed off their own rellies, and thus make themselves unhappy. I'll test this to find out, if nobody knows. (I have one who had a son in the fortress - I'm fairly sure this vampire immigrated, too; so either he came with a wife and kid or that happened in the fort. Will also find out if child is a vamp.)</strike> Apparently missdiagnosed vampire. He got hungry. No idea who it is, now. Sorry! --[[User:Zatnik|Zatnik]] 16:38, 5 March 2012 (UTC)

Instead of enforcing Justice normally, once I determine who the vampire is I've just been locking them up in a room by drafting them and stationing them in a room, then forbidding the door. Twice now I've had them get out and discovered the formerly locked door to be "Passable", but not pet passable. I'm quite certain I never unforbade it myself, doubly so since I would have made it pet passable as well. Do vampires have a way to pick locks, or could there be some other force opening the doors? This is in the middle of my fort so a hidden gremlin/thief should be impossible. -- [[User:Qazmlpok|Qazmlpok]] 22:55, 5 March 2012 (UTC)

Very likely vampire's "hair is dark brown with flecks of grey" in my most recent fort (from v0.34.6) am adding a verify tag to the "white hair" section of identification... have a nasty feeling that the vamps have developed hair colouring. [[User:Earthfiredrake|Earthfiredrake]] 03:10, 31 March 2012 (UTC)

Just a quick note about the "He has the appearance of someone (x) years old and is among the first of his kind" line. I don't know firsthand how useful this is for vampire ID in general, but in a world with a very short history, any dwarf older than the world will have this line for their age. So, for example, I've got a fortress in year 8 of its world, so any dwarf older than 8 years old has this. This caused me to briefly worry that I had an all-vamp fort before I figured it out. 19:00 9 April 2012 (UTC)

== Melancholy ==
To get rid of the 5 vampires I had locked up, I sent them to kill a forgotten beast duster. Unfortunately one survived despite the syndrome and infection, but with the severe wounds and his friends dying and rotting in front of him, he went insane. Somehow he got cured of the infection and appears to be in perfect health now. As he doesn't need food or drink to survive he isn't going to die on his own. Supposedly melancholic dwarves will jump off cliffs or into magma, but he doesn't seem to be even trying to do that. Is there anything I can do to get rid of him? -- [[User:Qazmlpok|Qazmlpok]] 17:37, 4 March 2012 (UTC)

Mmh, they gravitate to meeting areas, trap him somewhere and add magma, or just trap him in a cavern. [[User:Headjack|Headjack]] 00:30, 5 March 2012 (UTC)

== Atom Smashing Vamps Is Dangerous ==

Vampire Ghosts?
If you thought you had it bad before, there have been reports that vampire ghosts are un-slabbable; and their ghosts are still thirsty...

This issue is supposedly fixed according to the [http://www.bay12games.com/dwarves/mantisbt/changelog_page.php?version_id=32 34.05 change log]. Testing is still required to see if vampire ghosts can be atom-smashed with impunity now (though the tearing off of limbs would probably still be a detriment).--[[User:Tenyn42|Tenyn42]] 20:42, 15 March 2012 (UTC)

-I smashed a vampire, they later popped back up again as a restless spirit (I'll need to check the legends to see just how troubled their life was). I'm using the vanilla edition, and once people noticed the ghost they were classed as 'deceased' and I could engrave a slab.

== First vamp notes ==

I just got my first vamp (I think he's the first one...) and he was identified completely by accident.
All of a sudden I got a message that "Stodir Keskalosir, Dwarf Butcher vampire cancels..." Although I'd not noticed it before, he does appear by that name and title in the unit listings now, and he also has his night creature tile. He has not attacked anyone yet, my fort has 0 dead dorfs and 0 missing ones. I do have Dwarf Therapist and DFHack, so one of those may explain why he was auto-revealed. His name does match the one shown in Therapist, notably. I did discover a method to flush out vamps, though. His details indicate that he is 98 years old, born in the year 7. Its currently year 252. So he's lying about almost a hundred and fifty years, roughly an entire normal dorf's lifespan. If someone can verify it, let's add "has a mismatched birth year and age combination" to the methods of catching one. In other news, I'm planning a vampire work pit: A small pit, with a level above and a level below. Raw materials are dumped into the top, the vamp(s) inside process them, then dump them back down the other side for retrieval. --[[User:Waladil|Waladil]] 21:17, 10 March 2012 (UTC)
: My vampire details read: "He is thirty-three years old born on the 4th of Opal in the year 218" and the current date is 6th Galena 252. The numbers match so age it's not a definitive indicator. --[[User:Petar Petrov|Petar Petrov]] 18:29, 18 December 2012 (UTC)

== Unconfirmed ==

Think this is another instance of name bug. I set one of my vampires up in a labyrinth (he can open goblin cages himself without a lever, woot!) He has enough kills to warrant a longer name, at least according to therapist, but he still shows his original short name. Presumably this would be an additional way to ID vamps if confirmed.

== Vampire Diplomat ==

I just got a human law-giver vampire diplomat in my fortress. He just arrived so I don't know if he'll start anything funky, but I was wondering if anyone else had experience with this? Anything I've got to watch for? And if so, it may be worthwhile to add the possibility to this page. [[User:Angry B8|Angry B8]] 15:56, 16 March 2012 (UTC)

-I've just had the same experience - due to some past grievances with their kind, I'm going to try to dispose of them in a manner which probably won't be linked back to me, and I'll post the results up. (21 March 2012)
---Turns out the humans were remarkably ungrateful about the fact that I had delivered them from their vampire overlord, so they besieged me. He didn't go down without a fight - I released several goblins into his room, and he shoved his human-bone jewellery right through their skulls before going down after an armed swordsman struck him down. Conclusion from all of this, vampire diplomats exist and are still treated as respected members of their own civilisation.

- One of my two known vamps somehow became Baron so he's locked into his quarters with a couple wall grates and levers. Suddenly this Serpent Man vampire law giver diplomat shows up! I had to open the Baron's enclosure up and they are now negotiating. I'm quite excited to see what the result will be.

== Zero Variation ==
Just adding a little note here, in case anybody else is curious about the same things as I am: I had a look through a lot of the vampires in my world.sav, and there was no variation between any of the vampire curses. Every vampire curse was identical to the example curse: strength, agility, toughness+200, standard tag changes, nothing else. --[[User:Vasiln|Vasiln]] 22:56, 31 March 2012 (UTC)

== Blood vision ==

I'm playing an adventurer vamp, and I've been getting red " marks where some enemies beyond my normal sight lines. Not all enemies get red " marks, so I think it's the ones who are bleeding. Can anyone verify or provide greater info? It's largely speculation now, so I don't wanna add it to the article. --[[User:Waladil|Waladil]] 22:56, 22 April 2012 (UTC)
:They're probably [[goblin]]s, which have [GLOWTILE:'"'] and [GLOWCOLOR:4:0:1]. Kobolds are the same way, except their eyes are yellow. --[[User:Quietust|Quietust]] 23:12, 22 April 2012 (UTC)
::That probably explains it, then. Considering it hasn't happened since then, and since some of the enemies were also not wounded. Thanks. --[[User:Waladil|Waladil]] 22:04, 23 April 2012 (UTC)

== Breathless ==

Playing as a vampire adventurer, I'm noticing a few things that the article doesn't mention. For one, my vamp doesn't need to breathe. At all. He can go as deep underwater as needed and never starts to drown. Would this mean they're good candidates for killing toxin-breathing creatures? Also, whenever I swam a long time as a non-vamp, I'd inevitably freeze to death. As a vamp (After I pissed off the only major civ on a continent...) I swam to another continent, swimming for a full day, roughly from sunrise to sunset. He's also never been tired, even in during one of his several massacres. So I looked up the raws: NOEXERT: NOPAIN: NOBREATHE: NOSTUN: NONAUSEA: NO_DIZZINESS: NO_FEVERS: PARALYZEIMMUNE: NO_EAT: NO_DRINK: NO_SLEEP: NO_PHYS_ATT_GAIN: NO_PHYS_ATT_RUST: START: 0]
So they cannot get tired, cannot feel pain, don't breathe (As I discovered), can't be stunned, made nauseous, feel dizzy, get fevers, be paralyzed... so they're pretty much perfect candidates for fighting random Forgotten Beasts that emit those gases. Of course, that NO_PHYS_ATT_GAIN is pretty annoying. <mods it out>. Much better. --[[User:Waladil|Waladil]] 22:18, 23 April 2012 (UTC)

== How to seal in a vampire ==

I'm pretty sure I got a positive - huge background list (been part of +50 fortresses) - his desc say's he's thirsty... and it has been a while since a corpse has been found drained of blood - plus the Dwarf Therapist name check also listed the joker under a different name

I'm thinking drafting, then putting him in a room and sealing him behind a stone floodgate? It shouldn't be possible for him to escape that, right?
[[User:Webkilla|webkillal]] - may 6th 2012
:These sorts of things are better placed on the forums. But yes, that would work. Make him an office and make him your manager and bookkeeper, and he'll be useful too. A floodgate would require someone be alive to pull it, so I would drop a pick in there too, so he can dig himself out if he's the last man standing.

==Vampire vs. The Volcano==

I just dropped a vampire into a volcano. He sank all the way down to the Magma Sea, discovered adamantine, and sat around for awhile on the bottom before finally dying.

== Vampire Nobles ==

A vampire was elected Mayor in my fortress. (Maybe it's all the connections he has built up in his 150 years of life xD) Anyway, it told me that he was a vampire when this happened. However, the tag disappeared over time. --[[User:Dissimulation|Dissimulation]] 00:18, 7 June 2012 (UTC)

:I can one up you there, apparently my civilization has a Vampire Queen. Now I don't know if I'm supposed to kill my vampire when I find it, or try to make it the ruler of my fortress. Apparently it's not all that [http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?PHPSESSID=7809b08666685a26eefa66b619eeecc7&topic=101368.15 uncommon], maybe someone should write a blurb about it. --[[User:Zemaniac|Zemaniac]] 20:23, 17 August 2012 (UTC)

== tired vampire ==

i have a tired pump operator / soldier vampire, so i'll put a verify tag on 'never get tired' - maybe this is true only for adventure mode?
[[User:Kartofius al andalus|Kartofius al andalus]] 05:39, 23 June 2012 (UTC)

==Took Joy in Slaughter==

Do dwarves get the "took joy in slaughter lately" thought when they bite someone as vampire? Because if so, and the vampire isn't in the military, identification should just be a matter of trawling through the thoughts of all the dwarves as soon as the body is found. --[[User:Stinhad Limarezum|Stinhad Limarezum]] 13:15, 24 June 2012 (UTC)
: After I discovered a dead Lye Maker in the middle of a hallway I noticed a Marksdwarf, who had seen no combat whatsoever, with the Joy In Slaughter thought despite no recorded kills. Later confirmed that this was my vampire. I'm going to say this is indeed another indicator. -- [[Special:Contributions/209.6.50.208|209.6.50.208]] 22:37, 30 June 2012 (UTC)

== Why vampire alcohol dependant bug might not be fixed. ==

http://www.altergamer.com/dwarf-fortress-interview/
http://www.bay12games.com/media/df_talk_18_transcript.html

Toady thinks that vampires slowing down is due to them not drinking enough ''blood'', and I can't find any case of Toady acknowledging the alcohol dependant bug.

Please enlighten me if this isn't the situation. --[[User:UristDaVinci|UristDaVinci]] 06:15, 9 July 2012 (UTC)
:Someone on the forums linked me to this comment http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=107933.msg3216725#msg3216725 so it seems that it's more of a low priority bug

== Vampires in Starting Party ==
Although the article says otherwise, It seems one of my starting dwarves, my expedition leader is the vampire.. can anyone confirm this being possible or did I get a false positive from therapist?

EDIT However once I check again it seems I was right after all - She has 18 different past memberships in different groups, "She is the first of her kind" and "looks as if she is 142 years old" (older then the world itself which is 126.)
Does this mean vampires can be in the starting party now?

Age is not a problem, in my 50 year old world many dwarves come as if they are 70~100 years old, none of them is a vampire (if therapist is right). BUT I want one! -- lcy03406

Due to this post and the Vampire diplomat post I added a verify tag for vampires as diplomats, starter dwarves, ect. --[[User:Brichess|Brichess]] 14:17, 27 July 2012 (UTC)
:Getting a vampire in your starting party is 100% impossible because those dwarves are created from scratch - in all likelihood, lcy03406's original expedition leader died and was replaced by a migrant. --[[User:Quietust|Quietust]] 14:40, 27 July 2012 (UTC)

== Vampires feed on hunt kills? ==

I had a vampire that hunted and killed an animal then stood over the corpse, presumably due to the vampire feeding on it, while it stood there I could see its real name, so can vampires feed from hunt kills? --[[User:Brichess|Brichess]] 14:14, 27 July 2012 (UTC)

:Likely the hunter just injured the target enough to have them fall unconscious, then stood over and drank the now "sleeping" creature dry. (Hmm, the page as it reads now gives the impression that vampires only drink from actually-sleeping creatures. I suspect that the only requirement is for the creature to be unconscious for any reason, including injury/pain. Certainly the vampire-adventurer section seems to confirm that injured/unconscious creatures are drinkable.) [[User:Urist McDorf|Urist McDorf]] 02:47, 5 September 2012 (UTC)

== Nickname/Deity Check ==
Should probably note that the deity relationship isn't necessarily a "cursed the dwarf vampire 'nickname'" one. While checking out new migrants, I initially missed one vamp by skimming just the "cursed" lines. It turns out that "In 177, Ino ''received the worship of'' the dwarf vampire 'ImAVampire' Elderstars". No indication of what deity first cursed the poor sap. [[User:Urist McDorf|Urist McDorf]] 02:30, 5 September 2012 (UTC)

==Spreading Vampirism Intentionally==
I've tried to spread the vampiric curse with tainted water-supply, but I've never been able to pull it off correctly. Can anyone confirm that they've been able to create more vampires in this manner? – [[template:unsigned|unsigned]] comment by [[User:131.230.193.146|131.230.193.146]]
:I believe that some vampire blood needs to make its way into the water, although I can't say I've tried. Loo{{k|k}}ing at the water should display {{DFtext|Stagnant water|1:1}} if there is vampire blood present. --{{User:Lethosor/sig}} 22:38, 28 February 2013 (UTC)

==Proximity trigger? ==
By observing my vampire and moving her around with 'station' orders (and sacrificing my fortress (okay, I had a backup)) I have come to the conclusion that proximity to a sleeping dwarf, maybe 10 tiles, either increases the chance of a suck job or even triggers one. --[[User:Old Ancient|Old Ancient]] ([[User talk:Old Ancient|talk]]) 17:33, 27 April 2013 (UTC)

v0.34 Talk:Melt item

2012-08-31T03:22:17Z

Abdulijubjub:

These numbers are wildly inaccurate - I just saw an iron breastplate for 150, making that an item value of 15 and a per-bar cost of 17; weapons cost significantly more than indicated. Can I get confirmation on those? [[User:The Real Marauder|The Real Marauder]] 17:09, 27 March 2012 (UTC)
:It looks like the table is mostly unchanged since it was created for 40d, so it's quite possible the data is inaccurate. As long as you've taken quality into account as well as item and material (and trade agreements, if in fortress mode), whatever numbers you see can be used to update the table. Happy editing! --[[User:Timrem|Timrem]] 18:08, 27 March 2012 (UTC)

I experimented with Giant Axe Blades: It costs 1 bar of metal to make, melting gives me 1.5 bars back. This is a 150% return, and a potentially endless source of metal. (34.07) Bug? --[[User:SGdYy409Ls|SGdYy409Ls]] 22:46, 15 April 2012 (UTC)

:All return rates appear to have tripled compared to whats on the page right now, with an additional doubleing for high/low boots and gauntlets. The highest are leggings (150%), battle axes (120%), and all trap compents (discs 120%, the rest 150%). This puts multi bar items like breastplates back up to the 90% return they were at before their creation started respecting material size, but I have no idea if the two are related. Done on 34.06. --[[User:Gestahl|Gestahl]] 20:10, 16 May 2012 (UTC)

^That's very interesting, about the tripling returns. I would just like to add for reference, that a normal bar itself has a base value of 5. Also, merchants like to bring decorated and well-made goods, to take more of your money...

I've located the actual code for determining melt yields, and here's what I found:
* Furniture (door, floodgate, chair, cage, barrel, table, coffin, statue, chest, bin, armor stand, weapon rack, cabinet, anvil, siege engine parts, pipe section, hatch cover, grate, traction bench, and slab) yields 1 bar, compared to needing 3 to construct. This is as before.
* Chains, instruments, buckets, and animal traps also yield 1 bar, which is exactly how much you need to make them. For buckets, this seems to have been the case for a very long time (dates back to 23a), but the others used to only yield 0.5 bars.
* Ballista arrows, ballista arrowheads, mechanisms, splints, and crutches yield 0.5 bars. Effectively the same as 23a.
* Flasks, goblets, toys, figurines, and scepters yield 0.2 bars. Same as 23a.
* Amulets, crowns, rings, earrings, and bracelets yield 0.1 bars. Same as 23a.
* Ammo yields 0.1 bars per 10 stack size, rounded down, plus 0.1. Same as 23a.
* Coins yield 0.1 bars per 50 stack size, rounded down, plus 0.1. Same as 23a, and notable because it takes 1 bar to mint them and you get 1.1 bars in return.
* Weapons, armor, shoes, shields, helms, gloves, pants, tools, and trap components yield 3/10 times the item's MATERIAL_SIZE, which is effectively 90% returns. For gloves and shoes, however, this works out to '''180%''' returns, which is probably wrong.
--[[User:Quietust|Quietust]] 15:45, 15 June 2012 (UTC)

Furthermore, I've discovered that the "1/10 material size" melting yield '''has NEVER EVER BEEN TRUE''' - from version 0.23.130.23a all the way to 0.34.05, melting yields for weapons, trap components, and armor have been '''fixed''' at various values depending on the item type. It wasn't until 0.34.06 that Toady actually made them respect MATERIAL_SIZE and return 0.3 bars per unit. --[[User:Quietust|Quietust]] 14:11, 16 June 2012 (UTC)

It's worth noting that spoilerite items return exactly the stated values in wafers, but cost four times as much. No infinite spoilerite for us, I guess.
Abdulijubjub 03:22, 31 August 2012 (UTC)