Quote from: jamaicancastle on June 12, 2017, 11:02:40 AM
The reason for this is that a number of derivative defs are code-generated. What that means is that instead of having to spell out separate defs for each animal corpse, or each type of leather or whatnot, the game uses a couple of unique tags on each animal's def to quickly generate its corpse, leather, meat and the like.
Ah, makes sense! Thanks for the info.