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[cog disso]

My forts are basically death cults; as such, coffins, slabs and so forth are the number one creative priority after the military is operational. Armok must have blood.

Bedrooms contain sarcophagi. When the dwarf dies, his bedroom is sealed and becomes a tomb. Dormitory dwellers are usually granted coffins in the catacomb niches that line the dining halls. Royal tombs are also designated as meeting halls.

Above ground, I like to impale goblins on iron spikes from my execution tower. The impalement zone has become something of a fixation for me, due to the blood and gore that accumulates. I therefore build slabs for the goblins.

Troglodytes, trolls, and underground beasties are usually displayed in cages around the fortress walls. Titans and megabeasts that get caged have enormous temples built around them. Forgotten Beasts are allowed to rot where they fell.

Bone and body part piles are almost purely decorative and I love having them around.

[Flying Dice]

I pile themm up next to the corpses of dead traders and goblins in and around my main entrance. I like to give the elves something to look at, apart from the complete lack of trees.

Unless they were a badass that deserves a good tomb, in which case I encase them in adamantine-studded bauxtite coffins and drop them into the lava sea.

[Kat]

one fort, had a war with the elfs.

the dead from that war were entombed within a giant wooden pyramid, 15 z-levels high.

Best I've heard yet.

it seemed appropriate, for a war about trees.

Wood is a bit of an odd material to build with, esp. for dwarfs, but it just seemed fitting to bury the dwarfs that died defending the dwarf right to cut down as many trees as they please, in a giant pyramid that would tower over the elven forests for miles around.

[ral]

Personally I would have made it out of ash or charcoal. I think burning the trees first would be much more appropriate.

[PopeRichardCorey]

one fort, had a war with the elfs.

the dead from that war were entombed within a giant wooden pyramid, 15 z-levels high.

Best I've heard yet.

it seemed appropriate, for a war about trees.

Wood is a bit of an odd material to build with, esp. for dwarfs, but it just seemed fitting to bury the dwarfs that died defending the dwarf right to cut down as many trees as they please, in a giant pyramid that would tower over the elven forests for miles around.

From beyond the grave, they probably loved the giant middle finger to the elves.

[agatharchides]

I've recently taken to putting a coffin in a room with/by my dwarves bedrooms. When they fill up new rooms are carved out and the old bedrooms carefully preserved. Thus my necropolis mixes in with the rest of the fort and the fallen are still among us, in a sense.

[FuzzyZergling]

My starting dwarves get full tombs, with other casualties going down in the catacombs (Repurposed mining tunnels, I love the look of mining tunnels.). If by chance I have a statue of them, that goes by their graves.

[Necro910]

Crematory AKA magma. It gets rid of the body before it rots, so no one gets mad. Plus, no stupid coffins filling up my elf sushi shop mountain!

[synkell]

But you still need to make slabs for the ghosts right?

[RedKing]

I tend to do catacombs with 3-tile deep niches. The furthest tile in gets a rock coffin, the middle tile gets a memorial slab engraved in their memory, and the nearest tile to the hall gets a door, which is permanently locked once the coffin and slab are in place. Then when a "wing" of the catacombs fills up, I strip off the doors and wall in each niche, then wall in the whole wing. Good for preventing future tomb robbers, and if Toady ever sneaks in a mass "dead rising from their graves" type deal, that'll hold them back too. 

[Necro910]

But you still need to make slabs for the ghosts right?

Nope, the corpse is gone. The only other way is burial, so the game might be thinking "Oh, he must have buried it."

Anyways, ghosts don't come back. It always works for me 

[jellsprout]

It doesn't matter if a dwarf died when fighting in a goblin siege, went stark raving mad after a failed mood or went outside during a siege despite my burrow orders, they all died while in service of my fortress, so they all deserve equal burial. This is generally a 3x3 room engraved by my legendary+5 Engraver, inside a masterwork rock coffin, with two masterwork rock statues at either side of the coffin and an engraved masterwork slab in front of it.

But in my latest fortress I've tried a different approach. Every dead dwarf is now put in a glass coffin at the side of my dining room. Now all my dwarves will constantly be forced to face all the brave souls who gave their lives in honor of the fortress.

[Necro910]

It doesn't matter if a dwarf died when fighting in a goblin siege, went stark raving mad after a failed mood or went outside during a siege despite my burrow orders, they all died while in service of my fortress, so they all deserve equal burial. This is generally a 3x3 room engraved by my legendary+5 Engraver, inside a masterwork rock coffin, with two masterwork rock statues at either side of the coffin and an engraved masterwork slab in front of it.

But in my latest fortress I've tried a different approach. Every dead dwarf is now put in a glass coffin at the side of my dining room. Now all my dwarves will constantly be forced to face all the brave souls who gave their lives in honor of the fortress.

Dwarf cancels eat: Throwing Party.

[rangarkash]

Mining tunnels.

[Dave1004]

....Magma.