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[Mimodo]

So when I saw 'Dwarven Funeral' the song that instantly came to mind was this. A proper funeral requires proper funeral music.

Very fitting music for a dwarven funeral... Good job on finding that

[Sutremaine]

Weirdly enough I was watching a Protomen video on Youtube recently, linked from somewhere. Might have been here actually.

[Kofthefens]

Toady should add in more valid burial methods, like this. (By valid I mean won't cause a ghost)

[AndreaReina]

Channel a pit, dump body in pit, fill with water, dump water magma to cast obsidian. Space the blocks so that you can eventually channel out the non-obsidian blocks and have your living dwarves walk them, or cast a congruous area to have an obsidian floor of the dead (you'd need a lot though). You can then use the room for an appropriate purpose, but I can't think of one right now. Great song btw.

Edited for correctness

[Urist Glimmerbowels]

Build a non-magma-safe metal minecart. Piling them in wood in death is the worst insult you can do to a dwarf.

1. How so?
2. Copper would be ideal

Instead of dropping the cart into magma I think it should be accelerated and skipped across the surface.  More skips is a sign of good luck for them in the After Fort.

You are wise and benevolent rulers. I'll give those ideas a try and let you know how it goes!

So when I saw 'Dwarven Funeral' the song that instantly came to mind was this. A proper funeral requires proper funeral music.

Oh, that's perfect. Next time I "accidentally" lock one of my valuable dwarves outside to die horrible/valiant deaths, I will play this to honour them :'|

Also guy-who-threw-everyone-down-a-garbage-chute: that works too. Just engrave some memorial slabs and you won't have ghosts! I mean, unless you want them. And who wouldn't, really

[Scruffy]

Channel a pit, dump body in pit, fill with water, dump water to cast obsidian. Space the blocks so that you can eventually channel out the non-obsidian blocks and have your living dwarves walk them, or cast a congruous area to have an obsidian floor of the dead (you'd need a lot though). You can then use the room for an appropriate purpose, but I can't think of one right now. Great song btw.

That is an amazing idea. I usually just dig mausoleums or big halls of slabs but obsidian (or ice?) funeral sounds interesting, albeit a bit too troublesome for every hauler and potash maker. I will try it on my nobles and militia commanders. (Perhaps even post-mortem if they behave really well.)

So when I saw 'Dwarven Funeral' the song that instantly came to mind was this. A proper funeral requires proper funeral music.

I have always considered the dwarven funerals kind of like flushing a dead hamster down a toilet. Only after hearing this music I started considering them as being something more epic.

[crekit]

I've always been a fan of mausoleums. There's something about halls of coffins stretching out across the screen. Plus if you ever have a necromancer adventurer, well...

BUT, I concur, the idea of freezing them in ice sounds delicious. I could have the 'zoo' where I put frozen whatever i have on hand too!

[Kaos]

What about returning them to the stone?

dump them in a hole, add water and magma, they get encased in obsidian, then mine around the cast obsidian leaving an obsidian pillar, smooth, engrave, and place an obsidian (or the dwarf favorite stone/metal) slab in front of the pillar, eventually you'll have a long corridor with the engraved obsidian pillars memorialising the fallen dwarves.


You can dump them in the hole via minecart if you prefer, can make a magma pool in the middle of the mausoleum corridor/courtyard maybe make an statue in their honour and have the mausoleum double as statue garden.