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[Loctavus]

1)I get loads of heaps of tallow when I butcher things, I order it converted to fat and after a while my cook gives up, leaving a few heaps of the stuff behind. Yet the status doesn't change, and it doesn't rot away. I've resolved to dumping it outside, but short of rendering it down right away is there anything else I can do with this 'rotten' stuff?

2) Pearls, from oysters I suppose? In game terms, how the heck can I get these?

[Derakon]

You got it backwards - you get fat from animals, which can be cooked into tallow. Tallow can be used when making prepared meals, or for making soap, which is currently nearly pointless as all you can do with it is sell it. Anyway, so long as it's on a food stockpile, it won't rot.

As for pearls, no idea.

[pushy]

Pearls come from oysters and mussels...except that there's apparently no way of getting them from those creatures yet. Maybe from processing fish at a fishery or something in a later version, but not yet.

[Loctavus]

Well, my guys won't render OR cook it, bu thanks anyway.

[pushy]

Well, my guys won't render OR cook it, bu thanks anyway.

If there's any fat, ordering "Render Fat" on repeat at a kitchen will make them take all fat and turn it into tallow.
If they're not cooking tallow, you've probably ordered them to not cook with it. Press [z], choose "Kitchen" and hit return. Any tallow listed in there must have Cook if the dwarves are allowed to cook it. If it's Cook instead, highlight it and press [c] to change it to Cook and then they'll cook with it
My kitchen is pretty much allowed to cook with anything; the only things I prevent them cooking are plump helmets (solely for brewing), wine (solely for drinking) and turtles (solely for eating alone so I can get the damned shells)

[Loctavus]

Looking back I just got confused between tallow and fat as you suggested. I thought I had some tallow at one point though, but they would neither cook it nor render it. I dumped it all outside as a result. I'd go back and claim it but that fortress got trashed by goblins.