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Magma

13 (8%)

They don't need anything,they can just rot

20 (12.3%)

Tombs

37 (22.7%)

A massive underground burial chamber

48 (29.4%)

Just a normal burial,nothing special

45 (27.6%)

Total Members Voted: 163

[Macalano]

I provide for them proper burial.

Then, through courtesy of certain adamantine floor grates, deliver them straight to Armok.

[slothen]

Noone else here buries their dead in old viens?

Admittidly, i always do that with the intent of reburying them in a more fitting place at a later time, but, err, i kinda never get around to it.

this is exactly what i do.

[Da Spadger]

Normal dwarfs get a place in the catacombs. Useful nobles (Dungeon master, Bookkeeper, etc) gets tombs. Useless nobles are fed to whoever is sieging me next.

[Bronimin]

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[Bomepie]

SOYLENT GREEN

[Vulcanius]

I build a couple of dense catacombs for regular dwarves. Any legendary dwarf gets a 3x3 room with all sorts of perks inside, including their own gold or platinum coffin. When they die I place them in their coffin and seal up the room with a gold or platinum wall and engrave it. 'Here lies the legendary so and so...' Nobles get the magma treatment.

[Dahenk]

I usually go with a large room with alot of pillars in it but seeing as my current fortress is named "Ultratomb" I feel inclined to do something better this time around

[Vulcanius]

I usually go with a large room with alot of pillars in it but seeing as my current fortress is named "Ultratomb" I feel inclined to do something better this time around

Sounds like someone is addicted to fun.

[Shootandrun]

I give them a tomb of 3x3 tiles and closed with a stone wall, just simple in early games, but later (when i have time for this) every tomb is smoothed and engraved. For heroes, (like my captain of the guard in this game, twelve goblins deads before he falls) I add statues and i do greater tombs.

I let the nobles rot outside of my fortress.

[terminal]

Inevitably I will find a vein of gold that is long and skinny.  I mine out just this vein, leaving all the rock around it intact.  I then place coffins at the natural corners in this vein and smooth/engrave the whole thing.  This makes an awesome, natural hallway made of gold and lined with the coffins of my valiant dead.  If I embark with a mountain, I will make this tomb high up in the mountains above my fortress.  No particular reason, I just think it's cool and would be awesome to find while adventuring.

[GuudeSpelur]

Once I built a green glass obelisk on top of a mountain on a map with sand and a volcano to use for burial (I was going to cast an obsidian dwarf pyrmid [that is, an upside-down one] later).  At least, I completed the first floor of the obelisk just in time for my military to get ambushed by Giant Cave Spiders from the caverns on one of their training missions down there and slaughtered because they were using training weapons (to take longer to kill stuff to gain more experience) and I didn't have flux or tin (yet).  The GCS's then game out of the caverns (chasing a war dog) and killed everyone, somehow knowing to start with the legendary miners I was about to call up.  My pack of war dogs managed to get rid of them, but by then I was too weak to fight off the next goblin ambush.  I decided it was more fun to leave the obelisk with two coffins in it as a mystery for the inhabitants of that world than to reclaim it.

[Lytha]

I did give the dwarves a beautifully designed burial grounds in 40d, always at the bottom z-level of the map. This is screwed up now because of the caverns and magma sea, and so I started to desecrate the remains instead.

As in: I've started to atomsmash dwarven corpses by now (to get rid of the skeleton objects and their formerly belongings), but the dead will get a coffin, sooner or later. Rather later than sooner though.

What I enjoyed best was to place those coffins at the sides of the entrance of the fortress. This provided a cheerful mood for all those caravans that entered the fortress, I imagined.