Unnatural corpse vanished

[Rosario]

I got sent an unnatural corpse identical to my colony leader, who I sent on a caravan mission shortly after, with the corpse left at the colony. The corpse completely vanished from the map, which I can confirm is not just me overlooking it, because I got a notification saying the leader can feel it growing in strength, telling me to study it to learn how to get rid of it, and the find on map option was grayed out. The thing disappeared entirely, but is still messing with my leader badly. Is this bug or bu design?

Note, I'm not asking how to resolve it if it is by design, all I want to know is if the game messed up. If it did mess up, the only reasons I can imagine are that either the corpse wound up under a harbinger tree and digested before I could notice, or the the mimicked colonist being off the map led to the corpse vanishing, maybe trying to follow him.

I am not running any mods right now.

[Rosario]

And shortly after I posted this, it reappeared, murdered my leader mercilessly, took a few more shots and teleported away... So that's fun. Still want to know if the initial vanishing was by design though, because the game clearly wanted me to study the thing.

[Oceon]

Originally posted by Rosario:

And shortly after I posted this, it reappeared, murdered my leader mercilessly, took a few more shots and teleported away... So that's fun. Still want to know if the initial vanishing was by design though, because the game clearly wanted me to study the thing.

Yeah, that event is kinda bonked.

It is intended for the corpse to vanish and reappear if the colonist somehow leaves the colony (Caravan, captured, sold)

As soon as that Colonist re-appears on the map, and the initial time (15 something days I believe?) runs out, the corpse will reappear, rush at the colonist, and melt their brain in an instant.

Also dont bother killing it, it has 30K Health Regeneration per DAY.

[Rosario]

Originally posted by Oceon:

Originally posted by Rosario:

And shortly after I posted this, it reappeared, murdered my leader mercilessly, took a few more shots and teleported away... So that's fun. Still want to know if the initial vanishing was by design though, because the game clearly wanted me to study the thing.

Yeah, that event is kinda bonked.

It is intended for the corpse to vanish and reappear if the colonist somehow leaves the colony (Caravan, captured, sold)

As soon as that Colonist re-appears on the map, and the initial time (15 something days I believe?) runs out, the corpse will reappear, rush at the colonist, and melt their brain in an instant.

Also dont bother killing it, it has 30K Health Regeneration per DAY.

Yeah, I noticed the regen had a value, which my colonists were ticking down, so I assume if you can run it out that you can down it and rescue the copied colonist at least for the moment.
Then to add insult to injury, my ideological leader got an infection right after and died at 99.9 immunity. Fun times for my colony, both leaders dead just days from each other.

[MadArtillery]

Just for the future, if the respawn for it bugs out, reloading the save will make it appear