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[Chocolatemilkgod]

We were attacked by a grizzly bear, and my dog went out and bravely defended the fortress!!!...but it died afterwards D: . Anyway, long story short, my question is how do you get rid of a corpse that's hanging around in your fortress? Does it have to be selected to be butchered or something?

[katana]

Make a burial place to bury it, or make a corpse stockpile.

[NecroRebel]

You can't butcher the corpses of domesticated animals, and their corpses never seem to rot to usable bones, so they're generally just useless. You can put it in a coffin if it was a pet, though that's of limited utility, or destroy it via magma, atomsmashing, or other means.

[brucemo]

p-y is how you designate a pet dump.  There may be something better to do with puts, from either a role-play or practical sense, but this works.

[slothen]

they are trash.  Dump them with the trash.

[plisskin]

I had a similar problem with a dead dwarf in my dining room. I hauled her out to a garbage zone to eliminate the miasma, then deleted the zone and built a coffin. The corpse remains sitting out there where the zone used to be and they haven't put her in the coffin. The wiki didn't explain why this might have happened. Do I need to build the coffin first, then have a free dwarf for burial?

[Sutremaine]

Did you reclaim the corpse after dumping it? Have you specified that the new coffin is to be used for burial, and that it is still free?

[plisskin]

I'm sure it's the "Reclaim" issue, because the coffin clearly has her name on it and I never unchecked the "Dump" state on her poor corpse. Thanks!

[gtmattz]

ARe your dwarves allowed to gather refuse from outside?  (yes dead dwarves are refuse too).

[CognitiveDissonance]

All dwarves, non-goblin guests (maybe non-elf too?) and pets need to be buried, ideally in a tomb. Make a coffin, designate for burial. For the dog, remember to turn allow pets burial on.

[deknegt]

Throw him/her/it under the atom smasher. Pull the lever and KABLOW. No need for tombs.

[Nameless Archon]

Throw him/her/it under the atom smasher. Pull the lever and KABLOW. No need for tombs.

Warning: Ghosts in the rear view mirror may appear farther than they are.

[BigD145]

ARe your dwarves allowed to gather refuse from outside?  (yes dead dwarves are refuse too).

o->r

[ltprifti]

dead dwarf gathering is burial not refuse collecting, so they will still be collected