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It would seem that the dwarves don't take barracks vs dormitory as a hard rule.  I had only a barracks and civilian dwarves used it, but when I created a dormitory they started using that preferentially. I would presume that military dwarves would operate in the reverse - prefer barracks but use dormitory if no barracks space available. --[[User:Krenn|Krenn]] 01:35, 11 April 2010 (UTC)
 
It would seem that the dwarves don't take barracks vs dormitory as a hard rule.  I had only a barracks and civilian dwarves used it, but when I created a dormitory they started using that preferentially. I would presume that military dwarves would operate in the reverse - prefer barracks but use dormitory if no barracks space available. --[[User:Krenn|Krenn]] 01:35, 11 April 2010 (UTC)
 
:Furthermore, the barracks has military-specific options that the dorm just plain doesn't. Squads get their barracks assigned to them, so they really ''can't'' use a dorm. --[[User:Eagle0600|Eagle0600]] 06:54, 11 April 2010 (UTC)
 
:Furthermore, the barracks has military-specific options that the dorm just plain doesn't. Squads get their barracks assigned to them, so they really ''can't'' use a dorm. --[[User:Eagle0600|Eagle0600]] 06:54, 11 April 2010 (UTC)
 
::First fortress I started in 31.01, I set up a dormitory for my little bearded laborers.  They used the beds there just fine.  Later, I turned it into a barracks.  The civvies were still perfectly fine with sleeping in those beds.  Finally, I set up a hospital zone.  It didn't matter whether I set the sleeping zone to "Dormitory" or "Barracks", ''everyone'' slept in the hospital beds.  Weirdos...  --[[User:Kagus|Kagus]] 07:24, 17 April 2010 (UTC)
 
:::Did you test with multiple zones? When I have a hospital zone and a dormitory (no individual bedrooms), the dwarves will ONLY sleep in the dormitory, provided there are enough beds and they are not wounded. --[[User:Briess|Briess]] 07:27, 17 April 2010 (UTC)
 
 
::::Yeah, the hospital zone was separate from the barracks/dormitory area.  Regardless of what I set the intended sleeping area to (barracks or dorm), dwarves would sleep in unused hospital beds.  The beds in the hospital weren't assigned as rooms, they were just sitting inside the hospital zone.  It should be noted that the hospital was, in general, a shorter walk for most dwarves to get to.  --[[User:Kagus|Kagus]] 07:38, 18 April 2010 (UTC)
 
:::::Supposedly dwarves will chose to sleep in the hospital if it is more convienient than their other sleeping arrangements. From this I would assume that if the hospital were further away the dwarves would choose to sleep in the dormitory. Perhaps Briess was experiencing the hospital being further away from where his dwarves were working and so they chose to sleep in the dormitory for convienience. If people are concerned with where their dwarves sleep, the new burrow commands seem very interesting. --[[User:Corrundum|Corrundum]] 11:43, 17 April 2010 (UTC)
 
 
::::: The bed-ownership bug was fixed, though dwarves without a bed may still sneak into owned beds. Now dwarves who own a bed won't use freely available beds even if they're falling asleep before they can get home; they sleep on the ground. [[User:Uzu Bash|Uzu Bash]] 00:12, 20 October 2010 (UTC)
 
::::: Correction; they ''do'' stop at dormitories when they're tired far from home. They just miss the beds, unless they're packed tightly together, then get grumpy about sleeping on the ground.[[User:Uzu Bash|Uzu Bash]] 01:59, 20 October 2010 (UTC)
 
This still seems bugged. I created a new dorm far from my barracks and caught two on-duty dwarfs running off to it to sleep on the floor. Ignoring their super awesome barracks or super awesome bedroom, or super awesome hospital.--[[User:Crossmr|Crossmr]] 13:47, 16 May 2011 (UTC)
 

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