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[grammarxcore]

I'd appreciate any feedback.

I'm periodically updating this. Thanks for all the input so far.

[Sutremaine]

'Non-dwarf from 'Others''?

Also I feel that the green workshop boxes should lead back into the 'Do you have...' questions, though I don't know what the flowchart rules are for that.

[ScegfOd]

I think he means that baby-snatched dwarves dorfs can leave ghosts, but anything else in the 'other' list wont...

[StubbornAlcoholic]

I must admit when I read the thread title, I thought this was going to be along the lines of:

Embark --> Have you dug into the caverns? (Yes) --> Your fortress has fallen.
Embark --> Have you dug into the caverns? (No) --> Your fortress has been besieged --> Your fortress has fallen. 

But, er, yeah, looks good to me

[grammarxcore]

I think he means that baby-snatched dwarves dorfs can leave ghosts, but anything else in the 'other' list wont...

You are correct. Dwarf merchants and guards function the same way, though. If you don't bury or memorialize them, they'll eventually spawn a ghost.

Also I feel that the green workshop boxes should lead back into the 'Do you have...' questions, though I don't know what the flowchart rules are for that.

They lead to the next option. If you don't have a coffin, you need to make one. If you have one or you just made one, you build it. Granted, this doesn't preclude pre-built things. It's just a map for someone who has no idea.

[laularukyrumo]

I don't recall pets ever giving rise to ghosts--that behavior appears to be reserved for sentients.

And I would know. I've atom-smashed a lot of pet cavies in my time :<

[grammarxcore]

I don't recall pets ever giving rise to ghosts--that behavior appears to be reserved for sentients.

And I would know. I've atom-smashed a lot of pet cavies in my time :<

Great point. I updated that caution to remove the ambiguity.

[gchristopher]

You might want to address butchering and the possibility of reanimation? Maybe different paths for rotten vs. unrotten remains and consideration of their location?

Also, burying only matters for pets, so a lot of that doesn't really apply for  "owned animals."

[grammarxcore]

You might want to address butchering and the possibility of reanimation? Maybe different paths for rotten vs. unrotten remains and consideration of their location?

Also, burying only matters for pets, so a lot of that doesn't really apply for  "owned animals."

That's a great point on the owned animals v. pets. I hadn't thought of it that way.

If I'm not mistaken, if a butcher's shop is close enough to a refuse pile, the job is automatically queued.

[gchristopher]

There's several details to consider, like whether auto-claim of corpses is on. Maybe consider whether the corpse is forbidden under:

o-F-c: Claim your dead
o-F-o: Claim other dead

Automatic butchering and tanning are options:

o-W-b: Auto Butcher (Seems slow to me, maybe relating to corpses being taken to refuse piles?)
o-W-t: Auto Tan (For skin-> leather, critical in reanimating biomes)
o-W-t: Auto Kitchen (For fat -> tallow)

Since your flowchart seems to be mostly about how to avoid Fun consequences of dead things, probably focusing on ghosts, negative pet/relation thoughts and reanimating undead would be the main considerations? Maybe you could pare it down to paths leading to either: "Do something to avoid outcome X" or "Dump/Refuse Pile/Process Remains" categories of action.

[fractalman]

I think the two default animals (especially the yak) have a glitch where they can come back as a ghost.  If nothing else, that yak shows up on my slabbable list...O.o

[Putnam]

Tombs can only be assigned when the creature is alive, mind.