Print

Please login or register.
1 Hour 1 Day 1 Week 1 Month Forever
Login with username, password and session length

[crazyjake56]

... is how my fish cleaner of questionable intelligence fell 16 z levels to his death along with a salamander and a feral dog down a waterfall.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Waste of time finding his missing corpse. Guess i have to wait for his ghost to make a slab, right?

[Eric Blank]

You can wait and see what sort of ghost he'll become before slabing him, yeah. But you could be extra dwarfy and undergo a massive project to recover his corpse and bury it.

[i2amroy]

Actually if you are running 34.07 then Toady made it so you can engrave slabs for missing dwarves as well as dead ones.

[Broseph Stalin]

Actually if you are running 34.07 then Toady made it so you can engrave slabs for missing dwarves as well as dead ones.

Have you been able to do this? I read about it in the update but it doesn't seem to work, whenever I arrange an accident I have to wait for the ghost to rise to be able to slab them.

[GavJ]

If you engrave a slab for them before they are a ghost then it works just fine.  It will not give you any feedback.  Like, it isn't going to say "Oh hey, you just prevented a ghost!"  But you did, in fact, prevent a ghost if you engrave their name and place the slab.

[WaffleEggnog]

You can wait and see what sort of ghost he'll become before slabing him, yeah. But you could be extra dwarfy and undergo a massive project to recover his corpse and bury it.

If he is in a temperate biome or colder, all the stuff will be obliterated in the winter. Wonder if there will still be a ghost if the body is destroyed.....

[Eric Blank]

There will be.

And freezing in ice actually makes it very simple to recover the corpse; it will continue to exist under the ice until the spring thaw (then it is destroyed), so you could, say, dig it out of the ice mid-winter and be done with it.

[Broseph Stalin]

If you engrave a slab for them before they are a ghost then it works just fine.  It will not give you any feedback.  Like, it isn't going to say "Oh hey, you just prevented a ghost!"  But you did, in fact, prevent a ghost if you engrave their name and place the slab.

I mean their names don't appear until they rise as a ghost.

Actually never mind, I was screwing around and managed to replace .07 with .06.

[runlvlzero]

... is how my fish cleaner of questionable intelligence fell 16 z levels to his death along with a salamander and a feral dog down a waterfall.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Waste of time finding his missing corpse. Guess i have to wait for his ghost to make a slab, right?

Well that's how waterfall's raise dwarven moral, permanently! *chuckles*

Yup, I think I am being corrupted by this forum =/

[SRD]

A common occurrence, I used to THROW my dwarves into a river from 10z levels above just to check which way the river was flowing.

[Morpha]

Bring lava to the surface and pour it down on his corpse.

[Garath]

A common occurrence, I used to THROW my dwarves into a river from 10z levels above just to check which way the river was flowing.

and now they jump by themself. It's taking out all the fun.

[HorridOwn4ge]

A common occurrence, I used to THROW my dwarves into a river from 10z levels above just to check which way the river was flowing.

When a river flows off map you see other digits then 7/7.

[Loud Whispers]

A common occurrence, I used to THROW my dwarves into a river from 10z levels above just to check which way the river was flowing.

When a river flows off map you see other digits then 7/7.

You would waste a perfect excuse to throw live things into dead things?

[HorridOwn4ge]

A common occurrence, I used to THROW my dwarves into a river from 10z levels above just to check which way the river was flowing.

When a river flows off map you see other digits then 7/7.

You would waste a perfect excuse to throw live things into dead things?

But I like my little bearded fluffballs who reek of scotch and kitten tallow cheesecake.