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[Urist McCyrilin]

Urist Strongbeard the Hammer of Might, my mightiest warrior, who decapitated dozens of goblins and orcs passed on, mortally wounding a dragon by himself in the process. I have a decent idea for a tomb dedicted to him now, and I need your opinions. The room is a 6x6 room with steel walls, the entire floor covered with steel plating. I plan on engraving the room and fill it with steel statues and of course a masterwork steel coffin.
Then I plan on filling the entire tomb with magma. A steel does not melt in magma, both the statues as well as the engravings should last. Using stockpile orders, I would fill the room with all the goblin bones, skulls and the skull of the dragon he killed before submerging it all in magma. Opinions? Suggestions?

[peterix]

Make it 5x5 or 7x7 so the coffin can be in the middle.

[Urist McCyrilin]

Make it 5x5 or 7x7 so the coffin can be in the middle.

Good call, will do.

[DI7789]

I recall a post I read a little while ago about a Urist Strongbeard who was a King, it seems the Strongbeard name has been carried on.

On-topic, this burial chamber sounds truly dwarfy, just make sure you get the coffin set up before everything else so as to avoid Urist decaying in the open air

Edit: typo

[Urist McCyrilin]

I recall a post I read a little while abo about a Urist Strongbeard who was a King, it seems the Strongbeard name has been carried on.

On-topic, this burial chamber sounds truly dwarfy, just make sure you get the coffin set up before everything else so as to avoid Urist decaying in the open air

Yes, he was my king. That's actually a fun story. My king ended up having a son whom he also called Urist.

[Duke 2.0]

 Actually, if he degrades into bones before burial then the bones won't pop out of the grave after the magma has flooded the tomb. Seems after a body decays inside a coffin the bones come out. Alternatively you could just not fill the tomb until the bones have popped out and you have a chance to put them back in.

[Albedo]

(Dammit - stop posting! I tried responding to the very first OP! 'Course, I'm also playing the game, so... anyway...)

If you have any adamantine, even 1 would be approp.  Maybe for the coffin itself, or an adamantine axe, as a burial offering?

Make the dragon skull a totem first, of course. Manipulate the decorating material as best you can. 

[Kidiri]

How about decorating the coffin with every available metal, bone, gem and whatnot. If necessary, import rock crystals (for crystal glass), other gems and unobtainable metals. Save-scum until everything is a masterpiece. If you can spare the resources, do the same with the statues.

Edit: don't forget to put his favourite items made from his favourite materials in it.And should he like a certain animal, cage it and put it in there too.

[assimilateur]

I plan on engraving the room

Can you even engrave man-made walls?

[ampillion]

I plan on engraving the room

Can you even engrave man-made walls?

Far as I know, you can't. Perhaps it can be modded in or something? /shrug

[DennyTom]

Magma will not melt bones? If yes I would suggest make 2 connected rooms - first with bones and bone totems, in second submerged coffin.

Also make the lava room 2 or 3 z-levels tall and put coffin on ramp or something - so it is 1 z-level above floor.

[ampillion]

I'm fairly certain magma will melt bones, unless they're the bones of a fire-proof critter. (Always end up with a fire imp corpse or two in the magma pipe. Precious bolts I'll never claim!)

[Urist McCyrilin]

I plan on engraving the room

Can you even engrave man-made walls?

Far as I know, you can't. Perhaps it can be modded in or something? /shrug

You can engrave man-made floors. And from what I heard, if you engrave all floor tiles in an artificial room, the walls are automatically engraved. Though I may be mistaken

[Flashzom]

Personally, I think a multistory underground alter with the coffin on top of a pedestal... fuck it, I'll just draw it.

[Albedo]

Make sure it's better than any nobles' tombs - screw'em.