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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

[Tcei]

Minimum to low for me.

The first several years if I do anything at all its create a stockpile for the fallen, otherwise I leave them where they lay. Its not until I start getting nobles that I actualy start to build  some catacombs and the like then the fallen pesants get a hole in the wall leading to a nobles 5x5 or 6x6 chamber. A dwarf that does something notable will sometimes get a very nice chamber.

In my last fort all the fallen were burried in the chasm.

[Neoskel]

Check out this suggestion: http://www.bay12games.com/forum/index.php?topic=28937.0

It has to do with doing things to corpses after death. This has implications for burial, like being able to put special burial clothes and equipment on bodies before burying them and doing special rituals like mummification, and being able to sew a corpse back together for a more dignified burial.

[Lear]

Regular dwarves get moderate, unless I really disliked them, then they might not get buried at all. Heroic or otherwise epic dwarves get buried in a tomb as befitting as I can afford to build.

[Omnidum]

Minimal. I just stockpile the dead bastards in the back of the fortress. Except if they got killed whilst chasing carp, then I would just let them rot where they are.

[Maggarg - Eater of chicke]

I build a long corridor about 3 tiles wide.
I have a bunch of 1 tile wide branches that have little 1x1 alcoves in them, each a tile apart.
Fill with coffins.

Profit.
Obviously dwarves I like get nice stuff.

[Mephansteras]

I'm in between low and moderate, with a few high's thrown in.

Basically, most common dwarves are buried in a large chamber, each in their own coffin.

Military dwarves and hunters each get a 3x3 room. It is engraved upon their death. The only time they don't get this is when they die before I have enough chambers set up.

The founding dwarves, nobles, and occasionally champions that I'm particularly fond of, are all given more lavish burial chambers with high quality coffins. They usually end up with some statues or other furniture as well.

[Fortis]

I vary between moderate and low. Generally each dwarf gets a 3x3 doorless room with a coffin, but nothing more. However, I won't risk other dwarfs to retrieve the body if the situation is dangerous.

The only time I build larger tombs is for important nobles, Dungeon master and such. For others, their room doubles as the tomb.

[SolarShado]

I used to just graveyard stocckpile them outside, but lately i've been throwing coffins in any available space...

I plan to build at least a dedicated crypt, but i never get around to it...

[Jamini]

It's rare for me to do anything less than maximum effort for the burial of my (soon-to-be-deceased) dwarves. I've done everything from burial at sea, to encasing bodies in obsidian, to magma burials, to 5x5 shaped rooms adorned with all types of exotic metals (if I can, I try and make a sacophagus of a type of material the dwarf likes.

[profit]

All my dwarfs end up in the crematorium when their number is called.

If they are not immediately burned their poor souls are stuck on earth and can not enter the great halls until their bones turn to dust.

I hate the fact that the stockpile in side the crematorium used to bring the deceased to is called a graveyard.  There are no graves, just the sweet release of being covered in molten stone as they transition to the afterlife.

[sev]

I mine out a vein of economic metal and then build a series of interlocking 6x6 square rooms along its location.  Those rooms are smoothed and engraved and then lined with highly decorated coffins, decorated chains, and other pieces of valuable furniture.

They're all buried in one room together, but it's a fine room.

[Kel the Oblivious]

I give the working dwarf a pretty fine communal tomb. 12x12, engraved top to bottom, with the coffins arranged so one could walk down between them all, admiring those that came before. Statues are everywhere, made out of the most expensive stone I can find, and there is even a dining room adding in so if a dwarf wanted to, they could take their meal in the presence of the great.

Heroic dwarves, such as my lone axe dwarf who slaughtered an entire ambush while he was out alone on a patrol (Died due to a crossbow bolt a year and a half later to the eye) they get a 6x6 room, decorated with as many of their favorite objects.

Nobles, they THINK they are getting a 12x12 room with golden statues. The moment they die, I haul them to the nearest burial pit (A hole in the ground on top level) and left there to rot, so when the next lord arrives, there is a nice fresh burial chamber waiting for them.  Just pay no heed to the skeleton out front with the crown.

[MuonDecay]

How do you manage to avoid the coffin being claimed?

Tombs are claimed at the moment of death, I thought. Regardless of whether the remains are available to be interred.

[Kel the Oblivious]

I did forget to mention my warrior communal site. I have that set up in the barrack (With is 15x15, fully engraved and statue'd. Every single warrior I have has a coffin set and ready for them when they die. The coffins in my oldest fort, Angledmirror, were two deep before I was destroyed by the dreaded tantrum spiral.

[A_Fey_Dwarf]

How do you manage to avoid the coffin being claimed?

Tombs are claimed at the moment of death, I thought. Regardless of whether the remains are available to be interred.

If you designate the coffin as a room instead as just pressing (b)urial you can make that tomb specific for one dwarf's remains.