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Lich180

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Getting Rid of Ghosts, without Engraving a Slab
« on: August 22, 2012, 05:47:05 pm »
Well after a few accidents involving goblin squads and drawbridges, a few dwarven merchants died. Their ghosts now roam the halls, and cannot be exorcised because I can't engrave a slab to them, and they left no body parts to be buried.

Wondering if there is a dfhack thing that can get rid of them... if not, oh well. Everyone is pretty happy, and don't have too much of a hit due to being haunted by the ghosts... and they are just restless spirits, so are just wandering around.
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Re: Getting Rid of Ghosts, without Engraving a Slab
« Reply #1 on: August 22, 2012, 06:06:42 pm »
why cant you engrave a slab?
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Re: Getting Rid of Ghosts, without Engraving a Slab
« Reply #2 on: August 22, 2012, 06:40:27 pm »
dwarf merchants leaves ghosts? o_O

Yes there is a DF hack utility for this. Do

tweak clear-missing Urist McDwarfname

Then see if you can engrave a slab.

If that doesn't work do

tweak clear-ghostly dwarfname
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Re: Getting Rid of Ghosts, without Engraving a Slab
« Reply #3 on: August 22, 2012, 07:25:51 pm »
Quote from: keyreper on August 22, 2012, 06:06:42 pm
why cant you engrave a slab?

Could be on an aquifer without any stone to use (or spare) for the slab making to engrave.
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Re: Getting Rid of Ghosts, without Engraving a Slab
« Reply #4 on: August 22, 2012, 07:39:30 pm »
No, I looked this up and you indeed cannot dedicate slabs to dead traders.
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Lich180

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Re: Getting Rid of Ghosts, without Engraving a Slab
« Reply #5 on: August 22, 2012, 07:47:16 pm »
Quote from: GoombaGeek on August 22, 2012, 07:39:30 pm
No, I looked this up and you indeed cannot dedicate slabs to dead traders.

Pretty much this. The guards got atom-smashed, left no corpse, and have been haunting my fort for a few years. Wasn't a big priority until now, because I'm tired of seeing Ñ following my dwarves.

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Yes there is a DF hack utility for this. Do

tweak clear-missing Urist McDwarfname

Then see if you can engrave a slab.

If that doesn't work do

tweak clear-ghostly dwarfname

Thanks, trying it now.

EDIT UPDATE:

That seems to cause the dwarf to become listed as deceased, then disappear from the units list, then reappear as a ghost. Still can't engrave a slab to them.

EDIT UPDATE 2: The first 3 were able to be gotten rid of, but 1 still remains. Trying to use the same commands more.
« Last Edit: August 22, 2012, 08:18:14 pm by Lich180 »
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Re: Getting Rid of Ghosts, without Engraving a Slab
« Reply #6 on: August 22, 2012, 09:20:10 pm »
there is another tweak on dfhack, makeown or fixmerchants, it's intended to fix the bugged migrants that have trader as their profession and stay stuck at the border of the map until a dwarven caravan shows up and they leave with them.


those traders are supposed to be migrants and by viewing them and running the fixmerchants tweak you get to make them your units and not friendlies, makeown does the same, you could try using those comands on the ghost unit and see if it becomes your own ghost and be able to memorialise them.
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Lich180

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Re: Getting Rid of Ghosts, without Engraving a Slab
« Reply #7 on: August 22, 2012, 10:20:20 pm »
Alright, I'll have to remember that next time this issue comes up. Finally managed to get all the ghosts gone with the previous commands, but somehow a corpse appeared that had no name recognizable to one of the ghosts and promptly reanimated and scared the hell out of my dwarves :P
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