Comfort 0% no matter what

[Thundersnapper]

Replace all my "earth" belove my house underground with brick walls and now i can't get my totems to any comfort, that means no one gets to sleep or eat and that will make my dwarf fight to thier death. Please put that to "!must fix" til next patch.

[Alexander]

Yea same problem here had perfect wooden walls and bed and comfort items and still 0% that totem is an ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥.

[geistXIII]

Are you guys sure you don't have any leaks? Back, side, top and floor are completly closed? And at least one door or hatch to enter?

[Thulen]

You can see where it complains , big sparkle thing appear where theres a hole or missing something.

[SeVeRaNCe]

ive got 81% comfort on both of my totems... i have a massive stone house though

[SeVeRaNCe]

i was always under 50% with wood house usualy at like 30

[Crash]

Post a screen shot of your shelter and maybe we can spot what is wrong... assuming it is not a bug.

[Ashiver]

I can't seem to figure comfort out at all. It's around 43% for me now, and I have placed so many objects, replaced backwalls and floors with stucco, and it never seems to go up. In fact I removed a simple bed and it went up 1%, I replaced it with the comfort 12 king's bed and comfort went back DOWN 1%.

[Thundersnapper]

what key for screenshot?

[geistXIII]

F12

[^4Desmond]

Originally posted by Ashiver:

I can't seem to figure comfort out at all. It's around 43% for me now, and I have placed so many objects, replaced backwalls and floors with stucco, and it never seems to go up. In fact I removed a simple bed and it went up 1%, I replaced it with the comfort 12 king's bed and comfort went back DOWN 1%.

same problem. It must be bug.

[Stromko]

Originally posted by Ashiver:

I can't seem to figure comfort out at all. It's around 43% for me now, and I have placed so many objects, replaced backwalls and floors with stucco, and it never seems to go up. In fact I removed a simple bed and it went up 1%, I replaced it with the comfort 12 king's bed and comfort went back DOWN 1%.

The game doesn't give you much hint of this, but wall thickness and durability make a huge impact. My underground dwarf-hold hovered around 50 - 60%, despite placing all sorts of luxury items. Then I unlocked stone walls, and placed those all around the outside. The comfort level shot right up. Then I added a second layer of stone walls up top of the fortress, for double thickness. 87%.

I then tried placing double stone walls around the lower sides and bottom of my fortress... pretty much no effect. One theory is maybe cares how much thick walls there are between you and the 'outside', and it's less concerned with walls between you and the underworld.

Another theory is that maybe fortification level is a 'global multiplier' or limiter for your max comfort level, and I've fortified enough that I've now reached my maximum comfort level based on comfort-granting items inside the fort.

[Drake]

I'm thinking it might also matter if the house is above / below ground. The part where if you remove a background tile, a sky will show. So if you build a double walled house, above ground, the comfort should be 80%-100%.

[Skaduush]

I can tell you that from my experience I've had to remove and replace the totems after placing tons of decor items and the comfort level never budged. 'Recycle' the totem and poof it jumped up 20 points.. Worth a try for a quick fix...

Although, I do agree with a comfort level of 0% means there is a hole somewhere.. 0% = Not a completed house yet..

[Thundersnapper]

I managed to get my top totem to 49% but the lower one always stayed at 0% and they there at the same "house" just 2 floor below. Have restared the map and started all over again but my next bug is that my tree's just grows like 1 per hour?! map before they growed like 1 new tree ever 5 min...my attention is that every time you regenerate a new map/start over there is random bugs...especially with the bowmen that can shot at invisible badguys for 1-2 hours :( now im only using steel clubs as the bow does not work....most arrows just ending up there the enemys are not...

[casta_03]

Yesterday I did some playtesting & listed all the info I learned about comfort level. Sometimes the totem doesn't update properly. Removing it & replacing it can force it, but I found it faster to simply leave the game (back to the main menu) then re-enter.

Also, don't waste your time with comfort items. As of right now, all those luxury items do absolutely nothing for your comfort level.
For the best percentage:
-have the minimum number of beds
-make sure all of your outside walls (floor & roof included) are brick or stone in both foreground & background
- only have as many doors as absolutely necessary.
- check corners; breaks can be in diagonal squares
- watch the totem's little dot trail trace around your house. Make sure every square it moves through is a door or on outside wall. If it passes through any other square, that square should be turned into a door or wall
- walls contained within the house have no impact on comfort level as long as every background square inside the house has a wall or window

If you want more in-depth information, search the forums for a post called "Comfort Level: How it Works & Why it's Wrong"
If you don't feel like looking, type "comfort level" in the forum search box & it should pop right out