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| ID | Project | Category | View Status | Date Submitted | Last Update |
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| 0004283 | Dwarf Fortress | Dwarf Mode -- Jobs, Burial | public | 2011-03-21 07:37 | 2014-01-22 09:33 |
| Reporter | GreenSpinach | Assigned To | |||
| Priority | normal | Severity | major | Reproducibility | always |
| Status | resolved | Resolution | no change required | ||
| Product Version | 0.31.18 | ||||
| Summary | 0004283: Non-existent corpses are assigned to coffins | ||||
| Description | If there are 2 dwarves who recently died, and you build a coffin, and allow it for burial, it will be assigned to the dwarf who died first, even if his corpse is totally unretrievable. Even if he fell into the magma sea and his corpse was totally destroyed. Even if you already properly memorialized him with an engraved slab. Also very annoying (and potentially deadly) is the fact that dead dwarves with ghosts don't get priority for burial. I once had 65 dead dwarves and only 5 dwarves to bury them with. | ||||
| Steps To Reproduce | 1. Make a dwarf fall into a volcano, possibly by having him deconstruct part of a 1-tile wide walkway while he is standing on it. 2. Make a dwarf die by any means that leaves a retrievable corpse. 3. Make, engrave, and build a memorial slab for Urist McMelted. 4. Build a coffin and allow it for burial. 5. Notice that Urist McMelted gets the coffin even though his corpse doesn't even exist anymore. If you keep deconstructing the coffin and rebuilding it, he will keep getting it. | ||||
| Tags | No tags attached. | ||||
| related to | 0003138 | new | Dead dwarf assigned unpathable coffin |
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This has always been the case in Dwarf Fortress - empty casket funerals happen in real life, so there's no reason why they shouldn't also happen here. The fact that memorialized dwarves claim coffins is probably because the game doesn't check for it - for all it knows, the dwarf might still have a body suitable for burial. |
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No Dwarf Left Behind. Think of it this way: your dwarves know that Urist McHappy died. They know that they want to bury him. They know that they can't get to his corpse *now*, but maybe some day they can. Maybe the river will freeze, and you'll dig out the ice -- happens to me a lot. |
| Date Modified | Username | Field | Change |
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| 2011-03-21 07:37 | GreenSpinach | New Issue | |
| 2011-03-21 07:41 | Quietust | Note Added: 0016443 | |
| 2011-03-21 07:45 | Quietust | Note Edited: 0016443 | |
| 2011-03-21 08:20 | greycat | Note Added: 0016447 | |
| 2011-04-05 07:42 |
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Relationship added | related to 0003138 |
| 2014-01-22 09:33 |
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Status | new => resolved |
| 2014-01-22 09:33 |
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Resolution | open => no change required |
| 2014-01-22 09:33 |
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Assigned To | => user6 |
