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[Ihtomyt]

I'm sure this has been asked before, and I found stuff elsewhere online about it, but none of those things helped. I have some giant dangerous beasts animal corpses around that the military mangled. One of them is very much in the way in a bad place. I have a corpse pile set up. I checked that the standing orders are to move bodies, and it says dwarves gather bodies. I have many with the refuse hauling and burial labors enabled. There are no burrow alerts on. There are dwarves available for work. The job to move corpses is not even appearing in the jobs list, nor is it getting done. I tried setting the corpses to Dump, but this did nothing. Any thoughts?

[PatrikLundell]

A corpse stockpile is for corpses of sapients only. Animal corpses go into the refuse stockpile (weirdly enough, reanimated corpses or sapients end up there as well, once they've been put down again). Also, there's a setting under options for whether to haul refuse (i.e. mostly corpses of non sapients and bits thereof) to refuse stockpiles.

[Ihtomyt]

Thanks for that, I wasn't clear on that detail. I do also have a refuse pile though, but they aren't bringing the corpses there either.

[PatrikLundell]

Check that the corpse isn't forbidden, and check that the refuse stockpile isn't accidentally set to take from links only (it's easy to fat finger that).

[Starver]

Have you tried setting up a garbage zone where you want them/where you'd rather have them (can be over the stockpile you think they need to go to..? Make sure this doesn't cause problems with other Dumpables or Garbage Zones, for the duration, or accept you may need to sort it out later). Do "(o)rders->(r)efuse->from (o)utside" toggling-on, if necessary, then set-to-Dump these items.

Assuming access/willingness issues don't interfere, you can get a "surge" of Dumping, and whether you then regularly go in there and unForbid them, or not, depends upon why you want to stockpile these corpses (just getting them moved may leave you unconcerned with this, but butchery stuff obviously demands you do).

It may not solve the way you are encountering Hauling problems, but whether Dumping works or not you might get a bit of extra info about why you are.

[Ihtomyt]

Thank you! That was it, I didn't realize the menu went deeper to refuse from outside. Even that didn't work right away until I made a brand new refuse pile (it was not set to take only from links, so not sure why) but it is working now!

[knutor]

Also.. The DF wiki recomends a wheelbarrel for corpse hauling stockpiles. "Bring out your dead!" Monty Python. Use a material ya have lots of for wheelbarrels, as that wheelbarrel when not in use, sits in a refuse SP decaying like body parts, etc.

[Ihtomyt]

Thank you, sometimes it's easy to forget simple things... it sure took a long time for that dwarf to carry that giant monarch butterfly corpse across the map.

[Leonidas]

Thank you! That was it, I didn't realize the menu went deeper to refuse from outside. Even that didn't work right away until I made a brand new refuse pile (it was not set to take only from links, so not sure why) but it is working now!

The orders menu is a big source of problems for new players. It hides all sorts of surprises.