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[hapes]

It's a "Fey" mood, not a Macabre, and the little kid is asking for body parts.  The wiki says Bones, Skull, Horn, or Ivory.  I have just butchered some cats and a yak, so I have bones, skulls,and horns...and NO IVORY.  Is there a way to generate Ivory other than elephants (of which I have exactly zero on my map)?  I believe I am DOOOMED, this punk kid (Dwarven Child who has taken over my craftsdwarf shop) is gonna go berzerk and start a tantrum spiral, I JUST KNOW IT.

Of course, it might help if I start mining metal and make armor and weapons, but all I got is copper right now!  Maybe I should dig down to the magma, build a pumpstack (or piston) and start mining copper.

[Fredd]

Butcher some more large animals. I had a dwarf that needed two donkeys butchered for a artifact thong. Scary to thing of the dwarf gal, who would wear it

[Torgan]

I've been able to use troll tusks as ivory, I think it's only 'produced' by slicing them off in combat though, you can't butcher them.  Walruses also provide ivory, again that's pretty rare though.  You could just try butchering more stuff, each item of bone the moody dwarf needs is one stack of bones, not a single bone, but it sounds like you'd have that covered after killing a few cats plus a yak.  It's worth looking at the dwarf's likes as well, sometimes they want a specific type of item, ie only a bronze bar when they ask for a metal bar.

If you're completely stumped just wall the workshop off, the dwarf will be trapped in there when he beserks and starve to death.

[BurnedToast]

Creatures that give ivory in unmodded DF:

Walrus
Hippo
Elephant
Warthog
Crundle
Gorlak
Troll

Crundles, Gorlaks, and Trolls can't be butchered by unmodded dwarves.

You could always mod say, hooves, to count as ivory if you don't care about that sort of thing.

[Torgan]

Crundles can definitely be butchered in vanilla, I've never noticed them leaving tusks though.

You could mod one of your creatures to have ivory, the shell page below explains it simply enough that even I managed to do it in the early days of 31.xx when every single mood seemed to need shell and it was incredibly difficult to procure.

http://df.magmawiki.com/index.php/Shell

[Sphalerite]

Crundles can definitely be butchered in vanilla DF, I had a thriving crundle farm a few versions back.  I don't recall ever getting ivory from them - I suspect they're too small for the ivory-bearing body part to leave anything.

"I need body parts" can also refer to shells.  Does the OP have any shell around?

[hapes]

I don't know if I have shell.  I'll take a look tonight.  May be too late, the dwarf has been moody for almost a full season.

[JmzLost]

Just checked the raws, ivory means he's looking for teeth.  Creatures need to be very large to produce teeth, and then it's only 1 tooth.  If you want to tweak the raws, open material_template_default.txt and add [TOOTH] to either the bone or nail template.  You'll need to butcher another animal after changing the raws, if you do this.

JMZ

[gtmattz]

Just surround the workshop with cage traps and let him go crazy.