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Raphite1

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Missing ... but corpse had been hauled
« on: April 27, 2012, 02:26:04 pm »
Observed something odd last night, not sure whether it's a bug.

A peasant was chased around the caverns by a beastie (just normal peasant stuff), and eventually died in a remote corner. Other dwarves came to haul away his clothes. Shortly, I got the "Urist McOhgodagiantbat has been missing for a week" message. This surprised me, because surely his corpse would have been in sight-range of the dwarves who scavenged his clothing. Even more to my surprise, his corpse was no longer in the cavern, but was in a corpses/graveyard stockpile up on the surface, outside the walls of my temporary above-ground shelter. Nobody had seen the body being carried up the teeming stairwell? The corpse-hauler somehow didn't realize what she was carrying?

I sent the woodcutter to chop a tree near the corpse, and when the woodcutter was close I finally got the "Urist McOhgodagiantbat has been found dead" message.

I still haven't put in a huge amount of playtime post-40d... is it normal for a death to go unreported this long, when the corpse had clearly been in observation-range? As far as I know, nothing we've encountered at this fort should have made the dwarves go blind.
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Re: Missing ... but corpse had been hauled
« Reply #1 on: April 27, 2012, 02:40:44 pm »
I think while the dwarves have an order of hauling, they do not give a fu and they just carry it. While their other job goes near the corpse's resting place althrough, they seem to care about their rotting friends.
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Re: Missing ... but corpse had been hauled
« Reply #2 on: April 27, 2012, 04:03:09 pm »
I once had someone sleep in the bed of the dead guy, while the dead guy was still there, wake up and go about his business without noticing the dead body. People even looted his clothes and still didn't get the "Found Dead" message. Dumped him in front of the dining hall, that worked.
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Re: Missing ... but corpse had been hauled
« Reply #3 on: April 27, 2012, 04:09:27 pm »
Quote from: caddybear on April 27, 2012, 04:03:09 pm
I once had someone sleep in the bed of the dead guy, while the dead guy was still there, wake up and go about his business without noticing the dead body. People even looted his clothes and still didn't get the "Found Dead" message. Dumped him in front of the dining hall, that worked.

They didn't notice him untill he became a nuisance.  :P
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Re: Missing ... but corpse had been hauled
« Reply #4 on: April 27, 2012, 04:17:42 pm »
No, you just have necrophiliac dwarves.

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