Blood and souls for Makhleb!
Henzell says...
  1. Prior to 0.26, when food was removed, you could butcher corpses to turn them into {chunk}s, sometimes also leaving a skeleton. Prior to 0.19, butchering sometimes produced a hide, which could be enchanted to create the corresponding {dragon armour}.
  2. The option auto_butcher will take the burden of butchering. See {rcfile}.

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