How to make a bedroom in Dwarf Fortress

Dwarf Fortress is the incredibly legendary experience of storytelling, procedural generation, and overall coding. It seems fitting that one of your ongoing priorities in the inspiration for Minecraft, you do have to worry about sleeping quarters. Each of your Dwarves will need a place to stay, for privacy and comfort. Shelter and proper bedrooms will need to be build quickly, but don’t worry, there are other means to house your dwarves. Here is how to establish a bedroom in Dwarf Fortress.

How to build a bedroom in Dwarf Fortress

Crafting the bedroom

Bedrooms exist most importantly to protect your Dwarves from the elements. This is why they must be built underground. So, clear a space for the bedroom. They needn’t be big, at least a three by three space. Plan ahead and think about the location of all the other bedrooms. They will ideally be close to your other facilities and too each other. For social reasons, have them very close to meeting zones or other social zones.

When the space is cleared, all you’ll need are two things: a bed and a door.

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To get the door and bed, you’ll need to place down a Carpenter’s Workshop first. They are very cheap to build and you will have the resources in abundance when you start the game. If not, however, then a pop-up window will tell you what you need.

With the Carpenter’s Workshop, you must click on it to bring up its menu. Click on ‘add new task’. In this menu will be the options to make a door and make a bed, but if you can’t find them, then search for them in the search bar and they’ll come right up.

One at a time, add both tasks. If you want a particular wood to make the bed or the door, then click on the magnifying glass next to the orders in the list to choose a particular wood type. Otherwise, the Dwarf will use the closest type in storage. It costs one wood to craft both items.

With both of those created, the Dwarf will put them in storage. Now, go into the building menu. and place down the bed in the cleared area. Then place the door where you want the entrance to go. Due to your excavation, there may be a whole side missing. If that is the case then simply build walls straight from the menu to cover the one side, leaving a space for the door.

Assigning the bedroom

With the physical confines of the bedroom complete, all you need to do now is make it a bedroom and assign a Dwarf to it.

Press ‘z’ to open up the zones menu. On the left, all of the zones will appear. Choose the ‘bedroom’ zone. Including the walls, drag a box from one corner to the opposite corner, making sure to encompass the whole bedroom with the boxes. When you have done so, that area will be assigned as a bedroom, and as long as it has a bed and a door, it will suffice for a Dwarf.

The game will automatically assign the room to someone after little time, but you can do it yourself by clicking on the zone and clicking on the small button with a plus symbol on a Dwarf’s head. You can choose out of all of your citizens.

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