0004388: Animals dying in cages leave corpses, which cannot be used or removed - Dwarf Fortress Bug Tracker

ID	Project	Category	View Status	Date Submitted	Last Update

0004388	Dwarf Fortress	Dwarf Mode -- Buildings, Cages and Chains	public	2011-03-29 22:06	2011-04-01 08:59

Reporter	GrimerX	Assigned To	~~user11~~
Priority	normal	Severity	minor	Reproducibility	always
Status	resolved	Resolution	no change required
Platform	X64	OS	Windows	OS Version	7
Product Version	0.31.24

Summary	0004388: Animals dying in cages leave corpses, which cannot be used or removed
Description	If an animal in a cage dies, it's corpse cannot be removed. Unfortunately, this particular corpse has ivory, which my moody dwarf desprately wants.... I have tried the following: 1) Selecting the animal in the stocks screen (Animal does not show, though it's corpose shows in inventory, where I cannot do anything with it. 2) Building the cage, linking a lever to the cage and pulling the lever. Cage/lever is deconstructed, but corpse remains in the cage. 3) forbidding/unforbidding the cage and the corpse (various combinations) 4) Building the cage, attempting to remove the assigned animal (no assigned animal, corpses do not show up) 5) Marking the corpose as 'dump'. No action is taken Things I have not tried yet: 1) Selling the cage (no traders) 5) Meling the cage -- this one is pine.
Steps To Reproduce	1) Put a grazing animal in a cage 2) Wait until animal dies
Additional Information	I have set aside a savegame, if interested.
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Langdon 2011-03-30 04:00 reporter ~0016792	I usually put the cage in a stockpile, press 'k', move the cursor over the cage, press Enter to view the contents of the cage, press Enter again to view the corpse, then press "d" at that screen to mark the corpse for dumping. A Refuse Hauling dwarf will be along shortly to pop it out. I believe mass dumping (d-b-d) over the cage, then using "k" to unmark the cage itself also works (same procedure to strip living goblin prisoners of their equipment).

Logical2u 2011-03-30 06:17 manager ~0016795	Does Langdon's procedure work for you, GrimerX?

ellindsey 2011-03-30 07:42 reporter ~0016796	Was the animal tame? It has been my experience that non-tame animals which die in cages will be butchered without any problem. Tame animals which die in cages won't be butchered, not because they are in a cage but because they are tame animals which died from a cause other than being deliberately slaughtered at a butcher's shop.

Snickersnak 2011-03-31 07:34 reporter ~0016849	You can d-b-d over the cage even after it's been built, deselect the cage itself for dumping and the corpse(s) will be removed. If you have a quantum cage none of the live animals will be dumped/released. (version 0.31.25)

GrimerX 2011-04-01 08:42 reporter ~0016937	Okay, my bad on this one. Selecting the corpse for dump does work. It just took a long time for the refuse hauler to realize he had something to do. Patience.... :-)

~~user11~~ 2011-04-01 08:59 ~0016939	Thanks for the follow-up.

Date Modified	Username	Field	Change
2011-03-29 22:06	GrimerX	New Issue
2011-03-30 04:00	Langdon	Note Added: 0016792
2011-03-30 06:17	Logical2u	Note Added: 0016795
2011-03-30 06:17	Logical2u	Tag Attached: AWAITING UPDATE
2011-03-30 07:42	ellindsey	Note Added: 0016796
2011-03-31 07:34	Snickersnak	Note Added: 0016849
2011-04-01 08:42	GrimerX	Note Added: 0016937
2011-04-01 08:59	~~user11~~	Tag Detached: AWAITING UPDATE
2011-04-01 08:59	~~user11~~	Note Added: 0016939
2011-04-01 08:59	~~user11~~	Status	new => resolved
2011-04-01 08:59	~~user11~~	Resolution	open => no change required
2011-04-01 08:59	~~user11~~	Assigned To	=> user11