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[Kaos]

what can I do with them?

Are they like feathers, chitin, nervous tissue, cartilage, etc? or so they actually have an use?

[Sphalerite]

There is no 'beak' tissue or material type.  What you have there is a body part that was probably severed in a fight or something.  It is probably too small to be butchered, so there's nothing you can do for it.

If you do find a beak large enough to butcher, you'll probably just get bone from it (the beak body part only has bone for a tissue layer).

[EmperorJon]

Well according to the raws it should be 100% made of bone, not sure if that makes it a butcherable skeleton or anything.

[Kaos]

Some "Giant Magpies" were annoying my workers and one of them that was carrying a crossbow decided to shoot them down, one of the bolts knocked away in an arc a "Giant Magpie beak" that later was hauled to my "Refuse->Bones" stockpile, I don't think it got butchered (not 100% sure, though), I'll try to make some crafts with it...

And indeed it shows on "body parts".

[Sphalerite]

It needs to be butchered before you can make anything out of it.  If it had been butchered, it wouldn't be a "Giant Magpie beak", it would be "Giant Magpie Bone".  If it hasn't been auto-butchered, it's probably too small to yield even a single unit of bone, so it's useless.

[Kaos]

It needs to be butchered before you can make anything out of it.  If it had been butchered, it wouldn't be a "Giant Magpie beak", it would be "Giant Magpie Bone".  If it hasn't been auto-butchered, it's probably too small to yield even a single unit of bone, so it's useless.

yet, it ended up in my refuse stockpile that only accepts bones, when I have another one for corpses and bodyparts.

[Sphalerite]

It needs to be butchered before you can make anything out of it.  If it had been butchered, it wouldn't be a "Giant Magpie beak", it would be "Giant Magpie Bone".  If it hasn't been auto-butchered, it's probably too small to yield even a single unit of bone, so it's useless.

yet, it ended up in my refuse stockpile that only accepts bones, when I have another one for corpses and bodyparts.

Interesting.  Perhaps it's because the beak only has bone as a tissue layes, so it's counted as being an object made of bones even though it's not a stack of bones.

[Kaos]

I tryed ordering a butcher job,  it failed...
I ordered bone decorations, forbid every other bone except for the beak and the bone craver grabbed the "giant magpie beak" and an "(iron drum)" that I got from my last caravan buyout and made an *<iron drum>*  that menaces with spikes of "giant magpie bone" or something like that...

So it's a bone after all...

I guess it's the same as when you drop a creature 10+ z-levels and it explodes into tiny little bits, that you get usable bones of otherwise unbutcherable creatures like goblins, elfs, trolls...

Maybe we could repeat this by capturing a giant bird whatever, stun it somehow and drop it while it's stunned (so it doesn't fly and saves itself) so it explodes, maybe then you can realiably get the beak...