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[Drawde]

I've got a very large custom creature.  When killed and butchered, it produces a large stack of bones.  So large that the entire stack can decay before you can get it moved to be processed, due to being outside of a stockpile for so long.

Is there a tag that prevents just that creature's bones from decaying?

[Trapezohedron]

Odd. Creature bones don't decay, AFAIK.

Did you mess with temperature tags in both the bone material and the creature?

[Drawde]

Nope, I didn't mess with that part.

In that fort, there was a large distance between the refuse stockpile for bones and the workshop, and between the stockpile and the butcher.  The bones are a bit lighter than silver, so rather heavy.  The stack was around 200-300 if I remember right (been a while since I ran into that creature).  The stack kept vanishing between moving from the stockpile to be used at the workshop.  I assumed it was because it decayed while outside of a stockpile, like much of the rest of the animal would.

I made one item out of the stack, using DFHack to Dump it right outside the workshop.  And that finished item never decayed.

[i2amroy]

Odd. Creature bones don't decay, AFAIK.

I'm fairly certain if they are left outside (regardless of refuse pile or not), then they decay over a couple of years or so. That's just a stack of bones mind you, a skeleton follows a whole separate set of rules.