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[Kait]

Hi !

I've got a big problem, because i'm in a haunted biome, and my dwarves refuse to dump corpses of things which died outside.
But it's strange, my orders are correctly set, and it worked perfectly for the corpses inside.

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Any idea ? Thanks.

[martinuzz]

if it's sentient corpses, they'll need a corpses stockpile desigated with (y), not a refuse stockpile.
If it's just animal corpses, which I think those green k's are (kea's, right?) then I've no idea why. Did you accidentally press (a) while over your corpse stockpile in (q) mode?
If it's accidentally switched to 'accept from links only', that would explain.

[Kait]

I think it's not a stockpile issue because:
-It's exactly the same for the dwarf corpse which will reanimate and kill everyone soon.
-They don't want to dump it too.

But, yeah, it's kea corpse. Maybe it's a bug.

[martinuzz]

Did you by any chance turn off the refuse hauling labours on all your dwarves?
Are your dwarves too busy doing other jobs?

[Kait]

They are all workshipping.
I think it's a bug. Or all my dwarves have become totally mad. Don't know.

[PatrikLundell]

Them all worshiping would explain them not hauling. If you've just set up the temple(s) they may be satisfying a pent up worshiping need. However, it seems some dorfs just spend their time praying/meditating, only rarely doing any work (just think of those as children...).

If you really need them to work you could probably deactivate the temples, but that would probably not have a positive effect on their happiness.

My solution to the dead stuff outside problem is rather different, however:
Set up a civilian alert to keep your dorfs safely inside, and then:

1) Preferred solution: Atom smashing pressure plate activated long array of drawbridges to eliminate reanimated dorfs, with a manual override to handle small, indestructible, horrors (such as kea heads).
2) Easy solution: Cage traps to cage the reanimated threats as they enter.
3) Complex solution: 1+2, where the cages take care of the small stuff that won't trigger the atom smashers.

Also, have multiple entries.

[greycat]

Them all worshiping would explain them not hauling. If you've just set up the temple(s) they may be satisfying a pent up worshiping need. However, it seems some dorfs just spend their time praying/meditating, only rarely doing any work (just think of those as children...).

There is a worship bug (9324), which is already marked as fixed for the next version.  Dwarves with multiple deities keep worshipping the same one over and over, neglecting the second one.

Martinuzz posted a workaround.

[Dozebôm Lolumzalěs]

Fixed in 04.