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Scow2

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Lost my first dwarf
« on: September 22, 2012, 07:11:06 pm »
My woodcutter didn't even survive to see the first summer after embark :( .

He was chopping wood by the source of a brook when a Sea Lamprey attacked him, and he drowned. Nobody found his body, and once they did, they never bothered to retrieve it!

How do I get my dwarves to go fetch the damn body? And apparently he's far from my fort, because it didn't give me the message of his death (Even though I watched it happen)... Instead it told me he had been missing for over a week, and when someone FINALLY went to his area (Ignoring his corpse completely), it gave the message that his body was found (Drowned)... and STILL he was ignored. And now his ghost is haunting the river.

I even built him an elaborate tomb to hold his body, being the first death I've ever had (And one of the original seven)
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Re: Lost my first dwarf
« Reply #1 on: September 22, 2012, 07:13:17 pm »
If the body's underwater, your dwarves won't retrieve it.  You'll have to dam the stream or some such.  Otherwise just build and engrave a slab for him, it will make the ghost go away.
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Re: Lost my first dwarf
« Reply #2 on: September 22, 2012, 07:16:17 pm »
Or drop a minecart of magma or seven into the river and dig out the appropriate square.
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Re: Lost my first dwarf
« Reply #3 on: September 22, 2012, 08:14:23 pm »
If the brook freezes during the winter, have a miner dig out the square where your dwarf's skeleton is.

In the meanwhile, engrave a slab for him.
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Re: Lost my first dwarf
« Reply #4 on: September 22, 2012, 09:51:46 pm »
If the brook freezes, there won't be a skeleton. If you're set on getting the body, and it is at the edge of the water, a screw pump pulling water out of the tile where it lies will keep that tile dry enough for a dwarf to retrieve the body. Otherwise your options are to dam up the river, drain it underground or just engrave a slab for the 'cutter.
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Re: Lost my first dwarf
« Reply #5 on: September 22, 2012, 10:04:08 pm »
Quote from: Drazinononda on September 22, 2012, 09:51:46 pm
If the brook freezes, there won't be a skeleton. If you're set on getting the body, and it is at the edge of the water, a screw pump pulling water out of the tile where it lies will keep that tile dry enough for a dwarf to retrieve the body. Otherwise your options are to dam up the river, drain it underground or just engrave a slab for the 'cutter.
You can't see a skeleton if you 'k' look at the brook, but it's there. Go to your stocks screen, locate the body in question, and focus on it. That's the location you dig out to get the skeleton. It'll appear when your miner digs past it.

If your dwarf's body has been washed off the map by the current, though, then it will indeed be gone, and you will have to make a memorial slab.

I recommend the slab option. Recovering bodies can be dangerous.
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