Print

Please login or register.
1 Hour 1 Day 1 Week 1 Month Forever
Login with username, password and session length

[BurnedToast]

I have a pro tip.

Make slabs.

Unless for some reason the ghost's name is not showing up on the list of names to be engraved, which is a known bug.

[Hans Lemurson]

When a curious child got atomsmashed in my 10th year after I had massacred a siege or two, I had to carefully memorize his name in order to find it on the list.  Fortunately dwarves are at the top of the list, but not knowing this, I started at the bottom of the list and cycled up thinking it might be "kill order".  As I cycled through wave after wave of dead goblins and trolls, I noticed that there were bunches of entries with no name attached to them, just "(engrave)".  They also seemed to occur in clusters.  Any idea what that might be about?

[malimbar04]

I didn't see anything relevant in the raws...

But I would happily turn them off if I knew how. Unkillable, untouchable thieves and brutes that will, no matter what, clutter up a civ. Happens more when killing migrants is part of a management strategy (save the food for ourselves!).

[thijser]

If you can't remember the name can't you use the unit lost? I always use the unit list to find out who is still haunting me.

[Hateweaver]

If I have had setup coffins to bury them in, I've never had a ghost stick around for any time at all.
I have had where early on, the stone mason died (damn skeletal crocs!), turn into a ghost - and by the time I finally got a stone coffin built for him and installed - that wasn't enough to satisfy him (had to make a slab).

But any other time - if I already have coffins available - I don't get any ghosts (certainly not angry ones), even with a variety of sad/unbury-able deaths occuring every year.

[Girlinhat]

As I cycled through wave after wave of dead goblins and trolls, I noticed that there were bunches of entries with no name attached to them, just "(engrave)".  They also seemed to occur in clusters.  Any idea what that might be about?

These appear to be un-assigned pets, like all those puppies you put on chains outside.  Owned pets and non-butchered animals of your civilization can be given a slab.  Those cattle that you butcher, do not get one, but that cattle that was killed by a goblin ambush, will.  Since they have no name, because they're not pets, it displays no name.

[malimbar04]

Could you put them in a coffin, and then destroy the coffin? I'd rather avoid having to build a huge mausoleum to house the dead that I never wanted.

[Girlinhat]

No, when the coffin is destroyed, the body pops out, unlike cages where the contents remain inside.  Un-built slabs count as nothing, they must be built, and remain built, to function.  I build mass graves, personally, with a few dozen tiles square filled with native stone coffins.  Nice platinum caskets go to the picky nobles, who actually get burried in their room more often than not, as I place all of their furniture in one room so that it improves each other.