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[Spacespinner]

Due to an alcohol related thirst/tantrum spiral issue (ironically had over 1500 alcohol inaccessible due to camping goblins), started again and got a dwarf with a mood. he was drawing a skeleton and raw gems, which I had plenty of so I left him alone. He just went berserk, which was problematic as he was a lv 10 marksman with a crossbow. Drafted a miner to deal with him and took him down fast enough, then noticed with Therapist that the miner was miserable. Turns out the hunter was her best friend and I just told her to punch him to death. For some reason this strikes me as worse than slaughtering kittens to feed my fortress. feels bad man    Anyone know why the dwarf didn't collect the bones from one of the skeletons lying around? Just had another dwarf request bones and I'm concerned about a repeat.

[drilltooth]

that's the nature of the game, I;m afraid.. we're jsut going along hapily slaughtering out little pixels, and something makes us care.

[Spacespinner]

Yeah. any idea why I'm unable to use the skeleton to fulfill the bones requirement? as I said in the edit, it's  happening again and I would rather not have a repeat.

[cephalo]

Old burrow assignments?

[Spacespinner]

None whatsoever. he seemed happy to walk out and grab wood, but the bones don't seem to be working. if it helps, it is a reclaimed fortress (tantrum spiral literally an hour into the game before so reclaimed)

[drilltooth]

skeleton wasn't processed? macabre mood?

[Spacespinner]

How do i process skeletons?

[ASCIt]

I don't think you can do that with skeletons, you need actual bone items.

[Ieb]

I'm pretty sure that skeletons DO work. They decompose right now but don't actually end up as a pile of bones, which is why it's rare to have goblin bone bolts these days if you don't edit your entity ethics to allow sapient butchering.

Anyway.

I'm pretty sure the issue wasn't with the bones but he was missing some other material.
Maybe he wanted some specific raw gem, or you didn't have enough of 'em, or he wanted some other item that you missed.

But yes, being a dwarf is suffering.

[drilltooth]

How do i process skeletons?

should happen automatically, if you have a butcher shop, and the relevant labour active. (might need to designate a stockpile for dead stuff nearby as well.)

[Jelle]

I don't know if this will help any but I will note on moods with bones dwarves will use entire stacks of bones to fullfill one requirement, so a dwarf that wants 3 bones might end up taking like 3 stacks of 20.

[khearn]

A skeleton is not "bones". You want something like "yak bones[5]". Find some tame animal that's standing around your dining hall being useless and slaughter it, and the butcher will give you a stack of bones.

[Spacespinner]

Ok, thanks. will genocide the useless bull outside, hope it will work. So I get a bone/s from it, no need to craft them into something for it to use right?

[Teneb]

No. Unless you want to turn them into trader fodder/bolts/bone armor, for that you'll need a craftsdwarf worshop.

[khearn]

Ok, thanks. will genocide the useless bull outside, hope it will work. So I get a bone/s from it, no need to craft them into something for it to use right?

Your dwarf who is asking for them will do the crafting. You might say hes in the mood for it.