No carrots, no body bug.

[ackadia]

Ran in to this, cannot say I am happy about it, given this bug has been known about for a good two years. Please fix this!

His wheels are oiled, there's loads of carrots in his box, I've tried the suggestions of fixing the shoot and adding pallets, he is still refusing to drop off the corpse.

Notably, I think, he has no corpse on his cart to drop off. I suspect the bug may relate to this.

[xenxander]

did you by chance update DLC after carrots are put in? If so, those carrots 'may not count'.

[ackadia]

Good thought, but no. No, this was a fresh start, while working on a guide. I was replaying the first few weeks (repeatedly) to get a 'perfect' start for guide*.

Found a few 'exploits' and such like in the process, some trivial, some need fixing (and duly reported). This particular one is a long known bug and should have been sorted years ago.

* https://ackadia.com/games/graveyard-keeper-solution-and-guide/ (circa 7,000 words, 40 pages, with images).

[xenxander]

Did you by chance put 'too many' carrots into the trough?
It seems one shouldn't exceed around 90 carrots.

[ackadia]

Nope, was about 20, added more, taking it to 40, left it a few days deleted the save. If adding too many is a probably, then it's another bug!

If the game bugs out if you put too many items in a box, and there's no check or limit against this, then it's bad game design and something the developers need to fix.

Certainly I have saves with over 100 carrots in though. Maybe I shouldn't O.o

[RIP_Ancient]

I was able to FIX this bug!!!
I'm not sure what exactly helped me, so I'll just describe the order of my actions.
1. I put 20 carrots in the donkey carrot box.
2. Built a new pallet.
3. Sent 5 apples on a donkey quest.
4. Slept.
5. Exit to the main menu.
6. I loaded the save, took all my carrots into inventory (~ 150 pieces), went to the donkey carrot box and put the carrots 1 time (!). Immediately after that, the donkey gave up the body and left. There were 45 carrots in the box (and there were 40, that is, I got 50, and 5 took the donkey)

IMHO -- steps 5 and 6 are enought to fix the bug.