Can't bury or burn Raiders and its ruining my game

[Astraeos]

I have several raider corpses that I cannot burn on a pyre, and cannot bury in unmarked graves.

Every time I try to do so on either place, the game says that there is No empty burial spot, or none designated for this corpse type.

I literally have 4 open and waiting for corpses Pyres, and I have 6 unmarked gravesites completely empty and waiting.

What is going on here? I've literally never had this problem before, ever, once.

Its completely ruined my save because all of my settlers are freaking the ♥♥♥♥ out from constantly having to see dead bodies.

What can I do here? What is going on? Why can't I suddenly not bury or burn raiders?

I'm on latest normal version. I am NOT on the Experimental Branch and I have NO mods.

[Zeion]

you can just make dumping zone faraway and choose only human corpses and make it high priority for them and those corpses will rotten into bone by themselves w/o freaking your villager.

something like this

https://steamcommunity.com/id/doomZeion/screenshot/2276073240316882977/

[Didz]

Sounds a bit odd. Although my game is starting to behalf oddly today. I find for some reason I can't select certain trees and plants. It seems to be individual rather by species it's almost as though they weren't there. I can click and click and nothing happens.

I'm wondering if your graves and pyres are suffering the same fate.

[Fido]

Click the pyre and select production. Clicking the dead raider will not link them to the pyre process for some reason.

Unless this is not supposed to be the case, which'd mean I have the same bug as you do. Anyway, this is the fix that works for me.

[Stoney]

Just wondering but you are actually clicking the pyre after its been built and setting it up to burn bodies, right? If so then try drafting a settler and forcing him to go next to your pyre. If for whatever reason it won't let him then possibly you don't have a clear path and something is blocking your way to the pyre/grave and that might be why they won't listen when you tell them to burn/bury a body. If none of this applies then yeah that sounds like its bugged =/

[WilliW]

No drafting needed. Select a settler, then right click the pyre and select "Prioritise production". This worked for me. I suppose the burning of bodies is part of the "Craft" job but I have no idea why it was not executed regularly.

[helpful comrade]

Originally posted by WilliW:

I suppose the burning of bodies is part of the "Craft" job but I have no idea why it was not executed regularly.

Burning dead bodies on pyres is considered a Medicine/Healing task

[Kaelroth]

Originally posted by helpful comrade:

Originally posted by WilliW:

I suppose the burning of bodies is part of the "Craft" job but I have no idea why it was not executed regularly.

Burning dead bodies on pyres is considered a Medicine/Healing task

I don't think this is the case. I only have 2 or 3 settlers that are allowed to perform healing and all others are disabled in the jobs list. When instructing one of my other non-medic settlers to burn bodies using pyres, the game has never warned me that the settler didn't have a problem with it and burned the body as requested.

So if it is designated as healing, it doesn't follow the same rules as all other jobs when a settler has that job disabled in priorities.

[Conan de Rabarber]

I just dump the raiders in a stockpile in a far away corner to rot and be eaten by wildlife. The dogs and donkeys take care of moving the raiders mostly.

[TheLostPenguin]

Originally posted by Kaelroth:

Originally posted by helpful comrade:

Burning dead bodies on pyres is considered a Medicine/Healing task

I don't think this is the case. I only have 2 or 3 settlers that are allowed to perform healing and all others are disabled in the jobs list. When instructing one of my other non-medic settlers to burn bodies using pyres, the game has never warned me that the settler didn't have a problem with it and burned the body as requested.

So if it is designated as healing, it doesn't follow the same rules as all other jobs when a settler has that job disabled in priorities.

Also my healers naturally have that set as their highest priority task, yet don't burn raider bodies even when appropriate pyres are free and instead go about doing other tasks.

I mostly have to manually select settlers and tell them to prioritise burning a body to get anyone to do it, this being an annoying amount of micro to get rid of a couple dozen or so raiders I've started taking the lazy route of letting the bodies rot on a stockpile that my pets will carry them too, because it just doesn't reliably happen automatically any other way.

[WilliW]

Another strange thing is the pyre saying "Waiting for resources: 0/11" no matter what you set it to. Perhaps it would only work on its own if there were 11 or more corpses to burn.

Really sounds like a bug.

[TheLostPenguin]

Originally posted by WilliW:

Another strange thing is the pyre saying "Waiting for resources: 0/11" no matter what you set it to. Perhaps it would only work on its own if there were 11 or more corpses to burn.

Really sounds like a bug.

It needs 10 fuel plus a corpse, so 11 items input in total to 'work'. That part makes sense because pyres work the same as any other production building. You can see settlers take wood/sticks as fuel (or coal if for some reason you're wasting that in pyres) at which point it becomes 10/11 until they bring a corpse.

[WilliW]

Ok that does make sense then.

[withered_turtle]

Originally posted by Astraeos:

I have several raider corpses that I cannot burn on a pyre, and cannot bury in unmarked graves.

Every time I try to do so on either place, the game says that there is No empty burial spot, or none designated for this corpse type.

I literally have 4 open and waiting for corpses Pyres, and I have 6 unmarked gravesites completely empty and waiting.

What is going on here? I've literally never had this problem before, ever, once.

Its completely ruined my save because all of my settlers are freaking the ♥♥♥♥ out from constantly having to see dead bodies.

What can I do here? What is going on? Why can't I suddenly not bury or burn raiders?

I'm on latest normal version. I am NOT on the Experimental Branch and I have NO mods.

Just eat them