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[Diverso]

Magma chamber with engraved walls. I throw gently put corpses in there!
Slabs in case of ghosts.

[eepkeep]

Depends on how much I like said dwarf. I usually "process" my migrants so most of the peasants and legendary milkers end up with engraved slabs. If someone I hate conveniently dies, give them a shitty coffin in a far off section of the fort. The starting seven get nice tombs beneath their bedrooms, usually the same size as their bedrooms. Warriors and craftsmen get similar or better, depending on their services. Nobles wind up encased in obsidian mostly. Sometimes I don't honor them just to spite them and keep them bound to this world forever, denied of an afterlife.

[Rhaken]

Done it in a few different ways. My personal favorite would be a multi-z-level necropolis maze. A series of 3x3 engraved rooms, with stone coffins on every corner and a statue in the middle tile. I like to ensure that dwarves are assigned coffins close to friends, relatives or coworkers, but that isn't always possible. Each chamber connects to 4 adjacent chambers of the same size, up to 3 of which are burial rooms - the last one is either empty, full of treasure, or a death trap.

Eventually, at the end of the maze comes the military burial complex. 5x5 or 7x7 rooms, one for each squad, fully engraved, statues lining the walls. At the center tile is a valuable sarcophagus for the captain of said squad. As his soldiers die, they are placed in sarcophagi around him, starting in a spiral from the top left tile and going clockwise (the dwarven way). A central chamber houses the militia commander and his squad. No particular death traps here, just in the corridor leading to the noble tombs.

Nobody is robbin' my dorfs.

[Lord Zack]

You know what would be cool? If you could decorate you're catacombs with the bones of you're dead, like the catacombs of Paris. Interestingly, the catacombs of Paris were originally mines.

[ral]

I'm apparently emulating Paris then because I just take otherwise useless mined-out tunnels and litter coffins and slabs around them. No reason to waste digging effort for the dead. If my engravers want engraving practice then they smooth and engrave the tunnels later.

And sometimes I can't do any honoring because of the damn slab engravig bug. I seem to be stuck with a ghost right now that I can't get rid of.

Anyone know of a workaround?

[EveryZig]

A thought: What if you make all your noble rooms for each noble physically the same room? Like one huge room to serve as their bedroom/dining-room/study/tomb, and put in enough furniture that it is still valuable?

If you have two rooms in the same place (study/dining room, for example), is the value split evenly between them?

[LuckyNinja]

I build what I like to call a "gravespire". basically it's a giant cylindrical tower with tombs branching off inwardly. This tower goes both above and below ground. Now, I typically play it that Dwarves, as creatures of the ground, would prefer to be buried within it, so the the more-recognised and greater deceased members of my fort get  placed further below ground, in larger tombs, filled with rarer-material decorations (engraving the walls certainly helps), while the lesser-known, or the idle, are placed closer to the sky., further from their beloved earth.

Now, for dwarfiness, the truly heroic, not only get placed within rooms filled with masterwork (and magma-safe) stuff, they also get their tombs flooded with magma, so that their resting place may never be broken into, or desecrated, and they shall forever be preserved and kept from harm.

The stupid and careless, and those who have hindered the fortress's growth or caused another's death through stupidity, also get placed into a room filled with magma. The difference is they're placed in wooden caskets.


In short: My dwarves' actions in life will echo through eternity, and their worldly deeds determine how they are to be honoured in death.

[imperium3]

In my old fortress dwarves each got individual 3x3 tombs, with nobles, naturally, getting much higher quality (usually engraved rooms, platinum sarcophagi, statue, that sort of thing).

In my current one we had a massive tantrum spiral early on with about 60 casualties, so as I was going for a desert theme anyway they all got stacked up inside a semi-subterranean pyramid. I'm keeping the constructed pyramid approach, and nobles are going to get their own. It'll look awesome when the fort grows a bit, they're all colour-coded, and I have bauxite, orthoclase, microcline and chalk in large quantities (schist too but that doesn't look very interesting)

I'm also building a much larger pyramid for the fortress entrance, which will be appropriately filled with traps. And possibly if I can devote the time (sand not being an issue in the desert) a glass pyramid for aboveground farming! Pyramids galore...

[MythagoWoods]

I place coffins in ore/gem veins I've finished mining out.  If they're someone I give a damn about, AKA not very many, or if they demand a tomb I carve a 2x2, for the ones I care about, 3x3, for Warriors, or 6x6, for nobles,  tomb area and fill it with items they enjoy.  If they're soldiers they also get a statue of them or of their deeds too.

[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.

[Girlinhat]

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.

[Uristocrat]

I just build a few lines of crypts that are one-square branches off of a long hallway, that look sort of like this if you imagine them zoomed out a little:

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With nobles and a few others (like militia commanders) getting full tombs with some chests and statues and such.

One cool thing about the slabs is that you can build them into a memorial hall.  Build enough of them and people will go there to visit the graves of their loved ones.

[PopeRichardCorey]

When I need to slab, I try to put it near where the dwarf died.  Especially if their death could have been avoided.

[Man of Paper]

I put slabs and coffins by my fort entrance. Any visitor knows they are entering hallowed halls where death is a daily thing. When it comes to great warriors, I build a little gazebo deal outdoors and place the coffin in the center. Of course, it is also surrounded by hella traps.

I did have one dwarf who killed a crapton of gobs that had gotten into my fort. He eventually died from his wounds (read: infection, and a bad surgeon), so I gave him a nice coffin and placed it in the room where he killed many goblins. There were bones everywhere, and I imagined it would resemble Balin's tomb.

[Tessien]

I used to do a catacombs style deal, now I've got a habit of building my forts into the subterranean caverns, running rooms along the walls.

So now I dig staircases up the cavern walls, and the very top of each cavern contains rows of coffins, where the valiant dead may keep watch iover their descendants.

Cowardly bastards and crazy nobles get the magma pit. The ancestors get to watch that too.