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[Lord Dakoth]

My fort recently fought off a swarm of harpies, even though it is not even in its second year. I was able to beat off the little bastards with no fatalities.

Now, I'm having trouble getting my butcher to butcher the corpses. I try to add the task "Slaughter a Dead Animal" at the butcher's workshop, but he instantly cancels the job, and gives the error message, "Urist McHarpyBait cancels Butcher a Dead Animal: Needs unrotten corpse blah blah blah."

I checked, just to make sure, and I have about half a dozen Harpy corpses lying around my fort's courtyard, in plain sight. They are all quite unrotten. They are not forbidden.

Someone help me, please? I really would like to have a stock of Harpy Leather Loincloths...

[dragon0421]

According to the wiki, most if not all humanoids cannot be butchered by any means.

It also mentions a NOT BUTCHERABLE flag in the object raws, but I couldn't find anything like that for any creatures...

Your experience seems to prove the first statement. I was hoping to find a way to mod the game for you, but it eludes me.

[ManaUser]

Harpies have the [BUTCHERABLE_NONSTANDARD] flag. According to the wiki that means they can't be butchered unless they're tamed first, which is impossible, because they don't have either [PET] or [PET_EXOTIC].

But would you really want to butcher a harpy? I mean they talk, they have boobs... it would be more than a little creepy, don't you think?

[Skorpion]

You never know, they might be tasty.

Gotta be better than dimple cup spawn biscuits.

[XSI]

You're saying it might be a little creepy for dwarves to eat a harpy, but really, they eat raw vermin, and in good areas they may decide to shove a live fairy into their mouth.

Harpies are just overgrown goth fairies.

edit: besides that, distance has something to do with it, the butcher also needs a -nearby- unrotten corpse, which I assume is to prevent him from running into the gcs's webs to butcher a groundhog.

[Lord Dakoth]

Harpies have the [BUTCHERABLE_NONSTANDARD] flag. According to the wiki that means they can't be butchered unless they're tamed first, which is impossible, because they don't have either [PET] or [PET_EXOTIC].

But would you really want to butcher a harpy? I mean they talk, they have boobs... it would be more than a little creepy, don't you think?

Hmm, maybe it's time for a little modding...

And really, this is the forum where players discuss the most efficient way for disposing of Dwarven children. *Harpy Boob Gloves* would be a 2 on the scale of creepiness.

[ManaUser]

But you're not actually eating the children, are you?

...or had that just not occurred to you yet?

[timmeh]

But you're not actually eating the children, are you?

...or had that just not occurred to you yet?

Brilliant!!!

[Phantom]

*look of horror*

[Judas Maccabeus]

But you're not actually eating the children, are you?

Well... not dwarf children...

*munches idly on a kitten-meat biscuit*

[Lord Dakoth]

But you're not actually eating the children, are you?

...or had that just not occurred to you yet?

I think you just solved my food shortage problem.

[Rowanas]

I believe the phrase is "Two birds, one stone".

Another appropriate phrase might be "get the hell away from me, you monster".

[Skorpion]

You have a food shortage? I've got a huge surplus, because I thought the migrant wave would be the right time to get a load of livestock killed and processed.

I thought wrong; goblins ambushed and I spotted chalk.
So I dug into it, and discovered what I was hoping for; magnetite, lignite, and native platinum.
And a huge amount of work that distracted all the haulers.

[Maw]

*look of horror*

... at the thought....

.... or because you didn't think of it first?

[Phelix]

You never know, they might be tasty.

Gotta be better than dimple cup spawn biscuits.

DELICIOUS DYE!