How to butcher a corpse?

[bpais008]

I cant figure it out. I had some animals die from starvation and thought to butcher them, but it doesnt seem possible. Butcher shop keeps reporting error that there are no corpses close to it, but the corpses are only perhaps 10 tiles from it. Is it not possible to butcher corpses that were not pre-assigned to be butchered?

[Thndrfryblsdbldwdskr]

It's very janky but iirc it can be possible. I think what I would do was enable dwarfs to gather all refuse, make a refuse/dump zone, and mark the fresh bodies to be dumped, then once they're dumped I would un-forbid them. Further step or alternative strategy would be to make a stockpile on top of them with corpses enabled, then make the butcher take items from the stockpile--that might work.
I can't confirm this is the right strategy though, I'm just going off of what I remember.

[bpais008]

another problem is that I cannot get the dorfs to actually move corpses... they are not forbidden, but they seem to be ignored? They are toggled to be dumped, and I have a dumping area... but none actually go to that dumping area.

[bpais008]

oh they finally got around to moving the corpses. Must have been backlogged.

[McFuzz]

Also in the labour tab, under "Standing orders", turn on 'dwarves gather refuse from outside'.

Dead animals not killed by hunters will be left out there even if unforbidden.

[Scalorn Scorpus]

Animals that died of starvation are not butcherable. No hide, bones or meat can be gotten from them.

[bpais008]

that makes sense, was wondering if that was the reason. Ty

[πｮmrυﾔ]

Originally posted by Scalorn Scorpus:

Animals that died of starvation are not butcherable. No hide, bones or meat can be gotten from them.

internal organs ?

[['w']]

Originally posted by n3mrut:

Originally posted by Scalorn Scorpus:

Animals that died of starvation are not butcherable. No hide, bones or meat can be gotten from them.

internal organs ?

only memories

[Cosmic Cleric]

Originally posted by Frank McFuzz:

Also in the labour tab, under "Standing orders", turn on 'dwarves gather refuse from outside'.

Dead animals not killed by hunters will be left out there even if unforbidden.

You sir are a (dwarf) life saver!

I was getting really frustrated. My dwarf needed bone, I had a stockpile for it, had dead animals outside that a hunter was killing, and none of them were being brought inside to my refuse stockpile next to my butcher at all. Dwarf was about to go insane.