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[Captain Willy]

So my super legendary miner/ first 7 went missing for a week. I start looking around the map and I find his corpse in my refuse stockpile.

Is their a way to determined how he died?

I don't think it was a vampire no message and he wouldn't be sleeping in the refuse pile.

Also there are no dangerous creatures around, he has not had a mining job in awhile so no accidents, and he never was hurt so no bled to death or infection.

[misko27]

Is the body whole?

Any sign of a struggle?

Any blood?

Have you been attacked by a syndrome bearing creature?

[StubbornAlcoholic]

So my super legendary miner/ first 7 went missing for a week. I start looking around the map and I find his corpse in my refuse stockpile.

Is their a way to determined how he died?

I don't think it was a vampire no message and he wouldn't be sleeping in the refuse pile.

Also there are no dangerous creatures around, he has not had a mining job in awhile so no accidents, and he never was hurt so no bled to death or infection.

Mine went missing, turned out he'd dug himself into a channel he couldn't get out of and apparently starved (with no message). So I doubt it's anything sinister if the body isn't all mutilated: miners tend to get themselves maimed or killed eventually. They seem to be clumsy by nature, even the best ones.

[misko27]

So my super legendary miner/ first 7 went missing for a week. I start looking around the map and I find his corpse in my refuse stockpile.

Is their a way to determined how he died?

I don't think it was a vampire no message and he wouldn't be sleeping in the refuse pile.

Also there are no dangerous creatures around, he has not had a mining job in awhile so no accidents, and he never was hurt so no bled to death or infection.

Mine went missing, turned out he'd dug himself into a channel he couldn't get out of and apparently starved (with no message). So I doubt it's anything sinister if the body isn't all mutilated: miners tend to get themselves maimed or killed eventually. They seem to be clumsy by nature, even the best ones.

Yes, other then the obvious though, it'd very surprising if he died on a food stockpile (he could have been going to a stockpile, I lost m first baron that way, was starving a dehydrated, got released, and died right as they got to the well.

[TruePikachu]

The latest version of DFHack has a command for determining the cause of death, but I don't recall the name

[Lich180]

Don't quote me on this, but i'm pretty sure you can engrave a slab, build it, then use (t) I think to view the description. That should tell you, unless it will just say "went missing in year X"

[Callista]

It's likely that he took an unlucky one-z-level fall and landed on his head. Check your combat reports, see if his name's there. The report will probably have been erased by now, but the record of the report's having existed might still be there. A fall or an attack from wildlife or crowded hooved animals will leave a combat report.

[TruePikachu]

Speaking of which, just grep the gamelog for his name. Or search, but I prefer grep.

[Broken]

1: dwarf hack deathcause.

2: check legends mode in a copied save.