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0003732Dwarf FortressCreaturespublic2010-11-25 20:102012-04-12 11:49
ReporterQuietust 
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PrioritynormalSeverityminorReproducibilityalways
StatusnewResolutionopen 
PlatformOSOS Version
Product Version0.31.18 
Target VersionFixed in Version 
Summary0003732: Butchering a corpse yields only 1 skin, regardless of size
DescriptionCurrently, a single butchering job will never produce more than 1 "skin" item.

However, if a creature is dismembered and the pieces are large enough (generally true for forgotten beasts, elephants, and other very large animals), each body part will, when butchered, yield its own piece of skin tannable into another piece of leather.

Thus, while slaughtering a tame elephant will only yield a single piece of leather, killing a wild elephant with a squad of axedwarves and butchering all of the pieces can easily yield ten times as much leather (and roughly the same amount of everything else).
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Date ModifiedUsernameFieldChange
2010-11-25 20:10QuietustNew Issue
2010-11-26 07:18FootkerchiefTag Attached: Intentional/Expected?
2012-03-23 05:02BuglistIssue Monitored: Buglist
2012-03-24 21:10ab9rfIssue Monitored: ab9rf
2012-03-24 23:45evictedSaintNote Added: 0021712
2012-04-12 09:56QuietustNote Added: 0022240
2012-04-12 11:49FootkerchiefNote Added: 0022241

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(0021712)
evictedSaint   
2012-03-24 23:45   
I'm pretty sure this is intentional.
(0022240)
Quietust   
2012-04-12 09:56   
It may be intentional, but it doesn't make a bit of sense. Bones and shells get divided into stacks - the same ought to happen with skins, though then leatherworking should probably get changed to use more leather.
(0022241)
Footkerchief   
2012-04-12 11:49   
Skin and leather are probably meant to (at least eventually) be like cloth/threads, where they get a size attribute instead of being divided into stacks. I don't think that size attribute is yet being set/respected, though.