I tried this with one of my starting mules that had fallen to a Snakemen attack. Having animals killed in combat be buchered seems very flaky, if it works at all. (This becomes a pain when some dwarf is dragging a corpse to get butchered, gets thirsty, drops the corpse, then some other dwarf comes along and drags it all the way back to the refuse pile.) Meaning first someone drags the corpse to a refuse pile, then it will become available to butcher. I usually put this on repeat a few times a year.Īlso normally dwarves will only butcher already-dead corpses that are on a refuse stockpile. This grabs a random corpse when the job is active. The 'Butcher Animal' in the butcher shop occurs with an already dead animal to process such as a wolf/lion/etc.
This screen lists all the animals and 'b' allows them to be slaughtered into meat/fat/etc. Go into the V screen and arrow left/right and hit enter on the Animals tab. To turn the animals into steaks, thats called 'Slaughtering'.
