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[aham]

I have a problem. My hunters kill an animal (rhino) bring it to the butcher and a job is queued up. All good. Then some idiot other dwarf herpaderps up and takes the carcass to the refuse pile. The butcher gets there and doesn't find an animal, so it cancels the job. My refuse pile is full of like 5 corpses that this happened to, and the dwarves won't take corpses from the pile even though I modified their permissions to tell them to. Wat do?

[Mobotium]

Modify the refuse pile not to accept corpses.

Besides, i think the butcher only cancels the job if the carcass is roting.

[Andrew425]

Have you set Orders to collect refuse from outside?

[madmenyo]

I have some sort of the same problem.

Killed some minotaur that just showed up and killed it. In my underground bridge, and it got dragged to the refuse pile...i'm wondering if i could butcher the huge thing.

Also, the animals i kill with my army will just rot outside and a butcher order fails with fresh corpses just up the stairs.

I'm posing here since i think a the answer fixes both our problems.

[Sphalerite]

What you describe is not what is happening.

A dwarf will not touch a item which is tasked for a job.  The moment a dwarf decides to butcher the corpse, the corpse is marked as being tasked for the butcher job.  At that point nobody but the butcher is allowed to touch it.  On the other hand, if the job is tasked for being taken to the refuse pile before anyone decides to butcher it, it won't be eligible for being butchered until it's no longer being taken to the refuse pile.

I'm curious how you modified your 'permissions'.  As far as I know there is no setting which tells your dwarves to not butcher corpses from refuse piles.

Also, minotaurs cannot be butchered on account of being sentient animals.

[madmenyo]

Ok, sorry, fixed my problem by building a butcher near the corpses. Still not sure why this does get all the (by now) skeletons out of my courtyard. But i'll stop hijacking your post.

[Mobotium]

If you tell dwarves to ignore refuse from outside, they wont butcher any killed animal, though as far as I know that aplies only to animals killed by the military or other animals.

[FuzzyZergling]

If you tell dwarves to ignore refuse from outside, they wont butcher any killed animal, though as far as I know that aplies only to animals killed by the military or other animals.

Unless you put a refuse stockpile under the corpse.

[aham]

Modify the refuse pile not to accept corpses.

Besides, i think the butcher only cancels the job if the carcass is roting.

I'll try that.
It says something like "job cancelled: Needs non-rotting butcherable item nearby"

Have you set Orders to collect refuse from outside?

Yes.

What you describe is not what is happening.

A dwarf will not touch a item which is tasked for a job.  The moment a dwarf decides to butcher the corpse, the corpse is marked as being tasked for the butcher job.  At that point nobody but the butcher is allowed to touch it.  On the other hand, if the job is tasked for being taken to the refuse pile before anyone decides to butcher it, it won't be eligible for being butchered until it's no longer being taken to the refuse pile.

I'm curious how you modified your 'permissions'.  As far as I know there is no setting which tells your dwarves to not butcher corpses from refuse piles.

Also, minotaurs cannot be butchered on account of being sentient animals.

Well, that's just what it looks like is happening. I set the orders so that they could gather refuse from outside, but the butcher just leaves all the corpses there.

[Sphalerite]

Do you have a refuse stockpile reasonably near the butcher's shop?  As soon as the corpse is placed in the refuse stockpile, a butcher corpse job will automatically be generated at the butcher's shop.  A dwarf with the butcher job will then take the corpse from the stockpile to the butcher's shop and butcher it.

[aham]

Do you have a refuse stockpile reasonably near the butcher's shop?  As soon as the corpse is placed in the refuse stockpile, a butcher corpse job will automatically be generated at the butcher's shop.  A dwarf with the butcher job will then take the corpse from the stockpile to the butcher's shop and butcher it.

I removed my normal corpse stockpile and set one up right next to the butcher. Everyone just walks right by it and the corpses are lay there rotting.

It's not a big deal since I have plenty of food, but it is annoying that they let this good meat go to waste.

[Sphalerite]

Obviously, they won't touch corpses that are already rotting.

Did they refuse to touch the corpses before they were rotting?

Were the corpses in fact wild animals?  Tame animals which die from any cause other than being deliberately slaughtered at a butcher's shop can't be butchered.

Also, intelligent creatures like goblins or minotaurs can't be butchered.

If you do have non-intelligent, wild animals in a refuse stockpile that aren't being butchered, it's possible nobody is free to butcher them.  You might want to temporarily enable butchering on more dwarves, or disable all other labors on your other butcher dwarves.