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jameslahey

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Dealing with ghosts
« on: September 20, 2011, 06:31:49 pm »
So, I practice dwarf eugenics (i kill all useless dwarfs) and so I have ALLOT of dead dwarfs...

Making graves for them will over time force me to build over a thousand graves, so what else can I do?
Should I just let my fortress be haunted by like 300 ghosts?
Do I have an option?

I wish you could exile dwarfs...
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acetech09

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Re: Dealing with ghosts
« Reply #1 on: September 20, 2011, 06:34:22 pm »
Build a simple catacombs - build 1000 rock coffins (not really hard if you put a few legendary masons into it), dig out a large layer (pref. soil), and just build those coffins. Even if you have 1000, it wouldn't be terribly hard.

Slabs would also work, but coffins have the bonus of automatically getting rid of the dorf bodies at the same time.
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Re: Dealing with ghosts
« Reply #2 on: September 20, 2011, 06:36:16 pm »
See my signature for what to do about the ghosts.
(Fell mood + burrow manipulation + ghosts = profit)
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Re: Dealing with ghosts
« Reply #3 on: September 20, 2011, 06:38:32 pm »
........... Get lots of booze. Let them party.  8)
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Re: Dealing with ghosts
« Reply #4 on: September 20, 2011, 07:17:36 pm »
Slabs, but they're actually more work than the coffins (in crafting, the hauling is less).  Slabs are your only ghost-removal option if your execution method destroys corpses or makes them inaccessible, such as atom-smashing.

Me?  I'd revel in the burial industry making a hideous maze of the dead: labyrinth with a slab or coffin on every tile, random stairs to other levels of the maze, horrific statues (Forgotten beasts, vermin, people dying -- preferably pitchblende or lead statues) in the dead ends, maybe a few peaceful-type ghosts for atmosphere, but it's unlikely any will be generated in the first place.
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Re: Dealing with ghosts
« Reply #5 on: September 20, 2011, 07:21:45 pm »
Slabs are much more of a pain. You've to build the slab, then choose to engrave it and then find the damn dorf on the list before you can even place it. Imagine doing that a thousand times.

And sorry about this small detour, but what's special about slabs besides letting you pick creatures other than dwarves? Is there any way to have them show something more than "this is a memorial for Urist McColdbuns"? It'd be nice and helpful if they'd describe how the guy died and/or what memorable things he did before he bit it. Something to properly immortalize them, reminiscent of proper floor/wall engravings.

EDIT: Damn, ninja'd.
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