Dwarf Fortress - Hive Tutorial ep 04 - Temples

Hey folks! Happy Monday. I notice after the fact that I somehow used Ep3's title card for Ep4 and there isn't any way to correct that in 3speak (which feels like a feature we should have). Either way, definitely feeling the Monday vibes lol.

Today we're looking at another quick and easy way to keep our dwarves from getting depressed and angry - and that's by creating an undedicated Temple!

Like Inns/Taverns, to build a temple we first need to zone for a regular Meeting Place, and then update that to become a Temple. When we do this, it gives us the option to make this a temple for a specific diety, or to leave it undedicated so that it's available for anyone to worship any of the dwarven gods. I generally go with this undedicated route, particularly early on in my Fortress playthroughs.

Temples can be created quick and dirty by simply hollowing out a space, zoning it, and adding an Alter in the area... but if you want to get a bit of an extra boost to happiness, you could choose to make the walls out of fancy material, add a custom floor, and decorate with statues, pedestals to show off relics, and other neat stuff. That way, when the dwarves come into the Temple, they also spend time in a well designed space and that adds to their enjoyment. They'll recall being near well made items and well crafted areas, which provides them a mood boost.

For today, we don't go too far into making our space fancy, but we do smooth the floor, and add some specially built walls. Eventually we will upgrade this, but for now it does the trick. The little bit of decoration we do accomplish is to add Engravings to the floor and a few specific walls.

As soon as we've got our new space set up though... we also get a notification of our first Invasion!

Remember how I said in Episode 1 that we were going to keep going with our Fortress despite the notification that we were close to a Necromancer who might invade early? Well, they definitely invaded early! We don't even have a militia yet! No commander, no barracks, and you can bet your buns we have no weapons. So, this could be a very interesting event... but it's also an event that we'll get to next time!

Until then, as always, thanks for watching my friends and Happy Gaming!

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