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Reminds me of Dwarf Fortress. I hear the individual teeth are simulated so they can be lost in a fight and such.

Yes, except the DF doesn’t compute shadows for all the teeth. Or texture map them, or use a shader to make them look wet and shiny.

Still, if they get knocked out during a fight then your dwarves have to carry them individually to the gravesite afterwards, so it’s not like you should automatically imitate DF when you write your own game.

Will the dwarf's friends and family get upset if any tooth is left unburied? In an evil biome, will a forgotten tooth resurrect and cause trouble?

Teeth cannot rot and therefore won’t cause a negative thought if left unburied. Teeth also cannot GRASP, and therefore cannot be raised by a necromancer as an undead. A skull can be though, with or without the teeth.

^ and this is why interesting composition of systems is so critical in generating games, <3 df

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