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[BanjoSnake]

Hey all.

I have this problem all the time when setting up a stockpile for butchers to use. No matter how many times I figure out how to do it, I always end up forgetting again. Basically I want to set up a custom stockpile that only accepts butcherable corpses for my dwarves to use, so as not to waste meat. Otherwise, in my experience, anything not a living tame animal or something dragged in by a hunter will be ignored and go to waste.

If someone could please just remind me of the correct settings so that I have a permanent written record of it to refer to next time, that'd be just great.

Cheers!

[Tacomagic]

Refuse stockpile with corpses enabled, and all other things (Bone, Horns, etc) disabled.

In the orders menu, enable surface refuse collection.

[elpreda]

You don't need a custom stockpile for this, just a regular refuse stockpile and outside refuse gathering enabled.
Your dwarves should bring any corpses to the stockpile then butcher them, that is unless they're throwing a party, then going on break, then sleeping, then drinking, then eating, in which case your lovely cadaver will rot.

[Tacomagic]

Also of note, the pile will need at least 1 free space.  If the pile is completely full the corpses will not be hauled.

[BanjoSnake]

The custom stockpile is needed as otherwise it will fill up with all kinds of useless.... well, refuse. I'm literally just thinking of a pile for butcherable remains to supply the butchers shop, like a plant stockpile for a still. I'll try just enabling corpses, I'm not at home now but I have a sneaking suspicion that there's still some issue there. That seems far too easy a solution for a game of df somehow...

[slothen]

You don't need a custom stockpile for this, just a regular refuse stockpile and outside refuse gathering enabled.

I'm sure this would work very well, but you do occasionally have the butcherable body-part.  Pretty rare however.  Last I recall this was when I used to fall to explode non-tame animals, resulting in more bones and leather (one piece of leather and bone from each part rather than one piece for the whole animal).  One of the reasons I did this was because at the time entire stacks of bones were being used up.

[EvilBob22]

The down side is that refuse stockpiles make things rot faster (and make things rot that don't normally rot).  I personally use a dump zone near the butcher shop, but that has its own problems/caveats.

[Tacomagic]

The custom stockpile is needed as otherwise it will fill up with all kinds of useless.... well, refuse. I'm literally just thinking of a pile for butcherable remains to supply the butchers shop, like a plant stockpile for a still. I'll try just enabling corpses, I'm not at home now but I have a sneaking suspicion that there's still some issue there. That seems far too easy a solution for a game of df somehow...

Be mindful that there are two kinds of corpses you can set in the stockpile.  The one you want is refuse>corpses.

The other one you probably want to set is refuse>body parts.  That way if something gets lopped off you can butcher it.