I have a question about shells.
I had a moody dorf occupying a craftdwarfs workshop yesterday that was asking for shells. I had orders set to allow refuse gathering outside, and to allow collection of vermin refuse. I butchered a horned caveturtle, producing a shell, but then found that the moody dorf wouldn't pick up and use the shell.
I then tested this on a separate embark, with the same order settings, by butchering a caveturtle. Its remains including shell get put in the food stockpile, but then upon attempting to make shell crafts at the craftdwarfs workshop I get 'cancels make shell crafts, needs unrotten shell body part'.
Any idea what's going on here? It could be a bug perhaps, I'm running 4a still for the moment but I didn't see a fix for it (if it is a bug) listed in the changelog for 4b. Everything is outside, and nothing is forbidden or dumped.
Oh, and all the various simple settings are off, and the 'harder x' settings are also off (I'm relatively inexperienced at DF). Everything else is default, as far as I can remember.
EDIT: Searching back, noticed someone else with the same problem, shall try fishpond as it was suggested to them.