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== Attending Parties ==
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If you have a [[meeting hall]] designated from a [[table]] ([[dining room]]), a [[cage]] ("[[zoo]]"), a [[well]], or a [[statue]] ([[Sculpture garden]]), dwarves will often throw parties there and many of your precious productive workers will now display the status '''Attending Party.''' This has benefits, in that dwarves will get happy thoughts from admiring fine or finely placed statues, cages and the animals in the cages, as well as from making [[friend]]s and talking to them. They will also slowly develop social skills. However, parties may slow down your fortress's work as your dwarves idly hang-out, sometimes for more than a [[season]].
  
If you have a [[Meeting hall]] designated from a table (a [[dining room]]), a cage ([[zoo]]), a well ([[Meeting hall]]), or a [[statue]] ([[Sculpture garden]]), dwarves will often throw parties there and many of your previously productive workers will now display the status "Attending Party." This has benefits, in that dwarves will get happy thoughts from admiring fine or finely placed [[statues]], [[cage]]s, etc. but it will slow down your fortress' work as they idly hang-out, sometimes for more than a [[season]].
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Oddly, dwarves usually cancel party attendance to get a drink or some food. Despite their numerous desperate attempts they obviously know next to nothing about how to roll in style. Dwarves will also go [[On break|On Break]] from a party, even if that means hanging out in the same meeting hall, talking to the same people. Partying is serious work for dwarves.
  
Dwarves attending a party will sometimes make friends with each other. As yet there is no way of viewing these friendships, but dwarves get happy thoughts from making a new friend and talking to an existing friend. An unhappy thought is produced on the death of a friend, and a severe unhappy thougt is produced if the friend's corpse is not buried quickly and rots.
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Parties can be canceled by "free"ing the room where they take place via {{k|q}} {{k|f}}. Even if you immediately recreate the room, the party goers will disperse - canceling the meeting hall status is not enough.
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Each eligible room can have its own party going. With multiple overlapping rooms(like several tables in a dining room set to the same area), each can have its own party. If you free the room a particular party started in, the dwarves attending that party will stop partying, but those partying from other rooms (even in the same space) will keep going. If you're going to overlap rooms that can have parties, it may be best to make each room-designated construction from a different material, so you can free the correct party to get an important dwarf to go back to work.
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==Party Reduction & Prevention==
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Less-social dwarves seem to be less likely to throw parties, and less likely to make friends to invite them. Less-happy dwarves also seem to be less likely to throw parties. Thus, antisocial and dour dwarves can be assigned important [[labor]]s without as much risk of stopping work to party.
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Note that dwarves don't throw parties at meeting halls designated from [[zone]]s. If all your meeting halls are of this type, your dwarves won't party.
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Latest revision as of 14:34, 13 October 2021

This article is about an older version of DF.

If you have a meeting hall designated from a table (dining room), a cage ("zoo"), a well, or a statue (Sculpture garden), dwarves will often throw parties there and many of your precious productive workers will now display the status Attending Party. This has benefits, in that dwarves will get happy thoughts from admiring fine or finely placed statues, cages and the animals in the cages, as well as from making friends and talking to them. They will also slowly develop social skills. However, parties may slow down your fortress's work as your dwarves idly hang-out, sometimes for more than a season.

Oddly, dwarves usually cancel party attendance to get a drink or some food. Despite their numerous desperate attempts they obviously know next to nothing about how to roll in style. Dwarves will also go On Break from a party, even if that means hanging out in the same meeting hall, talking to the same people. Partying is serious work for dwarves.

Parties can be canceled by "free"ing the room where they take place via q f. Even if you immediately recreate the room, the party goers will disperse - canceling the meeting hall status is not enough.

Each eligible room can have its own party going. With multiple overlapping rooms(like several tables in a dining room set to the same area), each can have its own party. If you free the room a particular party started in, the dwarves attending that party will stop partying, but those partying from other rooms (even in the same space) will keep going. If you're going to overlap rooms that can have parties, it may be best to make each room-designated construction from a different material, so you can free the correct party to get an important dwarf to go back to work.

Party Reduction & Prevention[edit]

Attend party.png

Less-social dwarves seem to be less likely to throw parties, and less likely to make friends to invite them. Less-happy dwarves also seem to be less likely to throw parties. Thus, antisocial and dour dwarves can be assigned important labors without as much risk of stopping work to party.

Note that dwarves don't throw parties at meeting halls designated from zones. If all your meeting halls are of this type, your dwarves won't party.