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[treczoks]

Fellow Dwarfherders,

I shredded some goblins and cobolds (I LOVE weapon traps with large, serrated disks!), and my dutyful Urist McTrashhauls moved their remains to the refuse stockpile.

My bonecrafter took whatever he considered useful to make some trinkets for the elves, but there are still a lot of corpses on that pile. The butcher won't touch them, as they are "sentients", but what can I do with them? Can I just let them rot for a while and they'll be gone? Can I somehow harvest more bones from them? Or should I just build a loooong dump chute right into the magma sea to clean up the refuse pile?

Yours, Christian

[Yaotzin]

Personally I mod the RAWs so I can eat/butcher etc sentients. Even without modding bodies will eventually rot into skeletons and can be turned into bones, if you want.

Otherwise magma.

[Sphalerite]

I recommend dumping them in magma, or atom-smashing them.  The rate at which skeletons spontaneously turn into bones is so low that it might as well be non-existent, and if a necromancer shows up all those spare skeletons will just be more things to attack you.

[i2amroy]

I recommend dumping them in magma, or atom-smashing them.  The rate at which skeletons spontaneously turn into bones is so low that it might as well be non-existent, and if a necromancer shows up all those spare skeletons will just be more things to attack you.

Seconded. Necromancers make skeletons rather dangerous to hang around, and from my personal tests I've been finding that just about the minimum time it takes for a goblin corpse to decay is in the 8-10 years range and even then it can be quite higher depending upon how mangled the body was before it started decomposition and how large the goblin was before death.