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[Wastedlabor]

Wikipedia:

An ossuary is a chest, building, well, or site made to serve as the final resting place of human skeletal remains. They are frequently used where burial space is scarce. A body is first buried in a temporary grave, then after some years the skeletal remains are removed and placed in an ossuary. The greatly reduced space taken up by an ossuary means that it is possible to store the remains of many more people in a single tomb than if the original coffins were left as is.

I'm trying to design a microfort as compact as possible, but there's no long term workaround for burials. An ossuary engraved pit would be just good enough to prevent ghost spawns. Seeing a nice coffin could make dwarves feel somehow more bonded to the group, but the fortress would be able to make do without as long as everybody is happy.

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Wikipedia:

An ossuary is a chest, building, well, or site made to serve as the final resting place of human skeletal remains. They are frequently used where burial space is scarce. A body is first buried in a temporary grave, then after some years the skeletal remains are removed and placed in an ossuary. The greatly reduced space taken up by an ossuary means that it is possible to store the remains of many more people in a single tomb than if the original coffins were left as is.

I'm trying to design a microfort as compact as possible, but there's no long term workaround for burials. An ossuary engraved pit would be just good enough to prevent ghost spawns. Seeing a nice coffin could make dwarves feel somehow more bonded to the group, but the fortress would be able to make do without as long as everybody is happy.

A crystal glass ossuary has something dwarfy about it. In history (european middle ages) people at times even cooked corpses to be able to divide flesh and bone and have better transportable bones sooner, for burial at home. (At least Johan Huizinga mentions that in his "The Autumn of the Middle Ages".)