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[Humaan]

While preparing a magma forge, a dwarf was incinerated by magma, and his body disappeared from existence.

Later, when I was making a graveyard after 2 consecutive goblin ambushes, I see the incinerated dwarf was place in a coffin, when where his body was inaccessible AND covered in magma.

How did they manage to get pass 2 bauxite floodgates, and about 27 tiles of 7/7 magma?

Simple. They didn't. The "body" was instantly put in the grave, not to mention getting repaired from total destruction in the process.

Definitely a bug.

[Lymojo]

That's weird. I know this is stupid to ask, but are you sure it's the same body, and not another dwarf with the same name?
Can you check the contents? Is there actually a body in there or is it just marked as the "resting place of Cog McStumbly"? I've never heard of this happening before, but maybe the dwarves have honored him with a ceremonial resting place, even though they couldn't find his body?
I'm just kind of throwing this all out there. It's probably a bug.

[Humaan]

Out of 37 dwarves, it is REALLY unlikely for a double name...

And after looking, there is only 1 Reg Scaleglaze, and his deceased name is acting like it was on fire...

... which means he was a fire elemental in dwarf form. I wonder, if the grave could be opened, if he would still be on fire?


EDIT: Just tried looking at its contents. None of them have them listed, but they are indeed dead. Maybe its sealed so you can't check?

[Haven]

From my experience, dwarves will allocate tombs to fallen before they check for remains to put in them. I've experienced this mostly in mid-battle, making sure a good soldier gets a good tomb while his/her body is cut off from the catacombs. They'll assign it, and gather up the remains/owned items if/when they become available.

[Footkerchief]

From my experience, dwarves will allocate tombs to fallen before they check for remains to put in them. I've experienced this mostly in mid-battle, making sure a good soldier gets a good tomb while his/her body is cut off from the catacombs. They'll assign it, and gather up the remains/owned items if/when they become available.

Yeah.  It gets claimed for them at the moment of death.

[Derakon]

Yeah, dwarves will create cenotaphs for dead dwarves whose bodies they can't retrieve. Dwarves are also "buried" (get allocated a coffin) in the order in which they die, so if you've been killing off migrants for years and then want to make a coffin for your dead champion, you'll have to make a bunch of coffins before you can bury that champion.

[Hyndis]

Its actually common to put empty coffins in the ground in the case where the body cannot be recovered.