Can't order colonists to bury corpses

[3 Ducks In a Man Suit]

For some reason, I can't order a colonist to bury a specific corpse.

They still do it automatically if the corpse isn't forbidden and there's a grave for them, but I don't have any option to bury them if I right click, only to consume or haul them (which is grayed out, since none of my stockpiles allow human corpses except for the graves)


edit: ... and now after restarting the game it works again, even though I haven't changed anything.

[John Sticky Fingers]

maybe a mod conflict?

[BlackSmokeDMax]

Unless they have recently changed it back, you no longer see burying, the hauling job is usually the bury job you are looking for. Though the fact that it was grayed out does sound like something was going wrong for you. And the further fact that restarting fixed it is strange, but if you have mods running it certainly is not unheard of for weird things to be happening.

[SGT. D]

Do you have to maybe right click on the empty grave rather than the corpse? I don't recall, it's been awhile since I've actually buried a body. My current tribe would never waste such valuable materials.

[Astasia]

If you change the storage settings for a grave while the game is paused it usually doesn't reflect in the commands you can give your colonists until after you unpause and let the game run for a few ticks. It does the same thing on normal stockpiles rarely, but it seems to be a lot more common with graves for some reason, maybe because the "bury" option is not checked as often.

[Los.Injurus.Bob.Blunderton]

Build a large brick oven, dispose of them there. Do not use graves.
This way the colonists don't go bonkers later on in the game and dig up their dead friends.

Set the oven job to only use humans, or it'll waste valuable animal meat.
Make a second job for 'rotten' corpses of any kind, so those aren't laying around either.

[HunterSilver]

Originally posted by Beamng.mapper.Bob.Blunderton:

Do not use graves.
This way the colonists don't go bonkers later on in the game and dig up their dead friends

Aside from minor and short lived 'Saw rotting corpse' mood penalty, corpse obsession is one of the quicker and less damaging major mental breaks. I'd take that over the damage that an insulting spree does any day =)

[smitty_the_smith]

If you have another place you put corpses it will prevent burying (Canibal butcher area, cremation zone, et. al.) simply disable those and you should be able to bury.

[AlexKule]

Had this happen. on the corpse, toggle "Allow" on and off to fix it. sometimes the game thinks one way but shows the graphics for something else.

[WilfordBrimley]

I had this bug happen to me just now. I had an open sarcophagus, but the only options I had when I clicked on the dead colonist was to strip them or to eat them. I saved, quit out, then reloaded and then I was able to bury the colonist. I didn't see the post about toggling "Allow" on and off, so I don't know if that would have worked.

[Pyx]

Originally posted by AlexKule:

Had this happen. on the corpse, toggle "Allow" on and off to fix it. sometimes the game thinks one way but shows the graphics for something else.

This fixed my issue! Thank you!