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[Wyrframe]

A great dining hall that I discovered, to my own personal horror, was covered in memorials to the evisceration of the Duke and his retinue of 14+ immigrants who decided to migrate to my fortress just seconds before an orcish siege descended upon me. All 10x15 tiles of the dining hall floor, smeared in murals of the event.

And I, too, have had mayoral offices dedicated to the exploits of a /previous/ mayor. I'd hate to think if these sorts of images actually impacted a dwarf's unhappiness... I'd almost stop engraving entirely.

Actually, scratch that. I'd set aside an area to do test engravings, and use it to check the "mood" of my engravers before letting them engrave larger areas. That might prevent some of these problems.

[Djohaal]

-evisceration-

You can remove floor engravings by constructing floors on top of them and removing the floors afterwards. Doesn't work for walls obviously.

[Marconius]

The symbol of my home civilization, the Iron Stars, is... a bucket. I have no idea why, but... yeah. Half my walls are covered in buckets!

Other than that, haven't seen anything really bad, though I should probably look around again, now that I've killed some forgotten beasts.

By the way, Dwarves don't get unhappy thoughts from improper engravings, right?

[kotekzot]

I think they only get mad if they see an engraving of something they dislike.

[deoxys413]

I engraved every inch of my mayor's office only to find that next to the heroic engraving of him founding the fortress was an image of him quivering in fear at being surrounded by rats. xD

[Max White]

Best I ever had was a dwarf getting killed by an elf, however, and here is the catch, the dwarf in question was my living breathing mayor.

Looks up the legends and it turns out there was also a dwarf with the same name who was killed by an elf, but still, it was lolful to think my engraver thought he knew the future, or didn't like the mayor.

[Urist_McGamer]

At least we humans don't engrave things or put images of events on our stuff as much as dwarfs do. We'd have murals of presidents being assassinated and such all over D.C. as well as your standard cheeseburgers, Pontiac TransAms, and insects.

[deoxys413]

At least we humans don't engrave things or put images of events on our stuff as much as dwarfs do. We'd have murals of presidents being assassinated and such all over D.C. as well as your standard cheeseburgers, Pontiac TransAms, and insects.

I'm hoping my sarcasm detector is wonky today, because I think all of those could be found in a Smithsonian somewhere...

[Zesty]

[barconis]

"The Balls of Dignity"? XD

[Urist son of Urist]

I had an engraver do six images of my leader looking miserable and surrounded by purring maggots.  That was a bit annoying.

[Batta]

I embarked a fortress in a hilly area because I knew there was a demon wandering around there, and thought it'd be fun to try to handle it. Sometime later, I had carved out a dorm for all my dwarves, and had my engraver go to work.

By the time he was done, the room was filled with carvings of that very same demon.

[ReverseWill]

I had my mason make a bunch of statues for the dining room, right? He made all eight of them about dead dogs or dogs in the process of being killed by sundry humanoids and wildlife. I nicknamed him "Urist McJerusalem" after that.

Another time, I had an engraver put not one, but two pictures of the same dwarven soldier being killed in battle. Why was it inappropriate? It was in the soldier's mother's room.

[Coidzure Dreams]

I had a very popular mayor die, which caused some tantruming but I was able to get it under control.

The fortress was large enough that I would simply assign brand new rooms to the nobles when I got a new one, and carve out an additional tomb connecting to the old bedrooms.  This reduced a lot of the hauling jobs to place items in a tomb that belonged to the noble.

So I carved out a new room, made it shiny, carved out a new tomb for the new mayor.

The engravings were mostly about the election of the previous mayor, the artifact the previous mayor had made, the masterful work the previous mayor had done, the previous mayor laughing at goblins making plaintive gestures... and a few about cheese and plump helmets.

So the new mayor's rooms were almost shrines to the old mayor.

'S called having big shoes to fill.   I believe the White House does something similar, but not so much in the bedrooms, no.

[dogstile]

"The Balls of Dignity"? XD

First thing I realised too. Brilliant name.