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0007439Dwarf FortressDwarf Mode -- Interface, Unit Viewpublic2014-07-17 20:582014-07-24 12:25
SteveTheRed 
Toady One 
normalminorhave not tried
resolvedfixed 
Windows764 bit SP 1
0.40.03 
0.40.05 
0007439: Invaders still listed as missing after their corpses have been retrieved
I got an early goblin siege where the goblins started across the river from my fort. They decided to cross the river at the natural ford where the water was only 3-4 deep, and about half of them were therefore swept over the waterfall, where some died on impact and others loitered, technically extending the siege through multiple seasons, until the river froze, killing them.

However, I now have six goblins listed on the unit list under dead/missing as "missing", even after I dug out the ice and retrieved their bodies and loot. Their mortal remains are now gracing my refuse stockpile, so surely there shouldn't be any lingering doubts as to their fate?
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related to 0006534resolved Toady One Wild animals and invaders appear as "missing" on missing/dead tab 
Issue History
2014-07-17 20:58SteveTheRedNew Issue
2014-07-17 22:43Amena RalikemaNote Added: 0026834
2014-07-17 22:43Amena RalikemaNote Edited: 0026834bug_revision_view_page.php?bugnote_id=0026834#r10003
2014-07-18 00:05eliotcougarNote Added: 0026841
2014-07-18 08:06FootkerchiefRelationship addedrelated to 0006534
2014-07-24 12:25Toady OneStatusnew => resolved
2014-07-24 12:25Toady OneFixed in Version => Next Version
2014-07-24 12:25Toady OneResolutionopen => fixed
2014-07-24 12:25Toady OneAssigned To => Toady One

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(0026834)
Amena Ralikema   
2014-07-17 22:43   
Possibly related to 0006534, even though it's not exactly the same issue. 0007278 was marked as a duplicate of that one, and it _is_ the same issue as this one - corpses with known fate (killed by player) are listed as missing. I have the same issue with drowned kobolds and a human pikeman that my militia killed.

(0026841)
eliotcougar   
2014-07-18 00:05   
Sometimes even your dorfs die, been transported to the corpse stockpile by other dorfs, and still listed as missing... As a result, those dorfs are not buried until someone randomly go into the morgue and "discover" the body...

My theory is that dorfs become "horrified" before they mark the body "discovered", or something related to that... How can it be that the dorf who carried the corpse didn't "found" it dead... Or maybe it's relevant to the new gossip system from adv-mode...