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utunnels

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Empty coffin.
« on: August 09, 2007, 03:55:00 am »
One of my metalsmith died, so I made a coffin for him.
When I enabled that coffin, I saw:

This is the resting place of Tun Libashnekol, Miner.

But that miner was drowned last year, no corpse left.

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Angus the goblin killer.

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Re: Empty coffin.
« Reply #1 on: August 09, 2007, 03:59:00 am »
I know it's werid, but they always place it in order of who died first. If there is no body/corpse I think its becomes a sort of memorial to them.

Its espcialy annoying when you make that hero's tomb for your fallen axedwarf who single handley fought of a goblin seige, only to find his coffin to be taken by that idiot fisherman who fell asleep on the bridge during the floods.

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Haedrian

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Re: Empty coffin.
« Reply #2 on: August 09, 2007, 04:16:00 am »
If you want a particular person to take a coffin, assign it to them (while they're still alive).
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Istrian

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Re: Empty coffin.
« Reply #3 on: August 09, 2007, 05:20:00 am »
You could also try removing then rebuilding the coffin until you get the right dead dwarf in.
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Deathworks

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Re: Empty coffin.
« Reply #4 on: August 09, 2007, 05:25:00 am »
Hi!

But doesn't require assigning a coffin mean you are making a tomb? In that case, they will want to place all the possessions of the deceased in the tomb as well (hauling them there one by one (T_T) ).

Personally, I simply make burial chambers with several coffins when I either have some mason capacity I currently don't need or when the first dwarf in the fortress has died. I tend to have a few empty coffins available, so that anyone can get burried right away - I mean, if they can smell a dead butterfly at 50m, what will they say about a rotten corpse hauled through half the fortress?

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