

Once a location is designated you can verify the current value & level as well as the agreed on level via the locations ( l) menu and selecting to the location. Although, if you have DFHack, you can use the command list-agreements to find it. REMINDER: Write down the petitioners' request for the specific deity and/or religious sect, because it's often not accessible from the UI after you accept the petition.

A temple with a value lower than 2000 is called a shrine, but with a value of 10000 or higher, it becomes a temple complex, which is needed to recognise high priesthood v0.47.01 The petition is satisfied when the temple has a minimum value of 2000 and when priesthood is recognised. If the petition is ignored for too long, it is eventually abandoned, and the petitioners will receive unhappy thoughts. Once established, these worshippers may congregate at the new temple, though it does not stop them from using temples to no particular deity the temple dedicated to their deity existing at all is sufficient to please them. When one of your fortress's religious organisations (sects) has sufficient (10 by default in d_init.txt) members, they may petition for the creation of a temple specific to their faith. Simply designating any meeting area as a place to pray is enough to initially satisfy most of your dwarves, you do not need to provide instruments or containers for your dwarves to pray. Thus, making a temple early on might be a good investment for your fortress, even more so if you're going through difficult times. Not having a designated place to pray, on the other hand, makes them sad or distracted. Beyond being religious activity, dances and poetry in temples fulfil the same functions as they do in tavern, with the caveat of being limited to followers of said faith.īeing able to commune with their deity or meditate gives a serious enraptured stress decrease to the dwarves.


Performers can also be assigned to temples to perform sacred dances. Temples also require an empty floor space (called dance floor) with a minimum surface of 25 tiles, the same as taverns. Temples require instruments for their music and, thus, also containers to store them, although a temple created with no instruments will still be used by citizens and visitors. Using burrows to force these dwarves to pray only in generic temples will usually make them eventually (sequentially) satisfy all their needs to pray, given no other tasks.) In some cases a dwarf who worships multiple deities may not ever pray to them all. If you designate a temple to that specific deity, they will then go pray or meditate with purple text and satisfy their religious needs. (* If you read the thoughts of certain dwarves, you can note that some have been "unable to pray to (x deity)". However, some dwarves* seem to need specific rather than generic temples to avoid unhappy thoughts. Temples can be dedicated either to any deity worshipped by at least one of your dwarves (not necessarily from the world's dwarven pantheon), or to "no particular deity", making it a place for anyone to meditate or to worship whomever they want. In fortress mode, temples are locations ( l) that can be created from meeting areas ( i - m).
