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[E-mouse]

So, rotten corpses should float, but not fresh ones or decayed bone?

Might also give time for their gear to loosen, if still a bit of a stretch.

[Hoborobo234]

Would need Scavengers to clean up the dead bodies though, imagine a whol oceans worth of Golden Whateverfish being swept ashore. That would be very annoying

[Mikademus]

Must be annoying for the dwarf Mafia when the dwarf drowns and drop his concrete shoes and floats to the surface.

[JohnieRWilkins]

Must be annoying for the dwarf Mafia when the dwarf drowns and drop his concrete shoes and floats to the surface.

You obviously haven't watched Eastern Promises. It is all about the corpse processing, the waves will do the rest.

[Tormy]

Must be annoying for the dwarf Mafia when the dwarf drowns and drop his concrete shoes and floats to the surface.

You obviously haven't watched Eastern Promises. It is all about the corpse processing, the waves will do the rest.

Sorry for going OT, but that was a very good movie. 

[Footkerchief]

Nop, all creatures are dropping all of their stuff upon death. Don't ask me why. 

Which is why corpses should act as containers in which all worn items are placed upon death.  Then you'd get heavily-laden corpses sinking, and others floating.

[Warlord255]

Nop, all creatures are dropping all of their stuff upon death. Don't ask me why. 

Which is why corpses should act as containers in which all worn items are placed upon death.  Then you'd get heavily-laden corpses sinking, and others floating.

Agreed tremendously.

[Axe27]

Nop, all creatures are dropping all of their stuff upon death. Don't ask me why. 

Which is why corpses should act as containers in which all worn items are placed upon death.  Then you'd get heavily-laden corpses sinking, and others floating.

Agreed tremendously.

The reason the bodies drop all their crap on death is because keeping the items on the body is difficult to code.

[Footkerchief]

The reason the bodies drop all their crap on death is because keeping the items on the body is difficult to code.

How so?  All I'm proposing is that they act just like any other container like bins or bags.

Making corpses act as containers would also allow dwarves to intelligently carry back whole corpses BEFORE stripping them, making battlefield salvage much more efficient.  Chopped-off limbs and body parts could act as containers for items attached to them, so helmets would stay attached to chopped-off heads, etc.

[Overdose]

so basically, make things that die do the same that those Colossi do when they turn into statues after death, only instead they turn into a bin containing all the items they had (except the bin is a corpse).

[Warlord255]

so basically, make things that die do the same that those Colossi do when they turn into statues after death, only instead they turn into a bin containing all the items they had (except the bin is a corpse).

Effectively, yes. This would be immensely useful with the Army Arc coming up, what with the increase in violence... is this in Eternal Suggestion voting?

[Tormy]

Nop, all creatures are dropping all of their stuff upon death. Don't ask me why. 

Which is why corpses should act as containers in which all worn items are placed upon death.  Then you'd get heavily-laden corpses sinking, and others floating.

This is a very good suggestion chief. 

[GlyphGryph]

I support the corpse/body parts as container idea, fully and completely!

[Footkerchief]

Okay, since people liked it I went ahead and added it to Eternal Suggestions.

http://www.bay12games.com/forum/eternal_voting.php#vote23

[Squeegy]

Its like dropping your bowls. or maybe the take it all off before succumbing.

THERE IS A BOLT THROUGH MY BRAIN, CLEARLY I SHOULD TAKE OFF ALL MY CLOTHES AND LIE DOWN.

I believe it takes around 48 hours for a human corpse to float to the surface due to gases forming from decomposition as stated before. Thats what concrete shoes were for

No, I'm fairly sure concrete shoes were for drowning the person.