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[YashaAstora]

I had a titan come to my fort recently and after killing it with my military, I decided to butcher it for its meat. I got a stack of 88 meat that weighs around 167 kilos (assuming the in-game weight unit is a kilo which I think it is), but my dwarves just leave it on the floor of their food stockpiles. Like, the meat is IN the stockpile, but not in a barrel where it wouldn't rot. I have tried everything: I set the barrels for each stockpile to the max, I made 20 new barrels and 20 new rock pots each, I forbid and reclaimed, I dumped and then reclaimed, they just leave it on the floor. Is the stack too big to put in a barrel? Is there any way I can split it if it is (I have dfhack and I'm willing to use it if i need to)? I really do not want all this tarantula titan meat to rot in my stockpile!

(Incidentally this is also happening with a stack of 37 water buffalo meat)

[Thisfox]

The stack isn't too big, but they might just have other tasks they want to fulfill, or a stack massing 167 Urists might well be too darn heavy. If it's the former, then you need a dorf who has no other tasks he can perform. Locking a workingdorf in the room with the barrels, the empty meat stockpile, and the meat might work. So long as you stockpile the meat, barrel or not, it won't go off. It might get eaten by pests though, so pasture a cat over the meat stockpile to prevent pests from getting near it until it is properly cooked and turned into numerous delicious titan roasts!

[brewer bob]

A stack of 88 meat is too big for a barrel/pot.

https://dwarffortresswiki.org/index.php/DF2014:Barrel

Barrels can hold up to 60 prepared meals, plants, or cheeses, 30 pieces of meat or fish, any number of units of brewed alcohol (but only a single stack), 100 units of lye or milk, or 6000 eggs regardless of size.

So, according to the wiki a stack of 30 meat is the maximum for a barrel.

Edit. Also, the meat won't rot without a barrel as long as it's in a food stockpile, but vermin can spoil/eat it.