A lot of bedrooms, but dwarfs sleeping on the floor

[gu.ocosta]

So, my fortress had a population explosion, from 40 to 180 in less than a year.
I did great bedrooms for all the new citizens, 3x3 polished stones with beds, doors, and some of them even have cabinets and chests already.
Even then, they didn't claim their spot! They are sleeping on the floor everywhere, and I don't want to assing hundreds of people on hand.
What should I do?

[Death Korps Commissar]

Actually create bedrooms from the zone menu and not just build them ?

[love]

Bedroom zone / dormitory.
Paint to your heart's content.
They'll claim them themselves.

[gu.ocosta]

Originally posted by Libertine:

Actually create bedrooms from the zone menu and not just build them ?

Originally posted by love:

Bedroom zone / dormitory.
Paint to your heart's content.
They'll claim them themselves.

They are zoned, but the majority of them are not claimed.

[Jetrel]

I had this problem when the beds were too far away.

[Deviant]

They don't take ownership immediately. As long as you have enough rooms for everyone, they will get claimed eventually.

You can manually add them to a room, but it shouldn't be necessary.

[SoULLeSs]

It should do automaticly, just have to put at least a bed in a square room and zone it as a bedroom. It happens like the manager approving the "bills" orders, you have to wait a little bit and they should claim them automaticly

[gu.ocosta]

Originally posted by Jetrel:

I had this problem when the beds were too far away.

Wow! I think that's the problem. They don't walk on this area. I think I will make some interesting points there.
Thanks!

[Morkonan]

Originally posted by gu.ocosta:

Originally posted by Libertine:

Actually create bedrooms from the zone menu and not just build them ?

Originally posted by love:

Bedroom zone / dormitory.
Paint to your heart's content.
They'll claim them themselves.

They are zoned, but the majority of them are not claimed.

They have to be zoned individually as bedrooms.

If you have built a block of individual bedrooms and go into the Zone tool while looking at it, you should see one "Bedroom" icon over each room housing a bed and a door.

If you just see one zone covering them all and one Bedroom Symbol icon on the top-left of the zone, you zoned them all as one single bedroom and didn't use the "Multi" option.

Delete that zone, then Choose the Bedroom icon and when you get the selection window, click on "Multi" to drag a zone around all the individual bedrooms you've built. It will automatically zone each individual room that has is enclosed by walls and a door and has a bed in it. (IF a Dwarf is on their way to install a door, it'll zone that bedroom as well.)

If each Bedroom does show an individual Bedrom Icon when you click on the Zone tool (Dorfhead) then you simply need to be sure they can make it to the Bedroom area before they pass out... or you need to build more individual Bedrooms and/or a Barracks.

In any case, since it takes longer to build individual Bedrooms, but they're better in all ways than a Barracks, go ahead and get a big Barracks room set up in the area where your Dorfs do much of their work, just as a semi-permanent option. Then, get started building Dorf apartment blocks. :)

[rook]

Originally posted by gu.ocosta:

Originally posted by Jetrel:

I had this problem when the beds were too far away.

Wow! I think that's the problem. They don't walk on this area. I think I will make some interesting points there.
Thanks!

Building a dining hall nearby with workshops not too far away has worked for me every time. When they use those shops they'll be likely to close the work/eat/sleep cycle in the same area and take up those bedrooms.