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[MiniMacker]

Well, disaster struck. Because I am STUPID to not realize how stupid my dwarves were. After channeling out in the wrong order, causing a collapse, one of my two miners died. It was a great tragedy, really, because now I only have one miner until I get my first caravan.

None the less, my surviving miner has been quite sad lately because of this, so I need to bury the dead miner so he won't come back to haunt me. Only problem is that when it collapsed, the shockwave sent the corpse into the nearby river and everyone is refusing to get him.
There's a ramp right next to the body, but no one wishes to path there to grab him.

So now he is forever rotting, bringing every dwarf a bad thought.

I guess I could make a Slab, but then the body would still be there to decay, causing ANOTHER bad thought.


I'm currently playing on a Warm embark, so the stream won't freeze, I believe.


What to do?!

[Plutoman]

Three words;

Legendary dining hall.

[Silent_Thunder]

Three words : Drain the river

Be it by pumps or diverting it, you need to drain the river.

[Dariush]

One word: MAGMA.

Or, three words: obsidianize the river.

[Lagslayer]

Try making a slab and walling off the area. The slab will prevent ghosts and the wall will both keep the other dwarves from seeing it and contain the miasma.

[twilightdusk]

I don't think dwarves have to see the body rot to get the bad thought and miasma doesn't generate above ground.

[shadowform]

If you can't reach the body, build a slab at a mason's shop, and engrave it with the name of the lost dwarf at a crafts workshop.  Put it up somewhere and the ghost won't bug you.

[celem]

if its by a bank try building a pump with it as input, they eventually will haul that

[CapnUrist]

Pumps work just fine for draining part of a river; I usually just divert the water a few tiles downstream to make room for the floodgates. As soon as the riverbed is clear the dwarves will fetch it up, if you have a tomb or a graveyard stockpile set up.

[Ubiq]

Does the river freeze? If so, just dig his corpse up when the river ices over.

If not, go the Dining Hall route. That and build a floor over the ramp in question. Out of sight, out of mind.

[Jacob/Lee]

Does the river freeze? If so, just dig his corpse up when the river ices over.

If not, go the Dining Hall route. That and build a floor over the ramp in question. Out of sight, out of mind.

>I'm currently playing on a warm embark, so the stream won't freeze, I believe

[Akura]

Does a collapsing floor destroy objects? According to the wiki, there's a chance of it, but it also says it needs to verify it. So let's verify it.

Slab the ghost, smash the body. Everyone is happy.

[Jacob/Lee]

Rarely will an item survive something falling on it, but it may still happen.

[cog disso]

If nothing else, make him a Memorial Slab so he doesn't haunt you.