First of all, I'm very pleased with having memorials available. I found them quite useful at the end of my first winter when seven ice-skating dwarves suddenly plunged to their cold, watery deaths. However, there are a few areas that could use some polish:
1. In the build menu, I'd like to be able to distinguish between carved memorials (which I want to place) and uncarved slabs (which should remain in storage). Even better if I can select which memorial by name, so the soldier memorials go in the barracks, the mason memorials go in the work room, the hammerer memorials go in the dungeon, etc.
2. On the carve memorial screen, I'd like some way to know which dwarves already have at least 1 memorial already carved for them. I carved memorials for Urist McIceskater 1 through 6, got distracted, then had to look at all the finished slabs to figure out the name of Urist McIceskater 7, which I had missed. Maybe some sort of color-change system like with the room assignment lists would work.
*. For all I know this is already implemented, and my dwarves are too boring/engravers too green to show it - Memorials can include engravings of the memorialized dwarf doing something:
"There is an engraving of Urist McAxedwarf and a goblin. The goblin is headless. This refers to Urist's slaying of Snotbox Grumpypants the goblin pikeman in 354."
"There is an engraving of Urist McFarmer and a field. Urist is laboring. This refers to Urist becoming a planter in 356."
"There is an engraving of Urist McGemdwarf and Shinyrock the perfect large peridot. Urist is holding Shinyrock. This refers to the crafting of Shinyrock by Urist in 372."
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Topic: Improvements for slabs/memorials (Read 523 times)