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[Person]

I ask this because I started a hermit fort and seeing 2-3 screens of "Deceased" is a little annoying. They do seem to fade on their own after awhile though.

[h3lblad3]

Nope, not unless it's a new feature.

[Shrugging Khan]

Are you sure they fade? I always thought they clutter the list forever.

[Person]

It seems to take quite awhile before they fade. This fort lasted about 1-2 years before the first creature vanished. It was a giant rat my first caravan killed.

[Cruxador]

I suspect that the fading of the rat may have been some sort of bug, as I have never noticed any such phenomenon.

[noodle0117]

they he "should" make it fade.

[monkeyfetus]

I suppose "he" would be more accurate than "they" considering we're talking about Dwarf Fortress. I hope that, if it wasn't stealthily implemented already, that it does get implemented eventually, though with the way legends works it would probably have to wait for the rewrite that will allow history to continue after worldgen ends. Also, there are problems like perhaps I don't want the legendary axedwarf and patriarch of the largest family in the fortress, who slew the goblin king, to ever fade from the list.

[Shrugging Khan]

Maybe make it so that creatures you look at return to the list. So if you check out some megabeast's corpse in your cellar, or your legendary dorf's coffin, they're re-placed on the list for a short time.

[Noble Digger]

I'm not sure having it fade would be the right solution, but I agree that it can get hard to search through the list after a while. If they faded, I wouldn't be able to go back and review the names of Forgotten Beasts that have attacked my fort, etc. I'm thinking that a string filter in the Unit List would be sufficient, or a hotkey to toggle deceased units off and on.

[rezon]

Why not just made a keypress hide the selected creature from the U-menu, in that case, it can be found by unhiding at a later point but doesn't mess in everyday viewing.

[Shrugging Khan]

I wonder whether that kind of thing might not accumulate too much and turn into lag in very old forts.

[Ledi]

It would be nice to have some sort of filter in the U list....

Show/hide living dwarves
Show/hide dead dwarves
Show/hide living wildlife
Show/hide dead wildlife
Show/hide living Uninvited Guests
Show/hide dead Uninvited Guests

etc etc...

[Dorf3000]

Just filtering out the thousands of DRAs (Dead Random Animals) and slaughtered puppies would be a start.  And after a while, the thousands of random goblins/elves that were killed.  It could be on a tab based system like the z-screen, with live dwarves on the main page, current visitors on another tab, then live animals, dead named foes, and dead everything else.

[The Yellow Peril]

Filtering is good. Also, having it like the normal scroll-down menus where you can skip past a whole page rather than having to scroll down the whole thing manually would be nice.

[Hyndis]

Some sort of filtering or categories sorting option would be very helpful on a large fortress that has killed innumerable creatures, both in sieges and for butchering.