Dwarf wants to be with family.

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Guy has only daughter. I turned off chores for children and any job for guy. Even Made them stand to each other in burrow, but they won't talk to each other. Father just drinks and daughter plays and they both miserable https://imgur.com/a/ZD9Zvs2

[Saver Sigonith]

Can you satisfy their other needs? They don't need every single one maxed all the time - instead, the average is more important. Some needs are easier to fill than others.
I don't know if children talk for some reason so you may only be able to satisfy a need for family with adult relatives. What other needs are low at the moment?

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Originally posted by Saver Sigonith:

Can you satisfy their other needs? They don't need every single one maxed all the time - instead, the average is more important. Some needs are easier to fill than others.
I don't know if children talk for some reason so you may only be able to satisfy a need for family with adult relatives. What other needs are low at the moment?

he also wants to pray, acquire smth even though i crafted lots of different finished goods and be with friends, but he made none friends while being in military and getting drunk) now he just stumbles obliviously and does nothing. i guess i'll leave him on himself now,

[Saver Sigonith]

While he's stumbling obliviously there's nothing you can do. And if he goes fully mad (catatonic/melancholy/berserk/stark raving mad) then he'll stop eating or drinking until he dies unfortunately.

But just stumbling around he will eventually recover from, at which point you can indeed get him to pray, make friends, and acquire something.

To acquire something, he needs to be the one to haul a finished good to a stockpile. To pray, you need a temple (dedicate it to 'no particular deity') and he needs to spend some time without tasks to do (he'll eventually get around to it). To make friends, he needs to spend time idling near other dwarves in your tavern or library or temple.

Rather than messing around with burrows, some folks have luck assigning ornery dwarves to a squad set to constantly train but that doesn't have a barracks assigned to train in. They won't do any labors assigned to them and will generally try to fulfill their needs.


Getting a stressed dwarf to feel better again can be a bit fiddly and not everyone finds it worth the time, but it makes me smile when I pull it off.

[amade]

There is in fact a much easier way to get dorfs to idle and not do any labors, which is by simply clicking on the hammer icon to specialize but without assigning any labors to them. No need to draft them into military with no barracks to train in.

To get them to acquire object, check their preferences and find out what they like, make a finished good that matches their preference and put it in a room with 2 stockpiles that accept the finished good. Put a lever in that room and get the dorf to pull it. Lock them inside the room and let them haul the object from one stockpile to the other. They will claim the object for themselves.

Similarly, if you want them to pray in the temple (or a particular temple), place a lever in it and get the dorf to pull it. Again, make sure they have no labors enabled and are specialized while they are praying.

As for spending time with family, it seems that conversations happen mostly when both parties have No Job, a state which most children rarely ever get (if ever?). Update: looks like doing Socialize (duh) makes it more likely for interactions to happen, though it can still happen outside of that situation. Try locking them in a room, then painting in a guildhall/tavern zone over it. You can use an existing one on the same z-level, just make sure it's open to all citizens/residents. Kids tend to default to Play, so it can be quite difficult to force them to interact with others.

If you want them to make friends they have to idle a lot in taverns and guildhalls. But some dorfs are just bad at making friends because of their personalities, nothing much you can do about it.

But as Saver said, you don't have to fulfill their every need, just enough to keep them form accumulating too much stress. That said, some dorfs are just prone to depression (again, check their personality card), and even the slightest bit of stress would make them miserable. Like the saying goes, you can't please everyone.

If you rather not deal with the dorf or the aftermath, you can exile them or send them to one of your holdings.

[ndjs]

What i do to fullfill some of the needs at times is to select a military squad to do training without an actual training zone and then they all just end up socializing, partying, praying,teaching skill, watching demonstration etc. Works really well.