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[toker606]

I know seeing the dead bodies of friends has a bad effect on a dwarf's mood, but how about just goblin corpses? I've decided to let the bodies and severed limbs start piling up against my fortress walls as a testament to the many failed sieges against me and as a very graphic warning to whatever goblins may yet still be waiting in the hills, but I want to be sure this won't upset any of my dwarves who work outside.

[darthbob88]

Haven't done that, but I have a stockpile in my entranceway set up to take only skulls, and through micromanagement I make sure that those skulls are goblin and kobold and nothing else. After a good siege or two, I have my entry paved in the skulls of my enemies. Their bones, of course, get turned into decorations and bolts, suitable for either trade or use.

[Grendus]

Doesn't bother them unless it's causing miasma. Though I have a dwarf who likes "Goblin corpses", which is slightly disturbing but he always walks around ecstatic so presumably it's a good thing.

I've never done this myself, I usually haul them into a big stockpile on the top of my fortress where I process them en masse into bolts for my marksdwarves to train with. Never bothered my dwarves when they walked by it or even through it. Dwarves don't "see" per-se, they path and detect obstacles. Think of them like bearded ants, they don't care about something unless it's in their way or part of their job.

[toker606]

Yeah, got stockpiles for bones and rotting materials set up, I can keep them full with butchered kittens and puppies from inside my fort, I just quite like the idea of the entrance to my fort being steeped in dead goblins. So my military can look over them and remember the good times