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==Damage Control== | ==Damage Control== | ||
It is possible to survive a tantrum spiral, but it's going to take some serious damage control. | It is possible to survive a tantrum spiral, but it's going to take some serious damage control. | ||
− | *Prioritize making [[alcohol]], [[coffin]]s, and [[food]] over everything else. Stop any | + | *Prioritize making [[alcohol]], [[coffin]]s, and [[food]] over everything else. Stop any unencessary work. |
*Bury all that die, burial lessens the unhappiness of death, and prevents miasma. | *Bury all that die, burial lessens the unhappiness of death, and prevents miasma. | ||
*Handle the most unhappy dwarves with special care. Giving them additional rooms and furniture could slow down their happiness decrease. Relieve them from work and let them meet their friends, pets and relatives if they have any. Expedition leader/Mayor/Baron etc. could sometimes give them consolations, or be yelled at, so make him available for meetings. If situation around a certain dwarf seems unresolvable, try to isolate him while you can, preferably with walls. | *Handle the most unhappy dwarves with special care. Giving them additional rooms and furniture could slow down their happiness decrease. Relieve them from work and let them meet their friends, pets and relatives if they have any. Expedition leader/Mayor/Baron etc. could sometimes give them consolations, or be yelled at, so make him available for meetings. If situation around a certain dwarf seems unresolvable, try to isolate him while you can, preferably with walls. | ||
*Move military inside to kill anyone that berserks. You'll die if an ambush hits you during the spiral anyway. | *Move military inside to kill anyone that berserks. You'll die if an ambush hits you during the spiral anyway. | ||
− | *Create Jails by placing rope or chains in small rooms. Under Build (b) Restraint (v), then select the restraint using (q) and select Use for Justice (j), much like you would when placing a bed and making a bedroom. This will place people | + | *Create Jails by placing rope or chains in small rooms. Under Build (b) Restraint (v), then select the restraint using (q) and select Use for Justice (j), much like you would when placing a bed and making a bedroom. This will place people miss behaving or throwing tantrums in jail. Then if they do go berserk, they will be restrained away from everyone else till they calm down. When a fortress starts Tantrum spiraling make as many Jails as needed. |
− | *Also, if, by a stroke of luck, some already-happy migrants come, then they will add to population and you will now have | + | *Also, if, by a stroke of luck, some already-happy migrants come, then they will add to population and you will now have dwarfs who will do work without being interrupted by the need to destroy everything. |
*[[Door]] abuse inside your fort can easily stop interaction between dwarves and therefore can lessen the impact of a tantrum spiral. You will need ''a lot'' of doors though, a lot of micromanagement, and quite a bit of planning before the tantrum spiral. | *[[Door]] abuse inside your fort can easily stop interaction between dwarves and therefore can lessen the impact of a tantrum spiral. You will need ''a lot'' of doors though, a lot of micromanagement, and quite a bit of planning before the tantrum spiral. | ||