Dwarf Fortress How To Bury Dead (2024)

FAQs

How do you bury the dead in Dwarf Fortress? ›

Click the zone menu and click tomb, and place it over ONLY ONE COFFIN AT A TIME. If you place it over two coffins or more, only one will be used.

To butcher corpses in Dwarf Fortress, put them in a stockpile, then click the butcher's knife icon. Corpses must be big enough, not rotten, and not be tamed animals or sapient creatures. Dwarves won't touch anything not in a stockpile. Make sure to add a stockpile tile under your corpses.

Mark it as trash on the animals description. There's a little bin icon at the top. If you have a garbage zone they will take it away.

If the player ran into the aquifer while digging horizontally, then they should move up one layer and dig a hallway to the aquifer's position, repeating this process until they no longer encounter damp stone.

It is absolutely possible to make a thriving colony, however as there is no way to necessarily 'win' dwarf fortress, you will eventually start new fortresses no matter if your previous one was destroyed by demons or if you just grew bored.

Corpses/body parts do not ever disappear on their own. As above, magma or atom smasher. Corpses/body parts do not ever disappear on their own.

Pigs are great animals due to their potential to feed the fortress; with pigs, dwarves have a good supply of meat, milk, and leather. One bonus with pigs is that they require little attention and can even be kept underground, as unlike most other livestock, pigs don't need to graze.

You build a screw pump or two, and pump the water somewhere really fast, creating a dry area where the body is, so the dwarves can path to it and retrieve it.

yes, you can make a dump zone and set them to dump. Definitely TEST this on an item and monitor the dwarfs before you dump a whole area.

You must use the Butcher to kill the animal. If it died for any other reason, like starvation, you won't be able to get bones from it. The corpse was a sentient creature. You're unable to get bones from anything considered a sentient creature, including enemies and other dwarves.

Why are aquifers bad in Dwarf Fortress? ›

The problem with an aquifer is that when you try to dig down through it, it just floods your stairs/ramps and you can dig down in a flooded tile. There are ways to get through, but they're non-trivial.

Aquifers will drip from the ceiling too, smoothing only stops the block that is smoothed from leaking.

Underground ponds will refill indefinitely if they are connected to the map edge. With surface water make sure to avoid any U-bends in the tunnels that bring the water down, as they can create a lot of pressure and flood your fortress.

Select the walls, floors, or tiles you want to remove.

A removal icon will be placed on the selected objects. You can't destroy objects that were placed down (such as doors or furniture) with this method. In this case, click on the door or object and select the "Remove Building" icon in the top-right corner.