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[Grahar]

I have a habit of bringing the corpses of my more successful adventurers to a central resting place.
However, one adventurer who slew many night trolls got murderd in his sleep by goblins while resting outside. To find his corpse, I would have to search a really large area, which is kind of annoying. Is there a better way to find a specific dead person?

[Witty]

You could check legends mode and try to get a better idea where s/he died.

[Grahar]

I did, but as I said, the region is rather large. It takes up roughly a third of the continent and is larger than most human realms.
I can narrow it down to a smaller area, since I know where I was and where I wanted to go, but it is still al lot of space.

[Soadreqm]

You could search a larger area at a time by searching in fort mode. Max embark size, check site items for your adventuring gear, terminate DF without saving (so as not to pollute your world with useless giant forts).

[Grahar]

I did this in another case, where the possible area was only five tiles on the world map (and I was lucky, it was in the first one). I can't use the maximal fort size, since DF hugs all the working memory if I do that, a fourth of a world map tile works though. That means, there are more than 400 possible places to search with a fortress, leading to an expectation value of 200 forts before I find the corpse. Probably less, if I embark on the most probable sites first.
To check for items: don't I need a bookkeeper with a room and a chair for this? This takes significantly more time.

[Soadreqm]

Nope. You can get precise counts as long as there's less than ten items. If your adventurer was carrying less than ten backpacks, you'll be able to locate them. Even if your adventurer was carrying more than ten of every item, the stocks screen will still show that there are items somewhere on the map.

[Grahar]

Great. I think i can give it a try.