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[Steerpike]

It's my first time playing a terrifying biome. My first set of migrants come and I decide to lock my door and let the undead kill the migrants. When I unlock the door so that my mason can finish building the wall, all my dwarves rush out to store something in a stockpile. I can't figure out what they're trying to stockpile since the horde of undead comes at them, and my dwarves run away.
I've tried setting the orders to ignoring/don't claim corpses and ignoring refuse. The dwarves are still trying to gather something.

[pisskop]

The clothes?  Migrants have clothing.

And migrants have corpses and severed parts, if they don't reanimate.

[Steerpike]

Possibly, but I would have thought preventing the dwarves from claiming dead items would prevent dwarves from claiming it.
I'll just try forbidding all of the extra clothes and stuff.

[walberg]

Did you set the order to ignore death items before, or after, the migrants died? Whether an item gets forbidden or not by that option is determined at time of death, not when you set the option.

[Steerpike]

I set the order after they died.

Thanks!

[knutor]

My guess...  Hmmpf.   

They are trying to move the dead migrants, now a part of your fortress, to a corpse stockpile, or directly into a coffin before they get reanimated.  Try Forbidding everything, all 5 options in the Orders sub menu under Forbid?  Not just the hauling boxes in Therapist.  And if that doesn't work, forbid the stuff, manually.  Paint the area forbidden.  Paint the exit restricted, travel zone.

Too much miasma there for my taste buds.  Good luck, however.  Knutor