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[Conrad]

My refuse stockpiles have been filling up with mass amounts vermin corpses. After a while, I noticed the problem was that that lizard corpse halfway down the tenth row HASN'T ROTTED IN A YEAR. I haven't seen miasma in a long, long time. Nothing at all rots anymore, in any of my forts. Anyone have an idea what's going on?

[NW_Kohaku]

Version 31.01 happened.  Because of the new way zombies and stuff are handled, there were changes to the code for rotting, and there were bugs introduced because of it.

[Marshall Burns]

There's a way to automatically designate remains for dumping, which should help with your clutter problem. It's in the (O)rders menu somewhere. Gimme a bit and I'll find out exactly where.

[ISGC]

try placing your stockpiles outside

[Girlinhat]

Oh, yeah, underground things tend not to rot.  Bone stockpiles will remain forever, and I assume vermin remains as well.

[noob]

bones can rot?

[Uristocrat]

My refuse stockpiles have been filling up with mass amounts vermin corpses. After a while, I noticed the problem was that that lizard corpse halfway down the tenth row HASN'T ROTTED IN A YEAR. I haven't seen miasma in a long, long time. Nothing at all rots anymore, in any of my forts. Anyone have an idea what's going on?

I keep the stockpiles outdoors (including outdoor areas that I've created artificial ceilings over, to make sure they won't create miasma).  Then when they fill up, I mass forbid everything (d-b-f) and remove the stockpile.  Every so often, when I'm not dumping stone into my quantum stockpile, I reclaim all that crap, mass dump it, and move my garbage zone to the atom smasher.

You're right, though, that it's kind of annoying, because that makes it hard to get, say, goblin bones any more.

Honestly, I wish that rotting could come back and that zombies would just turn into skeletons over time or something.

[zephyr_hound]

I just have a one tile dump in my forges, over a hole into the magma sea. Dwarves are set to Keep Bones/Shells/Corpses and Dump Other. I never see vermin corpses in my refuse pile, or if a cat does drop something in there a dwarf will immediately go pick it up and toss it down the magma chute. Works great.

[NW_Kohaku]

I just have a one tile dump in my forges, over a hole into the magma sea. Dwarves are set to Keep Bones/Shells/Corpses and Dump Other. I never see vermin corpses in my refuse pile, or if a cat does drop something in there a dwarf will immediately go pick it up and toss it down the magma chute. Works great.

This also works with atom smashers hooked to a repeater, or just hooked up to a lever with a "pull lever" order set on eternal repeat (doesn't matter if the nobles/children take occasional breaks, it gets smashed eventually).  Less hassle than a chute all the way down to the magma sea.

[Girlinhat]

Just be sure to make the bridge inaccessible normally, and have garbage dumped from the level above, otherwise you get smashed civilians.

[Bouchart]

I thought bones/skulls/etc did rot if left indoors, just that it took much longer to do.

[Girlinhat]

They don't appear to in subterranean areas, at least not past skeletons.  Unsure about above ground inside though.

[Bouchart]

So a pile of bone won't just disintegrate?  Interesting.

I know that was the case in .40D but I thought it was changed for .31.

[Marshall Burns]

Ok, found it. (O)ders -> (r)efuse. There's options for "dwarves save bones" and "dwarves save blahblahblah." Change the one that says "dwarves save other" to "dwarves dump other," and make sure you have a dump zone designated. They'll dump remains automatically.

[Bouchart]

What constitutes "other"?  I never chose it because I don't want to risk dwarves dumping horns, for example.