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0003270Dwarf FortressContaminants/Spatterpublic2010-09-18 02:122018-01-08 03:29
Olith McHuman 
Footkerchief 
normalminorN/A
confirmedopen 
0.31.12 
 
0003270: Blood has [ROTS] tag, but does not rot
In the raws, BLOOD_TEMPLATE has the [ROTS] tag. No creature that has blood overrides this flag, so all blood should rot and eventually disapear. It does not.
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related to 0000296confirmed Loci Pools/smears/spatters of blood, dust and other materials multiply themselves, get tracked around too much 
Issue History
2010-09-18 02:12Olith McHumanNew Issue
2010-09-18 14:05HebaruSanIssue Monitored: HebaruSan
2012-03-31 08:37KogutNote Added: 0021945
2012-03-31 12:24FootkerchiefRelationship addedrelated to 0000296
2014-12-31 12:04ptb_ptbNote Added: 0031621
2014-12-31 19:40FootkerchiefAssigned To => Footkerchief
2014-12-31 19:40FootkerchiefStatusnew => confirmed
2014-12-31 22:21JayJayForceNote Added: 0031623
2018-01-08 03:29FantasticDorfNote Added: 0037554
2018-01-08 03:33FantasticDorfNote Edited: 0037554bug_revision_view_page.php?bugnote_id=0037554#r15207
2018-04-16 17:49HuntthetrollIssue Monitored: Huntthetroll

Notes
(0021945)
Kogut   
2012-03-31 08:37   
Still in 0.34.06
(0031621)
ptb_ptb   
2014-12-31 12:04   
Blood does not disappear automatically after several years in DF 0.40.23. So (assuming BLOOD_TEMPLATE has the [ROTS] tag) I suppose this is still a bug.
(0031623)
JayJayForce   
2014-12-31 22:21   
I have looking into this a bit and while I haven't run things long enough to confirm anything beyond reasonable doubt, I'm fairly confidant that milk also doesn't rot.

I think this bug affects everything listed as Extracts. I'll see if I get time to test it a bit more.
(0037554)
FantasticDorf   
2018-01-08 03:29   
(edited on: 2018-01-08 03:33)
Aboveground objects do not actively give off miasma in the typical sense of rotting & remain relatively fresh indefinitely, whilst most stains underground are queued to be cleaned by dwarves at some period of time, but personally i've never seen unreachable blood stains deteriorate underground either.

I do not know, but i would recommend trying a overlapping refuse & dumping zone (as this combination increases degradation) over a blood patch in a locked room underground to establish whether blood even has a deteriorated state to rot into if it is not a oversight.

Needs confirmation for 44. etc onwards, i will edit this space when I can on what i found out.