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[Berossus]

i dont want to lose another dwarf to a failed mood, so heres my plea:

I have several "skeletons" of assorted animals (horse, mule, yak amongst others), yet the butcher says he cant butcher a dead animal because theres none nearby.
How do i make the skeletons into bones so the dwarf can satisfy his mood?

[GreatWyrmGold]

You can only butcher live domestic animals. Do so now, or hunt something.

[Loud Whispers]

Do you have a refuse stockpile? Often butchers will refuse to butcher corpses lying around because they've not been stockpiled.

[Berossus]

You can only butcher live domestic animals. Do so now, or hunt something.

But the job says "butcher dead animal"?
I thought slaughter was for live, and butcher, according to the wiki, should dismember a skeleton into bones...

Well, following your advice in checked my animals page only to see that my livestock had beenraped by greenskins last winter... in my panic i kinda accidently sent the military to the trade depot, where they kinda slaughtered the yak bull of the elven traders, so to speak, and somehow someone appearently took it apart and the moody dwarf was happy 

[GreatWyrmGold]

You can only butcher live domestic animals. Do so now, or hunt something.

But the job says "butcher dead animal"?
I thought slaughter was for live, and butcher, according to the wiki, should dismember a skeleton into bones...

Well, following your advice in checked my animals page only to see that my livestock had beenraped by greenskins last winter... in my panic i kinda accidently sent the military to the trade depot, where they kinda slaughtered the yak bull of the elven traders, so to speak, and somehow someone appearently took it apart and the moody dwarf was happy 

There's a bug where animals belonging to your civil won't get butchered.

[darkgloomie]

You can only butcher live domestic animals. Do so now, or hunt something.

But the job says "butcher dead animal"?
I thought slaughter was for live, and butcher, according to the wiki, should dismember a skeleton into bones...

Well, following your advice in checked my animals page only to see that my livestock had beenraped by greenskins last winter... in my panic i kinda accidently sent the military to the trade depot, where they kinda slaughtered the yak bull of the elven traders, so to speak, and somehow someone appearently took it apart and the moody dwarf was happy 

Butcher shops only butcher fresh dead animals

Unfortunatly you can't chop skeletons down for the single bones, because their body still has cartilage and stuff like that, and you can't use things that rot.

If you have a necromancer lying around, though, you can try to hack the zombies to pieces. Sooner or later you'll get usable bones from the corpse corpse

[Loud Whispers]

Unfortunatly you can't chop skeletons down for the single bones, because their body still has cartilage and stuff like that, and you can't use things that rot.

You can butcher skeletons that aren't too small / came from sentients

[GreatWyrmGold]

Unfortunatly you can't chop skeletons down for the single bones, because their body still has cartilage and stuff like that, and you can't use things that rot.

You can butcher skeletons that aren't too small / came from sentients

/came from civ members.

[Loud Whispers]

Unfortunatly you can't chop skeletons down for the single bones, because their body still has cartilage and stuff like that, and you can't use things that rot.

You can butcher skeletons that aren't too small / came from sentients

/came from civ members.

Oh yeah, that too. But resurrecting the corpse and killing it after lets you butcher it.

[GreatWyrmGold]

Unfortunatly you can't chop skeletons down for the single bones, because their body still has cartilage and stuff like that, and you can't use things that rot.

You can butcher skeletons that aren't too small / came from sentients

/came from civ members.

Oh yeah, that too. But resurrecting the corpse and killing it after lets you butcher it.

By then you're butchering an undead corpse, not a dwarven-civ-corpse.

[Loud Whispers]

By then you're butchering an undead corpse, not a dwarven-civ-corpse.

Which is why it works. Lets you butcher ex-pets too.

[darkgloomie]

Unfortunatly you can't chop skeletons down for the single bones, because their body still has cartilage and stuff like that, and you can't use things that rot.

You can butcher skeletons that aren't too small / came from sentients

... really? Because i have giant bushtit skeleton around, and so far my dorfs haven't tried butchering it... or do I have to get them to haul it to the nearest refuse pile?

[Loud Whispers]

... really? Because i have giant bushtit skeleton around, and so far my dorfs haven't tried butchering it... or do I have to get them to haul it to the nearest refuse pile?

It would seem so, yeah. My Dwarves are making badger/wolf bone stacks as we speak.

[darkgloomie]

... really? Because i have giant bushtit skeleton around, and so far my dorfs haven't tried butchering it... or do I have to get them to haul it to the nearest refuse pile?

It would seem so, yeah. My Dwarves are making badger/wolf bone stacks as we speak.

mhm, it appears so. I made a butcher shop outdoors and the butcher went straight for the horse skeleton from the dead elf merchants (due to siege. It was by no means my fault. I did not let my military lag behind, nossir)

[GreatWyrmGold]

Unfortunatly you can't chop skeletons down for the single bones, because their body still has cartilage and stuff like that, and you can't use things that rot.

You can butcher skeletons that aren't too small / came from sentients

... really? Because i have giant bushtit skeleton around, and so far my dorfs haven't tried butchering it... or do I have to get them to haul it to the nearest refuse pile?

It has to be a nearby, unrotten, butcherable thingy.