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Author Topic: Why won't my dwarves butcher anything my hunter drags in?  (Read 2902 times)

Loud Whispers

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Re: Why won't my dwarves butcher anything my hunter drags in?
« Reply #15 on: December 23, 2011, 08:41:05 am »

Sometimes Dorfs will only butcher dead corpses if they're in refuse/corpse stockpiles, and if the corpse/refuse is outside, be sure to have the (o)rders for (r)efuse set to gather corpses from the outside.

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Re: Why won't my dwarves butcher anything my hunter drags in?
« Reply #16 on: December 23, 2011, 08:47:21 am »

Duck can be butchered. It's small and produces little meat, but can be butchered, producing a skull at least.

Tame ducks can be slaughtered.  They produce only a skull and nothing else when butchered, but they can be butchered because they're tame.  Wild ducks cannot be butchered, because a butcher won't touch a wild animal that's too small to produce anything but a skull.

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I think hunters won't attack any creature that can't be butchered.

Nope.  Hunters will happily kill ducks, cavies, and rabbits, all of which are too small to be butchered.
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