My fort and surroundings get littered by kea, raven, grasshopper, louse, dingo, etc man/woman corpses. Sadly, there is no way to butcher them for meat, if I am wrong them I am all ears. Is there a way I can get rid of all the "M" and "K" on the map, and i don't mean putting them in the refuge stockpile. Or even better, is there a way to play without these new creature types since in the previous patch I never encountered them. Of course in case of the latter i'd like to have normal versions appear instead so i can butcher them like i used to do.
I really get invested by them with almost constant amounts of 2 types roaming my map only to reappear minutes after i killed them.
Best Answer
Animal-men have the [CAN_LEARN] tag. This means they are sapient creatures and dwarfs cannot butcher or eat them. To get rid of them, leave them in a corpse stockpile until they rot into bones. You can still use their bones for crafts/bolts/etc.
If you want to remove them altogether, you could delete them from the raws. Go to the folder where Dwarf Fortress is and go to raw/objects. Most of the animal men are in creature_subteranean. Either remove the [CAN_LEARN] tag so you can butcher them or remove the entry altogether.
Note that you may have to start a new region for these changes to take effect. Backup any files before you change them.