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Minimal effort: they rot where they fall.

27 (12.8%)

Low effort: all dwarves are buried in seperate coffins but in the same room.

93 (44.1%)

Moderate effort: each dwarf will be buried in a seperate chamber.

64 (30.3%)

High effort: each dwarf is buried in a seperate room. Each burial chamber is decorated with valuables, engraved and is quite large.

17 (8.1%)

Maximum effort: each dwarf will be buried in an overengineered fashion (buried in magma etc).

10 (4.7%)

Total Members Voted: 211

[Duke 2.0]

 Seeing as I generally make human forts, each person gets their casket buried under the first soil layer with a statue on top. If there is no statue available, a wall.

[jester]

  Starting 7 get individually tailored gravesites (underground forests, heated floor grave, etc).  nobles get a rock box in a 1x1 room (except my tax collecters, they get military training so they get nice graves, record: compenant wrestler tax collector).  Peasants get grant tombs just to piss the nobles off.  I like to build big platinum walled tombs and assign them to random dwarves, I feel its the other side of the random hammering dwarven justice.

[hotcakes]

well if your urist mcpeasentfail you get left in the graveyard and then later dumped into the magma pool for "cremation" but if your that jeweler that deconstructed a set of constructions that caused them to cave into the magma pool and make a giant cloud of magma mist that engulfed the goblin siege ready to rape and pillage my unsuspecting dorfs you get 100+ space mausoleum with traps and caged fire imps and stacks of masterwork goods and fully engraved i also dropped all of the jewelers pets of the death tower and buried them along with him for the afterlife and whatnot. (as an aside the engravings in his tomb room were as follows:

This is an engraving of a dwarf the dwarf is laboring
This is an engraving of a dwarf the dwarf is on fire
This is an engraving of a goblin the goblin is on fire
This is an engraving of a goblin the goblin is on fire
This is an engraving of a goblin the goblin is on fire
This is an engraving of a goblin the goblin is on fire
This is an engraving of a goblin the goblin is on fire
This is an engraving of a goblin the goblin is on fire
This is an engraving of a dwarf and some cheese the dwarf is eating the cheese

so let this be a lesson to you all if you sacrifice your own life to set of a magma bomb you will be rewarded in heaven with 72 pieces of cheese

[Tormy]

Moderate effort for soldiers, Low effort for regular dorfs and maximum effort for Dwarves who perform epicness.

Whoa, I tend to do the same...

[DJ_Muffinman]

I use a decentralized living layout, so when a dwarf dies I put a coffin inside of an empty room, or in his/her room if I can find it. I'll remove the bed from that room, wait for his belongings to be placed there, then seal the entrance.

Lately, I've been into the whole 'Hall of Champions' thing, so I now make sure I have one big Mausoleum for my more important dwarves, but I do ensure that my royal pansies nobles have a tomb of their own. Somewhere obscure and out of the way.

[moghopper]

None of the above.

I make massive communal tombs that you'd see in dungeons and dragons.

Nobles and higher ups get massive antechambers with cool features, and then i fill the chamber with specially place peasant graves.

Basically if you went in as an adventurer it would be like a be like a game of D&D, I design my tombs for adventuring goodness

[BurnedToast]

I usually just dump them in coffins in a big square room, pretty much the definition of low.

I tried maximum once - I had a graveyard set up in such a fashion that sections could be flooded with magma and I built steel coffins down there. It sort of worked, except the heat destroyed the dwarf bones inside the coffins so I scrapped it.

[Warlord255]

well if your urist mcpeasentfail you get left in the graveyard and then later dumped into the magma pool for "cremation" but if your that jeweler that deconstructed a set of constructions that caused them to cave into the magma pool and make a giant cloud of magma mist that engulfed the goblin siege ready to rape and pillage my unsuspecting dorfs you get 100+ space mausoleum with traps and caged fire imps and stacks of masterwork goods and fully engraved i also dropped all of the jewelers pets of the death tower and buried them along with him for the afterlife and whatnot. (as an aside the engravings in his tomb room were as follows:

This is an engraving of a dwarf the dwarf is laboring
This is an engraving of a dwarf the dwarf is on fire
This is an engraving of a goblin the goblin is on fire
This is an engraving of a goblin the goblin is on fire
This is an engraving of a goblin the goblin is on fire
This is an engraving of a goblin the goblin is on fire
This is an engraving of a goblin the goblin is on fire
This is an engraving of a goblin the goblin is on fire
This is an engraving of a dwarf and some cheese the dwarf is eating the cheese

so let this be a lesson to you all if you sacrifice your own life to set of a magma bomb you will be rewarded in heaven with 72 pieces of cheese

The "show full history" option in init.txt is your friend.

[Solara]

We need some pictures of interesting tombs in this thread.

[Hakar]

Between low and moderate. Depending on the size and age of the fortress I tend to have several tombs with 10-20 coffins in them.
Only exceptional dorfs and those purple bastards get their own final rooms.

[Fist_Of_Armok]

My Founders get their own tombs, surrounded by Graveyard Stockpiles so they're surrounded by the remains of their servants.

Only done it a few times, though. I'm still learning my DF style.

[Retales]

High effort for the Day-0 founderdwarves, but low on the rest. Nearly drove my King insane when they (the founders) had such fine tombs and he had a mere grave. Almost introduced the King to the drowning chamber for being mad at the dead dwarves who made it possible for him to even be there

Anyways, my low-effort burial grounds are usually designed like 'catacombs'. A network of tunnels with coffins in the holes dug in the wall.

[Footkerchief]

Ornate burial chambers for the Founding Seven.  Everyone else gets thrown into the chasm/magma.

[Deathworks]

Hello!

Actually, it depends for me, ranging from somewhat low to high.

My first priority is to get dwarves buried ASAP, so if I have several dwarves die because of an ambush, I may be forced to use group burial chambers. During the early game, I also use them as I don't have the ressources to do individual ones. Only later, as available labor permits, will I create individual chambers, starting with the dwarves I like and working my way down to the dog owners.

However, even my community burial chambers are always completely engraved and usually have a pattern of coffin- statue- coffin to show at least some dignity and respect.

Deathworks

[Yami]

Before the first year is over, in every dwarven fort I've started, I will have already begun work on the mausoleum.  My miners will have dug down to the bottom z level and will be excavating 5x5 rooms in a hexagonal pattern around the stairwell.  Each dwarf gets a coffin in the center of their room, and if all goes well, they get to engrave it on their own, though I try to train them up before letting them work on their final resting place.  Although alot of coffins are mass produced, should someone like a material that I have easy access to, I will often have on build specifically for them.  True, it's sometimes the soapmaker who likes steel and garnets, but that just means he gets to go through a special training regime to make him earn the thing.