What's the difference between a dining room and a tavern?

[Eramine]

Should I have both? I figured just a tavern would do, but some menus seem to indicate dwarves need a dining room despite me having a tavern set up.

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dwarves will complain that there are no dedicated dining rooms but then eat in the tavern anyway because they're not very intelligent.

I do't think I've ever seen a dwarf using a dining room, not a single time, despite having to build like 15 public ones and 5 private ones to meet demand.

[Tarithel]

taverns can have a bartender and performers, visitors will hang out there...

[Teemo]

I'm not sure if a tavern is fixed yet, I would recommend being careful with servers. There was a bug that servers would keep serving alcohol to idle dwarves till they died.

[EmmaKat]

Originally posted by Teemo:

I'm not sure if a tavern is fixed yet, I would recommend being careful with servers. There was a bug that servers would keep serving alcohol to idle dwarves till they died.

A very annoying bug, but I love the mental image it conjures.

[Snake Bit]

https://youtu.be/yzcEG_JoVuo this is the difference!

[Hammer]

Originally posted by Eramine:

What's the difference between a dining room and a tavern?

If you set up a dining room, you can still manage to get Dwarves to do some work.

[-XeLa-]

Tavern allows visitors to come to your fort, and with any bedrooms assigned to the tavern, they can petition to stay.

[Empath demon]

Originally posted by Jerry Smith:

Tavern allows visitors to come to your fort, and with any bedrooms assigned to the tavern, they can petition to stay.

Jerry's right. A dining room is not a meeting hall, but a tavern is a dining room. And a meeting hall. I think!