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0003993Dwarf FortressDwarf Mode -- Jobs, Cooking and Foodpublic2011-02-17 04:342014-07-23 10:06
ReporterGauHelldragon 
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PrioritylowSeverityminorReproducibilityhave not tried
StatusnewResolutionopen 
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Summary0003993: Cavies and rabbits produce no meat when slaughtered, but caravan still brings rabbit meat
DescriptionI slaughtered a Cavy boar and it only made a skull. Too small I suppose?
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related to 0003736new  Can purchase impossible wooden trap components on embark 
related to 0000874new  Dwarves refuse to butcher some corpses (buzzards in particular) 
has duplicate 0004172resolved Dwarfu Turkeys yield no meat 
has duplicate 0005874resolved Knight Otu Butchering a turkey leg only results in bones 
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Date ModifiedUsernameFieldChange
2011-02-17 04:34GauHelldragonNew Issue
2011-02-17 04:37Malibu StaceyNote Added: 0015172
2011-02-17 04:40Malibu StaceyNote Edited: 0015172bug_revision_view_page.php?bugnote_id=0015172#r5745
2011-02-17 05:44QuietustNote Added: 0015176
2011-02-17 06:47Logical2uRelationship addedchild of 0001047
2011-02-18 09:27GauHelldragonNote Added: 0015241
2011-02-18 09:35QuietustNote Added: 0015242
2011-02-18 09:45QuietustNote Edited: 0015242bug_revision_view_page.php?bugnote_id=0015242#r5766
2011-02-18 10:32QuietustNote Edited: 0015242bug_revision_view_page.php?bugnote_id=0015242#r5767
2011-02-19 22:40hoveringdogNote Added: 0015294
2011-02-22 12:07MisterstoneNote Added: 0015400
2011-02-24 10:48InfiltratorNote Added: 0015456
2011-02-24 11:33QuietustNote Added: 0015457
2011-03-02 15:07MisterstoneNote Added: 0015687
2011-03-02 23:39tatterdemalianNote Added: 0015692
2011-03-03 14:46monk12Note Added: 0015719
2011-03-03 14:52monk12Issue Monitored: monk12
2011-03-03 15:12FootkerchiefSummaryCavy Boar produces Skull and nothing else => Cavies and rabbits produce no meat when slaughtered, but caravan still brings rabbit meat
2011-03-04 06:17Granite26Note Added: 0015724
2011-03-04 06:55QuietustNote Added: 0015725
2011-03-07 12:31monk12Note Added: 0015917
2011-03-09 02:42DwarfuRelationship addedhas duplicate 0004172
2011-03-29 14:24UristocratNote Added: 0016775
2011-03-29 20:17DwarfuRelationship addedhas duplicate 0004384
2011-03-30 02:54DwarfuRelationship deletedhas duplicate 0004384
2012-03-25 17:43G-FlexNote Added: 0021722
2012-03-25 17:43G-FlexNote Edited: 0021722bug_revision_view_page.php?bugnote_id=0021722#r8101
2012-03-25 22:43NW_KohakuNote Added: 0021729
2012-05-14 03:28Knight OtuRelationship addedhas duplicate 0005874
2012-05-14 03:28Knight OtuIssue Monitored: ethan
2012-05-15 08:59FootkerchiefRelationship addedrelated to 0003736
2014-07-23 10:05FootkerchiefRelationship deletedchild of 0001047
2014-07-23 10:06FootkerchiefRelationship addedrelated to 0000874

Notes
(0015172)
Malibu Stacey   
2011-02-17 04:37   
(edited on: 2011-02-17 04:40)
Doubt this is a bug. Kittens, young cats, buzzards & some other small creatures do the same. Check it's size next time before it's slaughtered. See 0001047
(0015176)
Quietust   
2011-02-17 05:44   
Fully grown cavies are only 800 grams, so it's not surprising that you're not getting any meat from them.
(0015241)
GauHelldragon   
2011-02-18 09:27   
ah i thought it was a pig of some kind, my mistake
(0015242)
Quietust   
2011-02-18 09:35   
(edited on: 2011-02-18 10:32)
Technically, a cavy *is* a pig of some kind - specifically, it is a "guinea pig".
(0015294)
hoveringdog   
2011-02-19 22:40   
I had this happen with a rabbit buck as well, purchased at embark. Seems like they should yield a little meat, as should cavies, both of which have been traditionally raised for that purpose.
(0015400)
Misterstone   
2011-02-22 12:07   
Apparently people are having the same problem with lots of small grazing animals, including fowl of all kinds, rabbits, etc. Here is a thread:

http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=78021.0 [^]

Even if this is not a 'bug' in the traditional sense, it does mean that food production requires some serious tweaking IMO. Why would anyone raise a guinea pig or rabbit if it doesn't provide any meat?
(0015456)
Infiltrator   
2011-02-24 10:48   
Perhaps you really really don't like grass over your lovely soil?

One suggestion would be to make the minimum return regardless of size to be one meat. Not much thought put into that, but yeah.
(0015457)
Quietust   
2011-02-24 11:33   
Misterstone: maybe they're meant to be raised as pets?
(0015687)
Misterstone   
2011-03-02 15:07   
People traditionally raised rabbits and guinea pigs as food, same for chickens and other fowl. If it's not a bug, then in the future a feature will need to be added whereby small creature corpses can be roasted whole.
(0015692)
tatterdemalian   
2011-03-02 23:39   
It was probably included for shearing... cavys are basically wooly guniea pigs.

Still, what with the ability to embark with a bushel (cubic meter?) of "monarch butterfly brains," the whole butchering/extracting system really needs an overhaul. You'd probably have to raise and kill dozens of the little buggers to get a single unit of meat, but that should be an option, like how melting "goblinite" returns bits of metal that eventually total one whole bar in the smelter. Except metal doesn't spoil like meat does...
(0015719)
monk12   
2011-03-03 14:46   
The Human caravan just arrived with a stack of rabbit meat. Now, you can't butcher monarch butterflies in game, but you can butcher rabbits- if humans can get meat out of it, why not dorfs?
(0015724)
Granite26   
2011-03-04 06:17   
Dwarves have stone, elves have wood, humans have meat.
(0015725)
Quietust   
2011-03-04 06:55   
Considering how small they are, cavies and rabbits should probably be changed from large creatures to Vermin.
(0015917)
monk12   
2011-03-07 12:31   
True, its rather strange that turtles are vermin but cavies aren't. Myself, I'd rather turtles get promoted, but some kind of consistency would be nice.
(0016775)
Uristocrat   
2011-03-29 14:24   
On a related note, dwarves can *like* various bodyparts that will never be available from butchering.

See this, which mentions chicken teeth, no less (I'm not sure if that should be reported as a bug itself...):
http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=80865.0 [^]

There's a discussion of animal size vs. butchering results here:
http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=78108.0 [^]
(0021722)
G-Flex   
2012-03-25 17:43   
Judging by that thread, there's a whole lot of rounding error going on as it totals the edible products from different body parts; it really ought to consider the total amount of a given tissue before determining the number of food units given (and whether any are given at all). This alone could solve the issue with small animals while also making butchering results more sensible across the board.

Also, I'm quite late in saying this, but no, Quietust, cavies/guinea pigs are not a kind of pig any more than sea cucumbers are a kind of cucumber.
(0021729)
NW_Kohaku   
2012-03-25 22:43   
This is from over a year ago, but here's a suggestion thread about these issues: http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=78061.msg2009071#msg2009071 [^]

Basically, adding up percentages of meat (and other things) to give out from all the locations, and having a percentage chance to give out meat so that a cow might have, say, 42.14 units of meat, and so 86% chance for 42 meat plus a 14% chance for 43 meat.