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JudgeDredd

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Dead Animal bodies not being collected for the butchering.
« on: May 24, 2013, 01:16:59 pm »
This will probably be an easy answer or fix, I'll explain.

I had a pack of Rhesus Macaque's run into my fortress before I had any military or defences, so I made a quick militia and I had them all beaten to death.

After they were killed and just laying on the floor dead. My dwarfs began to pick them up, but not to bring them to the butchery, but to the refuse pile.

Why did my dwarfs bring them to my refuse pile and not the butchery..

((The bodies were not set to forbidden or dump))

Thanks for the help.
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Larix

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Re: Dead Animal bodies not being collected for the butchering.
« Reply #1 on: May 24, 2013, 01:47:07 pm »
That's actually working as intended - only the butchers themselves will carry bodies to the butcher's shop for butchering. Loose bodies 'belong' in the refuse pile, and that's where your beards will take them. A butchery workshop will _also_ line up corpses from nearby refuse stockpiles for butchering, so if butcher and refuse pile aren't too far apart, that should work out alright. If necessary, you could build a temporary butcher's workshop next to the stockpile.

The refuse pile is an ordinary stockpile - only non-forbidden not-set-to-dump items will be brought there.
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Re: Dead Animal bodies not being collected for the butchering.
« Reply #2 on: May 24, 2013, 02:16:22 pm »
wild animals killed by military can be butchered, but only in some vague circumstances.  The body must be reasonably close to the butcher's shop, and the body must be unrotted and not mutilated.
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Re: Dead Animal bodies not being collected for the butchering.
« Reply #3 on: May 24, 2013, 03:38:36 pm »
Mutilated corpses are fine, so long as they're large enough. The missing pieces that make a corpse a mutilated corpse are also fine, as long as they're large enough. Intact corpses may not be fine, depending on the size of the creature.

Rhesus macaques are the size of turkeys. While whole corpses are going to be butcherable, mutilated ones may not be large enough for butchering.
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Re: Dead Animal bodies not being collected for the butchering.
« Reply #4 on: May 24, 2013, 04:30:12 pm »
Thanks for the help everyone, it's a little irrelevant now as I accidentally flooded my fortress :/

It annoys me the second an animal is killed by hunter or your army it isn't brought to be butchered immediately how ever.
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Re: Dead Animal bodies not being collected for the butchering.
« Reply #5 on: May 24, 2013, 08:51:54 pm »
You just have to change the standing orders to "Dwarves gather refuse from outside." 
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