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[Zaerosz]

So I have my military squads stationed at strategic points around my dorf city, including near the road to the caverns. I have refuse hauling enabled on all dorfs, (o)-(r)-(o) has been done, I have an open , accessible refuse pile and 20-something idlers...

So WHY are my streets still piled about 7 bodies high with rotting corpses?!

[The Dog Delusion]

So WHY are my streets still piled about 7 bodies high with rotting corpses?!

That's a really good question. Are they dwarf bodies? Was there some sort of a catastrophe? Is great Cthulhu loose again, and ravening for delight? Or are the fortress cats just leaving presents for their owners everywhere?

[Sandrew]

Is your "city" aboveground? Because corpses that are aboveground don't produce miasma and aren't hauled. Except for dead dwarves, they need coffins.

[darkflagrance]

Is your "city" aboveground? Because corpses that are aboveground don't produce miasma and aren't hauled. Except for dead dwarves, they need coffins.

They will be hauled if you enable the gathering of outside refuse (one of the options from the "o"rders menu, I believe).

[FrisianDude]

they need coffins.

They do not. If you have no coffins, you can expect burial to happen at any 'graveyard' stockpile, though coffins are a better choice.

[madciol]

Poor kobold remain lies practically forever in main walkway to-from proper fortress. Generating miasma for every goddamn woodcutter, herbalist, fisher and any other dwarf that have bussiness outside. No one drag him away. NO ONE.

Yes, I have big population, with many hauler-only servants. Yes, there is refuse stockpile. Vermin corpses produced by cat are removed fast. While fort is rather busy all the time, this is no excuse for leaving rotting corpse next to dwarves with their usual life (now with side of bad thought due to miasma).

So... priorites are seriously screwed up. Someone would think that removing rotting corpse would be rather important. This looks like similiar bug with, say, medics - they will anything instead of diagnose or actually heal patients. Including long periods of "No job". I hate bugs.

[Aspgren]

Dig a hole and tell them to dump everything in that hole. Dumping will get bumped up to priority one for everyone.

[iEpinephrine]

have you set disable items on death?  Or are they forbidden for some reason?  Those are normally the reasons stinking corpses lie bloated in the streets...

[Zaerosz]

Corpses aren't forbidden, city is indeed above ground, forbid on death is turned off, outdoor refuse is, as I said, turned on, no dwarf corpses. Sometimes I just enjoy letting sieges in and seeing how far they get before they become the future building blocks of my soap tower.

[Thorzog]

have you set disable items on death?  Or are they forbidden for some reason?  Those are normally the reasons stinking corpses lie bloated in the streets...

How do you do that? By editing the raws? For me goblinite is too much of a hassle to mine.

[twilightdusk]

You need a corpse stockpile, not a refuse stockpile.

[Zaerosz]

Really now? Because in my last fort, also in .18, all the kobolds and goblins and assorted nasties just went to the refuse pile.

[Deimos56]

I think they're supposed to go to the refuse stockpile. The non-dwarves, at least.

Maybe try going through your

• rders screen and make absolutely sure everything is as it should be?

edit: ...That's a really weird O.