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[userpay]

So hows a good way to decorate a tomb? I've built tombs for my orriginal seven dwarves but I don't know what I should decorate it with besides engravings, any thoughts?

[Frelock]

Statues are usually the best way to go, if you want to increase a room's value quickly.

You could also do fun stuff like build an army of statues out of terra-cotta (claystone), then make a miniature model of your whole kingdom with magma for the rivers.  Or just make a miniature version of your fortress, and dwarves get buried in the spot that represents the place where they actually died...

Oh, and don't forget to add a jewel-encrusted golden sarcophagus.

[TheDeadlyShoe]

For fancy tombs, I prefer metal sarcophaguses in a reasonably sized (5x7?) room. Place engravings as appropriate. Sometimes I also place coffers and armor/weapon racks, although the dwarf/noble in question will actually use these as normal, so that gets kinda weird.

[Joseph Miles]

PFFT! I just used a large room with smoothed floors and walls, and standard unmodified coffins. when I assigned a dwarf to one coffin, it was marked as a GRAND MAUSOLEUM! And I'd stuffed at LEAST 20 coffins in there.

[trav]

I'm against metal coffins.

Certainly adorn the walls with precious metal, statues tapestries etc, but the coffins themselves should be made out of black obsidian and nothing else.

[Joseph Miles]

Then there is my old favorite "Fuck tombs, dead bodies on this bridge. Yes, this bridge. I KNOW it's above the magma flow. DO IT OR NO BOOZE FOR YOU! Good, now pull the lever "

[Areyar]

hmm. is it possible to build sarcophagi on a bridge?

I like lead ones.

[userpay]

Right now the rooms are smoothed out and clear glass coffins are in there.

[d3c0y2]

my tomb is the atom smasher.

I'm not cluttering my lovely mine up with lots of rooms storing dead people!

[LegacyCWAL]

For nobles, I just stick their coffin in their room.  It's already decorated, and it makes for a shorter trip for the hauler when they incarcerate one too many of my useful dwarves

[Scruga]

hahah this is a great topic. i make my sarcophagis out of the stone their tomb is build from. i might be a little crazy but i usually make a corridor. main room with statues and sarcophage. and then 2/3 side coridors with treasure rooms in the end.(chests and cabinets). all high quality stuff of course.

[R1ck]

If you're really worried about space, but don't want to destroy the corpse, you could just make them a coffin out of iron,
then drop it into a magma pipe. Iron is magma resistant, right?
>?

[Corak]

If you're really worried about space, but don't want to destroy the corpse, you could just make them a coffin out of iron,
then drop it into a magma pipe. Iron is magma resistant, right?
>?

That is a brilliant and dwarf-y idea... like burial at sea, for dwarves...

[Jude]

I like to have a winding passageway that leads to several outer antechambers branching off, and then a final coffin room with a gold/platinum sarcophagus covered in all the fine gems the caravans can supply.

[DwarfMan69]

Right now the rooms are smoothed out and clear glass coffins are in there.

Clear glass?! Do you think the dwarves want to see the rotting remains of their friends?