Can bonedogs eat corpses?

[epicfacedave]

I just got my own bonedog puppy from some caravan trader and I have some corpses lying around base from an attack, Can I get it to eat the corpses for me? or if theres flies going around now is it too late? or if it isnt even possible could someone link me a mod?

[Hatsune Neko Gaming]

requires a Mod to enable it.

[Dinoman]

They eat limbs cut off from bodies. Not entire corpses though.

[bunny de fluff]

I had seen wild dogs and NPC dogs ate corpses, their status change to "eating corpse" or something. My vanilla pet dog can eat animal corpse, their status changed to "picking up food". What I not seen is human corpse, I think they cannot eat human, just limbs.

[SmallGespenst]

Originally posted by bunny de fluff:

I had seen wild dogs and NPC dogs ate corpses, their status change to "eating corpse" or something. My vanilla pet dog can eat animal corpse, their status changed to "picking up food". What I not seen is human corpse, I think they cannot eat human, just limbs.

I think that eating corpses is based on ai, wild animals and NPC animals probably run on the same ai, so it's not surprising that NPC animals would eat corpses, but it's not in the interaction menu and there aren't any jobs that trigger "eating corpse" so it's not something you can manually force an animal to do, and playable characters (animals included) have basically no AI outside of jobs.

[bunny de fluff]

All animals outside players control will never starve, their hunger never drop no matter what(edit: sorry, their hunger will drop if caged). They eat only for show and for destroying corpses
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[SmallGespenst]

Originally posted by bunny de fluff:

All animals outside players control will never starve, their hunger never drop no matter what. They eat only for show and for destroying corpses
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well yeah, nothing outside player control (excluding the players prisoners) have hunger, it's because hunger is messy and animals don't even have inventories to eat out of. (depending on how they're coded their "inventory" might be the meat and hides used to butcher them, which could cause animals to butcher themselves if they get hungry)

[johntarmac]

Originally posted by bunny de fluff:

All animals outside players control will never starve, their hunger never drop no matter what. They eat only for show and for destroying corpses
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Pretty sure I read that NPC animals heal quicker when they eat corpses. It was a long time ago so I might be wrong.

[bunny de fluff]

Originally posted by awhurley:

Originally posted by bunny de fluff:

All animals outside players control will never starve, their hunger never drop no matter what. They eat only for show and for destroying corpses
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well yeah, nothing outside player control (excluding the players prisoners) have hunger, it's because hunger is messy and animals don't even have inventories to eat out of. (depending on how they're coded their "inventory" might be the meat and hides used to butcher them, which could cause animals to butcher themselves if they get hungry)

I am not sure about the hunger mechanism of humanoid NPC, because I had seen recruit-able drifters sitting in a bar had their hunger dropped to the red "Hungry!!" state, I fear that if I stayed there they might start taking damage from hunger.