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[MrsStick]

So I'm back to this issue. I have 11 bodies in my corpse stockpile in the burial chambers and they all have coffins assigned but no one is putting them away. The bodies aren't forbidden. Everyone has burial enabled. Yay.

[GiglameshDespair]

Build coffins next to the corpse stockpile, then make a burrow that only covers the corpses and the coffins, then add dwarves to it.

Try that.

[Duuvian]

Are the bodies forbidden?

You can draw an unforbid box around them all at once with d>b>c

[Larix]

Are any of the corpses incomplete - "mutilated corpse" or "partial skeleton"? Dwarfs often insist on burying body parts in the order in which they were dropped, so an errant hand or tooth could hold up the burial of the rest of the body.

[MrsStick]

Corpse stockpile is in the room with the coffins, and I'd set my masons to only make coffins, so dwarves were going down there often (even with a miasma). I know they're not forbidden - it's one of the first things I checked. As for the partial skeleton thing, I'll have to check. But they're also leaving (non-forbidden) dead bodies on my second outdoor level (I'm on a flat biome and some dwarves got stuck on the walls during a siege, and they've left the bodies up there despite walking by/over them to work on my floors on that level...

[EvilBob22]

Is "gather refuse from outside" enabled in the (o)rders menu?  I'm not sure if that is required or not, but it is worth checking out.

[WJLIII3]

I think a corpse stockpile may count as a graveyard, and be an acceptable place for bodies, by the standards of the loving. Try using only refuse stockpiles.

[MrsStick]

Re: gather from outside - it's off, but the corpse stockpile with skeletons is inside.

I'll try turning the stockpile off and see what happens...