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[troodon]

We've had a lot of underground diversity added, but there's one cool thing left to go, I think.  Ancient tombs for your dwarfs to dig into, filled with treasure but also traps and the undead.  You would get a warning before disturbing the tomb, the way damp or warm stone work.

[Ultimuh]

This sounds.. familiar somehow.. 

[catsplosion]

Toady has spoken to the effect that he wants to have these, but not until there's an in-universe reason for them.

[Kuraudo]

It's on the dev list - I think it's even a core item.  Have no fear, it's coming!

[troodon]

Toady has spoken to the effect that he wants to have these, but not until there's an in-universe reason for them.

In  the real world we have ancient tombs all over the place (although because they're not haunted the treasure is almost always gone from them).  However, Dwarf Fortress world generation simulates a rather short time period (on the scale of real-world history) and, if I understand correctly, deals with rather low populations too.  Thus, I don't think it would be immersion-breaking to have tombs built by a "forgotten people" in Dwarf Fortress even on a site where no historical figures lived and died.

Then again, I favor a much higher level of abstraction for world generation than what appears to be planned by the developer.

[Batgirl1]

/hand shoots up

Hey, how about in Reclaim Fortress mode?  If your old fort had any tombs/graves, they could be haunted by the dwarfs who were buried there.

[PsyberianHusky]

/hand shoots up

Hey, how about in Reclaim Fortress mode?  If your old fort had any tombs/graves, they could be haunted by the dwarfs who were buried there.

I think that is planned too