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[Manzeenan]

1. Aren't all the inedible bodyparts and organic crap lying around annoying? Wouldnt it be nice to use it?
     Proposal: compost, either a pit or barrels, a cesspit would be good if dwarves went to the bathroom giving plumbing a realistic use. The concept of the pit is it being a        zone  containing  liquid (like a pond) waste which once full 7/7 of waste will solidify into compost/whatever.This could also add a use for leaves fallen off trees (almost no one like huge brown patches all over the map) each item would add a 1/7 unit of waste to the pit.

End result: fertilizer substitute

 2.  Tinkers bench: A bench to recycle worn out crap, clothing gives either thread, cloth or leather depending on the reagent
     Foreign weapons could be deconstructed for a chance to enable your fort to produce the item.
Also non-artifact/named metal armor and weapons wear out either being refurbished at a tinkers bench with its base material or melted for 90-95% of the metal returned.

Edit: the idea of recycling low quality stuff has been floating around my brain too.

[SixOfSpades]

Compost and/or sewage are suggested approximately once per month. Please use the Search function (and/or browse through old threads, and/or read the development logs or Eternal Suggestions thread) to see if what you want to suggest has already been suggested before [which it almost always has]. Nobody ever actually does any of these things, of course.

Tinkers are also brought up, though not as frequently. As part of my Innovations plan (which I am still working on, btw), the Tinker is basically a name-change of the Metalcrafter: He gets his own workshop (cannot use a regular Forge) and can do everything the Metalcrafter could do, but also repair & sharpen (but not actually make) just about any metal object.
Worn-out clothing is a poor source for thread (faster & easier to just Spin brand-new thread, which is also likely to be stronger than recycled thread), and it wouldn't be done by a Tinker anyway. A more effective use for xXclothesXx would be to have your Janitors (specialized in the Cleaning & Refuse Hauling labors) cut them up into Rags, and use them (+ soap & water) to scrub away mud, and soak up all that blood & vomit, before dropping the now-filthy rags off at the Compost Pile.

[Manzeenan]

search does funny things for me, skimmed eternal suggestions, implementing my own deconstruction thingamajig for blueprints wont go much further on my own.

But yeah you're right about cutting up clothing into rags, maybe to be used in a hospital too.