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[othorocksmoms]

I have a great Idea of a burial at sea.Why don't you put a bridge then a casket
on top of it.then when a dwarf dies put him in the casket and fling him into the sea.

[McDoomhammer]

Can you put a building on a bridge?

[Akroma]

nope, you can't build on a bridge

but I guess you could drop a corpse on it, and then flingify it

[John Johnston]

You could put one on a collapsible platform, perhaps?

code:

z=1
sea ......... land
sea ...0++++. land
sea ......... land
z=0
sea ~~~~~~~~~ land
sea ~~~~~~~I+ land
sea ~~~~~~~~~ land

That might work.

[McDoomhammer]

I wonder what happens to buildings if there's a cave-in underneath.

[Derakon]

Mark a garbage dump at one end of the bridge, mark the coffin for dumping, then when a dwarf is on the bridge with the coffin, activate him, causing him to drop the coffin, at which point you can fling it?

[McDoomhammer]

Can you dump a coffin that's been used for burial?  It's a building, and I don't think coffins can be deconstructed.

edit: Can I can or can I can't use correct grammar?

[ March 11, 2008: Message edited by: McDoomhammer ]

[ March 11, 2008: Message edited by: McDoomhammer ]

[Othob Rithol]

ahem... if you try this and it works, please let me know:

An addendum to your diagram

code:

 
    z=1
    sea ......... land
    sea ......... land
    sea ...0++++. land
    sea ......... land
    sea ......... land
    z=0
    sea ~++++++++ land
    sea ~+BBBB~~~ land
    sea ~+BBBB~I+ land
    sea ~+BBBB~~~ land
    sea ~++++++++ land
 

The support breaks, dropping the full coffin on the bridge to be flung.
I suspect the corpse and coffin will just scatter, or even worse: the coffin destroy the bridge.

[Cavalcadeofcats]

My impression of JJ's diagram was that the collapsible platform was already over water. So you don't even need the bridge.

[AlienChickenPie]

If you built a coffin on a seasonal ice tile and waited for the summer, would the ice tile melt and send the coffin to the depths?

[Snugglebear]

quote:Originally posted by AlienChickenPie:
<STRONG>If you built a coffin on a seasonal ice tile and waited for the summer, would the ice tile melt and send the coffin to the depths?</STRONG>

That seems likely, but I have yet to see the ocean freeze over at my one fort with access to it.   I have not played a lot of that one, though, and probably climate is a factor in whether you get pack-ice or not.

[psychologicalshock]

Does tossing the dead body into a magma vent or off a very high cliff cause unhappy thoughts? I have a lot of both.

[Kagus]

The cliff probably would, since the body would just sit at the bottom and rot.  I'm not sure about the dwarven cremation technique, however.

Do bodies stay inside coffins if the coffin is deconstructed?  That might make things easier if they do, just build it, stick the body in, 'unbuild' it, and dump the casket.  WHEE!

[Jayjayjuhwetplane]

quote:Originally posted by Kagus:
<STRONG>Do bodies stay inside coffins if the coffin is deconstructed?</STRONG>

Yes, actually, I'm pretty certain they do permanently in fact.

[Hypcso]

I've never had them stay inside of it. If you remove a coffin it's empty, the remains tend to disappear IIRC.