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[Clownie]

So the main source of entertainment in my fortress is merrymaking and having the occasional goblin warrior or troll drop through a shaft from z-level 15 to z-level -3, causing in pleasurable explosions and the associated ludicrous gibs. However, when a creature is killed like this, the dwarves just leave it there to rot. They'll take its equipment once I reclaim it, but the corpses are left alone forever. It's just this one tile; on the rare occasion that a troll survives and my military kills it on another tile, the corpse will be moved.

Before I made the shaft, the two rocks lying on the ground on this tile were left alone, too, to my annoyance.

What do? I want troll bone bolts, man.

[Sphalerite]

Is your dining room Outside?  If so, you need to turn on gathering of refuse from Outside for them to move the parts to a refuse pile.

Of course even if you do that, they won't do much with the corpse after moving it.  Sentient creatures (including goblins and trolls) won't be butchered with the default raws.  When you splatter a creature with a high Z-level a few of the bits may rot to make usable bones, but the most of it will yield partial skeletons and skeletal body parts that you can't do anything with.

[Ferret]

I'm assuming that you've set the drop shaft as a pit, hence the dwarves are leaving refuse at the bottom of it because a pit is considered a 'propper place' for it. Not sure that this is the cause, but its the only thing that comes to mind.

[Clownie]

It's inside because I put a hatch on top, and it is indeed a pit.

I'll try removing the pit momentarily.

Also, I will have my troll bone bolts dammit. All the corpses have decomposed by now, leaving a bunch of bones.

[Sphalerite]

Being a pit has nothing to do with it.  They'll drop creatures into a Pit zone, but that doesn't make the remains of those creatures forbidden.

Inspect the tiles manually, are they marked as Inside or Outside?  I don't know if building a hatch automatically makes tiles under it Inside.

[Clownie]

It's inside. Specifically, inside/light/above ground (??). Should I try shutting the hatch with a lever, perchance? Or building a temporary floor upon the tower while not executing prisoners of war?

I removed the pit, and indeed they leave the corpses there.

[Sphalerite]

No, if it's Inside then you shouldn't have problems with gathering of refuse from outside.

Do you have a refuse stockpile set up to accept goblin and troll corpses and body parts?

[Clownie]

Yup. Two, in fact.

[Garath]

actually, I somethimes think that if some place was once marked outside, it remains marked as no-collect-unless-outside-is-allowed

I have a rat remains on a tile that is marked inside - light - above ground, and no collecting. Enough idlers, normal refuse outside is allowed. Above ground = outside

[Loud Whispers]

Would also explain why your stones are being ignored. Set them to gather refuse from the outside, if they don't move the junk, magma and relocate.