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[Urist McScoopbeard]

Ugh, thunderbird. knowwhatImean???

Well after an epic battle using soviet tactics I defeated a thunderbird who was destroying me but was forced to reclaim.
Do I have to manually claim ALL my items back? or can I mass designate? I went into stocks to do it a bit but It don't show much of the actual on map items.

Also will I still have to bury the dead? or am I free from that task

[alesia]

You can mass designate, but you'll need a bookkeeper with highest accuracy first, and it takes them a month or two to do the books to the point that you can see every item in your stock screen.

And, er, I'd bury the dead if I were you, but it sort of depends on the biome.  Evil biome = lots and lots of ghosts.

[Urist McScoopbeard]

well its a normal biome, so can I avoid the 40+ graves i'll have to elaborately plan?

[Callista]

You can designate them by area... d-b-c for reclaim, then designate the area like you would for mining. Doesn't work across z-levels.

Yes, you need to bury them or memorialize them. You may be able to get away with just slapping down a slab every time a ghost rises, but slabs are a little bit buggy during reclaim--sometimes a name doesn't show up.

[Urist McScoopbeard]

ugh, well to the mason's workshop I guess...
Maybe I'll start a new fort.

[Callista]

Nothing says you can't just stick the coffins in a random 8x5 side chamber, you know. After all, they're dead dwarves; they don't care. Dead dwarves can't tantrum-spiral.

BTW, if it matters to your aesthetic sense, you can deconstruct coffins and move the skeleton to a new location by re-burying it. Temporary burials during times of war or civil disorder are common in my forts.

[nukularpower]

Like the above said, you can just pile a bunch of coffins in some crap room.. they don't have to be elaborate.  Use mass reclaim (d-b-c) on the biggest open floors of your fort and the surface to get most of your items back.  Keep in mind that your dwarves are going to be doing a TON of hauling for a while though, especially while you only have 7.

[Kelenyche]

And until you get your coffins built, it might be a good idea to collect the bodies: use the corpse stockpile, P-Y, and you can keep them from rotting all over the place

[Urist McScoopbeard]

Well a few things:

@Calli + Nuk: meh, they're covered in snow so that'll be their tombs for a while.

@Kelen: I ALWAYS collect my bodies, ALWAYS!!!

[Loud Whispers]

Tip, set stockpiles up in priority so your Dwarves don't spend all day hauling anvils and ending up starving themselves to death.

[Callista]

"In priority"? What do you mean by that? Is there an order in which dwarves prefer to fill stockpiles? I've observed that they seem to, but I can't really figure out whether there's a pattern.

[Loud Whispers]

"In priority"? What do you mean by that? Is there an order in which dwarves prefer to fill stockpiles? I've observed that they seem to, but I can't really figure out whether there's a pattern.

By priority I mean what your fort needs the most at the time and place. For example, gathering the food, booze and maybe weapons are generally the first stockpiles I set. When they're done, and I have sustainable industry set back up, I set the rest of the stockpiles.