Mass Graves or Viking Funeral?

[Pizza Mode]

Was just wondering what you guys prefer. The crematorium, especially in 1.0 since it doesn't leave clothes behind anymore, is a very efficient way to get rid of bodies, but I like to build a nice mass grave to scare future attackers.

[Lorax]

I just make a big pile of bodies and throw a molotov at them

[Vivacious]

I butcher all non-colonists cause human leather clothing gives a variable mood boost, also it's food for the wargs and I make kibble from the meat.

Colonists get a sarcophagus

[KalkiKrosah]

I make a stockpile in the middle a river and dump them all in. The bodies are all gone by the end of the week.

[Ducks on Fire]

Originally posted by Lorax:

I just make a big pile of bodies and throw a molotov at them

I do this too. My colonist get sarcophaguses though; preferably in a decorated cave tomb.

[grapplehoeker]

The current v1.0 build offers an electric crematorium very early now and no more need to research it as a separate tech, so it's a no brainer to build it and use it asap.

[Pizza Mode]

Originally posted by Catt:

I butcher all non-colonists cause human leather clothing gives a variable mood boost, also it's food for the wargs and I make kibble from the meat.

Colonists get a sarcophagus

That's a good idea, don't waste anything. My version of that is organ harvesting, esp. with guilty prisoners: your colonists still get 'organ harvested' mood debuff, but it counts as a justified execution if they die as a result. Although I don't butcher humanlike unless I have to because of the mood debuff, esp. added in with organ harveseting, it can make for a dramatic emo death spiral. I'm not sure if the debuff changed in 1.0 though.

Originally posted by PvtDerpyHooves:

I do this too. My colonist get sarcophaguses though; preferably in a decorated cave tomb.

I also enshrine my colonists in sarcophogi of expensive materials near the place of their deaths, such as the dining room.

Originally posted by grapplehoeker:

The current v1.0 build offers an electric crematorium very early now and no more need to research it as a separate tech, so it's a no brainer to build it and use it asap.

True, I didn't use it much prior to 1.0, but now it's more accessible and efficient. But generally my colonists are good Christians and won't leave even a heathen corpse unburried.

[crgzero]

I put bodies in a smallish room, molotov the bodies, slam the door shut and let them burn.

Had an infestation spawn in one of my larger burn rooms,,,, they multiplied quickly (I'm using better infestation mod which makes them multipy faster if we'll fed) and burned even faster once they went to sleep for the night and I could light the pile on fire. The cave reached like 600 degrees and everything went up.

[Greep]

Various ways to handle raider corpses. But I always make sure to vaporize colonists. Unburied colonist is constant -10 mood, so if you can't find where your corpse obsession mental break dumped the body, well good luck. Other way is to seal them off behind walls.

[NegativeX]

Viking funeral > Graves

[Pizza Mode]

Originally posted by Greep:

Various ways to handle raider corpses. But I always make sure to vaporize colonists. Unburied colonist is constant -10 mood, so if you can't find where your corpse obsession mental break dumped the body, well good luck. Other way is to seal them off behind walls.

I actually like this, because corpse obsession is a really easy mental break to deal with. I just click on the notification and 'jump to location', then force my guy who dumped the body to immediately go bury it again lol. Saves me from dazes, hiding in room, insult sprees and other more crippling/damaging mental breaks. Plus I always play on large maps, so might as well use that space for graves & build up construction skill.

[Thor]

"Vikings" or just Norse people were buried in a large number of ways, depending on the locale and status of the person.

Some were burned on a pile of wooden logs, some were buried as we do today, some were placed in boats with their possessions lit on fire and pushed out at sea, some were just dumped in the water at sea, and some where buried under large burial mounds with their possessions.
It's likely that these aren't even half the number of ways that Norse people were buried. Archeologists and anthropologists keep finding more.

[Kid 1,000]

When you get into a later game, you literally won't have enough room for graves. No choice but to cremate or burn with incendiary lauchers. Pic related

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1430621577

[Morkonan]

Originally posted by Pizza Mode:

Was just wondering what you guys prefer. The crematorium, especially in 1.0 since it doesn't leave clothes behind anymore, is a very efficient way to get rid of bodies, but I like to build a nice mass grave to scare future attackers.

Graves until I get a Crematorium, then crematorium all the way unless I'm able to use them for Kibble.

[Pizza Mode]

Originally posted by Kid 1,000:

When you get into a later game, you literally won't have enough room for graves. No choice but to cremate or burn with incendiary lauchers. Pic related

When there's no more room underground, the dead shall be strewn across the fields!