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If they're in an open-air refuse stockpile they should vanish eventually. If you need to clear up space right now, you can deactivate the current garbage dump (if any), set up a new one right next to the pile and order all the teeth to be dumped. I'm not sure if they'll still rot away there or not.

Perfect!  It is exposed to open-air, but I even have another non-butchery refuse pile outside my fort and I can just move them there.

...a single male [cattle] can impregnate infinite amounts of females

lol.  Sounds like a plan, then.  I've been trying to figure out what to do about a meat industry as is.  Now I have a proper excuse to slaughter livestock -- I've pretty much been waiting to figure out how many I need for sustainability.

Thanks =D

My refuse pile is full of cow teeth.  But when I queue the "Make ivory/tooth crafts" job I get announcements that they need unrotten ivory/tooth body parts.  I looked over the stuff in my pile and I don't see any indication of rottenness, and my pile is "outside", "light", and "above ground".  Does anyone know what might be going on?  I assume I just don't understand something about refuse.

My recommendation is ramps.  Dig up ramps one layer at a time, from the top down -- make sure it's only 1 layer at a time or they could mess it up.  I personally find this method to be safer than channeling, because sometimes channels can cause dwarves to fall and die.

At the bottom just make sure there is a tunnel leading to some stairs so the dwarf can get back out.

I've also heard of a method where you dig our the hole with up/down stairs first and then remove them from the top down, but I'm not sure how to actually do that properly.

You can make the workshop sealable, seal it up once you know the mood isn't going to be completed, and then forget about opening it until your dwarves are content enough to take the happiness hit.

Cool, I didn't realize it would temper the fortress's emotional hit.  I've done it in the past because of wanting to protect my dwarves from the one going berserk.  Problem this time, though, was that I wasn't monitoring the situation to check it that was going to happen.

taptap: It was definitely an error.  I had my still set up from the beginning and queued with the repeating brew task, but I somehow neglected to actually give anyone the labor.  Big mistake.  But I'm glad to finally know more about why this happened.  Thanks =)

Ah, okay, that explains it.  I mean, as soon as that child went berserk I knew this might happen, but didn't really know what to do.  I've been slow to develop my meeting hall/dining room, but I'll pick that up ASAP, as well as similar endeavors.

Regarding the food, though, I still don't quite understand why it's happening.  It's not like the farm plots are maxed out;  at any given time there were less than half of the tiles planted, if even that many.  I suppose it could have been from lack of enough growers, so I'll make sure to have some more, and I've already made more farm plots.  Either way, I'll definitely start cooking meals, and I disabled the cooking of Plump Helmets -- must have been the first thing I did when I started the fort =P.

Thanks for the help =D.  I got some migrants and am up to 90 dwarves now, so hopefully I'll be able to salvage the situation.

Hello.  I started a new fortress not long ago (it's in its 3rd year I believe) and I've run into a problem.  Apparently there isn't enough food, so my dwarves have started to go berserk, killing each other, as well as dying of starvation.  I had 84 dwarves before this began and I'm currently down to 67.  Now, I have a 4x9 farm plot growing Plump Helmets, as well as a 2x9 growing them half the time and Pig Tails the other half.  And all of this is supplemented by plant gathering.  The one thing I realized just now is that I haven't been brewing any alcohols since my fort began;  I forgot to give someone that labor.  But the weirdest thing is that according to my Stocks screen I have 200 Plump Helmet Spawns.

So, I'm really just wondering if anyone has any ideas why this has happened.  If I salvage my fort, or even if I don't, I'd like to know how to prevent this in the future.

Well thanks for the info. Glad to know it isn't something I necessarily did wrong. I think I might just start a new world though. I'm still learning and as such I'm making some frustrating mistakes. I'll just be more careful to make sure that my leader/broker has an office and that there is definite access to my fortress. Hopefully that will prevent the problem from starting in the first place.