Dealing with a TON of bodies.....

[ThatEIRdude]

Im constantly dealing with bodies, I have 3 grave yards, I build the fire thingys but they only handle one dead rat! The grave yards are full, so they hold only ten bodies and keep the employed rat forever? Am I missing something?

Ive had 2 very hard starvation periods and currently have 74 bodies lying around. I try to move them to the side atleast but omg this is a big issue haha

[Vito]

There is no coming back from that, if you don't want to spend rest of the game building crematoriums, you should start again and pay more attention to food production.

I remember I had so many dead rats in my early playthrough, the game ran out of names for new rats and gave them names like male_187.

[FreedomFighter]

You can drop them in a pit then cover it. After a few season they'll decompose into bones. If ratizens can't see the body they won't make a fuss about it.

[nasiru]

Yeah, I find dumping them far away from the other rats works better than putting them in the graveyard since they never seem to decompose into bones for me.

[ThatEIRdude]

Thanks for the pit suggestion.

Yes Vito, all my names are male and female something lol. I actually recovered my base well and want to try and finish lol

[Zeion]

I just use those gravestones to block the invasion and it work perfectly fine.

[Flavalicious]

Sadly I'd just restart mate. On my winning city run i lost a single rat (warrior in one of the boss fights). It may sound like a bummer but with the knowledge you've gained you'll make a better city forsure.

[redhongkong]

restart if u have 74 death...

early game i set a gatherer at main base , rely on a -30% stamina loss hunter on 2 rabbit holes, storage and 2butchers, beds all tightly packed on a mini forward base connected with rail/ lift.

they usually keep good storage full of early stage food for 30population. rabbit milk only provide 18hunger points, not good early game choice , they make u feel like u have lots food, but they are low quality and easily run out. just ban milk for food consumption til u start making cheese.

meat is the backbone for ur colony, dont feel bad to have too much of them. make sure u have 1hunter 2butcher for every 30-40ish population while developing other food source. they almost gauranteed u not to starve out.

[Fingerlickin]

I ended up stacking all the bodies abit of the base so no rats would go near it then building crematorys while you fix the issue giving you the bodies to begin with and adding more rats ofc. Graveyards worked for a while but then they just take up space/worker and destroying them will dump the corpses back ofc.

Guess you could build a graveyard close to your dumping spot just to have the rat carry the corpses for you, then destroy/rebuild it after to make the transfer of bodies short.