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lcy03406

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What's the best practice of storing enemy corpses?
« on: August 10, 2016, 04:22:18 am »
I defeated a siege, but dwarves are unhappy for this. Many of them are horrified seeing death, and they are horrified by the same corpses over and over again.

Then I make a dump zone on the northwest corner of the wall, and dump the corpses. So all the dwarves rush to the corpses and throw them out of the wall.

So all of them are horrified now.

And here come a wave of migrants, and there are no wall between their sight and the mountain of corpses.

Any methods to keep those cowards away from the horror of seeing death?
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Daris

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Re: What's the best practice of storing enemy corpses?
« Reply #1 on: August 10, 2016, 05:24:57 am »
Magma.

Atom smasher.

Deep pit.

Trophy room in a dead-end tucked behind a closed door, where you can admire the corpses but your dwarves won't see them.
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Re: What's the best practice of storing enemy corpses?
« Reply #2 on: August 10, 2016, 05:59:23 am »
It's been a while since I had so many but I once chanelled holes from the surface, into rooms that were dug and then resealed wirh walls below (for gainable access, if necessary, but impervious withour my intervention) and dumped the unwanted bodies (I set corpse hauling off by default, so can largely control exposure to those I want) into said holes, hoping that maybe I'd get necromancer-alarms or even obfuscating 'bait' for other dangers.

But mostly the corpse-hauling thing, whatever else you then do differently.
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Re: What's the best practice of storing enemy corpses?
« Reply #3 on: August 10, 2016, 06:02:07 am »
Below colddam point.

Minecarts can help with transporting the corpses without seeing all the transported corpses.
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Re: What's the best practice of storing enemy corpses?
« Reply #4 on: August 10, 2016, 08:40:04 am »
5z pit is deep enough for Urist to no longer see what's down there and freak out even when the dead down there are raised to zombies or reanimated.
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Re: What's the best practice of storing enemy corpses?
« Reply #5 on: August 15, 2016, 04:52:15 pm »
I don't know if it is still relevent, but a while back, I put the main graveyard/corpse stockpile in the main entrance corridor.

Caused some problems at first, but eventually my entire population consisted of double-hard bastards who would stoicly wade through a mountain of corpses without breaking a sweat.
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Re: What's the best practice of storing enemy corpses?
« Reply #6 on: August 16, 2016, 08:44:38 pm »
Quote from: Iapetus on August 15, 2016, 04:52:15 pm
I don't know if it is still relevent, but a while back, I put the main graveyard/corpse stockpile in the main entrance corridor.

Caused some problems at first, but eventually my entire population consisted of double-hard bastards who would stoicly wade through a mountain of corpses without breaking a sweat.
sounds good to me, but my forts rather resulted in all my dorfs being too horrified to survive because their food supply-chain wasn't getting finished as they were all too busy contemplating all the horrors they had seen.
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lcy03406

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Re: What's the best practice of storing enemy corpses?
« Reply #7 on: August 16, 2016, 10:24:13 pm »
Sounds good to dump corpses in the legendary dining hall?
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Arthropleura

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Re: What's the best practice of storing enemy corpses?
« Reply #8 on: August 17, 2016, 06:05:06 am »
Your stomach. I mean magma! Yes, magma...
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We are currently three turns in, and the main hall is coated in blood, intestines and random corpses. There's a huge pile of 3000 items made of human body parts in a corner and remaining members of the staff of the museum are, as I type this, being slowly choked to death by one of our adventurers.

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Re: What's the best practice of storing enemy corpses?
« Reply #9 on: August 17, 2016, 07:08:35 am »
Quote from: Arthropleura on August 17, 2016, 06:05:06 am
Your stomach. I mean magma! Yes, magma...
DEFINITELY elf...
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Montieth

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Re: What's the best practice of storing enemy corpses?
« Reply #10 on: August 17, 2016, 11:38:21 am »
Yep, 5 Z rubbish pits near the Butcher Shop and another near the entrance hall. Both with the option of a stair and locked door for the miner to get out of and to go and retrieve anything that might have been mistakenly dumped (How did that adamantine sword get dropped down there Urist?). The hall rubbish pit get's turned off and on when necessary to deal with clearing the entrance hall of corpses of the latest bolt pincushions and house guard training dummies.
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