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let's face it, dwarves will eat anything that isn't sentient, so it's kind of odd they get fussy about old animals/animals killed by invaders.
That's only tamed animals belonging to your fort. Wild animals or tame creatures belonging to other civs (caravan pullers, for example) will still be butchered on death, regardless of why they died. One exception is that tamed creatures that are flagged for butchering at the time of their death will be butchered, regardless of how they died.
Wait, what? Are you saying that we could butcher tamed animals that belong to the fort (and die of old age) by locking them in a room where the butcher can't get to them, and then designating them for being butchered? As long as we don't get job cancellation spam, this could be useful.
One of the twelve year olds thinks she can escape corpse clearing duty by pretending picking up dead honey bees is the same as hauling an elf corpse.
Your parents cleaned up after themselves, so can you.
Think of it as a giant bridge smashing anything under it... into oblivion...
...new Fortress site (somehow I seldom rule one place for too long)...
...first year, everything is going fine, I started making some wooden shields and told my smith to make several copper picks...
...then the Giant Kea came.
So - first I told my military dwarf to grab equipment (masterwork wooden shield and copper helmet and spear)... the Giant Kea decided to be bit more bold after I did that and got closer to my dwarves - it killed one dwarf... what a coincidence! It was my military dwarf running for gear!
Then I decided to draft another dwarf. He grabbed a shield and decided rest of equipment can wait - and started hauling a barrel somewhere. Then the kea stole another masterwork shield, my carpenter got angry because his masterpiece was lost and killed mayor in subsequent meeting, which started a tantrum spiral... seriously... 10 dwarves and I abandon it because tantrum spiral, that's surreal.
Alrite, if somebody interested: Yes, those creatures are hostile to those who walk into their lair.
