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[WaffleEggnog]

Title. Dwarves will refuse to be bury corpses. I notice specifically once a Dwarf has been reanimated then killed, the sprite of the corpse changes from the default one that it was before. Afterwards, while the corpse will be brought to an available burial, instead of being buried it will just be sat on top of the grave, same with limbs and other bits. After this some other asshole will pick up the job to bury it, walk over, then just pick it up and place it back down on top of the grave. Rinse and repeat this, and the corpse never actually gets placed in the coffin and dorfs run back and forth constantly.

For the most part it will not reanimate since the head is usually pulped from some blunt weapon, but arms and legs sat on it will come back and spook people from time to time. Luckily everyone in the fort is desensitised enough to deal with it.



This leaves me in the weird situation of either making slabs for every single dead dwarf (which is a pain in the ass to manage what with slabs not telling you if they're engraved when you try to build them) or just letting the family members be sad, atom smashing the corpse to avoid reanimation in both cases.

Edit: Didn't really include a question in the thread. So: How to I fix this and get burials to work properly? If that's impossible, what's the next best solution?

[anewaname]

When I had this same issue. I walled around the corpse and coffin to seal it in and stop the job from triggering. Later the ghost came to haunt and I engraved a slab for him. The remains just stayed there.

[Thisfox]

I've got to admit, I do slab every single death. I just assign a single craftworkshop in a designated "slab engraving room" with as many names as it will hold, wait for all of them to be done, then do another list, then wait for them to be done... etc. If there's been a mass !!death!!, it might take a while to get through all the names, but there's an adjoining room (with a lockable door, for reasons) with a huge slab-and-coffin stockpile so that if necessary, one goddamn craftsdorf, with enough time, can slab the entire fort. Again.

I then fill any empty space with a slab floor, usually a hallway where a lot of dorfs travel, or if it's a spare room, I put a statue in the middle of the room, slabcarpet the floor, then make the statue into a sculpture garden, so dorfs can go visit the slabs that way. Expensive bejewelled, goldplated slabs I keep built, and when someone important dies, I deconstruct a fancy slab, put it in the slab-engraving room stockpile with the plain slab storeroom door locked, and assign a slab-engraving, and presto, I have a fancy slab with the name of a dorf I care about on it. That can then be put in the bedroom of a mayor or someone important to make their room more expensive, and remind them what can happen to a dorf who doesn't mandate the right things....

[Goatmaan]

When you "b"uild a slab hit x to expand the slab list, it'll show engraved slabs.
Same goes for doors,beds,statues etc...for quality.

    Goatmaan

[SebasMarolo]

Have you seen those 1x4 bedroom designs? Make them 1x2-3, replace bed with coffin and done. Forbid the door once every piece rests atop the coffin. Heck, you could put a statue of the dwarf in question infront of the door leading to his grave, if you wanna be fancy. Or you could use that dwarf's very room. Let him keep his collection of socks and stuff.

But seriously, no idea why they wouldn't put those corpses inside the coffins.

[Skorpion]

Slab them, and torch the corpses in magma. It's the only way to be sure.

[Melting Sky]

One thing to keep in mind when using the atom smashing method for corpse disposal is that it won't work on the really big stuff. Personally, I like to keep the big ones and weaponize them, but regardless of what you decide to do with them it is good to have a back up plan for disposing of the big guys.

[PatrikLundell]

Well, the really big guys can still be atom smashed as long as they're dead and not reanimated. In most cases you can use magma for the backup.