Editing 40d Talk:Coffin

==Where to put them==
Do I build these on a stockpile, or is the stockpile "next to" where I want to "inter" dwarves?[[User:GarrieIrons|GarrieIrons]] 20:48, 5 January 2008 (EST)
:You build them wherever you want to put your dead. I'm not too sure what stockpile you're talking about. If you have the coffin built prior to dwarven-death, the bloke that has to haul the departed should put them directly into the coffin. I could be wrong, but I personally haven't seen a dwarf moved from graveyard "stockpile" to a coffin, and believe that if a place of burial isn't available upon death, that they won't be buried, simply hauled. I could easily be wrong on this, but that's what my experience showed me, the one time I had a dead dwarf in a graveyard that hadn't started rotting when a coffin was newly built. --[[User:N9103|Edward]] 03:17, 6 January 2008 (EST)
::I believe he referring to the graveyard stockpile where dead things will be dumped if the do not have use of a coffin. Also note that coffins must be built underground(or in a room?).--[[User:Mhyder|Mhyder]] 12:09, 10 May 2008 (EDT)
::I had a dwarf hauled from the graveyard to a coffin just fine (40d) [[User:Edenicholas|Edenicholas]] 22:50, 13 October 2008 (EDT)

== Deceased ==

OK, so I can build a Tomb and asign it to ''live citizens''.

What about my poor dead woodcutter sitting outside in the dead animal repository... how do I get him appropriately '''interred'''?[[User:GarrieIrons|GarrieIrons]] 20:55, 5 January 2008 (EST)

:Open up the {{k|q}} menu and press the key for 'use for burial', {{k|r}} I believe. The 'make tomb' option is just  to make the stuck-up nobles happy about their burial arrangements. --[[User:Valdemar|Valdemar]] 21:11, 5 January 2008 (EST)
:: When said stuck-up noble is dead, deconstruct and dump the stuck-up coffin.--[[User:Aykavil|Aykavil]] 05:59, 11 July 2008 (EDT)


== Allow Citizens ==
So I know that if you "q" over the built burial receptacle, you can "Allow Pets" and "Allow Citizens". I understand if you don't want pets beside your dwarves, but what is the "allow citizens" option used for? Turning it off does not seem to affect the ability to bury my dwarves. --[[User:Langdon|Langdon]] 02:43, 25 April 2008 (EDT)
::Neither of these options forbids citizens. The allow pets one will allow a pet or a citizen to be buried there. [[User:Rkyeun|Rkyeun]] 14:20, 9 May 2008 (EDT)
:::I'm guessing that if you turned off allow citizens the coffin could also have outsiders interred. [[User:HeWhoIsPale|HeWhoIsPale]] 08:32, 14 October 2008 (EDT)
::::I'm getting invading goblin-raised dwarves (with goblin names) interred in my caskets. Maybe it's any dwarf belonging to a civ, not just fortress residents. Goblins just get thrown on the rubbish pile. After we kill them, of course. --[[User:Jellyfishgreen|Jellyfishgreen]] 11:12, 13 February 2009 (EST)

== Style ==
Bonus [[fun|points]] for placing coffins in the wine cellar. [http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chevaliers_de_la_table_ronde_%28chanson_populaire%29 Si je meurs je veux qu'on m'enterre dans une cave où y a du bon vin] --[[User:Aykavil|Aykavil]] 05:59, 11 July 2008 (EDT)

:You reminded me of that funny episode of the Simpsons where Bart is kidnapped in France and forced to make wine by some thugs. On another note, what does that song mean anyway? --[[User:AlexFili|AlexFili]] 07:18, 11 July 2008 (EDT)

:: This song would be one of the most popular french drinking song. An approximate translation of some selected lyrics follows.
:::"[[champion|Knights]] of the round [[table]], let's drink and taste our [[brew]]
:::...
:::If I die, I want to be buried in a [[food stockpile|cellar]] where there is some [[masterpiece|masterpiece]] [[alcohol|wine]]
:::Both feet against the [[wall]], and my [[skull|head]] placed under the [[floodgate|spigot]]
:::On my [[tomb]] I want [[engraving|engraved]] ''Here lies the [[king]] of [[dwarf|drinkers]]''"
::--[[User:Aykavil|Aykavil]] 08:12, 11 July 2008 (EDT)

== Burial at Sea ==
Dwarves will get unhappy if their friends and loved ones are left to rot, and so the best thing to do it to summarily dump all corpses into the magma for a proper burial at sea. You can still build coffins for the dead and place them, relations won't grieve for a properly disposed of corpse, and the coffins will be marked with the names of the dearly departed who have gone to rejoin the one true heart of the mountains. [[User:Rkyeun|Rkyeun]] 22:04, 25 August 2008 (EDT)

:Isn't that more like cremation? --Kydo 17:47, 3 February 2010 (UTC)

== Clutter of Clothing ==
My dwarves plaster the vicinity around a dwarfs' coffin with their clothing for no apparent reason.  Why do they bring it there, and why do they leave it there? --[[User:Corona688|Corona688]] 00:32, 2 November 2008 (EDT)
: I did notice that after [[Unfortunate accident|accidentally]] killing a noble, his rooms were reclaimed, but since he still owned a Tomb all his clothing and owned goods were moved to the Tomb by the cleanup crew. Is this what you're talking about? --[[User:Jellyfishgreen|Jellyfishgreen]] 11:09, 13 February 2009 (EST)
::Better late than never.  Dwarves do not really seem to distinguish between different types of held rooms.  Discounting containers (i.e., if the dwarf owns no chests or cabinet) they're just as likely to scatter things around an owned tomb, office, dining room, zoo, etc., as they are around their bedroom.  One time, a record keeper decided to reserve his "meager office" in the dining room by leaving his pants on the chair.  Giving each and every dwarf a personal chest and cabinet will usually all but eliminate that sort of thing.  At least until the economy kicks in, and they start acquiring all kinds of garbage.  And if you minted coins, you're screwed.  So if a dwarf brings stuff to his ''own'' tomb, that's why.  --[[User:Arrkhal|Arrkhal]] 03:31, 5 January 2010 (UTC)

== Means of Death ==
Is there a happiness penalty (or at least, a different one than usual) if a dwarf dies of old age? --[[User:Loyal|Loyal]] 15:28, 4 January 2010 (EST)
:Yes - in my earliest successful fort, the King died of old age, and the Queen Consort "lost a spouse to tragedy lately". --[[User:Quietust|Quietust]] 22:31, 4 January 2010 (UTC)
::Wait... Dwarfs can die of old age? Sense when? I have never had a dwarf die in such a manner. --[[User:Golianor|Golianor]] 13:41, 16 February 2010 (UTC)
:::Dwarves can live for up to 160 years - while your starting 7 and your migrants are reasonably young, your King may be very old by the time you get him. --[[User:Quietust|Quietust]] 13:58, 16 February 2010 (UTC)