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[SalmonGod]

Well, if you want to be pedantic, Salmongod originally implied that the panic room was sealed, hence could not access the bodies of the fallen; having slabs is only half a solution since you still have to engrave them and you can't do that until the dwarf in question is actually dead. 

I'm waiting to get my first artifact slab, I want to know if anything special happens when I engrave it into a memorial.

Would be awesome if that produced a positive ancestral spirit, who could give happy thoughts and guidance.

Until invaders defile it.

[strongrudder]

I wonder if one could come across ghosts as an adventurer visiting a crumbled fort...

[!!crundle!!]

I just had an OOOOOOoooooOOOOOoo who died in slate appear in early galena. How long does it take on average for one to appear?

[darkflagrance]

I wonder, if your fort is utterly destroyed by an invasion that leaves many dwarves unburied, and you then reclaim or visit it in adventure mode, whether the next visitors to the site will be haunted by unnamed ghosts.

[!!crundle!!]

WAIT

You can build slabs to named creatures, as I just made a slab to a named werewolf.

This...

Could be !!fun!!.

[darkflagrance]

WAIT

You can build slabs to named creatures, as I just made a slab to a named werewolf.

This...

Could be !!fun!!.

Slabs to named goblin leaders possible  ?

[!!crundle!!]

WAIT

You can build slabs to named creatures, as I just made a slab to a named werewolf.

This...

Could be !!fun!!.

Slabs to named goblin leaders possible  ?

WAIT

If there can be slabs to them, could they...

Ownerplanes, werewolf has risen and is and is haunting the fortress

(It hasn't happened... YET.)

[forsaken1111]

I like the idea of an annoying little fucking goblin ghost running around bugging the dwarves, demanding a monument to his greatness.

[!!crundle!!]

I've got a second werewolf who got a named engraved on a slab.

OOOOOooooOO.

[Psieye]

Slabs can be placed without engravings and be used for sculpture gardens. After engravings, they can become memorial halls. A proper dwarven burial (burial, not cremation) then, would slap down multiple slabs around a coffin inside a large memorial hall. I also noticed my dwarves actually had a birth date now instead of being spawned mysteriously out of thin air. Or maybe they had a birth date assigned to them despite being conjured up, I'd need to check Legends mode to see that.

Also, I find it amusing I could even make a slab engraving of the skeletal horse that killed my dwarf. Aimed combat makes things scary - one charge connecting adn the next moment the prone dwarf gets a bony horse kick in the head, instant killing because this was way early game and I only had axe and shield for my two soldiers.

[Langdon]

May I venture a guess that a rock slab is for non-coffin burials?  Say, for "burying" someone that no longer has remains.

It doesn't appear to be. I built one, and as far as I can tell it serves the same purpose as a statue. Not sure exactly what the point is.

After you make a stone slab, go to your craftworker's shop, and select engrave a memorial (alt-S). You will be presented with a list of dead dwarves and other creatures (my list included dead merchants and goblins). Havent gone beyond this point though.

I am assuming this will produce an engraved slab you can use to memorialize your lost dwarves, and like burying, will prevent the dead from coming back.

[Sowelu]

I like slabs as an alternative to coffins when making giant burial chambers.  Coffins are still super sweet for tombs like they oughtta be.

[Glanzor]

I wonder, if your fort is utterly destroyed by an invasion that leaves many dwarves unburied, and you then reclaim or visit it in adventure mode, whether the next visitors to the site will be haunted by unnamed ghosts.

I just reclaimed an old fortress that crumbled into ruins. Its old inhabitants are ghosts now, they don't seem to haunt anyone, though. They just kinda hang around in the front yard.

Edit: Oh, wait, they do haunt. Time to make rock slabs I guess.

[Akura]

I like the idea of an annoying little fucking goblin ghost running around bugging the dwarves, demanding a monument to his greatness.

Unless it's a goblin who managed to force his way into your meeting hall before being taken down by that one Urist McAxedwarf who decided to have a drink rather than protect his home, family, and friends. And becomes a murderous ghost.


"Stop frickin' dying of fright, guys! He wasn't that bad the first time around!"

[Internet Kraken]

I also noticed my dwarves actually had a birth date now instead of being spawned mysteriously out of thin air. Or maybe they had a birth date assigned to them despite being conjured up, I'd need to check Legends mode to see that.

I checked legends mode for the fort I just started, and as far as I can tell the Dwarves are pulled out of thin air. Which is somewhat annoying, but at the same time I guess it gives you more artistic liberty.

Also a minor problem with the new worship system is that I've seen dwarves that worship the same god twice. So you end up with dwarves that are both casual and faithful worshipers to the same entity.

Speaking of worship, is it possible to get dwarves in fortress mode that worship megabeasts?