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Questions about dead bodies from disease.

Daishi5

Daishi5

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I am trying out settler death (and they start dying pretty quick when new settlers often have 1 endurance), and I have a few dead bodies laying around. I built a cemetery, but the bodies are still lying around, should the cemetery clean up the old bodies, or will it only clean up ones from deaths after it was built?

Also, I have confirmed at least 2 deaths at starlight drive in, but I think I might have a third. Is there any way to get notified when settlers die? When my first settler died I got the prompt about deaths, then later I saw that the population count had gone down by 1, and I found his dead body. Then I had suspected synth, he wasn't a synth, and I had the settlers let him go. Then my population went down by 1 again, and the settler who accused someone of being a synth is missing. (He was a generic settler with a brimmed hat). The wiki doesn't say anything about synth accusers going missing, so I suspect he died of disease, but I cannot find a body so it could be something else?
 
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With that "Settler accused of being a Synth" event (which is base-game), I have found that no matter what you say/do, there's a chance that the next time you visit that settlement you'll find that person dead anyway, even if you talked the others out of it. I've only had that 'event' happen like 3 times in all my hours of playing the game, though, so I can't speak for the odds of it doing it anyway.

I don't know how soon the bodies are meant to be 'cleaned up', though. I would've thought "next game-day when it does the Daily Resource Count and all that", but I guess not - I haven't actually played with "diseases can be fatal" apart from a very brief test when CH2 first launched.
 
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yaugie said:
With that "Settler accused of being a Synth" event (which is base-game), I have found that no matter what you say/do, there's a chance that the next time you visit that settlement you'll find that person dead anyway, even if you talked the others out of it. I've only had that 'event' happen like 3 times in all my hours of playing the game, though, so I can't speak for the odds of it doing it anyway.

I don't know how soon the bodies are meant to be 'cleaned up', though. I would've thought "next game-day when it does the Daily Resource Count and all that", but I guess not - I haven't actually played with "diseases can be fatal" apart from a very brief test when CH2 first launched.
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So, I know the suspected synth is still alive, he was my communications operator and had a coat I still recognize and he is still running around. My settlement only had 6 people because I was keeping it small to try to control the disease spread.
 
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Daishi5 said:
So, I know the suspected synth is still alive, he was my communications operator and had a coat I still recognize and he is still running around. My settlement only had 6 people because I was keeping it small to try to control the disease spread.
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There's also been this ongoing issue we've been trying to diagnose for months where sometimes, settlers just kind of... forget which settlement they belong to. Are all your Plots still operating?
 
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yaugie said:
There's also been this ongoing issue we've been trying to diagnose for months where sometimes, settlers just kind of... forget which settlement they belong to. Are all your Plots still operating?
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Let me go check, I invited the Powell's to the settlement so I will have to do an inventory but him wandering off is probably something I can track down, my settlements all have their recruitment turned off.
 
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Found him, he was dead behind the caravan plot against the wall and hidden in some bushes so was almost impossible to see until I had the option to loot him. Also, I had another death at starlight drive in, but I noticed him on the hillside far north east of the settlement far away from any plot. Apparently they can just drop dead where they roam, and they are not spending their time trying to sleep off their sickness before they die.

Also, with the cemetery plot, I now have 4 dead bodies in my settlement 2 from before and 2 from after it was built. It has been a few days and they are all just kinda laying around making a mockery of the Powell's praises for how safe my settlement is.
 
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If it is similar to settlement attacks, bodies should disappear when the cell reloads. You said it had passed a few in-game days. Did You travel you other areas or stayed at the settlement?
 
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Rocola said:
If it is similar to settlement attacks, bodies should disappear when the cell reloads. You said it had passed a few in-game days. Did You travel you other areas or stayed at the settlement?
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I have now done the first cpd quest, and finding virgil while the corpses lay about my settlement. So, I have done quite a bit of running around.
 
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Daishi5 said:
I have now done the first cpd quest, and finding virgil while the corpses lay about my settlement. So, I have done quite a bit of running around.
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Sometimes they do get locked in, that's a vanilla bug. Without other means of disposal, you have to carry the bodies out of the cell with no information on where the cell ends :/

Alternatively, you can stuff them all inside your least favorite settler's house.
 
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