this post was submitted on 16 Jun 2023
10 points (100.0% liked)
Dwarf Fortress - Losing is !FUN!
94 readers
1 users here now
A magazine to aggregate content about the Bay12Games game, Dwarf Fortress! Questions about the game, fortress showcase, sharing worldgen parameters, save games, original fan art, the magma-sea is the limit!
founded 1 year ago
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
Occupations vs Labors is sometimes confusing - especially for Hospitals where they are actually the same thing! One thing I find wasn't really well explained was the Hospital occupation of 'Doctor' - which in reality is actually a combo of Diagnostic, Surgeon and Bone Doc occupations and labors.
Is there something that documents the job prioritization of a Dorf who is assigned an Occupation (like Performer) and their other labor tasks?
Honestly, if it's not in the wiki, it has a high chance of being in the Bay12 forums, people perform a lot of Dwarven !!SCIENCE!! over there. Before the Steam release, there wasn't really a hospital occupation of doctor, there were the doctor related labors (Diagnostician, Surgeon, Bone Doctor, Suturer, and ... one other I can't remember off the top of my head). Whatever needed doing in a hospital zone would get done by whatever dwarf had the correct labor active. Surgeons would come and operate, suturer would sew up afterwards, etc. All doctors would service all hospital zones.
So, for the Steam version, I'm going to guess here, that it still works similar. But with a little bit more control in that you can assign which dwarves are even assigned to the hospital.
For things like taverns and temples it might be a little different. I think that if you assign a tavernkeeper, performer, or dancer, that is almost more like another labor.
Take everything I say here as my best guess, and not actual fact.