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[Nibble]

My refuse pile is quite full, and I'm trying to decide what I should leave in it for future use.  I know that things like hair and nervous tissue have no use, so they can be dumped; but I also have lots of partial skeletons and various body parts from animals, goblins, and FBs.  Do these have any use?  I know that bones are stored in the refuse stockpile for use by bone carvers, but my bone carvers say they can't find any usable bone in there.  I assumed that the bones weren't sufficiently dry, but now that they've been there a while, I'm starting to wonder if the Dwarven aversion to butchering sentient beings also extends to using their bones for art, in which case I guess I can safely dump them all into the magma sea.

Am I on the right track here?

[FuzzyZergling]

If the bones are part of the skeleton of a creature that cannot be butchered, I am almost certain that they are unusable.

[Torgan]

Eventually some of the corpses rot down into component parts and you can at least use the bones to make bolts, I have some goblin bone bolts.  I've made some things with troll horns and tusks as well but that may be because the parts were severed in combat.  As far as I know I haven't made any elf or human bone items though, some stuff just never seems to go.

I think you'd be safe to just apply magma to the lot, I seem to get plenty of bones from butchering forgotten beasts and my hunter's spoils.