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[Spork The Slightly Insane]

Exactly what it says in the title.

Anyways, I had a hallway with fortifications carved into the walls so my dorfs could make gobbo pincushions. I also had a few traps in there for good measure. One of the traps took a goblins arm off, and it went flying into the fortification, and kept alternation between the fortification and severed limb. The dorfs couldn't pull the arm out until I had the fortification deconstructed.

Has any else have this happen to them?

[Vercingetorix]

Yes, earlier today.  I had some troll parts on top of the fortifications outside my fortress; I had to deconstruct them in order to dump them.

[Girlinhat]

Yep, I had axedwarves take off some gobbo limbs outside my fort, the arms flew up onto the battlements and got stuck.  This may be related to the bug of "moving water pushes things through fortifications and grates" but apply to the "falling" status instead.

If you think about it, it makes sense.  Flying bolts can go through fortifications, flying limbs can as well!

[Peaceful Slugman]

Its kind of like how you can get a construction material stuck inside the fortification by building the fortification, going up one z-level, building a floor or wall on the tile directly above the fortification, then deconstructing that construction so that the object used to build that floor or wall falls down "into" the fortification below.

[Crazy Cow]

Things get stuck inside my fortifications pretty often. I just [d] [h]ide them and forget them completely.

[Spork The Slightly Insane]

Oh, I never thought of that. The body parts still rot after a while though.

[Steforian]

Just had this happen to me as well, which gave me the idea of channeling out the area above the fortifications to the surface (making the fortifications 'above ground') which should therefore stop the spread of miasma. Then all's you have to do is build floor tiles above them to prevent any baddies from getting in, and then of course 'hiding' the body parts as well.
Also, sorry for the bump, just a thought.

[miauw62]

Yep, I had axedwarves take off some gobbo limbs outside my fort, the arms flew up onto the battlements and got stuck.  This may be related to the bug of "moving water pushes things through fortifications and grates" but apply to the "falling" status instead.

If you think about it, it makes sense.  Flying bolts can go through fortifications, flying limbs can as well!

'The severed arm strikes the dwarf in the head, tearing the skull trough the brain and tearing the brain!'
'Urist McMarksdwarf has been struck down!'

[Loud Whispers]

Oh, I never thought of that. The body parts still rot after a while though.

What are decorations for?

The only time really I have quarrels is when an entire lump of civilian corpse lands in one :|

[Gukag]

This also happens with trees. I deliberately tried to get many goblin corpses and limbs hanging from random trees in front of my fortress. Dwarf version of a Christmas tree.

[Loud Whispers]

With effective scaffolding and chute placement, it would be possible to mount goblin corpses on top of trees. It would be interesting to note the damage effects of falling on a tree...

No science of this has been done yet.

[ohgoditburns]

You can probably wash them out since water will occasionally push things through fortifications.