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[Seriyu]

As I understand it larger creatures take longer to butcher, can a creature rot while it's being butchered? or is it sort've "in stasis"?

Also my understanding is it's one task that "deconstructs" the corpse when it's done, and the dwarf isn't actually butchering individual parts, is that accurate? or will the dwarf butcher the corpse piece by piece?

Thanks in advance!

[PatrikLundell]

I believe corpses are in stasis while "worked on", such as being butchered, hauled etc.
Again, my understanding is that butchering is a single job with a single input and (typically: flesh balls might be an exception) a multiple of outputs. Corpse parts are inputs for butchering as separate jobs. It can also be noted that when a corpse has been separated into multiple butcherable parts when it was killed, each part provide a skin as one of its products.

[Fleeting Frames]

As far as stasis goes, they certainly at least used to be able to be reanimated while being hauled (as Roomcarnage can attest). Rotting time seems somewhat inconsistent going from rottable food, though, so might be hard to test. I recall I once looked that an untanned skin rotted in about two weeks?

Ultimately, the real reason large creatures may rot before getting to butcher is that they're heavy - using wheelbarrows or butchering them in situ helps for that.


Reading from elsewhere, dwarves do functionally butcher individual parts: that is, with same body size a multi-segmented creature will yield less meat than a simple one; each part's yield is floored before being summed together. The butchered item must also have multiple products, i.e. you can butcher a carcass for guts but you can't butcher cut-off guts.

Also worth noting that since wool is properly sized, cutting reanimated wool to pieces doesn't yield any more wool (unlike with reanimated skin).

[PatrikLundell]

Carried bits can still be reanimated in 0.44.12 (had that happen in my previous fortress). I generally don't have problems with getting FBs hauled manually from the caverns rot before being processed, provided they're hauled promptly. I do have a significant problem with being under dorfed and minecart loading being a low priority job, so hauling to the refuse stockpile stalls when full, but that's a completely different issue.

[anewaname]

Also my understanding is it's one task that "deconstructs" the corpse when it's done, and the dwarf isn't actually butchering individual parts, is that accurate?

That is accurate.

[Seriyu]

Thanks for the help, seems like the opinion is that they're in stasis in the workshop!