Jump to: navigation, search A dining room is a room designated from a table. The assigned room may be either assigned to a specific dwarf or designated as a dining hall. A valuable communal dining hall is an excellent way to reduce stress. Dwarves can still eat at a table and chair without designating it or the room they are in as a dining room, however. It is also possible to further designate a dining hall as a meeting hall, allowing parties. Dwarves that are on break or jobless will also meet here and become further acquainted. In order to construct a dining hall, first build a table, then use the q menu to designate the table as a room. Some players place food stockpiles nearby in hopes that this will lessen the time it takes dwarves to grab a bite to eat. Once a dining hall has been designated, you may assign the room to a specific dwarf or further designate it as a meeting hall using the q menu. Dining halls assigned as meeting halls will attract idle dwarves and serve as a party hub, which may or may not be useful, depending on individual play style.
An example dining room is shown below. It includes: a dining hall (east), kitchen (north), storage area (west), fishery, butcher's workshop, and tanner's workshop (south). A good general rule of thumb is to have enough tables and chairs to serve one fifth (1/5) of your fortress population at any given time. Plan ahead for immigrants. More never hurts, but may never be necessary. While it might be common sense to put a chair on either side of a table, or even 4 chairs around a single table, in DF one table is only enough for one dwarf. While a dining room of any size is designated from a single table, dwarves will receive negative thoughts from eating at a dining room (or anywhere else) without both a chair and orthogonally adjacent table to themselves. To prevent this, build multiple tables and add a chair or throne next to each table, and make sure any chair will not be paired with the wrong table, and vice versa. Since the room quality is determined solely by the total value of all items and furniture, it is possible to make a legendary room simply by having a great many more chairs and tables than you actually need, which will give your mason something to do and give your fort room to grow in the future.
Artifacts that can be used in animal and weapon traps, like mechanisms, will add immensely to room value and impress any dwarf that looks at them, even if they are useless where they are placed. Artifacts you can build are a huge boon for this reason. The total value of a dining room will affect how happy dwarves get about eating there. Because dining rooms tend to be large and have lots of potentially valuable furniture, it is fairly simple to get incredibly valuable dining rooms that help offset the depression of a dwarf's best friend being torn apart by goblins. Building furniture from valuable materials such as flux, obsidian, or various metals helps. Decorating the walls and floors is also an easy way to make a dining hall more valuable. Try to use an experienced engraver for this important task to maximize room value. Dwarves with a table or chair in their quarters may opt to eat their meals there instead of using your magnificent dining hall (forgoing the positive thought and possibly generating negative thoughts as well).
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So, during the 3 month period that I was living at Panera and the floors were being installed, I spent a lot of time searching thrift stores and Craigslist for something better. So, Jesse hauled it home and I set it up in that little extra room back in the bedroom. Because although it makes zero sense, I emptied out that room and have been using it as my project room lately. I've painted tons of furniture with chalk paint (including my favorite dresser), but I've always made my own with plaster of paris (recipe found here in tip #6). I also tried spray painting the original hardware with oil rubbed bronze like I used here, and it just made it look kinda bulky and outdated. Insert tears and delirious laughter. I used one little jar of the white Americana Chalk Paint named 'Everlasting'. (*Update: You can also find it online at Home Depot here.) The best part about this stuff is that you don't have to prime or strip the furniture or even sand it. You can paint over anything and it will adhere like glue.
Obviously, I took a really weird route that involved stripping a dresser and painting it several times. But, let me repeat: All you have to do with this stuff is paint it straight on any piece of furniture, even if it has a glossy topcoat. For the hardware, I decided to mirror our kitchen cabinet hardware, and it totally kinda tied everything together in the main living area. And also, since the dresser was really old and basically infused with the smell of 1960's cigarettes, I vacuumed out the drawers, and then painted the interiors and exteriors of each drawers with some Kilz primer (to trap the smoke smell) and then I used our leftover wall paint to coat the drawers. (You may remember when I did this a couple years ago with green paint.) It ended up being kinda cute....white on the outside with a little pop of grayish off white on the inside. And although the jumbotron is still back in the bedroom (where we've been living), I ventured out into the living room for the first time since February, set up the tiny TV, and slothed all day with a newly released season of a very addictive Netflix show.