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[Leonidas]

In older versions, corpses would turn into skull and bones pretty quickly.  The wiki says that they still do that over a period of years, but I'm not seeing it.  I've left an elf merchant skeleton outside for about ten years now, and it's still holding together.

Dwarves won't butcher the corpses of intelligent enemies, presumably over something similar to cannibalism.  So I have many dozens, maybe a few hundred, skeletons of intelligent enemies in a pit.  I can't butcher them.  It seems unlikely that they'll ever turn into bones.  Is there some trick to make something useful out of them, or should I just atom-smash them?

[FuzzyZergling]

Skeletons will not turn to bones without being butchered, and even if they did, you would be unable to use them without changing dwarven ethics.

[Duelmaster409]

You can always just line the entrance of your fortress with their skeletons. Imagine how scary that would be for visitors.

[rephikul]

just atom smash those.

[Leonidas]

You can always just line the entrance of your fortress with their skeletons. Imagine how scary that would be for visitors.

I do that with decorated skulls.  Seems more festive.