what to do with skeletons

[Yamarillo]

hi all
I have a huge stockpile of goblin skeletons and body parts sitting outside my base...
how can I get rid of all these items? there is a river and waterfall nearby...
can I destroy them somehow?
thanks in advance

[Agnes609]

yes, you can make a dump zone and set them to dump.
Definitely TEST this on an item and monitor the dwarfs before you dump a whole area.
I set a dump zone NEXT TO the river and caught the babies red-handed dumping INTO the river instead. Now I have old armor rusting at the bottom of a lake... Be careful not to mark Residents' corpses for dumping, which prevents them from having a burial.

[Savok]

Magma or atom smasher.

[Ravenous Demon]

decorate with bone

[Yamarillo]

Originally posted by Savok:

Magma or atom smasher.

no magma on my map
I'm not sure atom smasher works? I can't make a stockpile under a raised bridge.

[The Trashman]

Originally posted by Yamarillo:

Originally posted by Savok:

Magma or atom smasher.

no magma on my map
I'm not sure atom smasher works? I can't make a stockpile under a raised bridge.

It's not a stockpile, but a dump zone

[The Trashman]

Originally posted by Agnes609:

yes, you can make a dump zone and set them to dump.
Definitely TEST this on an item and monitor the dwarfs before you dump a whole area.
I set a dump zone NEXT TO the river and caught the babies red-handed dumping INTO the river instead. Now I have old armor rusting at the bottom of a lake... Be careful not to mark Residents' corpses for dumping, which prevents them from having a burial.

If your dump zone is next to a drop, they'll throw stuff down the hole instead of dropping it on the floor

[Savok]

Originally posted by Yamarillo:

Originally posted by Savok:

Magma or atom smasher.

no magma on my map
I'm not sure atom smasher works? I can't make a stockpile under a raised bridge.

Unless you've turned off the magma sea in world creation there's always magma somewhere. And as Trashman said, make it a dump zone, not a stockpile. You want that anyway so they stack things on one spot.

[Yamarillo]

Originally posted by Savok:

Originally posted by Yamarillo:

no magma on my map
I'm not sure atom smasher works? I can't make a stockpile under a raised bridge.

Unless you've turned off the magma sea in world creation there's always magma somewhere. And as Trashman said, make it a dump zone, not a stockpile. You want that anyway so they stack things on one spot.

ok.
I made a dump zone but nobody ever puts anything in there for some reason.

[The Trashman]

Originally posted by Yamarillo:

Originally posted by Savok:

Unless you've turned off the magma sea in world creation there's always magma somewhere. And as Trashman said, make it a dump zone, not a stockpile. You want that anyway so they stack things on one spot.

ok.
I made a dump zone but nobody ever puts anything in there for some reason.

Do you have another active dump zone? Where are things you mark to dump going?

[Yamarillo]

Originally posted by The Trashman:

Originally posted by Yamarillo:

ok.
I made a dump zone but nobody ever puts anything in there for some reason.

Do you have another active dump zone? Where are things you mark to dump going?

I don't think I have another dump zone, things just aren't getting moved for some reason. Anyway I'll have to work it out, no worries.

[The Trashman]

Originally posted by Yamarillo:

Originally posted by The Trashman:

Do you have another active dump zone? Where are things you mark to dump going?

I don't think I have another dump zone, things just aren't getting moved for some reason. Anyway I'll have to work it out, no worries.

Just to be clear - are you marking things for dump specifically? It's not automatic by default