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[CriticallyAshamed]

But the bones are right there. I just had Urist McBoneCarver mood and produce a fairly rubbish dogbone animal trap. Now he seems to not want to go back to work and keeps saying there's no bones to carve. I've assigned him to carving bolts from puppy bones, and there is a pile of Stray Puppy Bones but he doesn't want to use them.

Is there some sort of problem with bones being singular rather than stacks of 5?

[Drazinononda]

That's actually it. This bug is your problem: a single bone won't get used, so if all you have lying around is "Stray Puppy bone" then you can't do anything but dump them.

[CriticallyAshamed]

This is pretty much the worst day of my life.

/firstworldproblems

Thanks anyway.

[thegoatgod_pan]

Try remaking a refuse pile for just the bones, this might make the game redefine the piles anew and fix it.

[Sutremaine]

The last bone in a stack is useable (a stack of 6 bones converts into 30 bolts, not 25), but it doesn't get used up and will sit around forever. The game differentiates between the relatively rare stack of one and the more common leftover one stack, putting the former in the bone / skull category of a refuse pile and the latter in the body parts category.

[Sirbug]

Is this also true for strange mood? Right now my dwarf is stuck in workshop and it seems bones is the only thing he could possibly lack.

UPD: Yeah, it seems to be. He finally run to grab some bones, probably after flesh got rotten away.

[SixOfSpades]

I seem to be getting this with wool, too. My spinners will happily do their thing all day as long as they have "sheep wool[6]" to work with, but when they get down to the hundreds of "sheep wool", they just go "IDK what that is, I need some non-rotten spinnable fiber item."

And Sirbug, if your moody dwarf wants bones, don't waste time agonizing over bugs, just butcher something.