Bed

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A bed is a simple sleeping pallet to built on the floor. Dwarves gain unhappy thoughts from sleeping without a bed, so building beds is often a necessity for a happy fortress. Unlike many other pieces of furniture, beds can only be created from wood, unless they are artifact beds, which can be made of anything. Each wooden bed requires a single piece of wood.

When settling treeless areas, it is ideal to bring along several logs during the Prepare for the Journey screen in order to make beds and buckets.

Beds are the base object used to create bedrooms and barracks. Toady has stated that beds which are not in any defined room are considered hospital beds, and dwarves will recover faster when sleeping on them.

Beds can only be placed indoors. If building a bedroom on the surface, the room must have a roof before beds can be placed inside.